Talk
Driving Innovation Through Art: The Folkestone Model
03 May 2018
Peterborough Museum
Peterborough, United Kingdom
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Shelia Girling, The Last Supper, 2004, acrylic and collage on canvas, 195.6 x 323.9cm © Courtesy of Barford Sculptures, Photo: John Riddy
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Anthony Caro, Month of May, 1963, Steel & aluminium, painted magenta, orange & green, 297.5 x 305 x 358.5cm © Courtesy of Barford Sculptures and Gagosian Gallery, Photo: Mike Bruce
Exhibition
Anthony Caro & Sheila Girling: A 64 Year Conversation About Art
27 Apr 2018 – 21 Jul 2018
Event times
10am - 5pm (Last Admission: 4.30pm)
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- Priestgate
- Peterborough
Cambridgeshire - PE1 1LF
- United Kingdom
Event map
About
Peterborough Museum and City Gallery present works by internationally renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and modernist painter Sheila Girling. Spanning the duration of his career from the 60's to early 2000's, the exhibition includes Caro's iconic large scale abstract metal works in block colour, smaller table pieces which he began to work on after his larger works and paper sculptures. Exhibited alongside will be paintings by Sheila Girling. Distinguishable by her intense hues in acrylic, her work balances between figuration and abstraction.
Caro and Girling met at the Royal Academy in 1948 when he used her drawing board by mistake. Their arguments about art apparently started at that first encounter and within six months they were married. Girling's use of colour proved to be hugely influential on Caro, who was more interested in form than colour. Perhaps his most well known piece Early One Morning was originally painted green until Girling suggested that he change it to red.
