Events for Adults at a Glance Forthcoming Exhibitions Pricing and online booking at yorkartgallery.org.uk. Discover more and buy tickets at yorkartgallery.org.uk. Exhibitions FREE TALKS – no need to book Harland Miller: York, So Good They Named It Once Curator’s Choice 14 February – 31 May 2020 & Events Third Wednesday of the month: 12.30pm – 1pm. York Art Gallery presents a mid-career exhibition of York- Friends of York Art Gallery Lunchtime Talks born artist Harland Miller. The largest solo presentation October 2019 – January 2020 of his work to date, it celebrates his relationship to the Second Wednesday of the month: 12.30pm – 1pm. city of his upbringing. Alongside more recent works, Plan your visit… Visitor Experience Team Talks it will feature a selection of Miller’s acclaimed classic Penguin series and ‘bad weather paintings’ which playfully Every day between 2pm – 3pm (except Wednesday Dieric Bouts (c.1415 – 1475), Christ Crowned with Thorns, c.1470 © The National Gallery, London. reference various cities in the North of England, evoking and Saturday). OPEN DAILY: 10am – 5pm Bequeathed by Mrs Joseph H. Green, 1880 a tragicomic sense of time and place. York Art Gallery York Art Gallery is approximately The Making a Masterpiece: Bouts and Beyond (1450 – 2020) exhibition has been made possible as a result of the Automaton Clock Talk and Demonstration Supported by White Cube Exhibition Square, York YO1 7EW 15 minutes walk from York Railway Government Indemnity Scheme. York Art Gallery would like to thank HM Government for providing Government T: 01904 687687 Station. From the station, cross the Indemnity and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England for arranging the indemnity. Wednesday and Saturday: 2pm – 2.30pm. E: [email protected] river and walk towards York Minster. Aesthetica Art Prize 2020 The nearest car parks are Bootham Opens March 2020 Row and Marygate, which are a five WORKSHOPS – book online minute walk from York Art Gallery. Gillian Lowndes: At the Edge Aesthetica Art Prize recognises excellence in Tickets can be purchased in advance or on arrival. For pricing and to book your Sketchbook Circle contemporary art from across the world within the fields tickets visit yorkartgallery.org.uk. 23 November 2019 – May 2020 Wednesdays: 13 Nov, 11 Dec, 15 Jan and 12 Feb. of Photographic & Digital Art; Three Dimensional Design & Sculpture; Painting, Drawing & Mixed Media; and CAFÉ SHOP 1.30pm – 3.30pm. Serving a unique blend of freshly Don’t miss a visit to our fantastic Informal practical art sessions for adults. Video, Installation & Performance. prepared food and great coffee, our gallery shops selling art supplies, café gives you the perfect start or end prints, books, ceramics and to your visit. much more. Art for Wellbeing (16+ only) Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years Sundays: 10 Nov, 8 Dec, 12 Jan and 2 Feb. Opens 12 June 2020 ACCESS 1.30pm – 3.30pm. The first exhibition to survey Grayson Perry’s York Art Gallery is fully accessible to wheelchair users. A wheelchair is available to borrow on request. Full information is provided on our website. Informal practical art sessions for adults. earliest forays into the art world will re-introduce the explosive Mindfulness, Drawing and Writing Course and creative works he made Support York Museums Trust Tuesdays: 1 Oct, 8 Oct, 15 Oct, 5 Nov, 12 Nov, between 1982 and 1994. 19 Nov and 26 Nov. 10.15am – 12.45pm. These ground-breaking ‘lost’ Our collections are of national and international importance, and our museums An eight-week course exploring the relationship pots will be reunited for the first and galleries welcome thousands of visitors each year. York Museums Trust is a registered charity set up to care for the city’s art and heritage and develop them between mindfulness and creativity. Gillian Lowndes, Tea Sieve, 2004. time to focus on the formative for future generations. years of one of Britain’s most Donations, endowments and bequests of any size are welcomed – any gift Workshops with Toni Watts (16+ only) recognisable artists. makes a difference. For more information, or to make a donation, please visit: Saturday 14 Dec 2019: Natural Paint Making. yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/support-the-trust/donations. Touring exhibition from Saturday 18 Jan 2020: Drawing with Silver, Painting The Holburne Museum with Egg. 10.30am – 1pm and 2pm – 4.30pm. Grayson Perry, Cocktail Party, 1989 © Grayson Perry. Image courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, York Art Gallery is part of York Museums Trust. Limited places available, please book online. Charity number 1092466. Information correct at time of going to print. London/Venice; Photography Stephen White. Discover more at yorkartgallery.org.uk Photography: Giles Rocholl. Centre of Ceramic Art

Welcome to Gillian Lowndes, Collage with Tomato Root, c.1990. 23 & 24 NOVEMBER 2019 Days of Clay is returning to CoCA, York Art Workshop of Dieric Bouts (c.1415 – 1475), St Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child, c.1470 – 1480 Gillian Lowndes: At the Edge Gallery, in collaboration with the York Ceramics the Award Winning © The Bowes Museum 23 November 2019 – May 2020 Fair at the Hospitium in York Museum Gardens. Join us on Saturday for a day of making rabbits From the 1970s onwards, artist Gillian Lowndes (1936- It features substantial loans from regional and national with artist Susan Halls and display them as an 2010) was at the forefront of a new style of contemporary institutions across the UK, shown alongside our own rich installation in the ceramics galleries. On Sunday York Art Gallery ceramics which explored the materiality of clay. Her collection of Dutch and Flemish art and new commissions we have a range of hands on activities including abstract expressionist way of working brought together a by award-winning artist Christopher Cook. Highlights include performance art, workshops and expert talks. EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS range of materials and found objects which she recycled paintings by past masters such as Hans Memling, Frans Discover more about working with clay alongside to create new sculptural work she called collages. Making a Masterpiece: Snyders, Jan van Goyen and Anthony van Dyck, and rarely renowned artists and potters surrounded by the Bouts & Beyond (1450 – 2020) seen prints by Rembrandt and Lucas van Leyden. This exhibition showcases over 40 artworks drawn from best examples of ceramic art in the UK as we CoCA’s collection alongside loans from Anthony Shaw’s invite you to #RethinkCeramics. This exhibition has been developed as a National Lottery 11 October 2019 – 26 January 2020 – many of which have never been on public display. Heritage Fund collaboration with The Bowes Museum Accompanying the exhibition will be further displays Gillian Lowndes: At the Edge and Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, and is achieved in featuring new acquisitions by artists including Kate The 2019 Annual CoCA Lecture: partnership with the National Gallery and the University 23 November 2019 – May 2020 Malone, Emmanuel Cooper and David Seeger. of York. Alison Britton OBE Artist in Residence 11 October 2019 – 26 January 2020 23 November 2019, 6 – 7pm September 2019 - February 2020 Inspired by the Dieric Bouts workshop painting, Artist in Residence Children Curate Tickets £10, buy online Until April 2020 Children Curate Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child September 2019 – February 2020 Alison Britton is a leading British potter with an (c.1470 – 1480), this major exhibition explores Anthony Shaw’s impressive collection of art, assembled international reputation. A significant figure among Until April 2020 Using the exhibition as a starting point for inspiration, over the last 45 years, is on long-term loan to York Art the generation of innovative British ceramicists that artists’ creation of images from the northern a student artist from York St John University will create Michael Lyons: Ancient and Modern Gallery. Anthony invited 28 Year Six children from Burton emerged during the 1970s, she is widely recognised Renaissance to the present day. their own, participatory artwork in the Project Gallery. for her work as a curator, writer and lecturer. Until May 2020 Green Primary School in York to become Guest Curators and create their own exhibition using his collection. The In her lecture, Britton will reflect on being part of Coast to Coast children’s own imaginative artwork sits alongside the an emergence of a radical abstract expressionist style of ceramic work. Until March 2020 items that inspired their creation.