Exhibition
Coast, Country, City
20 Aug 2021 – 7 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- The Harley Gallery, Welbeck Estate
- nr Worksop, Nottinghamshire
- Nottinghamshire
- S80 3LW
- United Kingdom
The Harley Gallery on the Welbeck estate, near Worksop, will take visitors on a visual journey of British coastlines, countryside and city with a free art exhibition that explores the year of the staycation.
About
At a time when travel destinations are constantly in the headlines, Coast, Country, City promises a change of scenery and a variety of destinations seen through work created by British landscape artists.
The exhibition is the second exhibition in The Jerwood Collection’s year-long residency at the contemporary art gallery, which is based in the heart of the historic Welbeck estate, near Worksop. Coast, Country, City runs between 20th August and 7th November and includes artists such as David Hockney and Edward Bawden, Catherine Yass and Paul Nash, among many more.
More than 50 works from the Jerwood Collection have been selected by independent curator, James Rawlin.
He said: “When I was first approached to consider curating an exhibition for The Harley Gallery of works from the Jerwood Collection, we were already deep into 2020, a year which for so many reasons had turned out very different to how we all might have imagined. The periods of lockdown, local restrictions and a very changed awareness of our proximity to others suggested to me that maybe these new priorities would influence how we saw art.”
“These landscape paintings predate the strange time of 2020. I’m interested in whether our experiences of the year changes how we view these landscapes. Not only this, how might they differ from the artist’s original interpretation?”
Lisa Gee, Director of The Harley Gallery, said: “The enforced solitude of lockdown has been very difficult for so many of us and this exhibition of artists’ views of England makes me realise quite how much we have missed. Many of these paintings were done a long time ago and it’s interesting to look at them now in 2021. What do we all expect of our beaches, coasts and city pubs? Are our memories of things long gone or places that still exist?”
- The Harley Gallery is on the estate of Welbeck, near Worksop, in Nottinghamshire. Admission to the exhibition is free and there’s also free parking. Please check www.harleygallery.co.uk for details.