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- Tate St Ives won the 2018 Art Fund Museum of the Year
Art Fund director and Chair of the Judges Stephen Deuchar described the new extention to the museum as 'Deeply inteligent and breathtakingly beautiful'...
- Having its toes in the gushing waters of the river Calder, Wakefield's Art Gallery is a superb choice for a cultural day out. It was also a well deserved WINNER of the Art Fund Museum of the Year last year, 2017..
An art fund card will earn a good discount for purchases here, and there are some other treats not too far away also!
- We are delighted that, following last years December Flood, our favourite North London Gallery, James Freeman are open and once more thrilling us with some outrageously imaginative works.
From 8th to 28th March 2018, another show not to miss from James Freeman was 'Makers of Marks'
Drawing and printmaking have much shared history and enjoy a deeply interwoven relationship, but even so, contemporary artists still find new ways of making them play off each other. In 'Makers of Marks' the gallery present three artists who experiment with this relationship against a background of classical references: Daniel Hosego, Sam Branton and Jon Braley.
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FREIZE Art Fair New York, 5th - 7th May & South African Dumile Feni was a welcome addition from Grosvenor Gallery.
Struggle & Repression: From Soweto Township to his death in New York, the life of black South African artist Dumile Feni in drawings and Sculpture 1960-1991.
William Kentridge, leading South African artist, says of Dumile: "He had the capacity to express things on a scale that I thought drawings could not achieve. He is the key artist who influenced me."At Frieze New York, May 5 – 7, 2017, Grosvenor Gallery exhibited the fine work of South African artist Dumile(1942-1991). Exiled from his homeland by Apartheid, he lived in London and New York, until his death in New York in 1991.
Known for the ferocity and compassion of his work influenced by Apartheid, Dumile's work at Frieze in New York with the Grosvenor Gallery is sure to win him even more admirers. Speaking about the motivation Dumile said:"One day I was in the Township with this driver and we went past a line of men who were all handcuffed. I don't know what for, maybe for having no pass or something. Anyway the driver said, 'Why don't you ever draw things like that?' I didn't know what to say. Then just when I was still thinking, a funeral for a child came past. A funeral on a Monday morning. You know, all the people in black on a lorry. And as the funeral went past those men in handcuffs, those men watched it go past, and those with hats took off their hats. I said to the guy I was with, 'That's what I want to draw!' " (Simon, 1968:43)Conor Macklin of the Grosvenor Gallery says: "Dumile is a key figure in the history of Modernism in South Africa. In the 1960's he emerged from the Township of Soweto in Johannesburg along with a generation of highly creative and dynamic artists, musicians and creatives. Among those individuals were African Jazz pioneers Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, and a great number of the group went on to forge international careers overseas.
You know, all the people in black on a lorry. And as the funeral went past those men in handcuffs, those men watched it go past, and those with hats took off their hats. I said to the guy I was with, 'That's what I want to draw!' " (Simon, 1968:43)Conor Macklin of the Grosvenor Gallery says: "Dumile is a key figure in the history of Modernism in South Africa. In the 1960's he emerged from the Township of Soweto in Johannesburg along with a generation of highly creative and dynamic artists, musicians and creatives. Among those individuals were African Jazz pioneers Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim, and a great number of the group went on to forge international careers overseas.
**Keep visiting for more Frieze New York news within the next few days. Plus AMETHYSTINE will focus in depth on South African Art soon too.
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