Louis Turpin
Landscape Journeys
Louis Turpin is one of the most respected horticultural artists working in the UK today. Inspired originally by the gardens at Sissinghurst, Turpin has spent the last 30 years painting Britain’s great gardens and this latest exhibition continues to explore his passion for gardens and the landscape.
As well as oils on canvas, the exhibition includes a selection of Indian inks. There will be 36 paintings and drawings in total. Turpin has achieved almost iconic status within the gardening fraternity. He has a natural instinctive feel for planting and garden design which he then cleverly translates on to canvas.
As well as great gardens, Turpin is equally entranced by allotments nestling in their own landscapes and this exhibition includes some splendid examples. The glory of the allotment lies in its patchwork of human endeavour and individuality. Each plot reflects the personal take on gardening with neat rows, without a leaf out of place, abutting an assortment of sunflowers and soft fruits.
From March 1st – 21st, 2015 at the Fosse Gallery, Stow on the Wold, UK
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Chuck Close
Prints, Process and Collaboration
One of America’s best-loved visual artists, Chuck Close, is famed for his massive, technically inventive and often hyper-real portrait paintings. He has produced many iconic portraits of artists, celebrities and other well-known public figures including Brad Pitt, Cindy Sherman, Roy Lichtenstein and President Barack Obama. His work has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in more than 20 countries.
An exclusive for the Sydney International Art Series, this represents the largest exhibition of Chuck Close’s work ever presented in the Southern Hemisphere. It encompasses the entire span of his artistic output in printmaking, starting with the large-scale mezzotint portrait Keith/Mezzotint (1972), and ending with recent, monumental watercolour digital prints and spectacular jacquard tapestries.
Until March 15th, 2015 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
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Represent
200 Years of African American Art
From compelling stories to innovative methods and across a broad range of subjects, styles, mediums, and traditions, Represent: 200 Years of African American Art explores the evolving ways in which African American artists have expressed personal, political, and racial identity.
Represent highlights the PMA’s exceptional holdings of African American art, with works in a variety of media by Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Martin Puryear, Carrie Mae Weems, and many others.
From January 10th – April 5th, 2015 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
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The Royal Society of Portrait Painters
Annual Exhibition
This prestigious annual exhibition shows over 200 portraits by over 100 artists and celebrates the diversity of this fascinating genre. It also shows the popularity of commissioning painted portraits by institutions and individuals.
Prizes awarded by the Society are the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture, the Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing, the Changing Faces Prize and
the de Laszlo Foundation Prize. The winner of the eighth Bulldog Bursary, awarded by the Society
and sponsored by the Bulldog Trust, will be announced after the exhibition. There will also be a new prize, the Seven Investment Management £15,000 ‘Conversations’ Prize.
A display of shortlisted works will reflect the theme of ‘conversations’ with portraits of two or more people. There will also be a special showcase of works from the Society’s growing permanent collection ‘People’s Portraits’ to celebrate the 15th anniversary since its millennial inception.
From April 16th – May 1st, 2015 at the Mall Galleries, London SW1, UK
www.mallgalleries.org.uk
David Lynch
Between Two Worlds
Presented exclusively, this major exhibition celebrating the work of David Lynch is a 50-year retrospective that considers the artist’s practice across all media. In addition to rarely seen paintings and drawings from the mid-1960s, the exhibition includes lithographs, an important presentation of Lynch’s photography of factories and organic phenomena, recent large-scale paintings, and a complete retrospective of his film, video and works for television.
From March 14th – June 7th, 2015
At the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane, Australia
Canaletto
Celebrating Britain
This exhibition spotlights the paintings and drawings which Canaletto created between 1746 and 1755, when he chose to celebrate the latest achievements of British architecture and engineering.
This is the first time that these paintings have been gathered together and, collectively, they illustrate Canaletto’s nine-year stay in Britain. This saw him document a series of new building works and projects, commissions which reflected the new-found wealth and assurance of the British nation. The houses, bridges, churches and castles he recorded marked out Britain as the new Venice and conveyed a sense of self-confidence, as Britons sought cultural inspiration not just from the Mediterranean but also from their own history.
From March 14th – June 7th, 2015 at Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire, UK
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