Galleries - August 2011

LEICESTERSHIRE a TARPEY GALLERY 77 High Street, Castle Donington, Leics DE74 2PQ Showing the best in contemporary art in the East Midlands. Until Aug 20. ‘From The Earth Wealth’: New work by David Manley. From Aug 27. Paintings by Marek Tobolewski. www.tarpeygallery.com t 07772 404293 SHROPSHIRE b TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY 3-4 High Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6AA Contemporary Art Gallery. British Art and Craft –Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, Ceramics, Jewellery, Glass, Furniture, Textiles. Mon–Sat 10–5 info@twenty-twenty.co.uk www.twenty-twenty.co.uk t 01952 727952 21. GALLERIES AUGUST 11 A A 3 6 1 6 A 3 8 A 4 6 A 3 4 A 4 9 A 4 4 2 A 4 1 0 3 A 4 7 A 4 1 A38 A516 M 5 M 6 M M 4 0 M 1 5 0 M54 M42 M6 SHIPSTON ON STOUR BANBURY LEAMINGTON SPA DAVENTRY WARWICK HENLEY IN ARDEN BROADWAY WINCHCOMBE HEREFORD BISHOPS FROME LEOMINSTER LUDLOW MUCH WENLOCK BRIDGNORTH WOLVERHAMPTON KIDDERMINSTER WALSALL WORCESTER TEWKESBURY WHITCHURCH SHREWSBURY BURTON UPON TRENT TELFORD ORD KINGSWINFORD HOCKLEY NORTH CLAINES STOURBRIDGE LOU CASTLE DONINGTON BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY DERBY a e d c b MAP 7 ENGLAND MIDLANDS b WENLOCK FINE ART 3 The Square, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6LX Late Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Paintings. Wed–Sat 10–5 or by appt t 01952 728232 WARWICKSHIRE c COMPTON VERNEY Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ What the folk say. Mar 26–Dec 11. Stanley Spencer and the English Garden. Jun 25–Oct 2. ‘Capability’ Brown and the landscapes of Middle England. Jun 25–Oct 2. www.comptonverney.org.uk t 01926 645500 d LEAMINGTON SPA ART GALLERY & MUSEUM The RoyalPump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa CV32 4AA Lord Leicester’s Warwickshire. Jun 25–Sep 18. This exhibition focuses on the life and legacy of Robert Dudley (1532–1588), Earl of Leicester. The favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Dudley is one of the most controversial and glamorous characters in English history. Tue/Wed, Fri/Sat 10.30–5, Thur 1.30–8, Sun 11–4 Mon closed (except BHols), admn free prooms@warwickdc.gov.uk www.warwickdc.gov.uk/wdc/royalpumprooms t 01926 742700 WORCESTERSHIRE e GREENSTAGE GALLERY Hop Pocket, Bishops Frome, Worcester WR6 5BT Exhibiting a diverse mix of original quality contemporary work by emerging and established artists. Please ask about commissions or spreading payments over 10 months. *own art Gwynne Williams and Mary Edwards. Jul 22–Aug 29. Tue–Sat 10.30–5.30, Sun 11–5 info@greenstagegallery.co.uk www.greenstagegallery.co.uk t 01885 490839 David Manley, ‘6-Diseworth’ oil on canvas, 30 x 40, 2011 In an area (just south of Derby and Nottingham) not exactly awash with top-class commercial galleries and at a difficult time like the present moment, the opening of the Tarpey Gallery in the small North Leicestershire town of Castle Donnington in late 2009, has been a cause for some celebration. For this is a large, light and beautifully converted space (a former barn?) dedicated to showing top-class uncompromisingly contemporary work. The current show, by David Manley, a distinguished former Dean of the Arts Faculty at Derby University, is no exception. Entitled ‘From the Earth Wealth’, it consists of 45 small (35 x 40cm) abstract images that draw their inspiration from 45 settlements in North-West Leicestershire where he lives. Starting from digital photographs taken in each of these locations, Manley consistently achieves rich, densely atmospheric works unmistakably imbued with a very personal sense of place – a powerful modern reworking, in effect, of the English Romantic idea of genius loci. NU THUMB nails