RICHARD BILLINGHAM
NEW FOREST
14 February - 18 April 2004
Reception for the artist Saturday 14 February 2004 2 - 4pm
Gallery Talk: Saturday 14 February 2004 at 3.30pm
Pictures of the exhibition
Events & Creative Opportunities
As part of the ArtSway residency programme Pro[duction], Richard Billingham has made two new video pieces and a number of large colour photographs, all produced within the New Forest landscape. The show explores the artist’s longstanding interest in beauty and nature and confirms his extraordinary ability to capture an intense feeling for his surroundings.
Through these individual photographic and video pieces, each different in size and scale, Billingham alights upon patterns and structures within the Forest with an acute sense of the landscapes spatial and temporal qualities, whether it be in capturing the movement of a woodland canopy during a storm, the surreal boundary between a golf course and open heathland or the beauty of an undulating sweep of headland at dusk. The individual works are exhibited as an installation which brings the unique patchwork of the New Forest landscape “outside” the gallery “inside” exploring the relationship between external and internal space, the viewer and the artist.
Billingham looks to the structure of paintings that move the viewer by their composition and his work has to a considerable extent been informed by a deep appreciation of landscape painting. These works owe less to antecedents in the photographic world than to the human engagement with nature found in the paintings of Cuyp or Ruysdael, Claude or Poussin, Turner or Constable.
Billingham’s celebrated pictures and video work of his immediate family and environment have been the subject of many museum exhibitions throughout the world. As images of love, beauty and intimate community they represent one of the most moving bodies of work at the end of the 20th century. This new work confirms that he is an artist of rare sensibility who is equally able to communicate a profound and intimate relationship with the outside world.
Richard Billingham’s Pro[duction] residency at ArtSway was funded by the Regional Arts Lottery Programme through Arts Council England with additional support from Fotonet-south. Richard Billingham is represented by Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
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Gallery Talk Saturday 14 february 04 at 3.30pm
Join Richard Billingham and ArtSway Director mark Segal for an informal tour of the exhibition. FREE
Pictures of the Forest Saturday 21 February 04 10.30am - 4pm
Making pictures in response to the exhibition with Gina Dearden (Completed work will be exhibitied in the Lymington Library) COST: £20
Little Dragons Saturday 13 March 04 10.30am - 11.30am
Encounters with art for 2 - 5 yr olds and their carers. COST: £3 per child
Portfoliio Day Saturday 13 March 04 12noon - 5pm
Richard Billingham and Jane Bhoyroo (Anthony Reynolds Gallery) will lead a day of reviewing photographers work. Contact Susie Medley, Fotonet-south on 01865 484977 or email her here BOOKING ESSENTIAL COST: £10
Creative Writing Workshop Saturday 27 March 04 2pm - 5pm
Workshop for all those who wish to improve their writing skills (adults) with writer Markus Lloyd. COST: £10
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