Archive
News
Latest News |
The Exhibition ‘A Discipline of the Mind : The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’ has now opened at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and runs there until 17 July. Several additional drawings of St Ives and neighbouring localities have been included in the exhibition specifically for this venue. This exhibition is part of the museum’s season of ‘Artists of St Ives and the South West’ which runs throughout the summer. The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust has loaned seven paintings from the 1940s and 1950s to an exhibition particularly on this theme, which is on show until mid September. There is also a series of lectures taking place. For information call 01752 304774 or visit the web site at www.plymouth.gov.uk/museumpcmag.htm/ |
The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust is delighted to announce that the Pier Arts Centre, Stromness have recently purchased a painting by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham ‘Red & Yellow’, a gouache from 1958. This is the first painting by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham to be added to their fine collection of work by St Ives artists. |
There is a very enlightening article ‘Visual Poetry and Joy in Flowing Lines : Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Drawings’ by Nedira Yakir in the March 2010 issue of PROOF magazine. The magazine is available from www.proof-magazine.com |
The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust is pleased to announce that the Belgrave Gallery St Ives has agreed to represent Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in St Ives. This reverses a situation where unique works from the studio - paintings and drawings –have not been readily available. There are two paintings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in their exhibition ‘St Ives Moderns’ (7 – 26 June). Other works are available from the gallery upon request. |
The Trust is pleased to announce that two prints are to be donated to Reading Museum & Art Gallery. This is the first W .Barns-Graham works to be added to this public collection. |
The drawing ‘Seven Lines No.2’ which is included in the travelling exhibition ‘A Discipline of the Mind’ has been chosen by the author Francesca Kay (who won the 2009 Orange Award for New Writers with her novel “An Equal Stillness”) to provide the background for her lecture “Momentum in the ‘poetic’ novel” at Kellogg College, Oxford at 5pm on Tuesday 2nd March. To reserve your place at the lecture, please contact Anna Pastega, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN; telephone 01865 612015; email ana.pastega@kellogg.ox.ac.uk |
The Trust has loaned two early etchings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham -‘Glacier’ and ‘Tree Freak’ – to the D’Arcy Thompson Museum, University of Dundee. This flags up an exhibition that will take place at the University later in the year (September). Wilhelmina Barns-Graham knew and was much interested in the work of this ground breaking academic writer. Born in 1860 the university is celebrating the author’s 150th anniversary. Download notes on 'Growth and Form' . Further details can be found at www.darcythompson.org/index.html |
Exhibitions 2010
For further information email the Trust| 2 September - 6 November 2010 | Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and D'Arcy Thompson | Tower Building University of Dundee |
||
| 22 May - 10 July | A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham | Plymouth Art Gallery | ||
| - 27 January 2010 |
|
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery |
||
| 8 January - 13 February 2010 | Edge of Abstraction | Mascalls Gallery
|
||
| 13 – 17 January 2010 | Art First at the London Art Fair | London Art Fair Islington London, |
Earlier News |
| The travelling exhibition ‘A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’ has just opened at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds where it runs until 27 February 2010. There will be a talk on Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at the gallery at 6pm on Thursday 10th December, given by Lynne Green, and a lunch time talk presented by the gallery’s Exhibition Officer Layla Bloom will be held on13 January, 1 - 1.30pm. Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, Parkinson Building, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT. 0113 343 2778 gallery@leeds.ac.uk www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery |
| The 2009 Barns-Graham Lecture will be given by Mel Gooding and will take place as a walk through talk of the exhibition' at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at 6pm on Thursday 28 January 2010. All talks are free to attend. |
| Four paintings by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham – ‘Gurnards Head’ 1947 (BGT3284), ‘Cliff Face’ 1952 (BGT385), ‘Three Rock Forms’ 1951 (BGT1119) and ‘White Cottage’ 1944 (BGT6401) – are included in the exhibition ‘Edge of Abstraction’ at Mascalls Gallery, Mascalls School, Paddock Wood, Kent between 8 January and 13 February 2010. Further details about this show can be found at www.mascallsgallery.org |
| A selection of paintings will be exhibited by Art First at the London Art Fair, Islington, London, 13 – 17 January 2010. This includes a set of six late paintings, acrylics on paper, that have never been previously exhibited. |
| The following venue for ‘A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’ is Plymouth Art Gallery, 22 May - 10 July. |
| The Trust has recently acquired a very early work by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a rare sketch drawing from her trip to Eastern England in 1939. This acquisition adds to a very small group of drawing of this period in the collection. |
| For this academic year, the Trust is pleased to announce that it has expanded the number of scholarships, grants and awards for which it provides funding. This includes new funding for students at University of Edinburgh, University of Leeds, University College Falmouth, University of Dundee and University of St Andrews. Details can be found on The Trust page, under ‘Bursaries, Grants & Scholarships’. |
| Do visit our Publications page where books and catalogues are available for sale, with some catalogues being available as free downloads. Please make use of the material provided. A small number of copies of Lynne Green’s book‘W. Barns-Graham : A studio life’have been found and are now available but stocks are extremely limited. |
| Please note that there are copies of the limited editions of both this book, price £395, and of‘The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham - a complete catalogue’by Ann Gunn, price £295. Both are in editions of 100 copies, presented in a sleeve box and accompanied by a specially commissioned limited edition screenprint. |
| The Trust web site is regularly updated and we recommend that you make this site one of your Favourites. New activities are happening on a constant basis, as is the ongoing addition of new visual material to the Artwork pages. |