Being There Exhibition at No.1 Royal Crescent
Event Start Date: 14/09/2024
Event End Date: 05/01/2025
Location: No1 ROYAL CRESCENT
Address: 1 ROYAL CRESCENT, BATH, BA1 2LR
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Come and see our new exhibition Being There, featuring four recently acquired Thomas Gainsborough portraits alongside 18 British contemporary artists working in portraiture today. Selected by guest curator Ingrid Swenson MBE, the exhibition is the first in the No.1 Royal Crescent Gallery's ambitious new programme of contemporary art exhibitions.
The four Gainsborough paintings will be presented as key components of a kaleidoscopic group exhibition of portraiture featuring 18 contemporary British artists selected by guest curator Ingrid Swenson MBE. The title for the exhibition, Being There is intended to invite visitors to reflect on the experience of artists and their sitters or subject in the act of making the artwork, and to consider what similarities and differences there may be for the role of the artist in Gainsborough’s time and today. Artists in Being There are Michael Armitage, Frank Auerbach, Sarah Ball, Richard Billingham, Glenn Brown, Brian Dawn Chalkley, Kaye Donachie, Paul Graham, Maggi Hambling, David Hockney, Claudette Johnson, Chantal Joffe, Lucy Jones, Joy Labinjo, Melanie Manchot, Celia Paul, Gillian Wearing and Shaqúelle Whyte.
Your ticket is valid for the date selected only.
Our Gallery is open from 1000 - 1700, with last admission being 1630. You can visit anytime between 1000 - 1700, last admission 1630, on the selected date.
You can find our Gallery above our Gift Shop.
You must have a valid No.1 Royal Crescent Annual Pass to purchase the discounted 'Being There - Add On For Any Valid No.1 RC Annual Pass' ticket. Please bring your valid annual pass along with your discounted 'Being There - Add On For Any Valid No.1 RC Annual Pass' ticket to gain entrance to the exhibition.