Late Night Shopping & Being There Exhibition Late Opening
Event Date: 13/12/2024
Location: No1 ROYAL CRESCENT
Address: 1 ROYAL CRESCENT, BATH, BA1 2LR
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Join us on 13th December for a spot of late night shopping and a browse of our current exhibition, Being There.
There is no charge to visit our shop, but if you would like to purchase tickets to our exhibition you can do so below.
Our shop and exhibition will be open until 1900, with last access to the exhibition at approximately 1830. Please note that our main house will remain closed.
Information about our exhibition, Being There:
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.