Cheltenham Art
What's On and Art News
(Updated 1st July 2009)
Cheltenham-art.com will be keeping you up-to-date with the latest news about art in Gloucestershire, as well as highlighting exhibitions taking place in the county. Galleries are welcome to send e-press releases to the Webmaster, by clicking the icon below.
Cheltenham Open Air Art Exhibition
The exhibition begins on Saturday 20th June 2009, and will be opened by the Mayor of Cheltenham at 10a.m. All are welcome! The exhibition will run daily from 10a.m. to 8p.m., with different artists each week, until 19th July 2009. Please come and support our popular annual event in Imperial Gardens, opposite the Queens Hotel.
Cheltenham has a brand new art centre in Montpellier Gardens. The enclosed exhibition space is being used by local artists and groups, and back-to-back exhibitions proving highly successful. Visit their website for details of exhibitions, and to view their Virtual Gallery of exhibitions which have already taken place during 2007 and 2008, as well as what's in store in 2009:
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
Then and Now
To Sunday 21 June 2009, free
Uncertain Weather
To Sunday 21 June 2009, free
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
Clarence Street, Cheltenham
(01242) 237431
Mon - Sat 10am - 5.20pm
Cheltenham Town Hall
Richard Cannon: Leading Lights
A photographic portrait exhibition celebrating Britain's young pioneers in the fields of science. engineering, maths and technology.
To 7th June, free
Town Hall, Imperial Square, Cheltenham, GL50 1QA
Box Office: 0844 576 2210
The Exhibitions are in the Buffet and can be viewed during the daytime, events permitting
www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk Meantime Arts Space
Freya Gabie
Starting with the surface of objects or environments, Freya Gabie employs a strategy of ‘subtle bullying’ of material (casting, carving, splicing, stacking, breaking) to manipulate, re-model or shift the character of the original, which is often humourous and/or perverse.
Opening: Wednesday 15th July, 7-9pm
Also open: Saturday 18th July, 11am-3pm
MEANTIME
Oxford Passage
off St Margaret's Road
Cheltenham
GL50 4EF
Directions and further information at http://meantime.org.uk/
Sudeley Castle Grounds
Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe
(01242) 602308
Mon-Sun 10.30am - 5.30pm
Entry £7.20, & concessions
Gloucester Folk Museum
Gloucester Folk Museum, Westgate Street, Gloucester
(01452) 396467
Tues-Saturday 10am - 5pm
Gloucester City Museum
and Art Gallery Colourful Gear
Landscape paintings, cartoon drawings and poetry by people who are homeless or have once been.
To 4th July, free
Gloucester City Museum and Art Gallery, Brunswick Road, Gloucester
(01452) 396131
Tues-Saturday 11am - 5pm
The Guildhall, Gloucester
Joined Up Art
Work by GANet and artists from Gouda
To 30th May, free
Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1NS
(01452) 503050
Tues-Saturday 10.30am - 3pm
Wallsworth Hall, Twigworth, nr Gloucester
Anthony Gibbs: Life in detail
Paintings by the artist, including his famous White Tigers Ever Watchful.
To 21st June
20 Years of Collecting
A highlight of collectable artefacts from the museum's collections.
To 21st June
£4.50, conc £4, under 8s free, family £13, under 8s
free
Wallsworth Hall,
main A38,
Twigworth,
Gloucestershire,
GL2 9PA
Tel: (01452) 731 422
The Wildlife Gallery, Slimbridge
A Walk on the Wild Side
To Friday 17 July 2009, admission price applies
The Wildlife Gallery, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Slimbridge
0870 334 4000
Sat -Mon 9.30am -5pm, Sat & Sun by appointment
'Prema' Arts Centre, Uley
Freya Cumming
To 6th June, free
Neil Spalding
To 6th June, free
(01453) 860703
Mon - Fri 10am -6pm, Sat & Sun by appointment
Stroud Valleys Artspace
John Street, Stroud
(01452) 751440
Phone for times.
Stroud House Gallery
Stroud House Gallery, Station Road, Stroud
(01452) 750575
Wed - Sat 10.30 - 5pm
Ruskin Mill, Nailsworth
(01453) 837537
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 11am-4pm
The Subscription Rooms, Stroud
Site 09 Open Studios Exhibition
An overview of the art on offer as artists around Stroud invite you into their homes, studios and workshops.
Sat 30th May - Tues 30th June (except 14 & 21 June), free
The Subscription Rooms, George Street
(01453) 760900
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm
The Space, Lansdown, Stroud
Elemental: Ruth Davey, Sam Mukumba and Nikki Simpson
Photography and sculpture exploring the essential elements in the surrounding world.
To 11th June, free
The Space, Lansdown
(01453) 767576
Sat & Mon-Thu 10.30am-4.30pm
The Museum in the Park, Stroud
The Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud
Tues-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat-Sun 11am-5pm
(01453) 763394
The Wonderwall Gallery, Cirencester
Summer Exhibition
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The show includes new paintings by leading artists including Rachel Milne, Alexa Davenport and Michael B. Edwards.
Also included in the exhibition will be a series of cow portraits by leading animal painter Sue Moffitt. Sue travelled down from her home on Northumberland to paint portraits of some of the cows grazing freely on he beautiful limestone grassland of Minchinhampton Common, near Stroud. Sue was born near Corbridge, Northumberland and grew up on a large dairy farm. Her family have been farming for generations, originating from Hunday Farm, near Workington, Cumbria. Her grandfather established the now famous Hunday Herd of Holstein Friesians.
“The strong bond with dairy farming is so rooted in my psyche that I have continued to paint cows for the last 10 years and will probably continue to do so till I die!” explains Sue. Sue had heard so much about the cows roaming on Minchinhampton Common that she was very keen to meet them.
“On several occasions they stood in the middle of the road oblivious to the traffic waiting patiently to pass through”, comments Sue. “They wandered down the narrow lanes past homes and gardens, stopping at anything that aroused their curiosity, even more so when I arrived with sketch book and camera to hand, they allowed me to share some time with them. Despite the vast space they roam, I kept coming across some of my favourite faces and those which stood out to me in terms of some quirky characteristic.”
Sue’s work has been exhibited in many venues throughout the North East, Cumbria and Lancashire, the demand for her unique style of cow portraits has spread around the UK and internationally.
“Many artists attempt to paint cows, although no-one seems to quite capture the individual personalities and quirky characteristics of the animals quite like Sue”, comments Wonderwall Gallery owner David Bloomfield. “Her portraits reveal a strong understanding of the animals that can only come from living and working with them over many years”.
9th July
until 8th August.The Wonderwall Gallery, 7 Gosditch St, Cirencester
(01285) 650555
Tues - Sat 10am - 5.00pm, free
New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
Sheep from Lamb to Loom: Kate Lynch & Alastair Goolden
Oil paintings and charcoal drawings of farming life and industry.
To 21st June, free
Theatre Space, Brewery Arts Coffee House, Brewery Court, Cricklade Street, Cirencester
(01285) 657181
Mon - Sat 9am - 5pm, Sun 10am -4pm
Quenington Old Rectory
Quenington Old Rectory, Church Road, Cirencester
(01285) 750358
Sat-Sun 10am - 5pm , Mon-Fri by appt only
Corinium Museum, Cirencester
Music of the Eye
Celebration of the 10th anniversary of the British Association for Modern Mosaic.
Poulton Hoard
Bronze Age gold artefacts found in Poulton, including rings and bracelets, believed to date from between 1300-1100BC.
On-going exhibition
Admission £3.90, concessions
Corinium Museum, Park Street, Cirencester
(01285) 655611
Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sun 2pm - 5pm
Cotswold Art Club
Church House Talks 2009
All meetings begin at 2.30pm on the third Saturday of the month. Cotswold Art Club members only.
Sat 20th June Martin Abrams, Pastel Artist
Sat 19th Sept Jacqueline Williams Oil Painting
Sat 17th Oct TBA
Sat 7th Nov Lorna Maria Stevens, Figurative works oil
Club Exhibitions
Stow on the Wold -- 17th August - 1st September 2009
Gardens Gallery, Cheltenham -- 25th November to 8th December 2009
Sabre Art Gallery, Quedgeley
Sabre Art News
Sabre Art, 32, Sabre Close, Green Farm Business Park, Quedgeley, Gloucester, GL2 4NZ.
Tel: 01452 397479
Open: Thurs. & Sat.10am–5pm - Fri.10am-3pm, or phone to visit on other days.
Red Rag Gallery
Essentially English – John Lines
Reproduced with permission
An art exhibition by leading British contemporary artist John Lines RBSA GRA is taking place at Red Rag Gallery from 7 June to 21 June. For Lines, the exhibition is a celebration and record of England today featuring landscapes, marine and urban scenes across the UK. John Lines has a distinctive, strong and individualistic style. Low in palette colour Lines chooses scenes and situations reminiscent of L S Lowry. His paintings evoke similar emotions – childhood memories, humour, industrial decline, romance, and nostalgia. And as always his paintings are beautifully crafted.
Lines says: “I simply paint through honest eyes.” But there is more to his paintings than that – he also displays an excellence in observation and composition together with talent for uncovering day to day beauty in the most unlikely places. For the exhibition Lines has toured the British Isles painstakingly recording scenes. Although landscape and marine are included it is the gritty urban scenes – canals, factories, back to back houses and railways that dominate. All the paintings are in his preferred medium of oil.
From: June 7 to 21 June 2009
Red Rag Gallery
Church Street
Stow on the Wold
Gloucestershire
GL54 1BB
+ 44 (0) 1451 832563
Martin's Gallery
Imperial House, Montpelier Parade, Cheltenham
01242 526044
Web Address: www.martinsgallery.co.uk
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