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Tim Sayer: The Collector Curates
Exhibition
The Collector Curates
4 Aug 2017 – 7 Jan 2018
Event times
10am - 5pm
Cost of entry
Free Entry
Address
- Gallery Walk
- Wakefield
England - WF1 5AW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- FREE CITY BUS The gallery is on the FreeCityBus route operated Monday – Saturday between 9.30am and 3pm.
- The gallery is 0.3 miles from Wakefield Kirkgate train station (approximately 8 minutes walk) and 1 mile from Westgate train station (approximately 20 minutes walk).
In this exhibition, Tim Sayer will place a selection of his gifted works in dialogue with those from the collection to draw out existing, and sometimes surprising, affinities and connections.
About
In July 2015, Tim Sayer, a former BBC Radio 4 newswriter, and his wife, Annemarie Norton, decided to donate a large number of works from their art collection to The Hepworth Wakefield. Their generous gift was publicly acknowledged in 2017 when Tim was appointed an MBE for services to art and philanthropy.
In this exhibition, a number of works from Tim and Annemarie’s collection, alongside important loans, such as Anthony Caro’s Table Piece XXII sculpture from 1967, are placed together with works from The Hepworth Wakefield’s collection selected by Tim. Many mediums are represented – painting, drawing, prints, sculpture and ceramics – reflecting Tim’s own wide tastes and the diversity of Wakefield’s collection.
The works explore the expanded field of drawing and gestural mark making – both of which are recurrent themes throughout Tim’s collection. These works allow us to examine the ways in which ideas and processes associated with drawing are present across various mediums.
For Tim, curating this exhibition has revealed some unexpected and fascinating relationships between works from his collection and those from the gallery. Tim commented: ‘When looking at the Reg Butler sculpture and the Stanley William Hayter print side by side, it becomes apparent that an abundance of ‘drawn’ lines ties both together visually.’
The exhibition includes Barbara Hepworth’s very first lithograph, made in 1958, which has a sketched quality that determines the overall form. It was recently gifted to the gallery by Stanley Jones MBE of the Curwen Studio, where Hepworth made two suites of graphic works. This particular lithograph contains Hepworth’s fingerprint.
