Southampton City Art Gallery: 2008
Southampton City Art Gallery can offer something for everyone.
Exhibitions and displays range from ancient culture to the cutting-edge and the Gallery is internationally renowned for its impressive art collection.
Admission: Free entrance to the gallery
Opening times: Mondays CLOSED, Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sundays 1 - 4pm
Southampton City Art Gallery has great exhibitions and events for all ages, all year round.
Below are a few highlights.
18 July - 7 September 2008
Bi-Annual Open Exhibition
Galleries 1-4
The Gallery welcomes back the biannual open exhibition for local professional and amateur artists in the region.
The selection is made by a jury and as many works as possible are hung in the gallery space, resulting in a very eclectic and exciting exhibition.
In the past, each show has been themed (self-portrait, the art of pattern) so that artists are encouraged to make new work especially for the exhibition.
This year the theme is The Art of Water.
18 July - 7 September
Men in the Wall - 3d film installation
Gallery 6
Special glasses are provided to watch this 3d world of 4 men, whose shared framed lives reveal a public quartet of private differences.
18 July - 19 October
Dream Sequence
Gallery 8
An exhibition of artworks from the Gallery's permanent collection features paintings by Roland Penrose and other prime movers of British Surrealism.
26 September - 14 December 2008
Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group
Galleries 1 - 4
Southampton holds one of the finest collections of work by the Camden Town Group and related artists in the world and has long championed the promotion of that formative era.
Of the more important of the 16 members (including Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner), Robert Polhill Bevan has perhaps been the most neglected. Robert Bevan was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and its main successor, the London Group in 1914. His studio in Cumberland Market gave its name to the small group of artists (Bevan, Gilman and Ginner) who banded together after acrimonious demise of the former.
In the following year a few progressive younger artists, John Nash, Christopher Nevinson and McKnight Kauffer were also invited to join.
If you would like to contact someone about this page, please send an email to: events@southampton.gov.uk
Last updated: 9 July 2008
