Installation view, ‘Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape’ at The Burton at Bideford, 2025. Photography by Jim Wileman.
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Installation view, ‘Into Abstraction: Modern British Art and the Landscape’ at The Burton at Bideford, 2025. Photography by Jim Wileman.
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ABOUT THE BURTON AT BIDEFORD
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Lloyd's work remains celebrated for his connection to the natural world, his modernist influences, and his mastery across different artistic forms.
Thrush by RJ Lloyd © the Artist’s estate
RJ Lloyd 1926-2020 Memorial Exhibition
Exhibition dates
26th October – 24th December 2024
Open daily | Free entry
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Midnight Kitchen by Sue Luxton © Sue Luxton
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A new exhibition of contemporary ceramics by South West based artist Rupert Johnstone opens at the Burton on 16 December.
In 2022,
Rupert Johnstone was commissioned by the Burton at Bideford Art Gallery and
Museum to respond to the environment and climate change through the medium of
ceramics. The result is a fascinating and visually striking exhibition of clay
pots with significant local relevance.
The exhibition
is the culmination of a year-long project which saw the artist walk the length
of the River Torridge collecting water and clay from which to make a series of
ceramic vessels and glazes. What emerges is a document of his journey along the
banks of the river and a poignant commentary on the environment, geology and
ecology of the River Torridge from its source in North West Devon to the
estuarine mouth in Bideford.
Based just
outside Exeter, Rupert Johnstone is an artist, maker and teacher who works
principally in clay and exhibits his work widely in craft galleries both within
the UK and abroad. This is the artist’s second collaboration with the Burton at
Bideford.
The exhibition is open daily from 16 December and runs until February 2024. Entrance is free
Bourgeois’s art was closely bound up with her life, and she used artmaking as a way to make sense of her experiences. Her sculpture, drawing, and writing are characterised by emotional honesty, and she reworked her ideas in different forms and materials including marble, bronze, latex, and fabric, compelled by the need to make and re-make.
This exhibition focuses on works produced during the last 20 years of her life, a period of extraordinary creativity, during which Bourgeois re-examined many of her lifelong concerns to create a body of powerful new work exploring identity, gender, childhood, family and motherhood. Personal, provocative and raw, Bourgeois’s work reaches us with a powerful immediacy more than a decade after her death.
ARTIST ROOMS presents the work of international artists in solo exhibitions drawn from a national touring collection jointly owned by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. This exhibition is drawn from the ARTIST ROOMS collection and includes works on loan from The Easton Foundation and Tate. 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).
Warren Collum, Interim Co-Director of the Burton, said:
“Working in partnership with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland through the ARTIST ROOMS programme for the third time to present one of the twentieth century's most influential female sculptors, Louise Bourgeois, is a unique opportunity.
This show not only celebrates art but also emphasises the need to bring culture to rural areas, as well as putting a light on the strength and ingenuity of women in the creative world.”
The ARTIST ROOMS programme provides support for young people to get involved in creative projects, discover more about art and artists, and learn new skills. A Burton Youth Collective will be supported through ARTIST ROOMS by Art Fund and Henry Moore Foundation, providing local teenagers with the opportunity to explore a career in the arts, experience life behind the scenes of an arts organisation, and work alongside practising artists. Sessions are open to young people aged 13-19 years. Places are limited and anyone interested is advised to contact the gallery to check availability and register their interest.
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
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'Revealing the Human Form' is a new exhibition showcasing the work of renowned British sculptors including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Jacob Epstein and Antony Gormley. 15th July-5th September
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