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| PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS AT RABLEY |
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| 2013 |
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17 March - 27 April 2013 |
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| SANDY SYKES |
| The Flying Itself |
A series of 10 unique prints.
Sandy Sykes invites you to step through rooms, doorways and fields into her tactile woodcut prints. Cut, drawn and burnished into life, she creates complex dual worlds of time and space. |
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| BREO O'CASEY |
| Masterprints from the Hugh Stoneman Archive |
| In 'Master Prints' the gallery at Rabley Drawing Centre gives you a privileged insight into the work of Master Printer Hugh Stoneman and the fine art of creative collaboration, with an exhibition of prints from the Stoneman Studio Archive. |
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| 2012 |
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13 November – 18 December 2012 |
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| TOM HAMMICK |
| Night for Day |
| In Tom Hammick’s new paintings and prints there is a recurring motif of a shed or a simple house set in a flattened out landscape. His pictures are imaginary and mythological dreamscapes, and a positive counterpoint to a world in crisis. |
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| SALLY FAWKES |
| Significant Ground |
| In ‘Significant Ground’ Sally Fawkes’ glass sculptures hold space in the transparent volume of clear optical glass. With great command of this beautiful alchemic medium she transforms the glass into abstract metaphors for the experienced of nature. |
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11 September - 27 October 2012 |
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| KNOT DRAWING |
| A Collection of Modern British Tapestries |
Craigie AITCHISON
Alan DAVIE
Patrick CAULFIELD
Elisabeth FRINK
Howard HODGKIN
Victor PASMORE
John PIPER
William SCOTT |
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| A rare opportunity to enjoy these desirable tapestries from the best names in Modern British Art. Ethically made to the highest quality hand- knotting gives the woolen surface of each artwork unique qualities reflecting the light and colour to dramatic effect. The tapestries are for sale in limited editions with certificates of authenticity.Recently two new tapestries have been added to this illustrious collection: Craigie Aitchison ‘Blue Bird, Yellow Landscape’ and the seminal motif of a ‘Red Bedlington Terrier’ completed after the artist’s death and exhibited here for the first time. |
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| EMILY MYERS |
| New Porcelain & Stoneware Ceramics |
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| MARTYN GRIMMER |
| Photogravures |
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5 May - 7 July 2012 |
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| DRAWN TO NATURE |
| An Exhibition of Drawing & Sculpture |
Meryl AINSLIE
Alan BOND
Fiona ROBINSON
Sara LEE
Lucy PEDLAR
Nik POLLARD
Dawn SHORTEN
Ray WARD |
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10 March – 21 April 2012 |
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| TIM HARRISSON |
| The Oldbury Chapters |
| Abstract landscape drawings from Oldbury Castle and the Cherhill Downs. Sculpture using both Wiltshire limestone and Carrara marble. |
| In stone, Harrisson carves simple forms of purity. The geology of each material pushes the surface: sedimentary stone from the Vale of Wardour and Carrara marble are forged together into contemporary Menhirs. The Carrara marble was a gift from the Barbara Hepworth Estate. The sculptures were installed in the gallery and nearby farm buildings. |
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| JOANNA STILL |
| Holding Space |
| A collection of shallow dishes by Joanna Still. |
| Still’s signature ceramics are thrown, turned, fired and smoked to produce a finish of subtle hues with organic marked surfaces. The smoke firing technique where polished pots are starved of oxygen at a low temperature to induce a dark smoky surface is widely used by traditional makers as an alternative to glaze in many cultures. |
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| 2011 |
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17 September - 30 October 2011 |
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| EMMA STIBBON |
| ROMA |
| New Woodcut and Drawings |
| ROMA explores the layers of historical traces in Rome; the architectural constructs of Mussolini with ruins from the Roman Empire. The woodcut and drawings in chalk and ink reflect it’s fragility, instability and beauty. Emma Stibbon was Derek Hill Scholar at the British School in Rome in 2010 |
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| RICHARD JACKSON |
| Observing Eternity |
| Glass Sculpture |
| Richard Jacksonʼs glass sculpture has the absolute clarity of cast optical glass; honed and polished surfaces, textured with deep carving made with a diamond cutter. New sculptures reflect balanced and cantilevered architectural forms. |
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| EXHIBITION 11 June – 22 July 2011 |
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| SEAN SCULLY |
| Etchings & Works on Paper |
Filtering the Northern European light, lapping and overlapping the edges of his familiar abstract blocks, Scully offers subtle plays of colour and tone. This exhibition was one of the first opportunities to see his etching series ‘Liliane’
“the rural scenery has changed forever the urban texture of his art”
Laurence Topham, The Guardian. |
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| KERRY PHIPPEN |
| 'Give It To Me' New Drawings |
Calling on the emotional and physical landscape of childhood these new drawings mark a psychological engagement with ‘alter ego’s’ and the intimate distance of childhood relationships. Working on the found surfaces of postcards and from old photographs her work addresses timeless tensions with an unsettling contemporary candor. |
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| SKETCH 2011 |
| April - May 2011 |
| The SKETCH Drawing Prize at Rabley is the UK’s only award for artist sketchbooks. The SKETCH exhibition reveals the thoughts and images of contemporary artists, investigates the role of the sketchbook in creative art practice and the relationship between drawing and other media. |
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| 2010 |
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| TEMPLATE |
| JACK SHIREFF |
| 11 September - 17 October |
| The artist’s journey from template to print in an exhibition celebrating 30 years of printmaking with Jack Shirreff |
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| RABLEY SCULPTURE GARDEN |
| June - July 2010 |
fred baier
melissa cole
sally fawkes
patrick haines
richard jackson
johnny hawkes
tim harrisson
lucy strachan
julieann worrell hood |
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| ESTEBAN IGARTUA |
| LAND DRAWINGS |
| June - July 2010 |
Esteban Igartua’s drawings are about the organic aspect of human life. His invented characters form a community in which this life exists. They are immersed in a natural world of growth, disease, decay and regeneration. There is cooperation and solidarity, conflict and abuse of power. The collection of drawings themselves turn into some form of expanding organism, like a constantly growing jigsaw.
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| SANDY SYKES |
| AMBUSH |
| May - June 2010 |
New drawings and prints.
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Sandy Sykes bring cowboys and soldiers together in a field of playful imaginings. They are a serious comment on the futility of war handled with Sandy’s original combination of wit and skill.
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| CHALK HORSES & TIN SHEDS |
| ALAN BOND |
| March 2010 |
New Drawings and Sculpture
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Left: Fattoria Yellow |
Bottom left: Chalk Horse |
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| MASTERS AND MISTRESSES OF DRAWING |
| Jan - Feb 2010 |
Drawings by twenty two of the most exciting artists drawing today. They reflect fresh definitions and a resurgence of interest in drawing placing it centre stage of the contemporary fine art arena.
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Craigie AITCHISON
Lucy AUSTIN
Helen BARFF
Alan BOND
Martyn BREWSTER
Mikey CUDDIHY
Anka DABROWSKA
Paul FIELDSEND-DANKS
Tim HARRISSON
Claude HEATH
John HODDER
Estaban IGARTUA
Roger KELLY
Samuel KELLY
Emma OLDRIDGE
Kerry PHIPPEN
Susan PRESTON
James RIELLY
Dawn SHORTEN
Emma STIBBON
Sandy SYKES
Sadie TIERNEY |
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| above top: 'Gneis' Tim Harrisson |
| above: 'Devil's Throat' Emma Stibbon |
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| 2009 |
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| THE SNOW QUEEN AND HER GOLDEN PURSE |
| ARTMAS FAIR |
| 1- 6 December 2009 |
A festive odyssey of art treasures including drawings, paintings, prints, ceramics and jewellery by Lucy Austin, Kerry Phippen, Emma Stibbon.
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| ICE and glass sculpture by Joseph Harrington, Jewellery by Gay Crichton-Miller and Syann Van Niftrik, Silks and gems from India, Storytelling and a childrens' drawing workshop. |
Left:' Conversing With Crow' |
Kerry Phippen, Snow Queen Series |
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| MARTYN BREWSTER |
| New Work |
| 11 October – 7 November 2009 |
| New paintings, drawings and prints by this internationally respected abstract colourist. Includes new work inspired during his residency at Rabley Drawing Centre in the summer. |
Left: Martyn Brewster |
'Rabley Sunlight' 2009 |
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| Lucy Strachan RCA |
| Drawings and Sculpture |
| 9 - 31 July 2009 |
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| CRAIGIE AITCHISON RA |
NEW Prints and Artist proofs |
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| ELEMENTS TRILOGY |
| Sculpture in the landscape by: |
TIM HARRISSON HELEN BARFF & LUCY STRACHAN
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| ‘FARM Structures, Forms and Surfaces’ |
| Susan Preston |
| From 25 March – 25 April 2009 |
As Rabley Contemporary Drawing Centre’s first ‘Artist in Residence 2008’ Preston drew inspiration from a collection of unusually charged icons of late C20 agricultural architecture - redundant farm buildings originally designed as an intensive pig-rearing unit in the 1960’s.
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| 2008 |
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| ‘Bring on the Dancing Bears’ |
| Kerry Phippen |
| 9 November - 13 December 2008 |
Dark memories of childhood in bizarre, beautiful and emotive images inspired by the circus
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| ‘Kindly Light’ |
| Paul Fieldsend-Danks |
| 14 Sept - 24 Oct |
| Kindly Light brings together a body of paintings, drawings, photographs and digital prints made in response to sites along the North Cornish coast. |
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| ‘MIRROR TO NATURE’ |
| Meryl Ainslie and Lucy Strachen |
| 11 July - 20 August |
| Meryl Ainslie's Monumental drawings of life size trees and hedges, including a 45 square metre Apple Tree were installed in the gallery blurring our interior and exterior experience of nature. Outside, a large black spherical sculpture hovers on the horizon. 'Landscape Eclipsed' (right) by Lucy Strachen cuts a 'black hole' in the sky. |
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| 'MONOCHROME' |
| Martyn Brewster, Richard Forster, Martyn Grimmer, James Ireland, Mariele Neudecker, Andrew Mania, Ged Quinn, Peter Reddick, Emma Stibbon, Daphne Wright, John Wood & Paul Harrison |
| 25 May - 29 June 2008 |
| Twelve artists disclose their relationship with drawing and printmaking revealing diverse graphic sensibilities in 'monochrome' imagery |
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| JAMES RIELLY |
| NEW WORKS ON PAPER |
| 16 March – 26 April 2008 |
| In Rielly’s watercolours humour teeters on the edge of darkness in images of boys in cowboy dress and masks, rabbits drinking beer and a grey haired woman filling jam jars with blood. |
West Country trained artist James Reilly’s latest watercolours on show for the first time at Rabley Barn. Having originally trained at Cheltenham College of Arts, Reilly was included in the infamous “Sensation” exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1997. “Sensation” also
featured works by Damien Hurst, Tracey Emin and the Chapman Brothers. |
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| SANDY SYKES |
| ‘MANUSCRIPTS & MARGINS’ |
| 31 January - 7 February 2008 |
| ‘Manuscript’ is a new series of 17 unique works on paper combining drawing and printmaking and collage. Sykes' marks, words and images breach and are submerged by the surface revealing glimpses of text from Cormack Mc Carthy's novel "Child of God". They refer obliquely to the margins of territory, both moral and physical in our fragile, inhabited world. Sykes creates edgy compositions that evoke wilderness and unfolding time. |
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| 2007 |
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| ARTICULATED FORMS |
| Basil Beattie, Philip Guston, Barbara Hepworth, John Hoyland, Albert Irvin, Jonathan Lasker, Sean Scully, Graham Sutherland and Glyn Uzzell |
| 16 Sept – 20 Oct 2007 |
The joining of parts, both related and unrelated, articulates a dialogue between form, ideas and feelings that has excited artists from modern abstraction to the present day. |
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| CRAIGIE AITCHISON |
| PRINTS |
| 2 June - 20 July 2007 |
| Craigie Aitchison’s etchings and screen prints exude his vibrant palette with familiar motifs of terriers, crucifix and his beloved Montecastelli. Includes rare artist proofs and prints, many from the artist’s collection. |
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| SADIE TIERNEY |
| DRAWINGS |
| 24 March - 17 May 2007 |
| A flotilla of boats washes a tide of colour from the sea to the Wiltshire countryside at RABLEY CONTEMPORARY DRAWING CENTRE |
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| 100 PROMISES - Jill Carter |
| FILM SCREENING & EXHIBITION |
| 23 & 24 JANUARY 2007 |
| Jill Carter embarked on a journey through Rajasthan, India through the eyes of 100 promises made by friends and family to realise dreams and ideas, notions of ancestors and idols. A narrative unfolds in words and images exchanging ideas and impressions, realising the possibilities and potential of humanity across continents. |
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| 2006 |
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| ANTARCTICA |
| Nov/Dec 2006 |
| Emma Stibbon - Antarctica Drawings and Joseph Harrington - Lost ice sculptures |
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| KATE RAGGETT |
| Sept 2006 |
| Free-form drawings on walls ceramics and fields are inspired by and have origins from the landscape, they develop in response to its forms and energy. |
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| MATISSE |
| Sept 2006 |
| In his drawings for 'Florilege des Amours de Ronsard', Matisse celebrates his best loved subjects of birds, fauna and frolicking satires. Printed in lively sanguine line, this suite of original lithographs were Inspired by the love poetry of Ronsard and published in 1948. |
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| PARALLEL NARRATIVES |
| Apr - Jul 2006 |
| Artists Mikey Cuddihy, Elaine Kowalsky, Neal Layton, Sally Manning, Kerry Phippen and Sandy Sykes create visual dialogues through drawings, prints, animation and artists' books that shadow other stories and experiences from telephone doodles to the darker side of humanity. |
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| 2005 |
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| NOCTURNE |
| Nov / Dec 2005 |
| Winter days are enveloped by night and half-light. Twelve contemporary artists have ventured beyond night-fall to absorb the atmospheric, temporal and sensual qualities of nocturnal activity. |
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| SKETCH |
| June - Oct
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| National
Open Drawing Prize and Arboreta Student Sketchbook
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| REFLECTED MARKS |
| May
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| An exhibition of contemporary
artists exploring the relationship between
drawing and printmaking |
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| DRAWING WITH LIGHT |
| April 2005 |
| Contemporary Artists
whose work explores the relationship between
drawing and photo-graphy |
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| 2004 |
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| DEFYING DEFINITION |
| Nov 04 - Jan 05 |
| Paul Danks, Emma Stibbon,
Meryl Ainslie, Sue Preston & Alan bond |
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| BIRDS AND BEASTS |
| 2004 |
| Richard Cowdy, Bryan Hanlon
& Stephen Porwol. |
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