Being There - exhibition tea, talk and tour
Location: No1 ROYAL CRESCENT
Address: 1 ROYAL CRESCENT, BATH, BA1 2LR
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A chance to explore the Being There exhibition before it closes later in February. This event will take place after hours with our Senior Curator, Dr Amy Frost. Enjoy refreshments and a talk before a guided tour highlighting our newly acquired Gainsborough paintings alongside the contemporary artists featured in the exhibition.
This event starts at 1700 and ends at 1800. Entrance is via our museum shop door. Our Servants' Hall and gallery are accessible via lift.
Being There features four 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.