Augustus Welby Pugin

Objects and Designs 7 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 A.W.N. Pugin: Objects and Designs was a selling exhibition held in association with Haslam and Whiteway of Kensington Church Street, London, of furniture, objects and designs by architect and designer, A.W.N.Pugin. The exhibiton included a spectacular Corona from the Bishop's House, Birmingham (1840), a Candlestick bearing the arms of William... Read more

The Edwardians

The Golden Years Before The War 7 Dec 2011 - 7 Jan 2012 The Edwardians featured work by artists working from the turn of the century and into the first years of the First World War. Highlights included 'In the Orchard', a watercolour of c.1908 by Dame Laura Knight, a clear expression of the 'joie de vivre' which the artist confessed on moving... Read more

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

Paintings, Prints and Drawings 6 Nov - 30 Dec 2011 Gerald Leslie Brockhurst: Paintings, Prints and Drawings was held to mark twenty-five years since the first comprehensive exhibition of the work of Gerald Brockhurst, A Dream of Fair Women , which toured Sheffield, Birmingham and the National Portrait Gallery in London. As a painter, draughtsman and etcher, Brockhurst achieved an... Read more

Talbert McLean

28 Oct - 19 Nov 2011 An exhibition of work by pioneering Scottish abstract artist Talbert McLean, shown alongside works by his son, John. Talbert's work is in the collection of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Dundee Art Gallery, Glasgow Museums and The Hunterian. “There are those painters who take starting points at odds... Read more

Five Centuries of Scottish Portraiture

30 Jul - 3 Sep 2011 Portraits are windows into the period in which in they were painted – not merely because they demonstrate the painting techniques of the time, the fashions of art or of clothing, but because they show us how we saw ourselves. In the seventeenth or eighteenth century, we appeared as precise... Read more

The Camden Town Group

Centenary Exhibition 15 Jun - 21 Jul 2011 A centenary exhibition of The Camden Town Group which opened exactly 100 years to the day of the groups' original exhibition in Fitzroy Street in 1911. The show consisted of around seventy pictures by Walter Sickert, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner, William Ratcliffe and many others. It... Read more