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VisualArts PREVIEWS
Ongoing exhibitions
Lucy McLaughlan:
Vessels In Vain
The Public, West Bromwich,
until Sun 29 September
Heavily influenced by her home city of
Birmingham and its connections with industrial
history, brutalist architecture and
untouched countryside, artist Lucy
McLaughlan’s work frequently features recurring
motifs painted with little or no preparation
and executed almost entirely in blackand-white.
Opposing the highly developed
techniques of contemporary graphics,
McLaughlan’s site-specific murals and improvised
paintings have been described as
‘organic and delicately intuitive’, and have
appeared on public buildings, riot shields, in
doorways, and even on a Rolls Royce.
Francois Morellet
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, until Sun 14 July
Citing Pacific barkcloth as a formative influence
on the development of his distinct type
of abstraction, acclaimed French artist
Francois Morellet is well known for his ambitious
installations, as well as for his drawings,
paintings and sculptures. Described as having
‘a knowing playfulness that appeals both
conceptually and aesthetically’, this Ikon
exhibition features a selection of paintings
that complement Tapa: Barkcloth Paintings
From The Pacific, and includes a scaled-up
replica of a piece created by Morellet fifty
years ago.
Centenary Of Indian Cinema:
Poster Exhibition
The Drum, Birmingham, until Sat 29 June
A major element of this summer’s citywide
Bollywood 100 In Birmingham celebrations,
this colourful poster exhibition charts the
development of one of the world’s most successful
film industries. From advertising
material through to highly sought-after visual
arts prints, the exhibition brings together an
array of posters from the last one hundred
years. The show
includes a copy of
a poster for the
first ever
Bollywood film,
Raja
Harishchandra,
and rare photographic
stills and
booklets made in
the UK to publicise
film showings in
Birmingham.
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VisualArts LISTINGS
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exhibitions, including times and dates,
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DAVID HANCOCK: COS-
PLAY Exploration of the
world of youth sub-cultures,
until Sat 1 June,
Wolverhampton Art
Gallery
A UNIVERSAL ARCHIVE:
WILLIAM KENTRIDGE AS
PRINTMAKER Major exhibition
featuring one
hundred prints in all
media dating from 1988
to the present day, until
Sun 2 June, mac -
Midlands Arts Centre,
Birmingham
QUAKER TAPESTRY EXHI-
BITION Featuring colourful
panels of embroidery
from the Quaker
Tapestry Centre in
Kendal, Cumbria, until
Wed 5 June, Ironbridge
Gorge Museum,
Shropshire
ZED NELSON: LOVE ME
Photographic exhibition
which reflects on the
cultural and commercial
forces that drive the
global obsession with
youth and beauty, until
Sat 8 June,
Wolverhampton Art
Gallery & Light House
Media Centre,
Wolverhampton
JUNE RIDGEWAY RBSA A
collection of burnished
ceramics inspired by
the patina of age on
weathered surfaces,
until Sat 8 June, RBSA,
Birmingham
SPRING SHOWCASE
Featuring a selection of
specially commissioned
homewares, jewellery
and textiles, until Sat 8
Jun, Bilston Craft
Gallery
TREASURE ME: WORCES-
TER’S ART COLLECTION
Celebration of
Worcester’s magnificent
art collection, until Sat 8
June, Worcester City Art
Gallery
THE PERFECTION OF ASPI-
RATION Exhibition by
Alice Jones, until Sat 8
Birmingham
ARTIFEX Sutton Coldfield
0121 323 3776
BARBER INSTITUTE
0121 414 7333
BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM & ART
GALLERY 0121 303 2834
THE BURROWS GALLERY,
THE CUSTARD FACTORY
0121 224 7344
CASTLE GALLERIES
0121 633 0015
IKON GALLERY
0121 248 0708
NUMBER NINE THE GALLERY
0121 643 9099
PURPLE GALLERY
0121 459 0941
RBSA GALLERY
0121 2364353
June, Light House
Media Centre,
Wolverhampton
WASTED Exhibition of
work by Gina Czarnecki
which explores the lifegiving
potential of 'discarded'
body parts and
their relationship to
myths, history, cuttingedge
stem cell research
and notions of what
constitutes informed
consent, until Sun 9
June, Herbert Art
Gallery & Museum,
Coventry
MICHAEL SALT ARBSA A
solo show of landscapes
and seascapes
exploring the atmospheric
effects of water,
until Sat 22 June, RBSA,
Birmingham
BRUSH STROKES
Exhibition which commemorates
the centenary
of the death of the
painter Alfred East, until
Sat 22 June, Dudley
Museum & Art Gallery
STEPHANIE REDFERN
RBSA Painted, collaged
and stitched textiles
which respond to
weather, form, colour &
light, until Sat 22 June,
RBSA, Birmingham
KATIE PATERSON: IN
ANOTHER TIME The
largest, most comprehensive
exhibition from
the Glasgow-born artist
to date, until Sat 22
June, The Mead Gallery,
Warwick Arts Centre,
Coventry
STREET STORIES BY
DAVID FINCHETT An exhibition
of urban photography
taken in
Wolverhampton, until
Sat 22 June,
Wolverhampton Art
Gallery
ARTISTS’ PLANS FOR SUS-
TAINABILITY Featured
artists include Joseph
Beuys, Carole Collet,
N55, Nils Norman, Lucy
& Jorge Orta and
Museums & Art Galleries
THREE WHITE WALLS
GALLERY
0121 643 0078
Black Country
BANTOCK HOUSE
WOLVERHAMPTON
01902 552195
BILSTON CRAFT GALLERY
01902 552507
BROADFIELD HOUSE GLASS
MUSEUM, DUDLEY
01384 812745
DUDLEY MUSEUM & ART
GALLERY
01384 815575
LIGHT HOUSE MEDIA CENTRE
WOLVERHAMPTON
01902 716055
THE NEW ART GALLERY
Marjetica Potrc, until Sat
22 June, Mead Gallery,
Warwick Arts Centre
CREATIVE CONNECTIONS A
showcase of work (jewellery,
printmaking and
abstract painting) produced
by professional
artists who recently took
part in a course run by
the Adult Education
Service, until Sat 22
June, Bilston Craft
Gallery
BELLINI, BOTTICELLI,
TITAN Major exhibition
comprising forty of
Glasgow's greatest
Italian paintings - the
finest and most comprehensive
civic collection
in the UK, until Sun 23
June, Compton Verney,
Warwickshire
METROPOLIS Containing
over sixty works by
some of the world’s
most highly acclaimed
artists, until Sun 23
June, Birmingham
Museum & Art Gallery
A SMALL HICCUP A
group exhibition featuring
eight new commissions
reflecting on language,
rhetoric and
speech, with performance,
video, sculpture
and digital media, until
Sat 29 June, Grand
Union, Birmingham
THE NATURE OF THE
BEAST Exhibition which
brings together works
by a diverse range of
artists, all of whom confront
and challenge attitudes
to the natural
world, until Sun 30
June, New Art Gallery,
Walsall
DRINK AND BE MERRY
Featuring a wide array
of drinking vessels from
the seventeenth to the
twenty-first century, all
of which have been
carefully selected from
the museum’s collection,
until Sun 30 June,
The Potteries Museum
& Art Gallery, Stoke-on-
Trent
OUR CREATURES Historic
exhibition curated by
artist Mark Fairnington
which focuses on portraits
of animals, until
Sun 30 June, The New
Art Gallery, Walsall
WALSALL 01922 654400
RED HOUSE GLASS CONE
01384 812750
WOLVERHAMPTON ART
GALLERY 01902 552055
Shropshire
BEAR STEPS GALLERY,
SHREWSBURY
01743 344994
TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY,
MUCH WENLOCK
01952 727952
THE WILLOW GALLERY,
OSWESTRY
01691 657575
Staffordshire
THE POTTERIES MUSEUM &
BORN TO WORK An exhibition
of Nick Hedges’
photographic observation
of working life at
Bilston Steelworks and
other companies
between 1976 and
1978, until Sun 30 June,
Wolverhampton City
Archive
SUSTAINING THE PERSON
WITHIN Exhibition led by
artists Kathryn Pettit &
Jan Gay which looks at
how the rich experiences
of the elderly can
be forgotten once
they’re living in a care
home, until Sat 6 July,
Solihull Arts Complex
STAFFORDSHIRE OPEN
ART An annual platform
for the county’s creative
talent to showcase their
work in a variety of
media, until Sun 7 July,
Shire Hall Gallery,
Stafford
CAUGHT IN THE CROSS-
FIRE Exhibition which
explores the role of
protest art, the aesthetics
of violence and
machinery of war and
the emergence of hope
in its aftermath, until
Sun 7 July, Herbert Art
Gallery & Museum,
Coventry
POLYNESIAN TEXTILES
Featuring items drawn
from the collection of
the Museum of
Archaeology and
Anthropology at the
University of
Cambridge, until Sun
14 July, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham
OPEN 2013 Biennial open
exhibition featuring
selected works by
artists based in the West
Midlands, until Sun 14
July, Leamington Spa
Art Gallery & Museum
THIS, THIS MONSTER THIS
THINGS A unique work of
art described as ‘an
exquisite corpse made
from objects produced
by fifty-one artist friends
and acquaintances’,
until Sun 14 July, Ikon
Gallery, Birmingham
DAVID ROWAN: PACHA
KUTI TEN Exploration of
the hidden, unknown
and often forgotten
underground environ-
ART GALLERY 01782 232323
SHIRE HALL GALLERY
STAFFORD 01785 278345
STAFFORDSHIRE MUSEUM,
SHUGBOROUGH
01889 881388
Warwickshire
COMPTON VERNEY GALLERY
01926 645500
HERBERT ART GALLERY
COVENTRY 02476 832386
MEAD GALLERY WARWICK
02476 524524
ROYAL PUMP ROOMS
01926 742700
Worcestershire
WORCESTER CITY ART
GALLERY 01905 25371
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