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ROYAL WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMY
EXHIBITIONS 2015
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Drawing
On…
The Ingram Collection of
Modern British and Contemporary Art
21 MARCH – 7 JUNE 2015
Spring marks a celebration of drawing at the
RWA with Drawing On… turning the spotlight on
Modern British Art, showcasing over fifty-five
works from The Ingram Collection. Presented
across two galleries, it features works by
Edward Burra, Cecil Collins, Henri GaudierBrzeska, Mary Fedden PPRWA, Dame
Elisabeth Frink, Barbara Hepworth,
David Hockney, Henry Moore, John Nash,
Ceri Richards, Stanley Spencer and Keith
Vaughan, amongst others.
The definition of drawing has, like taste, evolved
over time and this captivating selection of works
from The Ingram Collection represents the
development of various narratives in drawing
and Modern British Art. The work selected
covers a wide range of techniques and styles,
considering drawing in its widest possible
sense, including sculptural studies, figurative
sketches and coloured landscapes, some
highly worked, others scribbled and
fragmented. Drawing On… creates signposts
suggesting the influence of 20th century work
on current practice, seen in the accompanying
exhibition Drawn.
Opposite page top: Drawing for Mornington Crescent painting, Frank
Over the past decade, entrepreneur and investor
Chris Ingram has created what is now recognised
as the biggest privately owned publicly
accessible collection of Modern British and
contemporary art. It comprises 650 works of art
of which 500 are by some of the most important
Modern British artists. Through an on-going
programme of national and international loans to
exhibitions, galleries and museums, he has
ensured wide public access to The Collection
which is also used for displays and exhibitions at
The Lightbox, Woking. It is this commitment to
make The Collection widely available that has
earned him the deserved acclaim as “one of the
most active and thoughtful collectors of Modern
British Art today.” (Stephen Deuchar CBE,
Director, The Art Fund).
Auerbach, coloured crayon, 1972, Image courtesy of The Ingram
Collection © Frank Auerbach, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art, London
Below: Warrior Birds, Dame Elisabeth Frink RA, pen and black ink,
1957, Image courtesy of The Ingram Collection © Frink Estate
This page top: Woman at a Tea Table, Bridget Riley, coloured crayons
and pencil, date unknown, Image courtesy of The Ingram Collection
© Bridget Riley 2015. All rights reserved, courtesy Karsten Schubert,
London
Below: Deserted Garrison, John Minton, pen and ink, ink
wash,charcoal and coloured chalks, 1947, Image courtesy of The
Ingram Collection © Royal College of Art
The RWA would like to thank Chris Ingram and The
Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary
Art for their invaluable support and loan of artwork.
Enquiries: 0117 973 5129
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Exhibitions and Events
THE FRIENDS OF THE (FRWA)
An Exhibition
28 FEBRUARY – 12 APRIL 2015
The Drawing Lab
21 MARCH – 7 JUNE 2015
Drawn
21 MARCH – 7 JUNE 2015
Back by popular demand is our open
submission exhibition Drawn, continuing to raise
the profile of drawing as both an autonomous
discipline and an interdisciplinary tool.
Submissions have been invited from artists who
either draw or explore the concept of drawing in
their work, including illustrators, videographers,
sculptors, printers, embroiderers, typographers,
animators and architects. Drawn celebrates
this diversity encouraging artists to utilise both
traditional and experimental techniques and
technologies.
This year’s selection panel includes Anita Taylor,
artist, Director of Jerwood Drawing Prize and
Dean of Bath School of Art & Design;
Kate MacFarlane, Director of Drawing Room,
London; Yvonne Crossley RWA, artist and
founder of The Drawing Gallery, and artists
Tim Harrisson RWA and Fiona Robinson RWA.
Drawn’s Invited Artist is award-winning British
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artist Tania Kovats whose work explores
landscape, including temporal works as well
as drawings and sculptures. Kovats was the
Henry Moore Drawing Fellow, 2004, following
which she published a survey of drawing. She
is course leader of the MA Drawing Course at
Wimbledon College of Art, UAL, London and
regularly exhibits in the UK and abroad.
Entries for Drawn close on 5 March 2015, please
visit www.rwa.org.uk to enter.
paper, image courtesy of Sidney Cooper Gallery © Tania Kovats
Opposite page top left: Drawing machine, Debbie Locke RWA,
Drawn 2013
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10am-1.30pm on 11 March for educational activities.
Returning alongside Drawn is the ever-popular
Drawing Lab, a space designed to encourage
interaction and participation, welcoming all
ages and abilities to come inside: investigate,
discuss, test, create and play.
This artist-led space will evolve throughout
the exhibition as our many artists-in-residence
investigate the practice of drawing in-situ,
adding their own drawings and experiments to
the walls. We will also be inviting you to make
your own contribution, either participating in
collaborative workshops, or taking part in one of
our drawing games.
A number of different artists and practitioners will
be working in the Lab including Laurie Lax,
Aisling Hedgecock, Sara Dudman, Debbie Locke
RWA, University of the West of England drawing
research group HATCH, and RWA Academicians
and Artist Network members. They will be
exploring drawing through physical practice,
discussion and workshops, inviting you to
get involved.
Top: Sea Mark (silver), Tania Kovats, 2015, indian ink, acrylic paint on
Organised by the FRWA and selected by a
panel of RWA Academicians, this free exhibition
takes a peek behind the scenes of this active
membership organisation, showcasing the
work of amateur and professional artists
amongst its members. All work is available for
sale. Please note this exhibition will be closed from
For a full list of artists working in the space,
activities and workshops, please visit
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A Response to Drawn
IN COLLABORATION WITH
THE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
21 MAY – 17 JUNE 2015
This spring, the RWA will be working with
students on the University of Bristol’s MA course
in Art History to curate an exhibition in response
to Drawn and Drawing On… by selecting works
from the RWA’s own significant art collection.
The exhibition is delivered in partnership with
the Department of Art History, University of
Bristol, see www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory
Exhibitions and Events
Peter Randall-Page RWA
and Kate MccGwire
20 JUNE – 10 SEPTEMBER 2015
Two internationally renowned British artists,
Peter Randall-Page RWA and Kate MccGwire,
have been brought together for this striking
exhibition as part of the RWA’s environmental
theme for Bristol’s year as European Green
Capital. Featuring two-and three-dimensional
work, both artists explore natural phenomena,
patterns and repetition, utilising natural or
found materials within which to reflect the
rhythms of nature.
variation, his primary concern is with our
subjective, emotional response to shape and
form. His recent large-scale ink drawings create
watery tributaries across the wall, rich russet-red
and black ink splaying outwards like the
branches of a tree, river deltas or vascular and
neural networks.
MccGwire’s work hints at something hidden or
lying dormant beneath the surface, concealed
by luminescent coats of feathers, each
one donated or collected and meticulously
preserved. Her writhing, serpentine sculptures –
such as the monumental Gyre – are at
once both compelling and repelling, beautiful
and grotesque.
Although Randall-Page’s work draws on a broad
frame of reference from geology, biology and
morphology to mathematics, music, pattern and
Peter Randall-Page has exhibited widely including
major solo shows at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and most
recently at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery and
Plymouth University, 2014. He has undertaken
numerous large-scale commissions in England and
abroad and his work is held in public and private
collections including Japan, South Korea, Australia,
USA, Turkey, Eire, Germany, the Netherlands and the
UK. His public sculptures can be found in London,
Edinburgh, Manchester, Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol.
He was elected an RWA in 1993.
and Attingham Park. She has completed residencies in
China and New York and studied at the Royal College of
Art. MccGwire is shown in collaboration with
Coates & Scarry.
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
23 – 30 JUNE 2015
Opposite page top left: Kate MccGwire studio shot with Gryre, mixed
media with crow feathers, 2012, photograph by Tessa Angus
© Kate MccGwire
Kate MccGwire was recently selected for the 2015
Venice Biennale and has previously shown at Musée de
la Chasse et de la Nature and Museum National
d’histore Naturelle, Paris; Galerie Particulière, Brussels;
MoMu, Antwerp; Norwich Castle Museum; The Royal
Academy, London; Shenghua Art Centre, China; and
numerous other unusual site-specific venues including
the National Trust properties Tatton Park, Felbrigg Hall,
Costume, Scenic
Art, Theatre Design
Top right: Inside Out I, Peter Randall-Page, bronze, 2014, photo credit
Steve Russell © Peter Randall-Page
This page top left: Credits: Espalier, Peter Randall-Page, Sennelier
black ink on paper, 2013, 307 x 279 cm, photo credit Steve Russell
© Peter Randall-Page
Costume, Scenic Art and Theatre Design
showcases the next generation of talented
students to graduate from the production
departments at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
It provides a unique insight into the combined
creative talent and technical skills of its
students, demonstrating the close relationship
between its different departments in order to
produce theatre to professional standards. The
exhibition places the students’ work firmly in the
limelight, focusing on creative activity normally
hidden ‘behind the scenes’. It presents a
fascinating view of the theatre-making process,
and an appreciation of the vocational training
offered at this internationally respected centre
of excellence. www.oldvic.ac.uk
Below: Splice (detail), Kate MccGwire, mixed media with magpie
feathers and metal ligature, 2012, photograph by JP Bland
© Kate MccGwire
Top: Drawing by Sam Martin courtesy of Bristol Old Vic Theatre School
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Exhibitions and Events
Into the
Fields:
The Newlyn School
and Other Artists
20 JUNE – 6 SEPTEMBER 2015
James Ravilious:
In celebration of Bristol’s year as European
Green Capital, the RWA is proud to present a
major exhibition of rural realist paintings by the
world famous Newlyn School artists (1880 1930) and their contemporaries.
Predominantly focusing on one of our region’s
most notable artistic enclaves, the Newlyn
School, Into the Fields also includes associated
artists such as George Clausen and Henry La
Thangue. The RWA’s history includes a rich
relationship with Newlyn, so it is fitting that
the show includes RWA Academicians such
as Dame Laura Knight, Stanhope Forbes and
Thomas Cooper Gotch, as well as regular
exhibitors including Walter Langley, ‘Lamorna’
Birch and Frank Gascoigne Heath.
Like their Barbizon School forebears, the
Newlyn School represented rural workers
as timeless and heroic, resourceful and
sustainable. They captured the farmworkers
with earthy hues, representing in visual form
their symbiotic relationship with the land.
These noble workers are shown alongside
representations of the soil’s fruits, from farming
and gardening to mining and quarrying.
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Rural Life
20 JUNE – 6 SEPTEMBER 2015
A notable absence is any sign of
industrialisation which was then sweeping
through a rapidly urbanising nation. This
deliberate capturing of vanishing traditional
farming methods provides interesting
parallels for contemporary debates about the
sustainability of modern agricultural techniques.
Such questions lead us back to key concerns
absorbing the city in its year as European Green
Capital, whilst bringing some of the nineteenth
and twentieth century’s most popular painters
to the RWA to create a visually stunning walk
through the Cornish countryside.
‘Into the Fields’ has been developed from ‘Sons and
Daughters of the Soil’, staged at Penlee House Gallery
& Museum, Penzance, spring 2015, to celebrate the
United Nations International Year of Soils. The RWA
would like to thank Penlee House Gallery & Museum for
their invaluable assistance throughout, and to thank the
generosity of all public and private lenders.
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Top: Landscape Study, Henry La Thangue, oil on canvas, c.1889.
Reproduced with kind permission by Rotherham Heritage Services.
Below: The Clay Pit, Harold Harvey, oil on canvas,1923. Reproduced
with kind permission of the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
James Ravilious’s photographs are
composed with the eye of an artist,
capturing subtle qualities of light to reflect
the rural life and landscapes of North Devon
in the 1970s and 80s. Taken for the Beaford
Archive, to which he contributed well over
70,000 images, his photographs reveal
real life in the fields, farms, and villages,
portraying a traditional countryside on the
brink of change. What started as a shortterm project grew into a seventeen year
obsession, depicting all aspects of rural life
with an absolute honesty and his warm and
sympathetic eye. His work is in numerous
public collections and has been widely
exhibited. Shortly before he died in 1999
he was given Honorary Membership of the
Royal Photographic Society in recognition of
his contribution to photography.
Top: Bill Hammond thatching a rick, Westacott, Riddlecombe,
Devon, 1986, photograph James Ravilious for the Beaford Archive
© Beaford Arts
Exhibitions and Events
RWA AND KIDS COMPANY
The Art of Trust
4 JULY – 16 AUGUST 2015
An exhibition of artworks by children and young
people from Kids Company. The collaboration
between Kids Company and the RWA is now in
its third year and this show of artwork, exploring
the theme of trust, will be the culmination of a
creative project spanning several months. The
exhibition celebrates the astounding ability of
children and young people to create art from
adversity. www.kidsco.org.uk
Learning For
All Ages at the RWA
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to entertain staff, associates, clients and friends
in a magnificent Grade II* listed building with
our exhibitions acting as a unique backdrop.
From receptions or dinners, to meetings and
conferences, the RWA is a stunning setting for
truly special events in the centre of Bristol. For
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Annual Open
Exhibition
Bristol
Drawing
School
4 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2015
The RWA has a busy Learning and Participation
programme, offering a range of talks,
workshops and events for schools, families and
adult groups. Our provision for adults includes
Artist Professional Development Sessions, Art
History Day Schools, Art Classes, Creative
Writing Courses and regular talks by curators
and exhibiting artists. For children and families
we run a lively programme of weekend and
holiday workshops, including printmaking,
drawing and sculpture. Our ‘Art Wall’ and
Art Trolley encourage visitors to get creative,
providing fun and unusual self-led activities. For
more information please visit www.rwa.org.uk
or call 0117 973 5129.
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Venue hire
The RWA’s Annual Open Exhibition – now in
its 163rd year – is a highlight of the region’s
art calendar. Attracting leading artists from
throughout the UK, it is open to all, and often
includes work by previously un-shown exhibitors
alongside well-known names. A selection panel
assesses every entry and last year 546 works
by 346 artists made it into the final exhibition.
All the work is for sale attracting art-lovers and
buyers from far and wide.
HOW TO BUY ART
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for all buyers.
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HOW TO ENTER
Artists are encouraged to submit recent work
(produced within the last 3 years) and all works
must be for sale, with prices predominantly
under £10,000. Each artist can submit a
maximum of three works, which must not
have been exhibited before at the RWA, and
there is a submission fee for each entry. If you
are interested in submitting your work for the
exhibition, please visit our website for details, or
if you do not have access to a computer,
please contact us on 0117 973 5129.
Bristol Drawing
School at the RWA
aims to encourage
and nurture the art
of drawing as an
essential and
enjoyable part of the creative process. We run a
diverse programme of high quality adult courses
and workshops, catering for all levels, led by
experienced tutors offering a wealth of support
and expert advice. For more information or to
book, please visit www.drawingschool.org.uk
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Front cover main image: The Pianist, Ceri Richards, 1946, pen and ink, inkwash and watercolour, image courtesy of The Ingram Collection © The Artists Estate