Exhibitions / Collections / Studio / Art Library / Shop / Families /Events /ArtExhibitions /Collections /Studio Library /Shop /Families The NewArtGalleryWalsall What's on: June — September 2016 www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk Find us on Facebook Instagram Twitter @newartgallery Cover Image ~ Frank Bowling, Where is Lucienne?, 1971, acrylic on canvas, 308 x 337 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Hales Gallery, London, New York Welcome To The New Art Gallery Walsall Designed by Caruso St John architects The New Art Gallery Walsall opened in February 2000 in the heart of Walsall town centre. Our renowned Garman Ryan Collection was gifted to the Borough in 1973 by Kathleen Garman, widow of the great 20th century sculptor Jacob Epstein. Kathleen was originally from nearby Wednesbury, and although she had spent much of her life in London, wanted to give something back to the Black Country where she had grown up. The Collection includes 365 important works by celebrated artists including Epstein, Van Gogh, Monet, Constable, Picasso, Degas, Matisse and Lucian Freud, alongside a wide range of artworks from across the world. Our Permanent Collection, formed in 1892, has over 3000 works, from Victorian genre paintings to contemporary installations. The changing exhibition programmes focus on the very best in international contemporary art and our Artists’ Studio and Artist Development programmes support artists from across the region. Our education and events programme provides a broad cultural experience for everyone. Exhibition Gallery Roof Terrace Meeting Room Exhibition Galleries Collection Galleries Artists' Studio Collection Galleries Activity Room Art Library / Activity Room The Family Shop Costa Gallery Reception CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS | FLOOR 3 Tania Kovats, All the Sea, 2012 – ongoing, seawater, glass, cork, oak, (365 bottles), 600 x 278.5 cm. Installation view: The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Photo: Ruth Clark Curator’s tour Saturday 2 July, 2pm Join Deborah Robinson for an informal tour of the exhibition. Free, just drop in! Land, Sea and Air Until 4 September 2016 Frank Bowling (UK/Guyana), Tiffany Chung (Vietnam/USA), Agnes Denes (USA/Hungary), Shilpa Gupta (India), Amar Kanwar (India), Tania Kovats (UK), Cornelia Parker (UK) Maps have continued to provide a potent This exhibition brings together a diverse source material for artists for many years. selection of international artists, They provide attempts to create order engaging in different ways with maps, from a world that is ever in transformation; and by extension, borders and territory. whether in terms of physical manifestations Paintings, drawings, prints, video, sculpture such as the erosion of land masses or and installation combine to create a the rapid expansion of cities; or through visually powerful and thought provoking shifting or contested borders, betraying exhibition. The selected artists vary in evidence of conflict, resistance, negotiation approach and their works span a period and power. Maps also serve to support of over forty years. Consistent within all a sense of identity or an engagement of these works is a combination of the with a specific time and place. personal, the poetic and the political. remapping history: an autopsy of a battle, an excavation of a man’s past, an excavation of a battle, an autopsy remapping history: Tiffany Chung, Chung, Tiffany and audio images found photographs, archival videos, vinyl decal, photographs, 2015, New York Art, Fine Rollins and Tyler of the artist Courtesy drawings. texts, recording, CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS | FLOOR 3 , exhibition view, Modern Art, London, 2014. London, Modern Art, , exhibition view, What the Eye Wants the Eye What Eva Rothschild, Eva Eva Rothschild 23 September 2016 — 15 January 2017 The New Art Gallery Walsall is delighted of unstable geometric forms. This will be to present a major exhibition of new Rothschild’s first solo exhibition in the work by Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild. Midlands and the new body of work will include a specially commissioned piece Rothschild is one of the leading sculptors using leather, a material at the centre of her generation and has gained of Walsall’s manufacturing industry. extensive international recognition for her work. Her practice is informed by an Eva Rothschild has had solo shows at Nasher ongoing interest in the meeting points Sculpture Centre, Dallas, Tate Britain, and The between spirituality, visual perception Hepworth Wakefield. Her work is held in major collections including Tate, The Museum of Modern and the nature of materiality. She works Art, New York and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. across a range of media including steel, She was elected to the Royal Academy in 2015. leather, resin, plastic and fabric and her work is often characterised by the use Preview This exhibition is generously supported by The Thursday 22 September, 6-8pm Henry Moore Foundation and Culture Ireland as Join us in the company of the artist part of the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme. ARTISTS' STUDIO installation view 2015, view 2015, installation Photo: Brian J Morrison Photo: SYSON project space, Nottingham. Nottingham. space, project SYSON Ruth Claxton, Claxton, Ruth Ruth Claxton The Building as Material Open Call-Out Until 17 July 2016 (Window Box continues until 21 August) 16 August — 13 November 2016 Ruth Claxton is known for her large-scale, Twenty years ago, London-based site responsive architectural installations, architects Caruso St John were selected which often utilise materials that are to design a new gallery for Walsall after ‘activated’ by a viewer’s physical presence. winning a high profile international She will use her residency to experiment competition. Since opening in 2000, with retro-reflective pigment, a distinctly the resulting 37-metre-high building, contemporary material most commonly clad in terracotta tiles punctuated by used in cycling jackets to illuminate large windows, has been a source of the wearer in a headlamp’s beam. inspiration for artists. This residency will provide an opportunity for one West Following a period of experimentation Midlands-based artist to respond to the in the Artists’ Studio, Ruth will raw materials and interior of The New create a special installation for the Art Gallery Walsall: concrete, leather, Gallery’s front-facing Window Box. Douglas fir, walnut, and stainless steel. www.ruthclaxton.info See www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org. Follow Ruth Claxton on uk/info/opportunities for details. twitter: @ruthclaxton COLLECTION EXHIBITIONS | FLOORS 1 AND 2 c. 1912-14, Caryatid The Fallen Caryatid Carrying her Stone Carrying Caryatid Fallen The (1884-1920), (1884-1920), (1840-1917), (1840-1917), Auguste Rodin Auguste 2015 London © Tate, bronze. cast 1950, c.1880-1, Modigliani Amedeo Collection Garman Ryan The on paper. pencil and crayon Works from Tate into WORKS FROM The Garman Ryan Collection Tate INTO Until 11 February 2017 As part of a three year partnership with to Walsall in 1973. Amongst the 365 Tate, the 2016 Interventions into The artworks are many by Epstein and his Garman Ryan Collection are drawn circle, including Gaudier-Brzeska, from Tate’s renowned collection. 16 Augustus John, Matthew Smith and Tate artworks have been paired with Lucian Freud; as well as by leading 19th related works in The Garman Ryan century European masters Constable, Collection, linked either by artist, Degas and Pissarro. It includes many subject or theme. Included are key parallels with works from Tate’s extensive examples by Eric Gill, Cedric Morris, collections of British and European John Nash, Picasso and Rodin. art and we are privileged to have the opportunity to display some fantastic The Garman Ryan Collection was formed examples in this exhibition, highlighting by Sir Jacob Epstein’s widow and gifted standout works from both collections. Artwork of the Month Exhibition Tours Look out for the signage in the Gallery Saturdays 16 July & 10 September, 2pm and monthly feature on our website. A tour of the exhibition led by a pair of our knowledgeable Gallery Assistants. , 2013, photographic print. Courtesy of David Rowan. Rowan. of David Courtesy print. photographic , 2013, Mid Lacunae Mid David Rowan, Rowan, David Recent Acquisitions Part 2: Landscape and the Urban Environment 23 July — January 2017 Throughout this year we are displaying theme of the Metropolis, which was some of the newest additions to generously supported by The Art Fund, our Permanent Collection, in the and Landscape is a central theme of our lead up to its 125th anniversary in renowned Garman Ryan Collection. 2017. Our collecting policy priorities include works related to the themes This exhibition showcases works which in The Garman Ryan Collection, or complement these themes and have by artists who have been part of our been collected by the Gallery over temporary exhibitions programmes. the last few years by Willie Doherty, John Newling, David Rowan, Paul The New Art Gallery Walsall owns Seawright and Emma Stibbon. jointly with Birmingham Museums Trust a collection of international art on the Part 1: People and Artistic Connections finishes on 16 July Features works by Frank Auerbach, Glenn Brown and Laura Lancaster. CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS | FLOOR 4 , 2008, c-type photographic print. photographic , 2008, c-type Dream Villa Courtesy of the artist and Frith Street Gallery. Street and Frith of the artist Courtesy from the series from Dayanita Singh, Singh, Dayanita The Humble