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What’s OnJune — September 2012Exhibitions- Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of Collage- Eric Bainbridge: Collages- Mark Power: Black Country Stories - Street- Good Sport and Portfolio- Isabel Rawsthorne: Moving Bodies- Make Room2

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The gallery is accredited by:

Mark Power is supported by:Transmitter/Receiver is supported by:

Bob and Roberta Smith& the Epstein Archive is supported by:

Street is supported by: Good Sport is supported by:

Damien Hirst is supported by:

Events supported by:

Power and Beauty28 June — 11 August 2012

Students from Walsall and Sandwell Colleges present their own exploration of the Black Country through photography and film, inspired by Mark Power (see page 6).

Professional Development for ArtistsIn Summer 2012, a professional development programme for artists will be launched by The New Art Gallery Walsall in collaboration with Turning Point West Midlands and other partners. It will take place across the West Midlands and will be aimed at artists at varying levels of career development. Watch out for details on the relevant websites.tpwestmidlands.org.uk

Artists’ Studio

The studio programme will be taking a short break but will be starting up again by the Autumn.

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Eric Bainbridge: Collages4 May — 21 July 2012Floor 1

This exhibition consists of small scale collages realised from images culled and cut from fashion magazines. The artist recomposes these colours, forms and found images, creating an effect that is both hilarious and charming.

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Transmitter/Receiver: The Persistence of CollageAn Arts Council Collection touring exhibition

4 May — 30 June 2012Floor 3

Collage is perhaps the default medium of the 21st century: it is common place now to sample, appropriate and mix material from across a vast range of media. New technology has made it easy to assemble and customise images, sound and text, and for instant publishing via the internet.

Transmitter/Receiver traces some of the uses of collage in British art from the first influences of the Parisian avant-garde in the work of Ben Nicholson, Eileen Agar and Roland Penrose through to the varied ways in which it is employed by contemporary artists such as Idris Khan and David Noonan.

Artists include: Eileen Agar, David Batchelor, Ian Breakwell, Patrick Caulfield, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Steven Claydon, Michael Craig-Martin, Kate Davis, The Hackney Flashers, Richard Hamilton, Margaret Harrison, Susan Hiller, Idris Khan, Laurence Kavanagh, Peter Kennard, Linder, Camilla Low, David Mach, Ben Nicholson, David Noonan, Chris Ofili, Eduardo Paolozzi, Roland Penrose, Grayson Perry, Jo Spence, John Stezaker, Stephen Sutcliffe, Tony Swain, Mark Titchner, Armando Andrade Tudela and Martin Westwood.

An Arts Council Collection exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.

Linder, Untitled, 1981, Collage, 31 x 18.8cm© the artist. Courtesy the Arts Council Collection

Grayson Perry, Spirit Jar, 1994, earthenware, 45.7 x 20.3 x 20.3cm© the artist. Courtesy the Arts Council Collection

In Conversation

Thursday 17 May, 2pmJoin Caroline Douglas, curator of the exhibition with Deborah Robinson for an informal tour.

Saturday 23 June, 2pmJoin artist Idris Khan for an informal talk about his work.

Book your free place in advance by calling 01922 654400.

Mark PowerBlack Country Stories

20 July — 15 September 2012Floor 3, Gallery 1

Mark Power was commissioned by Multistory to create a series of urban landscapes responding to his experience of the Black Country – an area hit particularly hard by the economic recession. For many years, Mark’s work has sought to reveal the splendour of the everyday and there is a quiet yet simmering beauty in his photographic observations. During his visits to the region, Mark noticed an array of thriving beauty salons and gentlemen's clubs peppering local shopping arcades. Investigating this further, he discovered a number of historical precedents for the success of beauty and sex industries in times of austerity. This led to a series of short films made in beauty salons, tattoo parlours and nightclubs.

A further series of photographs shows elegant footwear seen from pavement level against a backdrop of grey concrete and crumbling brick, while a sound installation turns the names used to describe the colours of make-up and tattooist’s dyes into a romantic poem. All this serves to complement the apparent bleakness of the landscapes depicted in the large format photographs.

Collectively, the exhibition seeks to ask questions about perceptions of beauty and the importance of looking good in spite of it all.

In Conversation

Saturday 8 September, 2pmJoin Mark Power with Emma Chetcuti from Multistory and Deborah Robinson from The New Art Gallery for an informal tour of the exhibition.

Book your free place in advance by calling 01922 654400.

PreviewThursday 19 July, 6-8pmFree. Family, friends and colleagues welcome.

Mark Power's Black Country Stories is part of a long-term series of commissions by Multistory with outstanding documentary photographers, film-makers and authors - multistory.org.uk

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In Conversation

Saturday 25 February, 2pmLaura Oldfield Ford will be discussing her newly commissioned work and launching the new, Walsall edition of her fanzine Savage Messiah.

Saturday 17 March, 2pmJoin Exhibitions Curator Helen Jones and Graham Chorlton for an informal tour of the exhibition.

Book your free place in advance by calling 01922 654400

Street

20 July — 15 September 2012Floor 3, Galleries 2, 3 & 4

A street can be where we live, where we work or where we shop. It can be a focus for bustling activity and a celebration of diversity. It can also be a site for conflict, anxiety, loneliness, alienation and economic gloom. This exhibition brings together artists who explore the darker side of the urban environment as well as those who celebrate its potency as a glimpse of modern life. Many of the works have been acquired for the region’s collections with the support of Art Fund International. Artists include Mohamed Bourouissa, Nathan Coley, Barry McGee, Miao Xiaochun, Nicolas Provost, Dayanita Singh, Gavin Turk and Zhang Enli.

Nicolas Provost, Storyteller, 2010, video projection with sound (still). Image © the artist, courtesy of Haunch of Venison, London Barry McGee, Untitled, 2011, mixed media, 213 elements. Image © the artist, courtesy of Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

Preview

Thursday 19 July, 6-8pmFree. Family, friends and colleagues welcome.

Mohamed Bourovissa, L’ impasse, Series Périphéries 2007, Image © the artist

All works jointly acquired by The New Art Gallery Walsall and Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Presented by the Art Fund underArt Fund International.

Good SportMay Cornet, Leo Fitzmaurice,Neville Gabie, Darryl Georgiou,Ming de Nasty, Andrew Tift, Mo Wilson

18 May — 1 September 2012Floor 4

PortfolioFiona Banner, Martin Creed, Tracey Emin,Anthea Hamilton, Howard Hodgkin,Gary Hume, Michael Craig-Martin,Sarah Morris, Chris Ofili, Bridget Riley,Bob and Roberta Smith, Rachael Whiteread.

18 May — 1 September 2012Floor 4 and throughout the building

Shown alongside Good Sport are 12 limited edition prints, commissioned by Counter Editions to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

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Designed to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Good Sport celebrates the spirit of taking part, whether as avid participant, spectator or collector. The exhibition celebrates the passion, creativity, ingenuity and sense of community that can be associated with sport. Paintings, photographs and installations are included and feature sports ranging from football to pigeon racing, and wrestling to boxing. The sporting communities of Walsall are celebrated with portraits of boxers from Pleck Boxing Club, a collector of Walsall Football Club memorabilia and local pigeon fanciers.

Granted the Inspire mark, the badge of the London 2012 Inspire programme.

Isabel Rawsthorne, Movement from the Bayadere 1, c. 1966, gouache on board

The Garman Ryan Collection

On display all year round

The Garman Ryan Collection is a personal collection of art and artefacts given to Walsall by Sir Jacob Epstein’s widow, Kathleen Garman, and her close friend, the sculptor Sally Ryan. This intimate display includes works by famous artists including Van Gogh, Lucian Freud, Monet, Constable and Picasso.

A new education resource is now available ‘Adventures in The Archives’ which enables children and adults to explore the Epstein-Garman family relationships behind the portraits in the collection. The resource can also be downloaded on line atwww.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/learning/adventuresinthearchives

As a young artist in the early 30’s Isabel Rawsthorne was studio assistant to Jacob Epstein and in the 1930’s and 40’s Alberto Giacometti, was her closest artistic and romantic relationship. Her drawings in this exhibition have a connection to his famously skeletal sculptures. Rawsthorne's friendship with Francis Bacon in the 50’s and 60’s culminated in an exhibition of her dancers at his Gallery, the Marlborough. For nearly twenty years, she drew and painted her friends the prima ballerinas Margot Fonteyn, Antoinette Sibley and Rudolph Nureyev in the rehearsal rooms at Covent Garden. Her works are as much portraits as they are an exploration of dance and movement. These are now nostalgic names in the history of dance, but for artists of Isabel’s generation, the inheritors of the age of Serge Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, dance was the cutting edge of the avant-garde, a potent synthesis of new music, art and physical expression. Both Rawsthorne and Fonteyn were both independent and experimental in their field and they shared a lover in Constant Lambert, Artistic Director at Covent Garden. Bob and Roberta Smith’s Epstein Archive Gallery

Bob and Roberta Smith’s Epstein Archive was created after a 2 year residency with contemporary artists Bob and Roberta Smith. Working in collaboration with Archive Curator Neil Lebeter, they rifled through the letters, photographs and documents held in the Epstein Archive, creating new works and short films in response to what was found. Displaying contemporary art and archives side by side, Bob and Roberta Smith’s Epstein Archive Gallery showcases the extraordinary and tragic story of the Epstein-Garman family. The book of the project, How To Let An Artist Rifle Through Your Archives, is to be published in the summer.

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15 June — 8 September 2012Floor 2

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Saturday 21 July, 2pmCurator Carol Jacobi talks about the web of artistic and creative relationships surrounding Isabel Rawsthorne's life and art. To book please call 01922 654400.

PreviewThursday 14 June, 6-8pmFree. Family, friends and colleagues welcome.

Come and try to draw the dancers who will be performing live at the opening.

Isabel Rawsthorne, Nureyev and Fonteyn, late 1960’s, mixed media on board

The exhibition is on loan from the Isabel Rawsthorne Collection, it will be touring to the Royal Opera House, London in February 2013.

Pop into the gallery anytime, or come to one of our organised family workshops that are drop-in, you can turn up any time between the start and the end times, and everyone of any age can join in subject to space. Stay as long as you like.

DiSCO is a safe place for families to explore art together. You can touch, look, draw, play and create to help you understand the artworks on display. Dress up, design a 3d townscape or create some computer art.

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The gallery has lift access to all floors and is buggy friendly,

breastfeeding friendly and has babychange facilities on the ground floor.

All workshop activitiesusually run 1-3pm each date.No need to book!Just drop in subject to space.

Free Regular Family Events

Baby Palace29 June, 20 July, 21 SeptemberThree sessions each day:10.30-11.30am, 12-1pm, 2-3pmTake some time to relax in the multi sensory environment and explore smells, sights and senses with your baby at your pace. This is a great chance to meet other new parents and share your experiences. Please book in advance on 01922 654 400

Art StartWeds 5 September 11am-12noonThese are sessions for pre school children 1 year old upwards with their carers. Come along and explore an artwork in the gallery and make things together to support your child in being creative.

Please book in advance on01922 654400, limited places.

August

Sail AwayWeds 1 & Thurs 2 August The painting by Monet in our collections shows some sail boats in the distance. Come and build your own boat with us.

Come DancingWeds 8 & Thurs 9 AugustInspired by the etching of dancers by Renoir, come along and make your own spinning dancer.

Would you like to print?Weds 15 & Thurs 16 AugustPrint an image inspired by Gauguin’s wood cut.

SuperheroWeds 22 & Thurs 23 August Last year the artist Bob and Roberta Smith built a robot inspired by Epstein’s Rock Drill. The robot is on floor 4 and he’s our super hero. Come and build your own super hero inspired by Epstein’s Rock Drill.

Garman FlowersWeds 29 & Thurs 30 AugustWe love the painting Summer Garden at Harting by Theo Garman. Come along and make your own giant blooms of poppies and delphiniums inspired by this wonderful summer painting.

June

Jungle Queen CrownsWednesday 6 & Thursday 7 JuneCome and be a king or queen of the jungle by making your own crown inspired by Jungle Queen by Hew Locke, to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Olympic FlagsSaturday 30 June, 10am-12noon*Decorate your own flag to wave as the Olympic torch passes the gallery.

July

Bronze Banner DayWednesday 25 July Make your own bronze medal and create a textile flag or banner to celebrate the opening of the Olympics 2012.

Silver Race DayThursday 26 JulyMake a face for the Olympic cheering crowd and join in the games of ink blowing, wheel prints and marble targets. Make sure you make your silver medal today.

Gold T-shirt dayFriday 27 JulyBring back your bronze and silver medals and make a gold medal today for a set to claim your free t-shirt to decorate. If you don’t have medals you can bring your own t-shirt, or buy one from the gallery for £3.

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Breastfeeding Awareness DayTuesday 19 June, 11am – 3pm

Bonny, bouncing, beautiful, baby day! Celebrate National Breastfeeding Week with our sensory Baby Palace and other crafty baby, fun activities. Breastfeeding support services will be present and introduction to solid foods information will be provided. Free, just drop in, all welcome, including parents to be!

Behind Scenes ToursThursday 28 June &Saturday 4 August 2pm

Join us on any of the above dates for a free fascinating tour of the gallery spaces that everyday visitors can’t see! To book one of the free limited places call 01922 654400.

Walsall PrideSaturday 25 August, 11am-5pm

Walsall’s first ever LGBT Pride event will take place this summer within the gallery and in gallery square! To be opened by Walsall's Lord Mayor, will feature lots of local and regional organisations and stalls. Come and enjoy the day with Walsall’s Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans community. For more information on the event contact the Pride committee on info@waasp.co.uk

SupercollageSaturday 7 July

Use your own camera or phone to photograph your favourite artworks from our collections, work with artist Jain McKay to print them out, cut them up and turn them into crazy animals!

PhotofameSaturday 4 August

Budding photographers bring your cameras to get some amazing shots around the gallery. Try our simple tools for getting an amazing shot and then share it with your friends and family on the gallery’s Facebook and Twitter pages. The best shot will be given pride of place on the gallery’s website.

Waiting for DamienSaturday 1 September

Spots, spins, sheep or skulls, what’s your favourite Damien Hirst piece? To celebrate his work coming to Walsall, come and make your own Hirst inspired artwork to take home with you.

Events

Young People’s Days11am – 4pm each dateFree, no need to book, just drop in!

Free Adult workshops

June

Collage PrintsSaturday 23 June, 11am -4pm, £10

Join artist Michele Harris and understand and learn the art of collage and lino printing inspired by the Transmitter/Receiver Exhibition.

July

Artist Teacher Scheme ExhibitionSaturday 28 July – Saturday 1 SeptemberFloor 1, Long gallery

Art teachers and industry professional who are also artists are exhibiting work in progress from the 2011-12 ATS course. The artists are available to meet and chat with visitors on Saturday 28th July.

Coming Soon

Damien Hirst6 October 2012 — 26 October 2013

The New Art Gallery Walsall is gearing up to present a year-long exhibition of key works by acclaimed artist Damien Hirst, as part of ARTIST ROOMS On Tour.

This ground-breaking, new display will feature Damien’s sculptures, paintings and prints presented within the Garman Ryan Galleries. The display will be accompanied by a series of inspired satellite exhibitions, events and activities through the course of the year.

ARTIST ROOMS On Tour is an inspired partnership with the Art Fund - the fundraising charity for works of art, making the ARTIST ROOMS collection of international contemporary art available to galleries throughout the UK. ARTIST ROOMS is jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.

Visit thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk for the latest news about this exciting project.

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* Due to the installation of new exhibitions there will be restricted access to the Garman Ryanand 3rd Floor Galleries from 17 September until the opening of the new exhibitions on 6 October.

Art Library & Archive

The Writing Squad For Young Writers in Walsall2 June, 1 September, 6 October10.30am – 12pmThe Art Library hosts The Walsall Writing Squad for young people aged 8 to 12 who are interested in creative writing poems, plays, stories or songs! Led by professional writers it will include lots of fun writing activities and a chance to learn about being a writer.There is a total charge of £12 for 3 sessions or £5 per session if paid on the day.

To reserve a place please contact Joanne Penn on 0121 246 2770 or joanne@writingwestmidlands.org.Please note that Writing Squad sessions will not run during July and August.

The Walsall Writing Squad is a project of Writing West Midlands in association with The New Art Gallery Walsall.

Art CartThe Art Cart comes out every weekend and all school holidays to help you explore our collections. It has different activities and moves somewhere new in the gallery every month.

Frisky BagsThese are rucksacks stuffed full of activities to help you explore around the gallery together as a family. Ask to borrow one from reception. Great for children 6-12 year olds.

Opening timesTuesday – Saturday 10am-5pmClosed Mondays, Sundays and Bank Holidays

ShopFind the perfect gift for you or a friend in our specialist art shop, exhibition catalogues, art books, postcards, jewellery and much more.

CostaOpen 8.30am-5.30pm Monday - Saturdayand 11am-4pm on Sundays.

Mailing ListSign up to our free e-bulletin to receive Preview invitations and event information.

Facilities HireThe gallery is available for corporate events and meetings, email us oninfo@thenewartgallerywalsall.org.ukto book your event and make the most of our unique venue.

Membership SchemesAll proceeds raised from our schemes help to support our arts and education programme and support our free admission policy. If you are interested in supporting The New Art Gallery Walsall and would like details of our membership schemes please contact Chris Wilkinson, on 01922 654416.

EducationFor a full schools and colleges programme visit our website or contact 01922 654400.

The New Art Gallery WalsallGallery Square, Walsall WS2 8LG

01922 654400TexBox: 0845 1112910

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Access guides and alternative versions of all printed materials are available on request.For more information please contact Ioannis Ioannou on 01922 654404 or email ioannoui@walsall.gov.uk

Disclaimer: every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this edition of What’s On, which was correct at the time of publication. Walsall Council cannot be held responsible for any changes.