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Blue Mountains, Blue Riders
Blue Mountains, Blue Riders
Gabriele Münter and the evolution of an extraordinary sense of colour and form
Kim Vertue
Aug 9
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‘Deny’ by Utaha • 詩羽
‘Deny’ by Utaha • 詩羽
A potent, heartfelt mini-movie that speaks to teenage loneliness and empowerment.
Remy Dean
Aug 2
Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
Heroic Proportions: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
The return to colossal sculpture presented a paradigm of masculine beauty…
Remy Dean
Jul 30
What Does this Brueghel Painting Really Mean?
What Does this Brueghel Painting Really Mean?
A new interpretation of the famous painting of ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’
Samuel Belleville-Douelle
Jul 23
A Realist in an Age of Imagination: Charles Ethan Porter
A Realist in an Age of Imagination: Charles Ethan Porter
The talented nineteenth-century painter from Connecticut who took a big gamble to perfect his craft
Kerry Dooley Young
Jul 17
El Anatsui: All That Glisters…
El Anatsui: All That Glisters…
Considering the history and heritage that exalts ephemera into distinctive contemporary art out of Africa
Kim Vertue
Jul 11
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Beatrix Potter’s Field Studies
Beatrix Potter’s Field Studies
Considering the art and science of a pioneering mycologist better known as the beloved children’s author and illustrator, Beatrix Potter
Kim Vertue
Oct 17, 2021
Signifier : six : shot : gallery — Global ‘Freeview’
Signifier : six : shot : gallery — Global ‘Freeview’
Friends-of-the-gallery free-to-view links for all our previous exhibitions and artist showcases — please share this story.
Remy Dean
Feb 18
Victoriana-o-rama
Victoriana-o-rama
Recognition and success were enjoyed by Alma-Tadema in his lifetime but his art suffered the the vagaries of fickle fashion since his death
Remy Dean
Oct 3, 2021
The Wisdom of William Blake
The Wisdom of William Blake
Being Romantic may not mean what you think it means! Reading the Songs of Innocence and of Experience…
Remy Dean
Sep 7, 2019
A School (of Athens) Reunion
A School (of Athens) Reunion
Raphael painted the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance as they saw themselves — successors to the great classical Greek philosophers…
Remy Dean
Feb 7, 2022
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