Contemporary Artist, Louise Bourgeois coming to the Burton at Bideford in November

French-American artist Louise Bourgeois is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential figures of modern and contemporary art, with a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s to 2010. 

ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois brings together works which she made during the last twenty years of her life, a period of extraordinary creativity.

Bourgeois’s art was often autobiographical, exploring themes such as childhood, family, motherhood, identity and gender. She reworked her ideas in different forms and materials, creating large-scale sculpture and installation, painting, printmaking, drawing and textiles. Both biographical and universal, Bourgeois’s work reaches us with a powerful immediacy more than a decade after her death.

This is the Burton at Bideford’s third collaboration with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland through the ARTIST ROOMS programme, and follows presentations of internationally renowned artists Richard Long (2014) and Diane Arbus (2018)

Exhibition launch: Friday 17 November, 6-8pm

Join Burton at Bideford and special guests from Tate to celebrate the exhibition opening

 The Burton Art Gallery & Museum, Kingsley Road, Bideford, Devon, EX39 2QQ

Current & upcoming exhibitions > 

GALLERY 1 & 2

Ian Davenport: Works on Paper

16 September – 3 November 2023

This is a rare opportunity to see works from throughout the artist’s career, from his student days at Goldsmiths to the present day. Ian Davenport is one of the Young British Artists who took part in the seminal 1988 exhibition, Freeze. He is best known for his abstract paintings, which explore process and materiality. 

ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois

18 November 2023 – 11 February 2024

French-American artist Louise Bourgeois is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential figures of modern and contemporary art, with a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s to 2010. This exhibition brings together works which she made during the last twenty years of her life, a period of extraordinary creativity.

CERAMICS GALLERY

Rebecca Appleby: Matter

30 September – 4 December 2023

Rebecca Appleby is considered one of the most innovative artists working in ceramics in the UK, bringing a painterly and sculptural quality to her work. She was selected to exhibit as part of this year’s Award 2023 exhibition at the British Ceramics Biennial.