Scarborough Art Gallery
Tony Cragg
New Stones, Newton's Tones.
1978, Arts Council Collection.
South Bank Centre, London
Curious Collecting
Select: From the Arts Council Collection
24 May – 6 July 2008
This exhibition brings together contemporary sculpture, photography and screen prints from the Arts Council Collection with fossils from Scarborough Museums Trusts’ collection.
Curious Collecting explores ‘The Museum’ as a place to collect, identify and present objects. Works on display include Tony Cragg’s floor piece of scrap plastic and Rebecca Warren’s vitrine of strange objects.
Curated by Claire Longrigg, Assistant Curator of Art, this is the only showing space for Curious Collecting.
(Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London)
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Fairy Tales and Fantasy: Children's Book Illustrations from York Museums Trust
15 March - 11 May 2008
Fairies at the bottom of the garden, elfin creatures spidering their way through the woods; Fairy Tales and Fantasy gives you an insight into the way the Victorians tried to tame our great fairy tales but only ended up making something equally strange and just as enduring.
Illustrations include those for ‘The Story of Aladdin’ and ‘The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen’ by artists such as William Heath Robinson, Helen Stratton and Sydney Carter.
Come and experience these beautiful Victorian illustrations of classic fairy tales, images of which still shape our sense of what it is to be a child today.
Children can explore this exhibition further in their own colourful fairyland resource room, where they can draw, read and dress up. There are also a series of workshops linked to the exhibition especially for children.
Visit Scarborough library to see a range of books linked to this exhibition.
In association with York Museums Trust
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Previous Exhibitions
Teachers’ Tour
Tuesday 18 March, 4-5 pm
An opportunity for teachers, both primary and secondary, to see the exhibition with Scarborough Museums Trust staff. Teachers’ notes will be available.
Please book in advance through the Gallery.
East Coast Open
19 January - 2 March 2008
This hugely successful exhibition offers some of the best artists’ work from the Yorkshire region.
Selected by Jane Sellars, Curator of Art, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate and Scarborough-based artist and designer, Sally Greaves-Lord.
Entry forms are available from Scarborough Art Gallery and Scarborough Library.
View the larger poster ( pdf 700k)
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Primary Schools Exhibition
17 November – 23 December 2007
A bright and lively exhibition of artwork by pupils at schools in Scarborough area.
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Spotlight on St Ives - From the Arts Council Collection
15 September – 4 November 2007
Peter Lanyon
(Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London)
Spotlight on St Ives illustrates the variety of ways in which a diverse group of artists responded to the unique light and landscape of West Cornwall, producing some of the most innovative and influential art in twentieth-century Britain.
Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson moved to St Ives in 1939, establishing an important artistic community, which later included Patrick Heron, Sir Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon and Roger Hilton.
This unique place is explored through paintings, prints, drawings and sculpture from the Arts Council Collection.
A Spotlight exhibition from the Arts Council Collection.
 
Teachers' Tour
Tuesday 25 September 2007 4 - 5pm
An opportunity for Teachers of all ages to see the exhibition with Museums & Gallery Staff. Teachers' Notes and Pupil Resources will be available.
Please book in advance through the Gallery.
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Totally Tactile: Interactive Sculpture by Jan Niedojadlo
16 June – 2 September 2007
Large, soft, textured and brightly coloured sculptures will fill the upstairs galleries. This exhibition will be fun and stimulating for both children and adults.
These unique podules can be climbed into. Once inside, visitors will be able to touch, smell, and hear sounds, which combine to create a unique and calming environment.
 PHOTO © Leighton House Museum
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton
24 March – 03 June 2007
Born in Scarborough in 1830, the painter and sculptor, Frederic, Lord Leighton was one of the great draughtsmen of the nineteenth century.
This is a rare opportunity to see his detailed and delicate studies for later large-scale oils. Newly conserved, the drawings show how the great masters of the Italian Renaissance inspired Leighton.
Organised by Leighton House. Supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund
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Henry Barlow Carter & Sons: Victorian Watercolour Drawing and the Art of Illustration
'Brig Unloading' by Henry Barlow Carter
13 January – 11 March 2007
This exhibition brings together three nationally acclaimed artists living in or near Scarborough who use photography to explore unfamiliar places.
Henry Barlow Carter lived and worked in Scarborough from 1830, painting some of the finest watercolours of Victorian Yorkshire.
Through watercolours and sketchbooks on loan from national, regional, and private collections, this exhibition brings the Barlow Carter family together alongside Carter’s fellow artists including John Le Capelain and Samuel Prout.
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 Curated by Professor Gordon Bell
and organised by Hull Museums
An Unfamiliar Place: Work by David Chalmers, Julia Gatie and Jane Poulton
 Comfort Eating, by Jane Poulton
7 October - 24 December 2006
This exhibition brings together three nationally acclaimed artists living in or near Scarborough who use photography to explore unfamiliar places.
Photographed during the quiet light of dawn and dusk Chalmers' black and white prints reveal the fragile nature of our nearby coastline.
Gatie's disturbing installation of lipstick-kissed tissues describes the timescale involved in the decision to leave an abusive relationship.
Beautifully arranged and carefully selected, Poulton's collections of objects resonate with stories of people she has known.
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Supported by Arts Council, England
Fabulous Sound Machines .
Work by Peter Jones and Lawrence Casserley.
Fabulous Sound Machines
24 June 2006 - 24 September 2006.
Scarborough Art Gallery will be transformed by this exciting, colourful and noisy exhibition.
Interactive and hands-on, Fabulous Sound Machines includes sculpture made from musical instruments including work by Martin Mayes, along with a colour and sound environment which responds to visitors movement.
This exhibition will be great fun for the whole family!
Organised by Eye Music
Supported by the Friends of Scarborough Art Gallery and Arts Council, England.
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Nature Intended: Landscape Art from the Arts Council Collection
1 April 2006 - 11 June 2006.
This exhibition explores artists' relationship with nature since the 1970's through sculpture, photography and drawing. Selected by Lara Goodband, Curator at Scarborough Art Gallery, from the Arts Council Collection, this is the only showing space for Nature Intended.
Richard Wentworth, Guide, 1984-1988.
Courtesy the Lisson Gallery and the artist.
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London.
The notion of the artist as explorer is a central theme of Nature Intended. Hamish Fulton and Richard Long choose walking as their preferred medium and record their experiences in words and photographs.
The exhibition features a series of prints by Fulton based on his trekking experiences, and Footstones (1979) a photograph by Richard Long. Other artists, such as Ian Hamilton Finlay aim to attain a closer engagement with nature: his sundials speak to him not just of time but also of, 'old cottages, silence, cumulus clouds, elm trees, steeples, and moss.' Conversely, Dalziel and Scullion's The Idea of North (1988) is a compass that points north and nowhere else. These objects reflect upon the fine balance between the natural and the manmade, time and place, discovery and loss.
David Nash, on the other hand, brings nature into the gallery creating beautiful sculpture from wood.
Other artists, such as Richard Wentworth is influenced by the equipment we use to attain a closer engagement with the land, made apparent in his work Guide (1984 - 88) which is a rubber and concrete black Wellington boot. And Rachel Lowe's, now influential film, documents her attempt to draw a landscape onto a window of a moving car.
Artists represented in the exhibition:
Thomas Cooper, Stephen Cox, Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion, Hamish Fulton, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Richard Long, Rachel Lowe, David Nash, Richard Wentworth, and Erlend Williamson.
Nature Intended is A Select Exhibition from the Arts Council Collection
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