EVENT

Beth Fisher's Grisaille Legacy

Invite

12-04-2010

05-05-2010

United Kingdom, Portsmouth
SPACE and Eldon Galleries University of Portsmouth Eldon Building Winston Churchill Avenue Portsmouth PO1 2DJ

Posted by: marius-kwint

Category: Exhibition

Field: Visual arts

Source http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/faculties/cci/space/title,106078,en.html

SPACE and Eldon Galleries at the University of Portsmouth are proud to announce Beth Fisher’s Grisaille Legacy, an acclaimed exhibition direct from the Royal Scottish Academy.

‘Pick of the week . . . Emotional, gut-wrenching and deeply personal’ (Sunday Times)
‘The eloquent and searing images are presented with such directness that the tenor of the drawn line is at times overwhelming.’ (Studio International)

'Grisaille' is the technique of making monochrome paintings or drawings to resemble monumental sculpture. Fisher began her series of charcoal drawings, etchings and engravings about ordinary family life over ten years ago. Her family was then beset by crises as her parents declined and died, her husband and daughter suffered serious illnesses, and she confronted her own ageing and her children’s growing independence. Out of this ordeal came several series of narratives powerfully rendered as epic history and mythology. They show the maturing of Fisher's style, the complete mastery of classical figuration and, moreover, offer up art as an act of love.

The private view is on Friday, 16th April 2010, 4-7 p.m. A free symposium of talks by leading scholars around the theme of history-painting, with Beth Fisher in conversation with curator Marius Kwint, will be held beforehand.

Accompanied by a full-colour illustrated catalogue with essays by Nick Bradford, Ludmilla Jordanova, Marius Kwint, Alexander Moffatt RSA and Joanna Soden, and published by the Royal Scottish Academy.

SPACE and Eldon Galleries
Eldon Building
University of Portsmouth
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth PO1 2DJ, UK
http://www.port.ac.uk/space

Portsmouth and Southsea Station 5 minutes' walk (99 minutes from London Waterloo and well served from east and west). Directions: http://www.port.ac.uk/aboutus/contact/

Nearby accommodation:
http://www.ibishotel.com/gb/hotel-1461-ibis-portsmouth-centre/index.shtml