Art Tour
Artist Talk: Arcadia for All?
23 Jan 2024
Attenborough Arts Centre
Leicester, United Kingdom
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Simon Callery, ‘Stura’, 2021. Canvas, distemper, thread and wood. ©Simon Callery. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2023.
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Geraint Evans, 'Frankfurter', 2022. Oil on canvas. ©The Artist. Photo: B J Deakin Photography.
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Cara Nahaul, 'Rivers to Tend', 2022. Oil on board. ©The Artist.
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Narbi Price, 'Untitled Bench Painting (Lockdown) 2'. 2021. Acrylic on panel. ©The Artist.
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Judith Tucker, 'Night Fitties: we came for Barnsley feast week', 2023. Oil on linen. © The Artist. Photo: Tom McVeigh.
Exhibition
Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
15 Sep 2023 – 28 Jan 2024
Regular hours
- Friday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- Lancaster Road
- Leicester
England - LE1 7HA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Leicester Train Station
Event map
‘Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now’ is a new exhibition coming to Attenborough Arts Centre from The Stanley & Audery Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds that raises pertinent questions about who has access to nature, where and how.
About
The exhibition challenges a nostalgic, idyllic and elitist idea of landscape. It embraces and celebrates nature in all its forms, acknowledging that in the 21st century most people in the UK access nature on a regular basis through allotments, community gardens, public parks or even simply through windows and screens.
‘Arcadia for All?’ features a wonderfully broad spectrum of artworks by over thirty artists, including Hurvin Anderson, Andrew Grassie, Lubaina Himid, Matthew Krishanu, Elizabeth Magill and George Shaw. They all approach nature from many different directions, expanding the notion of landscape painting in new, unexpected and sometimes radical and playful ways. Moreover, the exhibition celebrates the vitality and variety of contemporary painting in all its materiality and visual richness.
