HARLAND MILLER – OVERCOMING OPTIMISM

Posted on 2012-11-05

For Harland Miller’s first exhibition in Scotland, Ingleby Gallery presents a group of new paintings alongside a selected survey of the artist’s work across several years. Common to all of these paintings is a basic structure of shape borrowed from decades of Penguin paperbacks: a motif that automatically suggests a very British kind of nostalgia, but which Miller turns back on itself with invented titles that prove the dictum that you can’t judge a book, or a painting at least, by its cover.

Exhibition runs through to January 26th, 2013

Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8DL
Scotland

www.inglebygallery.com

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FRANK AUERBACH – EARLY WORKS 1954 – 1978

Posted on 2012-11-05

Frank Auerbach, Early Works 1954 – 1978, will feature eighteen works from private collections, oil paintings and charcoal drawings, some not seen for over thirty years, including portraits of some of the artist’s principle sitters, such as close friend and fellow artist Leon Kossoff, the model Juliet Yardley Mills, and Estella Olivia West.

Born in Berlin in 1931, Frank Auerbach was sent to England to escape Nazism in 1939. He studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1948 to 1952, the Royal College of Art from 1952 to 1955 and also attended night classes run by David Bomberg at Borough Polytechnic. It was during this period that he developed an enduring friendship with fellow student Leon Kossoff. He had his first solo show in 1956 at the Beaux Arts Gallery in London, where he continued to exhibit regularly until 1963.
From 1965 onwards he has exhibited at Marlborough Gallery. His work features in major public collections including the British Museum, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Tate and the V&A in London, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Opposite – Portrait of Catherine Lampert, 1978

Exhibition runs through to December 1st, 2012

Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8DL
Scotland

www.waterman.co.uk

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MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES

Posted on 2012-11-05

The Museum of Curiosity is inspired by the ‘Wunderkammern’ of Renaissance Europe; collections put together by wealthy, well-travelled patrons that sought to represent a microcosm of the world by drawing together diverse and wonderful objects from natural history, religious relics, historical and archaeological artifacts together with works of art.
It is in this tradition that gallerist and collector, Mike Snelle has created The Museum of Curiosity; his own 21st century Wunderkammer, replete with his personal edit of ‘weird shit’ from the natural world (a human skeleton, a Walrus’ penis bone beautifully carved with thirteen human skulls, the tusk of a woolly mammoth, a selection of early medical instruments, an ice age wolf skull) alongside specially commissioned works by artists he has unearthed on his voyage of discovery into the art world.

The Museum of Curiosity, featuring works by artists including Swoon, Butch Anthony, Oskar Rink, Giles Walker, Delaney Martin, Taylor Shepherd, Jessica Harrison, Tessa Farmer and Nancy Fouts

Exhibition runs from November 9th, 2012

Pertwee Anderson & Gold
15 Bateman Street
London
W1D 3AQ

www.pertweeandersongold.com

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