Sept - Dec 2012 Exhibitions and activities Southampton City Art Gallery / Tudor House & Garden / SeaCity Museum Exhibitions Tudor House & Garden Amassable: Collections Gary Stevens: Now and Again with connections 14 September - 23 December 13 October - 3 March 2013 Featuring collections borrowed from Southampton’s residents and from the Titanic the Legend city’s own extensive and diverse holdings, Until 30 August 2013 Amassable is a modern day cabinet of curiosity. This exhibition explores the stories behind collections, giving an insight into the personalities of the people who seek out, acquire, catalogue, display and care for their treasures. The ethos of collecting hasn’t changed through time. The cigarette cards of the early 20th century were collected, used and traded in much the same way as Pokémon cards are now - collecting is today what it was yesterday. Welcome... What do you collect? Email a photo of to Southampton Arts and Heritage autumn programme of new exhibitions, your collection and your story about why accompanied by a wide range of activities for adults. you collect, for inclusion on Tudor House’s Facebook pages to [email protected] Due to Civic Centre repair and improvement works, access to the Art Gallery for users of larger electric wheelchairs will be limited from September. Please ensure that you telephone in advance of your visit to confirm access arrangements, call 023 8083 4536. From Jan – July 2013 the West-Wing galleries will be closed to the Don’t miss... public while repairs are carried out; this includes The Perseus Series by Burne-Jones. Tudor Revels – All things Tudor Weekend Sat 29 & Sun 30 Sept / 10am – 5pm Tudor House and Garden FREE entrance Step back in time to the 1500s with Tudor Revels. Tudor House and Garden will open the doors free of charge to engage and entertain you, visit website Susan Cutts: Cherish for more information. Until 7 October www.tudorhouseandgarden.com Exhibitions Southampton City Art Gallery Gary Stevens: ART to DANCE Now and Again 28 September 2012 - 13 January 2013, 14 September - 23 December, Galleries 1 - 4 Gallery 8 ART to DANCE was first exhibited at Southampton City Art Gallery in January and now returns with exciting additions of the best works created by workshop participants and local artists inspired by the show. Photographs, drawings, sound bites and a specially commissioned film will accompany the exhibition of paintings and sculptures selected from the gallery’s permanent collection by Mayuri Boonham, a leading British exponent of South Asian dance. ART to DANCE is part of Art at the Heart Gary Stevens Now and Again: Westgate, Southampton (video still) 2012 © the artist Now and Again - Gary Steven’s largest solo The additional work, Containment has – a partnership between Southampton’s show to date - sees new works displayed a sculptural quality to it where images arts organisations and the City Council alongside retrospective and seminal intermingle on clusters of video monitors in to bring exciting events and projects to video pieces. the gallery. ART to DANCE workshop 2012, Photography Sarah Filmer Southampton’s emerging Cultural Quarter. The exhibition will include two new works Stevens is a British artist who has Containment and Now and Again: Westgate, developed an inter-related body of work that Southampton alongside his acclaimed video spans performances and video installations installations Slow Life and Wake Up & Hide. since 1984. Making reference to landscape, still life and An evening with Gary Stevens: portraiture painting the new works explore Live performance & talk complex representations of time, presence Sat 27 Oct / 6 – 8pm / Art Gallery & and absence. Peopled by local inhabitants, Lecture Theatre / £8.50, £7.50 conc Now and Again: Westgate, Southampton has been filmed from four different perspectives We are delighted to present a unique at the Westgate in Southampton’s Old Town, event with artist Gary Stevens, to and will reveal an understated, uncanny celebrate the launch of Southampton Film aspect to everyday activity with an emerging Week. See events pages of this leaflet for sense of synchronicity. more details. Exhibitions SeaCity Museum Portrait Pairs 14 September 2012 - 13 January 2013, Gallery 6 This fresh look at portrait painting aims to illuminate the overt or hidden messages that artists include in their compositions in order to tell stories and present their sitters in a certain light. François Gérard, (1770 – 1837), Napoleon, 1769-1821 (left) Thomas Gainsborough (1727 – 1788), George Venables Vernon, 1767 (right) Nags to Thoroughbreds 14 September 2012 - 27 January 2013, Main Hall Sir Alfred Munnings’ magnificent painting After the Race is the focal point of this new display. It features some of the Gallery’s fine horse paintings Don’t miss... brought together for the first time in many years. Titanic the Legend Alfred James Munnings (1878 – 1959), After the Race Continues until 30 August 2013 One hundred years after she sank, the Lost Star story of Titanic continues to fascinate. 11 August - 14 October Gallery Foyer It’s been extensively researched, remembered, and commemorated. Lost Star is a collection of prints produced by When did disaster become a members of Red Hot Press print workshop in romance? What lessons were learned? Southampton. It commemorates the centenary of the Should artefacts be salvaged from launch and subsequent loss of the RMS Titanic. The the wreck site? These are just some unique responses have been portrayed in a variety of of the questions being posed in this printmaking techniques including linocut and etching. exhibition. All the prints and a beautifully illustrated book to accompany the exhibition are available to buy. Local Titanic historians, writers, academics and scientists explore how Meet the Artists and why the legend endures through Sun 7 Oct / 3 – 5pm / Gallery foyer / FREE the literature, films and merchandise Come along to hear some of artists from Red Hot that has proliferated from the story. Press talk about the Lost Star project and how and why they created their individual prints. Whether you have personal links to Sarah Mander Titanic (Collograph) © the artist Titanic or your interest is academic, or even if you don’t quite see what the fuss Forthcoming is all about, this exhibition also invites Exhibitions you to share your views at interactive The Philip Schlee Collection of Drawings stations in the gallery space. 14 January - 21 April 2013 Art and craft workshops LIFE DRAWING ARTS AND CRAFTS Colour rhythms Art of floristry painting and Saturday Life Drawing Introduction to wire drawing workshop Sun 2 Dec / Art Gallery figures 10.30am – 4pm / £39 22 Sept, 27 Oct, 24 Nov, 26 Jan, 16 Feb Sun 7 Oct / 11am – 4pm all materials provided 11am – 4pm / Art Gallery / £30 per session Sun 16 Sept Art Gallery Education 11am – 4pm / Art Gallery Join Owen Lavin of Please provide own pencils, charcoal, putty Room / £30 Education Room / £38 Southampton based rubber, A2 and / or A1 paper. Let your imagination run florists Little Lillies for this Join artist Debra Marsh The workshops are suitable for all abilities apart from free, while learning skills brilliant opportunity to take and learn the art of drawing absolute beginners. of colour composition, your floral arrangements with wire. Spend the day watercolour brushwork and beyond the vase for Working closely with the models, working with a variety pastel drawing, inspired by Christmas. Spend the day artist Melanie Rose uses music, of wire, discovering the early 20th century masters learning from and being timed poses, movement and techniques and processes Klee and Kandinsky. Led inspired by Owen, who alternative drawing exercises to to create a stunning 3D by artist Abi Kremer. Please uses his experience as a challenge our perceived ways of figure. bring watercolour paper, a trained fine artist to create looking and mark making. selection of brushes and stunning floral sculptures. The atmosphere in Melanie’s paints. Spend your break classes is relaxed and friendly. Drawing the figure The day will include enjoying a performance in PLEASE NOTE: Sept and in period costume looking at Owen’s work, the gallery as part of Music Nov sessions will be whole learning about organic Sun 23 Sept in the City. day poses. materials, objects and 11am – 4pm seasonal flowers and Tudor House / £30 Get crafty with creating your own festive Enjoy a clothed figure decoupage floral frame drawing class with a difference, in the authentic Sat 13 Oct / surroundings of Tudor 10.30am – 3.30pm House, with a model Tudor House / £32 dressed in Tudor period Using pretty and costume. The class is attractive papers, artist intended for people at all Kate Woodley-Smith levels of ability and one-to- will show you how to one tuition will be offered transform everyday for those who would objects into something welcome it. Led by artist stunning. We provide a Brian Reynolds. Some box and a bracelet for materials will be provided, you to decoupage but bring extra pencils, etc if How to book: As part of the Art Gallery’s partnership please bring another you wish. with Adult and Community Learning, object of your choice Advanced booking is essential for all adults aged 19 and over may be eligible such as a metal tin, our activities. for a discount on workshop activities. tray or small item. Telephone: 023 8083 4536 Please ask for details. For more details of listings visit www.southampton.gov.uk/whatson Special events To book telephone 023 8083 4536 art gallery An introduction to your Glass vase painting Art to Dance – Art to Dance – Art to Dance sewing machine Dance photography Filmmaking and Drawn to life Sat 1 Dec master-class the arts Sat 17 Nov / 10.30am – 4pm 10.30am – 3.30pm Sat 12 Jan 2013 / 1 – 3pm Tudor House / £25 Tudor House/ £35 Sat 29 Sept / 10.30am – Sun 4 Nov / 2 – 3pm / Art Art Gallery / £10 4pm / Art Gallery / £60 Gallery / 2 – 3pm / FREE Learn to make the most of your Join artist Kate Woodley- This clothed life drawing tea & coffee provided machine with this introductory Smith as she helps you An exciting opportunity session, with dancers session.