UH Arts + Culture and St Albans Museum + Gallery are delighted to mark the 150th anniversary of the St Albans School of Art with a major group exhibition. Reflecting on the School’s profound influence on its students and staff, the exhibition showcases the contributions of generations of artists, designers and individuals in a myriad of ways.
This landmark show stretches over seven months and across two venues, with the first exhibition being held at St Albans Museum + Gallery – the original location of the School. Featuring the work of more than 30 alumni and staff from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition features paintings, prints, sculpture, photography, mixed-media and video works alongside historical archive material sharing the memories and stories of those who have worked, studied or visited the School over the years.
Jonathan McCree, High Folly, 2021 at Sim Smith. Photography Anna Arca.
The artists participating in the first exhibition are: Peter Arnold, Robert Baggaley, Rana Begum, Graham Boyd, John Brunsdon, Marcus Coates, Julie Cooper, Virginia Corbett, John Evans, Maurice Feild, John Fuller, Mike Gillespie, Anthony Harris, Paul Hedge, Mary Hoad, Peter Jacques, Kim James, Roger Leworthy, Diane Maclean, Brian Maunders, Jonathan McCree, Mandy Newman, Simon Patterson, Peter Puloy-Wey, Karen Radford, Veronica Ryan, David Seaton, Sophie Smallhorn, Benet Spencer, Jo Stockham, Jeff Stultiens, Arnold Van Praag, and Michael Wright.
Simon Patterson, importantnoses, L11, 2013, screenprint
A second sister exhibition will open in October in the Art + Design Gallery, School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire which is what the School of Art has been known as for the past 30 years. Exhibiting a different set of works, the second show celebrates the present era of creative arts and shines a further light into the work by the School of Art staff and alumni who have forged out careers as designers, makers, animators, and digital artists.
Thumbnail image: Jo Stockham, any which way (speak modernity), 2013, screenprint
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