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Art Exhibitions

The Art Department has four exhibition venues which are put to full use throughout the year:

The Tithe Barn is a multi-functional building which houses a permanent collection of historical and contemporary works by artists connected to the School.

The Susan Oppenheim Gallery is located in the heart of the Art School and shows a rolling programme of contemporary works made by pupils, local artists and students from Loughborough University School of Art and Design.

Gallery No.1 High Street provides a showcase for the work of Repton pupils in the summer, but is also a commercial gallery throughout the year.

New Court Gallery, was created in the refurbished Squash Courts and is an outstanding facility.  It boasts four first floor studios for Artists-in-Residence and two Textiles studios, enabling Fine Art Textiles to be added to the Art Department curriculum. With a modern glass-fronted outlook it is an attractive, light and airy space and has proved to be very popular as an exhibition venue both for pupils and commercially. 

If you would like to enquire about exhibition space at Repton School, please contact the Art Department on 01283 559301.

 

Below are details of the most recent Art Exhibitions at Repton School. 

 

  • Summer Exhibitions

    This summer two exhibitions are on display in the Repton School Art Galleries.

    Comfortably Home, Nowhere

    by Emily Strange

    New Court Gallery, Burton Road, Repton
    Exhibition runs 4th July - 20th August 2010
    View by appointment (ees@repton.org.uk) or when doors are open
    www.emilystrange-uk.blogspot.com

     

    Making Waves

    abstract photography by John Garstone M.A.

    No1 Gallery, Repton
    Exhibition runs 10th July - 22nd August 2010
    Open Thursday - Saturday, 10.00am - 4.00pm
    Out of hours viewing by appointment 0771 3260742
    garstone@dsl.pipex.com

    John Garstone graduated with an M.A. in photography from De Montfort University and has been exhibited widely across the UK for the past five years.  The theme of the exhibition is the interaction of light and water, and the images on display are generated both by cameraless and lens-based techniques.

    This body of work evolved from an appreciation of the origin of life on our planet through the reactions induced in water by the action of sunlight.

    Waves of light interact with waves of water to form the basis of the images in this exhibition, not completely divorced from the way in which different sound waves interact to form the basis of music, which has led to the suggestion that abstract art could well be considered as visual music.

    Friday, July 16, 2010 (No comments)

  • Wide Open

    Paintings and drawings by Heather Duncan

    A major exhibition of work by this local artist will see dramatic and poetic large scale oils and intricate drawings in ink displayed at the New Court Gallery on Burton Road.  In addition, some of Heather's recent abstract landscape paintings will be exhibited in Gallery No 1, situated in the heart of Repton opposite The Cross. 

    Jeremy Bournon, Director of Art at Repton comments, “For those who are not familiar with Heather’s work Wide Open offers a superb introduction to its variety and depth, and those people who already admire Heather’s work will be able to savour the newly manifested depths of her talent.”

    Lucy Salt, Keeper of Art at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, describes Heather's work, "Rich colour fields, clinging ethereal mists, and monolithic totems form a fascinating trip into a landscape that speaks of the deeply complex and multi-layered interaction between the human and natural worlds. Heather Duncan’s landscapes offer a view of these two spheres inextricably linked; where landscape becomes portrait, or even self-portrait, by an intriguing sleight of artistic hand."

    To read a full description of Heather's work by Lucy Salt, please click here to download a PDF.

    Wide Open runs from 22 April to 26 June 2010 at the New Court Gallery and No1 gallery, Repton School, Derbyshire, DE65 6FL. Open Mon-Wed 2-4pm Fri 12-3pm and weekends by appointment 07808 930141 artist 07906 341245

    On Wednesday 21st April,  6.30pm - 10pm a private view and conversation with the artist will take place to launch the exhibition, all are welcome. 

    www.heatherduncan.com 

        

     

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010 (No comments)

  • Meteor

    Saturday 20th February - Friday 2nd April 2010

    Dan Coopey
    Maria Georgoula
    Paul Housley
    Justin Jaeckle
    George Henry Longly
    Lori Wallace
    Ian Whitfield

    Curated by Oliver Basciano

    New Court Gallery and Gallery No.1

    To read the news story of the exhibition please click here

    For the full press release and further details of the exhibiting artisits please click here to download a PDF.  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Monday, February 15, 2010 (No comments)
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