Here at Works Without Walls, we like going to Galleries. So do you guys. So, why don't you all check out some of this great stuff for early March? Click on the title to be taken to main page.
Talks
9, 10, 11, 13
March, The National Gallery
POWERFUL WOMEN: A Hidden History, invites you to step inside London’s Iconic National Gallery with a celebration of powerful female figures throughout history; from Grecian Goddesses to the wonderfully vicious Old Testament heroines, stories of Saints and Martyrs, Witches, Monsters and the too-long-forgotten female artists of the National Gallery. The morning’s tour of the gallery will be led by resident LDG tutor Luisa-Maria MacCormack, with the afternoon devoted to a curated series of drawing exercises that aim to help you understand and engage with these paintings and stories in new and creative ways.
POWERFUL WOMEN: A Hidden History, invites you to step inside London’s Iconic National Gallery with a celebration of powerful female figures throughout history; from Grecian Goddesses to the wonderfully vicious Old Testament heroines, stories of Saints and Martyrs, Witches, Monsters and the too-long-forgotten female artists of the National Gallery. The morning’s tour of the gallery will be led by resident LDG tutor Luisa-Maria MacCormack, with the afternoon devoted to a curated series of drawing exercises that aim to help you understand and engage with these paintings and stories in new and creative ways.
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| © The Artist’s Estate. Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London. |
Monday 5 March
2018, 11am — 12pm, The Reynolds Room (RA)
Join Annette
Wickham, Curator of Works on Paper at the RA, to uncover the story of
women and life drawing and explore the militant campaigns, changing attitudes
and evolution of the professional female artist. This talk will explore the
story of women and life drawing, including female artists’ campaigning for
access to art education, as well as the changing attitudes towards female
models in art schools.
Saturday 10
March 2018, 3 — 4.15pm, The Reynolds Room (RA)
Join artists
Sutapa Biswas, Jessy Jetpacks and Zadie Xa as they discuss how they use moving
image in their art and its potential for structural change, chaired by
broadcaster, film-maker and journalist Bidisha. With a focus on moving image,
the panel of artists address the different ways in which artists are able to
create structural change through their practice. Dig deeper into the role of
language and traditional artistic practice and how they perpetuate structures
of power. How can the language of moving image be used to destabilise
conventional gender and racial positions in an attempt to reframe the
boundaries of society?
Saturday 10
March 2018, 11 – 12.30pm, National Gallery
In a country
that’s repeatedly failed to come to terms with its colonial past, these tours
focus on how major institutions came into being against a backdrop of
imperialism. At this study morning, explore and discuss colonialism's role in
shaping and funding these collections, looking at the broader material history
of celebrated works. The history of British art is also the history of empire
and genocide, written by collectors who traded in landscapes and lives. How
did the narratives of Empire come into being? Who controls them? And how can we
learn to see through the triumphalism to the truth?
Exhibitions
ALL TOO HUMAN: BACON, FREUD AND A CENTURY OF PAINTING LIFE
until August 27, Tate Britain
All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways. It features artists including Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen work from their contemporaries including Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego. Many of them lived or live in London, drawn to the multicultural capital from around the world. Three important works by Francis Bacon will be shown in the UK for the first time in at least three decades.
HERE & THERE: PAINTINGS BY LISA MILROY
17 January – 18 March 2018, Parasol Unit
Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is presenting Here & There: Paintings by Lisa Milroy. This major solo exhibition brings together a selection of Milroy’s paintings from the past fifteen years, exploring her approaches to still life through making, looking, touch and transformation.
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| 'Sunbeam', Khadija Choudhury. |
INTERNATIONAL WOMANS DAY AT OLLIE QUINN
Ollie Quin Eyewear stores across the country will be celebrating women in the arts with a global art exhibit across their 27 boutiques throughout the month of March.The exhibit will kick off with a live mural painting on 8th March 2018 (International Women’s Day) by Femme-Fierce award winner, Hannah Adamnaszek, using OQ’s London flagship boutique as her canvas, located at 69 Neal Street, Covent Garden. I n addition to showcasing work by female feature artists, OQ has commissioned limited edition tote bags designed by illustrator Sarah Peters, available online or instore from 8th March. 5% of the proceeds will go to CoppaFeel! - the first breast cancer charity in the UK aimed at creating awareness. London artists include Jo Young, Andrea Tyrimos, Simone Webb, Hannah Adamaszek, Cherelle Sappleton and our personal highlight, Khadija Choudhury, who will be exhibiting at the Spitalfields store.
What does one
feel when getting into relations? Who and what are we influencing? How are we
affected by our environment? The exhibition of paintings by RAW Studio artist,
Christine Manderla explores relationships through an emotional lens.
Finishes 11 Mar.
Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens
The exhibition Life
in Death showcases Rebecca’s personal collection of plants and flowers,
dried and preserved over a six year period. It is her most intricate
large-scale artwork to date and examines our relationship with flowers and
plants and how they are used, particularly through rituals.
Kew’s Herbarium
specimens, including Egyptian garlands made with dried flowers dating back to
700BC, which inspired Rebecca to make this work, are also on display.
9 March,
Kunstraum Gallery
Mary Hurrell's 2
(Aerial) is the second part of a project, produced in collaboration between
Kunstraum and Flat Time House, which maps changes in state of an amorphous
body. The trilogy is conceived as one choreography stretched over time and
space. Time is used as a material in Hurrell's work, acting as a counterbalance
to movement, a force of friction or fluidity to form.
6 Mar 2018 to 20
May 2018, Serpentine Sackler Gallery,
Perry makes work
about blackness, black femininity and African American heritage, often taking
her personal history as a point of departure. Her use of digital tools and
material, ranging from blue screen technology and 3D avatars to found footage
from the internet, reflects on these modes of representation and the
abstraction of black identity in art and media. Perry has said: ‘I'm interested
in thinking about how blackness shifts, morphs, and embodies technology to
combat oppression and surveillance throughout the diaspora. Blackness is agile.
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