2012

2012 is the centenary year of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s birth. We start this special year with the exhibition W. Barns-Graham: a Scottish artist in St Ives at the Fleming Collection, opening 10 January. Curated by Lynne Green the exhibition examines the artist’s Scottish background, from her training at Edinburgh College of Art to her life in Scotland after inheriting Balmungo House, near St Andrews. The exhibition runs until 5 April.

The exhibition is accompanied with a fully illustrated, soft cover catalogue, written by Lynne Green, published by The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust, price £16.95

Lynne Green will be presenting a lecture on the exhibition on Monday 21 February. Contact the Fleming Collection for details. 

The Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DU.
Telephone 020 7042 5730; email: gallery@flemingcollection.com

The new edition of Lynne Green’s monograph W. Barns-Graham: a studio Life, published by Lund Humphries, is now available. The first edition from 2001 has been revised, improved and expanded to include a coda that discusses the work made between the publication of the first edition and Willie’s death in January 2004.

The new edition, published as soft cover, price £25, is available from The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust as well as in good bookshops around the UK. 

The touring exhibition A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham opens at the Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Bideford, North Devon on Saturday 3 March where it runs until 16 April. The exhibition then travels back to Scotland, to Perth Museum and Art Gallery, opening 19 May.

Curated by Mel Gooding, the exhibition centres on Barns-Graham’s drawing, an activity which she felt was an important way of connecting her to the natural world.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated, hard cover catalogue with text by Mel Gooding, available at £15.

An exhibition of drawings Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: A Line of Drawing 1943-1993
opens at Art First, London 28 March. This is the first collection of Barns-Graham’s drawings that has been made available for purchase since a small show in the early days of the gallery, in 1994.

Art First, 21 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DD Telephone 020 7734 0386; email: info@artfirst.co.uk   Web: www.artfirst.co.uk

The full programme of exhibitions will be posted shortly. Overall there are ten exhibitions in twelve venues being held throughout the UK. Please contact the Trust for further details.