UNLOCKING FRESH

IMPACT REPORT 01 April 2018 —31 March 2019

DPG_ImpactReport_AW.indd 1 23/10/2019 18:06 INTRODUCTION We invited our visitors Jennifer Scott to find themselves in our art & architecture

2018/19 was a bold and ambitious There are infinite stories to be discovered year for Picture Gallery as amongst the paintings in our collection, we continued our mission to unlock and we are committed to ensuring that 146,572 58,400 3,543 the Gallery’s true potential: through these are relevant for everyone. Our Total visitors First time visitors. Visitors enjoyed free our location, people and art. As the Unlocking Paintings project, now in to the Gallery. events including our first purpose-built, public art gallery, its second year, saw a group of young Sohlberg Late and 3 we are now over 200 years old. In a volunteers devising and piloting their own Community Previews. world of constant change it has never introduction for visitors to the Gallery. been more important than now that We would like to thank everyone who we remain relevant to our audiences, has supported us this year, from our and ensure as many people as possible dedicated volunteers, to our artists who 18,340 8,000 5,320 can find their place at the Gallery. continue to inspire us. Of course, we Visitors discovered new Friends supported the Adults and children took This year our wide-reaching exhibition couldn’t run the programmes we do, displays shedding new Gallery through their part in a range of activities programme took visitors from the without the invaluable support of our light on the Gallery’s membership, making designed for younger imaginary world and iconic designs of donors and Friends, to whom we cannot Collection as part of a vital investment into creatives, including Mini Edward Bawden, to the dark, dramatic express enough gratitude. ‘Unlocking Paintings’. our visitor and learning Masterpieces and work of Jusepe de Ribera, and the wild programme. Art Sundays. It’s been a fantastic, highly creative Nordic landscapes of Harald Sohlberg. 12 months and we hope you enjoy seeing Following the huge success of our some of the highlights in this review. first Pavilion in 2017, we launched ‘The Shortlist’ a display of the six shortlisted models for the 2019 competition, and JENNIFER SCOTT invited visitors to have their say. It was THE SACKLER DIRECTOR, a year that saw creative partnerships with emerging artists from diverse backgrounds, and inspired thought- provoking interventions and experiences. This year our varied events programme included two free Lates exploring our special Monet display and Harald Sohlberg exhibition. The latter included an immersive pop-up from the College of Communication. Image © Graham Turner

DPG_ImpactReport_AW.indd 2-3 23/10/2019 18:06 With thanks to The National Lottery A NEW Heritage Fund, this year we completed We welcomed people of all an in-depth schools’ project, which saw APPROACH us working with students from six local backgrounds to make personal schools to uncover and respond to the FOR SCHOOLS stories and history of the Gallery. The connections with art project helped us to better understand what schools need from the Gallery.

IMPACT IN FOCUS 8,994 Together Through Art Students and teachers explored our collection This year we worked with the Recovery College for South London and developed new and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust skills and insights. (SLaM) to launch a new paid training and development programme for adults with lived experience of mental health. Over nine months, five older adults worked with artists 2,000+ and clinicians to deliver programmes Visitors voted for the 2019 Dulwich for families, young people and Pavilion at a special display which socially isolated people, with a focus showcased all six shortlisted entries. on wellbeing and art. From June 2019 the group will be set up as creative wellbeing facilitators, able to deliver programmes at the Gallery 548 and across the sector. Volunteers dedicated an incredible 1582 hours to the Gallery.

Together Through Art helped 15 me come out of myself. I didn’t You would never realise think I would get back to who Young people volunteered over 500 hours all the hidden things inside I was before... it has helped me of their time, looking at ways the Gallery to re-engage with my own creativity those old paintings and can introduce visitors to its Collection. and recover my confidence. they all belong to you!!! Their huge contribution has helped put It’s awesome. young people at the very heart of the JO, TOGETHER THROUGH Gallery, re-imagining the stories we tell, ART PARTICIPANT YEAR 5 STUDENT now and in years to come. Image © Gem Hall Gem © Image

DPG_ImpactReport_AW.indd 4-5 23/10/2019 18:06 Animalis, created by award-winning ANIMALIS choreographer, Dane Hurst, took place We worked with emerging artists every Sunday during the run of Ribera: Art of Violence, with one month to create a fresh, innovative of performances choreographed in collaboration with 15 local programme for everyone young people.

Taking centre stage in the mesmerising setting of the Gallery’s Mausoleum, it gave form to the emotional tension and drama in Ribera’s work. IMPACT IN FOCUS London College 15 of Communication Creative partnerships It is essential that we continue to with artists including Alex champion and nurture the artists Booker, Mariele Neudecker and creatives of tomorrow. This year and LGBTQ+ collective, we embarked on a new relationship with the London College of Classical ReMIX. Communication in nearby Elephant and Castle. Students on the University’s VR, Sound Engineering and Motion Graphics courses devised interactive elements for our Harald Sohlberg Gallery Late creating new experiences for themselves and for our visitors. 40 We are excited to see how this Students from local universities partnership develops over the next helped us to programme for few years, and how we can work new audiences and enhanced with other educational institutions their creative portfolios. to support more young people.

The challenge of creating work at a professional standard at the intersection of new media and well established fine art practice The performances made produced some profound learning 1,802 for our students – the majority of me feel, rather than just Visitors enjoyed the highly whom are now Sohlberg aficionados! immersive Animalis, a dramatic see Ribera’s Art. DR MILO TAYLOR, COURSE LEADER, dance intervention during BA (HONS) SOUND ARTS AND DESIGN VISITOR TO RIBERA: ART OF VIOLENCE Ribera: Art of Violence. Image Animalis © Stuart Leech

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We could not have delivered our With special thanks to the Gallery’s first programme this year without our Director, Giles Waterfield (1949–2016), supporters and funders. who left a significant gift to the Gallery in his will. During his 17 years here Giles saw the Gallery transform into the internationally renowned centre for art and learning that we know today.

Our patron, Lord Sainsbury The Elizabeth Cayzer The Royal Norwegian Embassy of Preston Candover KG Charitable Trust Desenfans Circle The Franey Foundation CORPORATE 1811 Club Allies and Morrison The Horne Family Boodles Charitable Foundation INDIVIDUALS Richard Aylmer EHRW The John Horseman Trust In memory of Ingrid Beazley Lightbox The Loveday Charitable Trust Peter & Sally Cadbury Mylands The McLean Foundation Clare Dawson Rosemead Preparatory The Michael Marks Charitable Trust Ann Douglas School & Nursery The Paul Mellon Centre Sparebankstiftelsen DNB for Studies in British Art Philip Hudson Graham & Joan Jenkins TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS SUPPORTERS Art Fund Arts Council Christopher & Charlotte King Centro de Estudios Dulwich College Europa Hispánica Rachel Anderson National Lottery Heritage Fund & Patrick Mears Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a donor advised fund of the Southwark Council Peter Mudge London Community Foundation The American Friends Gordon Samuel Graham Foundation of Dulwich Picture Gallery The Estate of the The Baring Foundation The Canadian Friends Late Giles Waterfield of Dulwich Picture Gallery The Derek Hill Foundation Anthony Bruce Watt The Friends of Dulwich The D'Oyly Carte Charitable Trust Picture Gallery Mary Weston CBE

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