Opening on Saturday, 16 October at Beverley Art Gallery will be ‘Reflections of Japan in East Yorkshire’, a unique exhibition bringing together a selection of items from private collections across East Yorkshire and artwork by Laura Boswell.
The idea for the exhibition came about more than two years ago when the Japanese Embassy introduced the ‘Japan-UK Season of Culture’, a celebration of the many facets of Japanese culture in the UK.
Beverley Art Gallery continues to be an excellent resource for students and those looking for a career in the museums sector, and its collaboration with the University of York is now coming to fruition.
Now that the summer holidays are underway, the team at Beverley Art Gallery are reminding visitors of the need to book in advance to visit the popular ‘Brick Wonders’ exhibition – and is urging people to honour their booking once it has been made.
The “Brick Wonders – Around the World in Lego Bricks’’ exhibition, curated by artist Warren Elsmore, is proving very popular at Beverley Art Gallery.
Running until Saturday, 2 October, 2021, the exhibition features recreations in LEGO® bricks of amazing sights from around the world. Beginning with the seven wonders of the ancient world, the exhibition also takes in modern, natural, and historic wonders from all seven continents.
The ‘Brick Wonders – Around the World in Lego Bricks’’ exhibition, curated by artist Warren Elsmore, is now open at Beverley Art Gallery and will run until Saturday, 2 October, 2021.
The exhibition features recreations in LEGO® bricks of amazing sights from around the world. Beginning with the seven wonders of the ancient world, the exhibition also takes in modern, natural, and historic wonders from all seven continents.
East Riding Museums are delighted to announce that the ‘Brick Wonders’ exhibition, curated by artist Warren Elsmore, will be coming to Beverley Art Gallery from Saturday, 3 July to Saturday, 2 October, 2021.
The last chance to see the current exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery, ‘To the Water’, will be Saturday, 19 June.
‘To the Water’ has been created by curators Helena Cox and Sally Hayes, and is a unique mix of art and social history, looking at the different ways in which waterways have inspired artists over the centuries.
Staff at Beverley Art Gallery are dedicated to using art to promote wellbeing and encourage good mental health for the gallery’s visitors.
Last year, the gallery worked with mindfulness instructor Sally Edward from Kindmind.co.uk, and together they produced five mindfulness videos based around paintings from the gallery’s permanent collection.
Beverley Art Gallery curator Helena Cox recently took part in a Museology panel held at the University of York.
Together with Maria McIntok, curator at the Design Museum in London, the panel discussed the various career paths into the museum sector, and the many different types of institutions that students can work at in the future.
Beverley Art Gallery in the Treasure House will reopen on Monday, 17 May with a brand new exhibition.
‘To the Water’ has been created by curators Helena Cox and Sally Hayes, and is a unique mix of art and social history, looking at the different ways in which waterways have inspired artists over the centuries.
Last year, Beverley Art Gallery joined forces with The University of Hull’s Japanese exchange students, who were invited to visit the gallery and research some of its collections, in preparation for a Japan-themed exhibition.
Beverley Art Gallery is releasing more mindful art recordings in the run-up to Christmas, part of the gallery’s Mindful Engagement with Art Project.
Mindfulness is a meditation technique that requires nothing but a few minutes of a person’s time to be spent focused – in the case of Beverley Art Gallery, this focus is aimed at paintings from their collection.
Beverley Art Gallery recently launched a series of videos called ‘It’s in the BAG – Behind the scenes at Beverley Art Gallery’, presented by the gallery’s curator Helena Cox and showing remarkable paintings from the gallery’s repository.
For the festive season, the gallery is launching another batch of videos, this time presented by Jane Irisa, an East Riding based collector of traditional Japanese toys.
Beverley Art Gallery has launched a new series of lockdown videos, which can be enjoyed whilst the gallery has to remain closed.
Presented by curator Helena Cox, the videos look at some of the paintings and items which visitors can’t normally get to see, and which are kept behind the scenes in the repository in the Treasure House.
