Southampton City Art Gallery: 2008

Southampton City Art Gallery can offer something for everyone.
Exhibitions and displays range from ancient culture to the cutting-edge and the Gallery is internationally renowned for its impressive art collection.
Admission: Free entrance to the gallery
Opening times: Mondays CLOSED, Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm, Sundays 1 - 4pm

Southampton City Art Gallery has great exhibitions and events for all ages, all year round.

Below are a few highlights.

18 July - 19 October
Dream Sequence
Gallery 8
An exhibition of artworks from the Gallery's permanent collection features paintings by Roland Penrose and other prime movers of British Surrealism.

26 September - 14 December 2008
Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group
Galleries 1 - 4
Southampton holds one of the finest collections of work by the Camden Town Group and related artists in the world and has long championed the promotion of that formative era.
Of the more important of the 16 members (including Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore and Charles Ginner), Robert Polhill Bevan has perhaps been the most neglected. Robert Bevan was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and its main successor, the London Group in 1914. His studio in Cumberland Market gave its name to the small group of artists (Bevan, Gilman and Ginner) who banded together after acrimonious demise of the former.
In the following year a few progressive younger artists, John Nash, Christopher Nevinson and McKnight Kauffer were also invited to join.

October 1, – November 2
Black History Month Exhibition
Black History Month 2008 will be launched at Southampton City Art Gallery on Wednesday, October 1 by the Mayor of the City. Following the successful exhibition in December 2007 "Spirit of Survival", the launch is the prelude to a month long exposition of displays and events highlighting the presence of black people in Southampton from the 16th century to now. This includes an opportunity to view a classic "West Indian Front Room", an exhibition looking at brief moments in time of notable moments relating to the black presence and Southampton and a photographic exhibition amongst other showings.
Further details: Don John 02380 832274

Students’ Choice – Park Avenue
October 24 – December 7
Gallery 8
This exhibition is curated by a group of prominent graduates from Winchester School of Art and features their artworks placed alongside those from the City’s renowned art collection to create an exciting new exhibition

Unpopular Culture, January 16 – March 15, 2009
Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection. His selection will feature modern British paintings, sculpture and photographs that embody a certain nostalgia, while exploring notions of place and environment, issues of identity and class and ideas about form.

Olympic Posters from the Victoria and Albert Museum, March 27 - May 31, 2009
This vibrant new exhibition will explore the fascinating representation of the Olympics through the intensely visual medium of the poster. Timed to coincide with the build-up to the London Olympics 2012, the exhibition will examine the function and significance of the Olympic poster, spotlighting the icons and evolving symbols of the Modern Games

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