Jerwood Gallery

Paul Feiler – Chrome & Lemon

Born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Paul Feiler was sent to England in 1933 and studied from 1936 to 1939 at the Slade School. Interned in Canada when the Second World War broke out, Feiler returned to Britain in 1941, teaching at the Combined Colleges of Eastbourne and Radley and the West England College of Art from 1941 to 1975.

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Craigie Aitchison, R.A. – Crucifixion

Craigie Aitchison was the winner of the first Jerwood Painting Prize in 1994. Sir Peter Wakefield (former Director of the National Art Collections Fund) chaired the distinguished panel made up by Judith Collins (Assistant Keeper of the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery), Anna Ford (Broadcaster), Lord Gowrie (Chairman of the Arts Council), Hilton Kramer (Editor of the New York-based magazine New Criterion) and John McEwen (The Sunday Telegraph’s art critic) and the prize exhibition was shown at London’s Royal Academy and Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academy.

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Christopher Wood – The Bather

Born near Liverpool, Christopher (‘Kit’) Wood first showed an interest in drawing while bedridden during his recovery from septicaemia from 1915 to 1918. As an Architecture student at Liverpool University he met Augustus John who encouraged him to be a painter and in 1921 he studied at the Academie Julian in Paris

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Anne Redpath, A.R.A., R.S.A. – Mainly Grey & White

The daughter of a Scottish tweed designer, Anne Redpath studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1913 to 1919. Soon after graduating she married and lived in France from 1920 to 1934, painting little during these years while she raised her family. After returning to her hometown of Hawick in 1934 she became a regular exhibitor in Edinburgh, moving there in the late 1940s

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For the Sake of the Image

For the Sake of the Image investigates the reciprocal relationship between moving image and sound, considering sound not merely as an accompaniment to the moving image but exploring how the force of one multiplies the power of the other.

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Inscription

An exhibition of work by three contemporary artists who each use mark making as a way of recording, developing and communicating ideas.As part of the INSCRIPTION exhibition a series of Monday evening talks will take place at 6pm.

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