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Monnow Valley Arts Centre is a Foundation whose aim is to promote contemporary sculpture, carved lettering and landscape painting through exhibitions, workshops and lectures at the gallery and sculpture park in South Herefordshire.
Monnow Valley Arts Centre opened in 2007 and became a registered charity in 2008. The centre is situated in an area of outstanding beauty on the border of England and Wales. The name comes from the River Monnow which forms the border between Herefordshire and Monmouthshire.
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Currently on show in the main gallery and gardens:
Material Words by Richard Kindersley
and in the studio:
Illuminated Optimism by Tashi Mannox
current exhibition
Risen!
ART OF THE CRUCIFIXION and EASTERTIDE
An Exhibition of works from the Methodist Church Collection of Modern Christian Art complemented
by the work of Contemporary Artists.
A fully illustrated catalogue of the 30 works in the exhibition is available from Monnow Valley Arts and at the exhibition venues price £10 post included
During Eastertide other exhibitions of Modern and Contemporary Christian Art (some from the
Methodist Modern Art Collection) will be held at various venues near Monnow Valley Arts. Full details to be found in this separate brochure.
Modern Christian Art from the Methodist Art Collection and other sources:
Craigie Aitchison
John Brokenshire
David Jones
Elisabeth Frink
Eric Gill
Patrick Heron
Roy De Maistre
Ceri Richards
William Roberts
Peter Rogers
Francis Newton Souza
Graham Sutherland
Contemporary artists:
Qassim Alseady
Richard Bavin
Mark Cazalet
Michael Chaitow
Marzia Colonna
John Cristoforou
Nigel Groom
Paul Hobbs
Nicola Hopwood
Hans Klein Hofmeijer
Helen McIldowie-Jenkins
Andrea McLean
Greg Tricker
Sam Wigan
Robert Wright
OPENING TIMES AND SEASON
Open 23 March – 27 October 2013
Open to the public:
Wednesday - Friday 11 am – 5 pm
Weekends 2 – 5 pm
Open for educational and other groups only on Tuesday closed Monday and Bank Holidays.
ADMISSION
Entrance to gallery exhibitions is free, but a donation is requested if not visiting the gardens.
Entrance to gardens, sculpture display and National Collection of Contemporary Memorial Arts is by donation of £5 per adult (concessions £3), children under 14 free.
exhibitions 2013
GALLERY
* 23 March - 21 April:
Risen! Art of the Crucifixion and Eastertide
* 4 May - 30 June
Material Words by Richard Kindersley
* 6 July – 1 September
Richard Greatrex: Resistance Reimagined
* 7 September – 27 October
The Dodo is Dead: Long Live the Dodo
STUDIO:
*4 May – 30 June
Tashi Mannox: Illuminated Optimism
*6 July– 1 September
Richard Bavin; Painting the Landscape
*7 September - 27 October
Words Set Free - A Letter Exchange Touring Exhibition
GARDEN:
*May to October 2013
Julian Wild: Sculptures
past exhibitions
From 12 - 23 February Wolseley Fine Arts will be exhibiting at The Gallery in Cork Street, 28 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG
John Buckland Wright (1897-1954)
Heart's Desire, Drawings and engravings.
Open Monday - Friday 11 am - 6 pm
Saturdays 11 am - 3 pm
A fully illustrated catalogue is available at £10 including P&P or can be downloaded here:
For more information and if you are interested in aquiring a work by John Buckland Wright, visit the Wolseley website or call 01873 860 525 or 07770234 889 during exhibition days.
The MONNOW VALLEY Big Draw
Thursday, Friday and Saturday 11, 12 & 13 October
10 am - 4 pm
Come and join local artist Kate Raggett help to create the Monnow Valley Big Draw, a community effort for all ages to join in with and add ideas to.
It is free, lots of people, lots of ideas, one big drawing. We will use diverse materials such as wool, willow, conkers, apples, pine cones, lavender and anything you bring that you think would be useful to add in.
We want as many community groups as possible to come and help. Everyone from toddlesr to OAP's. There is access for cars and mini buses direct to the field for the hard of walking and wheelchair users.
After the drawing has been finished, Kate will go up in a helicopter and photograph the finished art work, which will be over 20 metres wide. We will send an image f the drawing to all those who joined in.
Opening on 1 September is the last exhibition of this season:
IMAGE & WORD: The Julian Francis Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books.
In the studio there is a selling exhibition of British Original Book Illustrations. A list of available works is here: Print List
In the gardens we have an exhibition of ceramics, as well as two new water sculpture by William Pye: Meniscus by William Pye
Information and a printable booking form for the Monnow Valley Academy events for 2012 can be found here
We are participating in H-art, Hereford Art Week, from 8 - 16 September and are open every day from 11 am - 5 pm during this period.
Apart from the exhibitions in the gallery and studio, there is sculpture, carved lettering and ceramics in the gardens and Flora Fremantle has created a Labyrinth in the memory field, especially for H-art, so please come and walk it! Flora will be available to ask questions and talk about her work at the weekends.
On the 30 of June we opened the exhibition of works by Ben Nicholson: Ben Nicholson (1894 - 1982) Defining Structure and Space by Line. The exhibition will run till 26 August.
Most works in the exhibition come from private collections and originally from the Helen Sutherland collection. Helen Sutherland met Nicholson in 1925 and became his most important patron. Her insight into the nature of Nicholson's art was immediate at a time when few understood it. She saw Nicholson's work as spiritual and not materialistic. Over 40 years Helen Sutherland purchased more than 40 works from Nicholson.
We are most grateful for the loan of these works, many unseen since the Helen Sutherland collection was exhibited by the Arts Council in 1970/1.
A 20 page illustrated catalogue with a foreword by David Prentice and an introduction by Rupert Otten accompanies the exhibition. The Sutherland collection has been supplemented with some additional works by Ben Nicholson, which will be for sale.You can either order a copy (£5 + £1.50 p&p) by phone or e-mail or download it for free here: Nicholson catalogue.
A printable invitation to the event can be found here
In the studio, to coincide with the Nicholson exhibition, we will have works on show by Modern British and European masters such as Henry Moore, David Jones, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Hayden, Paul Serusier and Edouard Vuillard.
A complete illustrated list can be found here.
Peter Brookes - Political Cartoons
David Prentice: 75th Birthday Celebration in the Gallery
In the Artists Studio :
Charles MacCarthy - Landscapes of the Monnow Valley
Bridget Drakeford - Ceramics
The Romantic Landscape in Wales: John Piper, Graham Sutherland & Ralph Maynard Smith in the Gallery
Reg Boulton Images of Herefordshire in the Artists Studio
In association with Wolseley Fine Arts: PRINTS 2011 and Selected Drawings: works by Edward Ardizzone, Edgar Holloway, David Jones, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Samuel Palmer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Leon Underwood, Reg Boulton, John Buckland Wright, Edward Gordon Craig, Albert garrett, Eric Gill, Dennis Tegetmeier and Sir Kyffin Williams. 2 - 14 April. Opening times: Thursday & Friday 11 am - 5 pm, Saturday & Sunday 2 - 5 pm.
Wolseley Fine Arts will be exhibiting works by Monnow Valley artist Reg Boulton at the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, London from 18 - 21 April.