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Canaletto The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens, c. 1751 © Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates
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Yinka Shonibare MBE The Crowning, 2007. © Yinka Shonibare MBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2018
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James Walker Tucker Hiking, c. 1936. © Tyne & Wear archives and Museums / Bridgeman Images
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Jo Spence Remodelling Photo History – Victimisation, 1982. © The Estate of the Artist. Courtesy Richard Saltoun, London
Exhibition
The Lie of the Land
16 Mar 2019 – 26 May 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 900 Midsummer Boulevard
- Central Milton Keynes MK9 3QA
- Milton Keynes
- MK9 3QA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Local Buses: Frequent daily buses run from Central Bus Station and Milton Keynes Central rail station stops on Midsummer Boulevard outside MK Gallery and Milton Keynes Theatre.
- Nearest station: Milton Keynes Central
The new MK Gallery's inaugural exhibition is The Lie of the Land, an ambitious show charting how British landscape was radically transformed by changes in free time and leisure activities since the aristocratic pursuits of hunting and shooting.
About
From the social, urban experiment of Milton Keynes to Capability Brown’s gardens at nearby Stowe, the exhibition teases out the aspirations that underpin our built environments. Featuring work by over 85 artists and designers including Canaletto, Jeremy Deller, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Elizabeth Frink, Thomas Gainsborough, Richard Hamilton, Emma Hart, Gertrude Jekyll, Laura Knight, Lawrence Lek, L.S. Lowry, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Jo Spence, James Tissot, J.M.W. Turner and Rachel Whiteread.
