When you're living life you don't quite realise all that you are doing or achieving as it's just rolling along as everyday life. So the end of the year is always a good time to reflect and look back on the last 12 months. Here's the first roundup of 2019, a look at all the exhibitions I saw in 2019:-
Harald Sohlberg: Painting Norway at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory at Tate Modern
Diane Arbus: In the Beginning at Hayward Gallery
Van Gogh & Britain at Tate Britain
Phyllida Barlow at Royal Academy
Sheffield is my nearest City so I always pop into the Graves Gallery & Millennium Gallery, here's what I saw there this year:
Da Vinci: A Life in Drawing at Millennium Gallery
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Sea, Rock, Earth and Ice at Graves Gallery
It Moves Forward: The Work of Richard Hamilton at Graves Gallery
This Life is So Everyday: The Home in British Art 1950-1980 at Graves Gallery
John Ruskin: Art & Wonder at Millennium Gallery
The Time is Now at Milllenium Gallery
The Dog: A Celebration at Chatsworth
I also go to Manchester quite a lot so here's what I saw at the Manchester Art Gallery this year (from top anticlockwise):
Rembrandt's Light at Dulwich Picture Gallery
I also managed a trip to London in November & managed to see the Rembrandt's Light exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Luckily I saw it just a few days before they had an attempted robbery and subsequent closure of the gallery for 2 weeks. I also always see one of my favourite Rembrandt portraits 'Jacob de Gheyn III' which they have in their permanent collection when I'm there, but I couldn't find it & found out it's currently on loan to Museum de Lakenhal in the Netherlands for their exhibition 'Young Rembrandt: Rising Star' (curiously this painting has been stolen 4 times making it one of the most stolen paintings in the world!)
I feel like I haven't seen as much as I'd like to this year, so hopefully next year I can make the effort and go to see more special exhibitions as well as some new places I've never been to. Thanks 2019, roll on 2020!
