Galleries - October 2013

22. GALLERIES OCTOBER 13 SHROPSHIRE a TWENTY TWENTY GALLERY 3-4 High Street, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6AA Landscape Exhibition. Sep 14–Oct 12. Gerald Dewsbury new paintings; also exhibiting Andy Waite, Charles Alexander, Dean Melbourne, Annie Ovenden, Simon Dorrell. Sue Campion: New pastels and paintings. Oct 19–Nov 16. *ad Contemporary Fine Art and Craft. Mon–Sat 10–5 info@twenty-twenty.co.uk www.twenty-twenty.co.uk t 01952 727952 a WENLOCK FINE ART 3 The Square, Much Wenlock, Shropshire TF13 6LX Late Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-First Century British Paintings. Autumn Exhibition. Oct 18–Nov 1. *ad Artists include Mary Potter, Kate Nicholson, Adrian Ryan, William Gear, Earl Haig, Graham McKean, Robert Adams, Keith Vaughan, Denis Bowen, David Tindle, Francis Davison, Alan Davie. Wed–Sat 10–5 or by appt www.wenlockfineart.co.uk t 01952 728232 b THE WILLOW ART GALLERY CIC 56 Willow Street, Oswestry, Shropshire, SY11 1AE willowgalleryoswestry@gmail.com www.willowartgallery.co.uk t 01691 657575 STAFFORDSHIRE c TAKE TO ART GALLERY The Coach House, 11 Tudor Row, Wade Street, Lichfield, Staffs WS13 6HH Independent Contemporary Art Gallery based in the centre of the Cathedral City of Lichfield. High quality art from local and national artists. Specialising in original paintings, sculptures and glass. Tue–Sat 10–5, Sun/Mon by appt admin@taketoart.com www.taketoart.com t 01543 897282 WARWICKSHIRE d COMPTON VERNEY Warwickshire, CV35 9HZ Curious Beasts: Animal Prints from the British Museum. Oct 5–Dec 15. An exhibition exploring our enduring curiosity about the animal world through beautiful and bizarre imagery of prints from the 15th to the early 19th centuries, including works by Dürer, Goya and Stubbs. A FantasticalAnimalAlphabet. Oct 5–Dec 15. Drawing on the display of Enid Marx’s (Marco) ‘Animal Alphabet’; artists from Leicester Print Workshops have created a contemporary ‘Fantastical Animal Alphabet’ of new original prints. Outside In: Central. Mar 23–Dec 15. Part of a national project based at Pallant House Gallery, which supports artists who find it difficult to access the art world. Tue–Sun & BHols 11–5 (Mar 23–Dec 15) info@comptonverney.org.uk www.comptonverney.org.uk t 01926 645500 e LEAMINGTON SPA ART GALLERY & MUSEUM The RoyalPump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa CV32 4AA 8th British InternationalMini Print Exhibition. Jul 25–Oct 6. 200 small prints selected by open competition; ten larger invited prints from distinguished artists. All works are for sale. This Green and Pleasant Land. Oct 19–Jan 12. Covering themes such as farming, recreation and the two world wars, This Green and Pleasant Land will explore how life in the villages of Warwick district has changed over the past 200 years. 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/royalpumprooms t 01926 742700 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 4 5 M 4 0 M 1 M54 M42 M6 Shropshire Herefordshire Wor stershire ce Warwickshire dshire St ffa or SHIPSTON ON STOUR LEAMINGTON SPA DAVENTRY WARWICK HENLEY IN ARDEN HEREFORD BISHOPS FROME LEOMINSTER LUDLOW MUCH WENLOCK BRIDGNORTH WOLVERHAMPTON KIDDERMINSTER WALSALL WORCESTER WHITCHURCH SHREWSBURY BURTON UPON TRENT TELFORD D KINGSWINFORD ASTON NORTH CLAINES STOURBRIDGE LOUGH CASTLE DONINGTON KINETON LICHFIELD OSWESTRY BIRMINGHAM COVENTRY DERBY LEICESTER a d e c b MAPS 7 ENGLAND MIDLANDS The casual wit and inevitability about Telfer Stokes’ scrap-metal reliefs bely the careful consider- ation and rigorous thought that have gone into their making. “Form before content” was his mother, Margaret Mellis’ watchword as she made her driftwood assemblages; and the piles of industrial scrap that Stokes collects from the yards around his Lowestoft studio are, in that sense, his tubes of paint, ready to be shaped into the new, sculptural forms his steady working practice and intellectual intuitions suggest. What emerges is distinctive; battered, roughly coloured rods and bars and metal casings, freed from their earlier ‘working’ lives, playing in an exuberant new co- existence as vivid and playful as Calder’s and Miro’s work, and quietly moving and dignified too. ( North House Gallery ) NU THUMB nails Telfer Stokes ‘Coign’, 2013