2019 Roundup: Art Exhibitions

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):

Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing

Nordic Craft & Design

Martin Parr: Return to Manchester

Halima Cassell: Eclectica Global Inspirations

Louise Giovanelli

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!

Rosetta Philae for C.A.N NeckTie

 


I designed this Rosetta-Philae Patch for the Space Horizons Creative Action Network project a few years ago & they've just picked it to be on this really cool Outer Space Necktie now available in their shop! Proceeds support Space Horizons, an innovative non profit that promotes interest in STEM education for minority and female students in underserved communities. 

Here's what i wrote about the my patch & the Rosetta-Philae mission:-
I've always been fascinated by the wonder of space, the universe holds so much wonder and mystery. When ESA's Rosetta-Philae Mission landed onto a comet, relaying the first images from a comets surface, after having left Earth 10 years earlier, it was such an awe inspiring moment. So much hard work, time and huge possibilities of failure, brought about never before seen images and data; although Philae bounced on landing and didn't quite land in the right spot so it couldn't recharge it's batteries and keep its link with Earth for longer, that's alright as sometimes (a lot of the time) things don't work out as you planned and that just makes you learn from it that bit more and be inspired to keep trying and pushing forever onward. This mission will forever be etched in my memory and keep on inspiring me and I hope my patch opens up this mission to others and inspires them.