Future exhibitions

2010 Forthcoming Exhibitions

Bridget Riley: Flashback

from 16 September – 5 December

Bridget Riley is one of Britain’s most respected artists, and has achieved international acclaim for her distinctive and optically vibrant paintings that generate sensations of movement, light and space. 'Flashback' tracks her influential career from its sensational beginnings in the early 1960s to the powerful large-scale works of recent years. Eight large-scale paintings are complemented by thirty works on paper that illuminate her very different working methods over five decades.

'Flashback' is a Hayward Touring Exhibition from Southbank Centre.

Image credit: Bridget Riley, Movement in Squares, 1961. © Bridget Riley. All rights reserved. Courtesy Karsten Schubert, London

The History of the Contemporary:

Celebrating 100 years of the Contemporary Art Society
Throughout 2010
The Contemporary Art Society founded in 1909, has been buying works of art and donating them to British museums and galleries for nearly 100 years. It has been an exceptional supporter of Southampton City Art Gallery gifting over 60 works by many artists including; Martin Creed, Richard Deacon, Douglas Gordon and Mark Wallinger amongst others.
To acknowledge and reflect this outstanding contribution to the collection, the Gallery has asked past curators and staff, who have had an important influence on how the collection has been formed, to select one work from the collection for exhibition during 2010