A talk by Richard Billingham
Location: No1 ROYAL CRESCENT
Address: 1 ROYAL CRESCENT, BATH, BA1 2LR
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A talk by photographer, artist, film maker and art teacher, Richard Billingham, whose work features in our current exhibition, Being There.
Richard Billingham is a multiple award-winning artist, photographer, director, BAFTA nominated screenwriter, and art teacher. His work mostly concerns his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere. He has a reputation for impactful realism, and includes both documentary and narrative story telling in his work. He focuses on themes of home, landscape & place and marginalisation. His projects evolve gradually over a period of years, based on extensive research and the close observation of everyday life.
Richard’s photography and video installations have had over forty solo exhibitions and been included in more than two hundred group exhibitions internationally.
The talk will start at 6pm and end at 7pm. There will be time after the talk to explore the Being There exhibition (until 8pm). Entrance from 5.30pm for drinks from our paid bar. 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.