Darren Banks the Raven

February to May 2015 The New Art Gallery Walsall Cover Image ~ Ellen Gallagher, DeLuxe, 2004-5 (detail) Photo ©Tate, London, 2014 Sikander Pervez and artist development supported by: supported development and artist Sikander Pervez

– FOUND Pervez – Sikander – Small Worlds Illuminated Are We Macfarlane: – Siân Gift Beardsmore The Clive Artists: from Ives – St The Raven Banks: – Darren Gift Beardsmore The Clive – : thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk our website Visit @newartgallery on Twitter follow or just us Facebook the blog, Join What’s On What’s 2015 February — May Exhibitions The gallery is accredited by: is accredited gallery The Small Worlds is supported by: is supported Worlds Small by: supported Events Design by Stereographic by Design Artists' Studio Artists' www.elrowe.com gallery from 17February –5April2015. Watch Elizabeth's work unfold inthe a rareinsightinto theartist’s working practice. gallery willremainopenthroughout, providing Garman Ryan beginninginFebruary hall, 2015. The in thecreation ofanewtemporary work for the Artists’ Studio, Elizabeth's willculminate residency Following aperiodofexperimentation inthe before beingapplieddirectly to asurface. are assembledandreassembledincrementally, own collection. The various collage components National Geographicvolumes, andoldbooksinher found images sourcedfrom women’s magazines, Elizabeth Rowe’s collages bringtogether disparate Floor 1 Until 5April2015 Elizabeth Rowe See events page orwebsite for information. Studio Floor 1,Artists' Thursday 9April,12-4pm Collage Party residencies involvingresidencies nineartists. of threeshort interconnecting host Group Occupation, aseries teaming upfor athirdtimeto The NewArt Gallery Walsall are People programme (ESP) and Eastside Projects’ ExtraSpecial tpwestmidlands.org.uk and practical guidance. studio visits, micro-residences of theircareerincluding for artists at diff erentstages Opportunities areintended for artists intheregion. development opportunities of professional andcreative West Midlands,off ersarange partnership withTurning Point The NewArt Gallery, in 5 May —8September 2015 Occupation III Group Coming Soon...

Elizabeth Rowe, Old News (foam), 2014, Ink on newspaper Courtesy the artist Julie Cockburn, The Telepath, 2014, Hand embroidery on found photograph. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Flowers, London. FOUND

Until 3 May 2015 Floor 3

FOUND brings together seven contemporary artists who work with found images. Transforming, cutting, embellishing and re-working visual material sourced from the internet, flea markets, magazines and discarded personal collections, the artists enter into the histories and narratives present in strangers’ images. The exhibition explores themes of loss, memory and mass cultural experience, as well as socially- constructed hierarchies concerning gender, race, religion and mass culture. Drawing attention to our relentless consumption and self-projection of visual information in a digital age, the selected works reverberate and bring into question the feeling of being suffocated and framed by representations of other people’s lives, tastes and experiences.

The exhibition features work by Paul Chiappe, Ruth Claxton, Julie Cockburn, Ellen Gallagher, Vesna Pavlović, Erik Kessels and John Stezaker, including six new works specially commissioned by The New Art Gallery Walsall.

In Conversation Saturday 7 March, 2pm FREE

Join exhibiting artist Ruth Claxton as she discusses her ongoing Postcards series with FOUND Curator, Zoë Lippett.

Book your free place at the Gallery reception or by calling 01922 654400.

www.ruthclaxton.info

Curator tour Saturday 28 March, 2pm FREE, drop-in Paul Chiappe, Untitled 48, 2010, Pencil on paper Courtesy of the Artist and Lea Weingarten Collection. Photo: John K. McGregor FOUND Curator, Zoë Lippett, will introduce the themes and artworks in the exhibition. Small Worlds

21 May — 6 September 2015 Floor 3

Today, we live in a fluid culture where, within our towns and cities, different languages are spoken, different cultures and religions prevail and we can consume materials and goods from throughout the world. TV, the Internet, advertising and new technologies bring the whole of the world to our doorstep. High streets are becoming more generic with local distinctions and characteristics becoming increasingly obscure.

The artists in this exhibition focus their attention on the urban environment. Their work allows us to reflect on a variety of considerations. How do we understand the concept of the local within an increasingly globalised context? What impact does the transformation of our local environment have on our identity and our communities? For some artists, Walsall provides a focus for a consideration of the impact of social and economic change in those areas on the periphery of our major towns and cities. inkjet print on paper, 32 x 32 cm. Presented by the Art Fund under Art Fund Fund under Art Fund the Art by cm. Presented x 32 32 inkjet print on paper, 06, 2012, SV Gefeller, Andreas 2013. Trust, Museums and Birmingham Walsall Gallery New Art The by joint ownership for International Rehbein Galerie, Cologne. and Thomas of the artist courtesy Image Rashid Rana, Language Series 3 (and detail below), 2011, lightjet print + DIASEC, 270 x 360 cm. Presented by the Art Fund under Art Fund International for joint ownership by The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museums Trust, 2013. Image courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery.

Participating artists include Graham Chorlton, Rita Donagh, Richard Forster, Cameron Galt, Andreas Gefeller, Naiza Khan, Stuart Layton, Laura Oldfield Ford, Mark Power and Rashid Rana.

Many of the works selected are from Walsall’s Permanent Collection, including an international collection of works on the theme of the modern metropolis jointly acquired by The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museums Trust, in partnership with Ikon Gallery, and with the support of the Art Fund through Art Fund International.

Preview: Wednesday 20 May, 6-8pm Courtesy of the artist. Courtesy 2014. work in progress, Pervez, Sikander Sikander Pervez

30 January — 19 April 2015 Floor 4

Sikander Pervez transforms New Art West Midlands is a mundane objects and materials collaborative project involving such as chairs, wood, castors and five universities and nine galleries wheels into poetic visual forms by from across the region. challenging or exaggerating their original function. His practice newartwestmidlands.org is also directed by a rigorous sikanderpervez.co.uk experimentation with materials sikanderpervez.tumblr.com and their inherent properties and potential. Sikander will be In Conversation creating a brand new sculptural Saturday 28 March, 3pm installation for his first solo exhibition since graduating from Join the artist and Staffordshire University in 2013. Deborah Robinson, Head of Exhibitions, for an informal Sikander was selected from tour of the exhibition. New Art West Midlands 2014, the best of the graduates Book your free place in advance by from West Midlands calling 01922 654400. Universities for this significant development opportunity. Preview: Thursday 29 January, 6-8pm still), 2014-15, (film Are Illuminated We Macfarlane, Siân of the artist Courtesy HD video, Siân Macfarlane We Are Illuminated 1 May — 26 July 2015 Floor 4

Over the past 12 months, artist Siân Rarely seen artefacts and Macfarlane has immersed herself in the memorabilia accompany the history of leisure and celebration in Walsall. film. Audiences are invited Spanning the 1800s to the present day, to reminisce, be enlightened Siân’s research has uncovered the rich and and become illuminated. varied history of pageants, fairs, carnivals, cinemas and performance in the area, Siân Macfarlane is based in including the famed Walsall Illuminations. Wolverhampton. Her exhibition extends research developed during For her solo exhibition at The New Art her 2014 residency at The New Art Gallery Walsall, Siân will present a multi- Gallery Walsall, which was funded layered film, which interweaves past and by Turning Point West Midlands. present and explores the synchronicities of leisure pastimes throughout the ages. weareilluminated.webly.com sianmacfarlane.com Central to the film is a script written by M Charles Bardell, which charts events in In Conversation Walsall's history, from the town's origins in Saturday 20 June, 2pm 900 to 1900. This play, originally performed Book your free place in advance in Walsall Town Hall in 1951, is re-enacted by calling 01922 654400 by local students, with tableaus recalling stories of Sister Dora and the Bayard Colts. Preview: Wednesday 20 May, 6-8pm The Clive Beardsmore Gift Interventions in the Garman Ryan Galleries

Until December 2015 Floors 1 and 2

An Introduction to The Clive Beardsmore Collection Until 15 March 2015 1st floor corridor

The 2015 Interventions into the Garman Ryan Collection are a selection from a large gift of 200 artworks donated to the Gallery in 2014 by Birmingham-based private collector, Clive Beardsmore. Clive has a longstanding association with our collections, having early in his career worked at the old Walsall Art Gallery in the 1970s, with the curator Michael Mosesson, coinciding with the time Walsall received Kathleen Garman’s gift.

Throughout a varied career which has included working as a town planner, assistant curator, life model, and continues as a historical researcher, Clive has been a long-term supporter of the Gallery, and now his personal collection finds a permanent home here. In such times of austerity we are indebted to this philanthropic act and delighted to receive such a

generous donation to our collections. of the artist the estate copyright aquatint, 1974, Falls, Victoria Cataract, Leaping Procktor, Patrick

Works from The Clive Beardsmore Collection are exhibited throughout the first and second floor in the themed Garman Ryan galleries, featuring works on paper by leading Modern British Artists such as Edward Bawden, John Bratby, Laura Knight, Patrick Procktor and Keith Vaughan, all artists previously not represented in our collections, and enabling us to fill gaps and expand our holding of Modern British works in particular. Two works feature by Clive’s former neighbour and Head of Fine Art at Birmingham College of Art, William Gear, whose centenary is 2015. There is also a drawing by Jacob Epstein, adding to our renowned collection

of works by the artist, and a print by Sonia ARTWORK OF THE MONTH Delaunay, whose retrospective is being Free, everyone welcome held at Tate Modern in 2015 and whose husband Robert features in The Garman Saturday 28 February, 2pm Ryan Collection, his painting of Stravinsky Paul Bartlett being a favourite of Kathleen Garman’s. Search, 1978-80, drypoint Chosen by Rob Conway An Introduction to this Gift is presented on the first floor corridor until 15 March, Thursday 19 March, 2pm which highlights the different facets and Michael Rothenstein the personal nature of the collection and The Garden, undated, woodcut the relationship between private collector Chosen by Kiran Muctor and artist. It includes works by existing artists in our collections such as Peter Saturday 25 April, 2pm Blake, Ken Kiff and RB Kitaj and works by Elizabeth Blackadder contemporary West Midlands based artists Stlll Life and Fruit, undated, etching including Paul Bartlett and Peter Shread. Chosen by Sam Mace

In Conversation Saturday 23 May, 2pm Saturday 14 March 2015, 2pm Keith Vaughan, Standing Figures, Clive Beardsmore In-Conversation 1944, ink and watercolour and Tour of exhibitions Chosen by Julie Jones Darren Banks The Raven

Until 26 April 2015 Floors 1 and 2

Contemporary British artist Darren Banks has created a new installation based around the extraordinary life of Churton Fairman (1924- 1997). Better known by his alias Mike Raven, Fairman started out as a ballet dancer and photographer, before becoming a pirate radio dj, and one of the first presenters on BBC Radio One. He was also a horror movie actor, with a strong interest in the occult, as well as a devout Installation shot of Religion room with Catholic who presented religious programmes The Deposition from the Cross by Churton Fairman on ITV. In the 1970s he moved with his family to Bodmin Moor in Cornwall to become a Darren Banks, Jump Shot, 2013, film still sheep farmer and took up sculpture. Fairman’s Courtesy the artist woodcarvings, which were of a religious theme, were exhibited alongside the work of Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore, and were well received and collected during his lifetime.

Darren Banks recently discovered he had a family connection to Fairman, and was intrigued by his life story. His practice examines the relationship between film and sculpture and he has developed a body of work inspired by Fairman’s legacy, drawing from the many varied elements of his life. Our Garman Ryan temporary exhibition space hosts an installation by Banks, which incorporates works from our collections by artists including In Conversation Jacob Epstein, Isabel Rawsthorne and Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven, alongside found Saturday 21 February 2015, 2pm objects and film works by Banks. There is an Darren Banks Artist In-Conversation additional installation on Floor 1, including and Tour of Exhibition documentary footage of Fairman. We have also been gifted one of Churton Fairman’s Saturday 18 April 2015, 2pm sculptures by his family, The Deposition Mandy Fairman-Dick, widow of from the Cross, which is on display in our Churton Fairman, discusses his Religion room as part of this exhibition. extraordinary life and work

St Ives Artists from The Clive Beardsmore Gift

2 May — 23 August 2015 Floor 2, Garman Ryan Temporary Exhibition Space

This in-focus exhibition from The Clive Beardsmore Collection looks at a body of work by artists associated with the Cornish harbour town of St Ives, which from the Second World War onwards was home to a wide range of leading abstract artists, who sought quiet refuge from the atrocities happening across Europe and gained inspiration away Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Collage 127, 1983 oil and acrylic on card, copyright the estate of the artist from the hectic pace of London.

Sandra Blow, Sea Nets, 1997, watercolour and mixed Although many Modern British Artists media, copyright the estate of the artist rejected total abstraction following the war, and returned to more figurative work, the St Ives Artists embraced the abstract values of Modernism, and applied it to an appreciation of the landscape of Cornwall and its connection to Europe across the Channel.

Their work explored the expressive and gestural potential of mark making often taking as their starting point the landscape or nature around them and offered a British counterpoint to the American Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s such as Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. Curator’s Tour St Ives to this day continues to draw Saturday 11 July 2015, 2pm contemporary artists and is synonymous Curator’s Tour of The Clive with a strong artistic output which Beardsmore Interventions and has grown over the last century. St Ives Artists exhibition Among the artists represented in The Clive All talks are free, everyone welcome Beardsmore Collection are Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sandra Blow, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon and Tony O’Malley. The Garman Ryan Collection

The Garman Ryan Collection was gifted to the Borough of Walsall in 1973 by Lady Kathleen Epstein (née Garman), widow of the great 20th century sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Kathleen was originally from Wednesbury and, although had spent much of her life in London, wanted to give something back to the Black Country where she had grown up. She had formed this important collection with her close friend, Sally Ryan, granddaughter of an American tycoon and talented sculptor in her own right, following the death of Epstein in 1959. Together they collected 365 important works, including those by renowned artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, Constable, Picasso, Degas and Matisse, as well as by friends and family members, such as Epstein, Matthew Smith, Theo Garman and Lucian Freud, alongside artefacts from many cultures around the world. Works are displayed in the thematic groupings proscribed by Kathleen on her donation, which allows the opportunity to make unexpected links and comparisons across different cultures and centuries.

The Permanent Collection

The New Art Gallery Walsall has an impressive Permanent Collection of over 3000 works, which have been collected since the foundation of the original art gallery in Walsall in 1892. As well as historic works and works with a particular resonance to Walsall, the Gallery retains a strong commitment to contemporary collecting, reflected in acquisitions made through the Contemporary Art Society Special Collection Scheme and Art Fund International, as well as collecting works from contemporary artists who have exhibited or had residencies at the Gallery. Art Library & Archive Venue Hire

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