Clare Kenny, Touchstones, Rochdale
Basel-based artist Clare Kenny‘s work reflects on her childhood growing up in Heywood, Rochdale in the 1980s, plus her new life living in modern Europe. This exhibition, ‘Industrial Romantic’, explores nine themes, featuring vivid, sculptural installations that elevate everyday objects and evoke commonly shared experiences. Buckets, semi-deflated balloons and DIY materials are transformed into gallery artworks for her first institutional solo show in the UK.
Until 8 July 2017, www.link4life.org
Metro: Art at Velocity, Bloomberg Space, London
This show brings together British sculptor, Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) and American designer Lance Wyman (born 1937), exploring the works they each created for the rapid transit systems of London and Mexico City respectively. They offer two distinct approaches to issues of transport and public space, asking how our sense of place, time, and common culture is determined by the designed objects that give shape to our existence.
Until 5 August 2017, www.bloombergspace.com
Hokusai, British Museum, London
Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is known for creating sublime images of natural beauty, including his iconic Great Wave, part of a print series of views of Mount Fuji. He also created intimate domestic scenes capturing fleeting moments in private lives. This exhibition explores the last 30 years of Hokusai’s life, a time when he produced some of his most memorable masterpieces.
Until 13 August 2017, www.britishmuseum.org
Every Day Is a New Day, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Turner Contemporary’s summer season includes works by British sculptor Phyllida Barlow – currently representing Britain at the Venice Biennale – British-Kenyan painter Michael Armitage, and JMW Turner, shown alongside artwork by young people from Kent and Africa. Transforming the gallery into a space for making, discussion and exchange, the exhibition includes various sculptures and a selection of drawings from throughout Barlow’s career, plus new and recent works by Armitage, who incidentally is a former pupil of Barlow’s at the Slade School of Art.
Until 24 September 2017, www.turnercontemporary.org
Sea to Shore, Kettle’s Yard at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
This show brings together paintings by Alfred Wallis (1855-1942) and Christopher Wood (1901-1930) that are inspired by the sea and shore. The pair first met in St Ives in 1928, with Wallis’ untutored style and inventive use of materials having an effect on Wood’s stylistic development. Their experiences of the sea and life in port towns is captured in these intriguing works.
Until 27 August 2017, www.kettlesyard.co.uk
Image:
1. Top: Vauxhall Astra, 2014. Photo print on glass. Middle: Austin Allegro, 2014. Photo print on glass. Bottom: Volkswagen Camper, 2014 (Heywood), 2014-2017. Photo print on glass. Courtesy: Touchstones, Rochdale
2. Alfred Wallis, Small boat in a rough sea, 1936. Courtesy: Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge
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