Archives: Exhibitions

26 April

Threads of Change: Art, Conversation, Action

Edward Burtynsky’s striking images ask us what we can do collectively to confront the ongoing climate crisis. In an act of collaborative making, participants at this workshop are invited to create a large-scale artwork using recycled materials whilst openly discussing these global issues.

Rug making – here, Rag Rug making – has a strong history of being a space for open conversation and communion through the act of creation. We ask participants to consider what we leave behind, and how can we come together to create a better world.

Art from Nature: Dendritic Monoprinting

In this session, participants will have the opportunity to explore the remarkable natural forms and patterns seen in Burtynsky’s images using dendritic monoprinting. This technique involves the use of recycled and organic materials, to create your own piece of artwork. You will explore the natural and abstract forms that occur throughout Burtynsky’s imagery. 

As part of Saatchi Gallery’s major exhibition BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction, we are delighted to announce a one-off event.

Photographer Edward Burtynsky will be joined by Sir Simon Schama, Professor of Art History for an exclusive discussion on the power of art in addressing the urgent issues of our times. 

Tickets for the evening include access to the talk, a screening of In the Wake of Progress, the opportunity to explore the exhibition BURTYNSKY: Extraction/Abstraction, and a glass of champagne on arrival. The talk will commence at 7PM, and there are limited tickets available.

Sir Simon Schama is a University Professor of Art History and History at Colombia University. He is a writer-presenter of over 50 documentaries on art and history for BBC television. Most recently, his ‘History of Now’ series aired on BBC.

Edward Burtynsky is regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes represent over 40 years of his bearing witness to the impact of humans on the planet. In 2020 he was awarded a Royal Photographic Society Honorary Fellowship and 2022 honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award by the World Photography Organization.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts 

About

As part of our Season of Sculpture, our co-headline Winter exhibition, If Not Now, When? features 29 remarkable female sculptors, celebrating their contributions to the world of art from the 1960s to now.

The exhibition is divided into three chapters and explores time as an everyday lived experience marked by the evolving cycles directly affecting women. 

WOMEN’S TIME: celebrates unique feminine values, such as life givers, preservers, and carers of others. 

TUMBLING THROUGH TIME: is preoccupied with the materiality and immediate urgency of issues such as climate change and the growing sense that time is of the essence.

THE TIME IS NOW: addresses distinct moments in history, bringing works together to present visitors with the reality of reoccurring injustices and discrimination addressed by each artist.

Exhibiting Artists

Phyllida Barlow, Glenys Barton, Keziah Burt, Shirley Cameron, Annie Cattrell, Helen Chadwick, Ann Christopher, Lorraine Clarke, Fran Cottell, Katrina Cowling, Nicola Dale, Deborah Duffin, Carol Farrow, Sheila Gaffney, Rose Garrard, Lorna Green, Mandy Havers, Bridget Heriz, Michele Howarth, Permindar Kaur, Christine Kowal Post, Rosie Leventon, Liliane Lijn, Kim Lim, Kara Lyons, Renate Meyer, Cornelia Parker,  Victoria Rance, Freddie Robins, Veronica Ryan, Amy Stephens, Pamela Storey, Wendy Taylor, Shelagh Wakely, Lois Williams 

The exhibition is co-curated by Dr Anna Douglas and Dr Kerry Harker.

This exhibition is the outcome of a two-year research project, Hepworth’s Progeny, guided by an Advisory Board of Griselda Pollock, Lorna Green, The Hepworth Wakefield’s curator Eleanor Clayton, sculptors Sokari Douglas Camp and Jill McKnight, and independent art Historian Dr. Alice Correia. The exhibition was co-curated by Dr Anna Douglas and Dr Kerry Harker. The project revisited research into women artists working in the expanding field of sculpture undertaken in the late 1980s by Green in her M.Phil thesis, The Position and Attitudes of Contemporary Women Sculptors in Britain 1987-89 at The University of Leeds. 

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