Current Events #29. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 29 of 2016.
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The Cank Street Gallery’s Open Art Exhibition
24 June – 30 July 2016
Birthday Cake by Claire Elizabeth Jackson
A group summer show featuring emerging and established artists, paintings, drawings, handmade prints, sculpture, ceramics, glass and textiles.
The Cank Street Gallery
44-46 Cank Street
Leicester, Leicestershire
LE1 5GW
Winifred Knights
8 June – 18 September 2016
The first major retrospective of the artist’s work reunites all of her completed paintings for the first time since their creation.
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road
London
SE21 7AD
The English Rose: Feminine Beauty from Van Dyck to Sargent
14 May – 25 September 2016
Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of a Lady, undated
Celebrating the representation of English female beauty in art over a period of almost 500 years.
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 8NP
Paintings by Sue Lucine and Terry Kane
3 June – 27 July 2016
Paintings by Sue Lucine and Terry Kane.
Misty 21 Gallery
16 Newington
Liverpool
L1 4ED
Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild
15 July – 12 November 2016
Cornwall-based artist Tony Foster invited Sir David Attenborough and other ‘luminaries’ to name the world’s most beautiful wild places. Then he set out on a 10-year odyssey to paint them.
Royal Cornwall Museum
River Street
Truro, Cornwall
TR1 2SJ
The Luminous and the Grey
22 July – 2 August 2016
Shona McGovern – Face in the Light – oil on canvas
Seven artists seek the beauty that is found in light and darkness: Helen Brooker, Shona McGovern, Penny Watts, Jane Kullman, Tina Atchison-Thomas, Roy Eastland, Graham Ward.
Pie Factory Margate Gallery
5 Broad Street
Margate
CT9 1EW
Inspiring Impressionism – Daubigny – Monet – Van Gogh
25 June − 2 October 2016
This major exhibition is an ambitious display of masterpieces from the Impressionist era. Featuring over 100 pictures, from collections around the world, Inspiring Impressionism focuses on three key artists: Charles François Daubigny, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh.
Scottish National Gallery
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL
Peep: An insight into the work of 13 Artists
26-31 July 2016
An exhibition supported by the Mary Ward Centre with drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and mixed media. Artists: Rosie Barker, Liz Bestic, Emma B Hope, Ann Valancha Brown, Sarrah El Bushra, Christine Drummond, Lauren Lauden, Amravati Mitchell, Claire Morton, Roland Sly, Jenny Timmer, Carole Thomas, Shirley Nette Williams. Private View: Tuesday 26 July.
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)
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The image at the top is:
‘Exploring Beauty 27’
watercolour
by Tony Foster who is showing at the Royal Cornwall Museum.
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