• Seeing Each Other: Portraits of Artists

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

    Featuring over 130 works by 80 plus artists, and spanning 125 years of British art, this major exhibition explores identity, artistic relationships and mutual influence through painting, print, photography, sculpture and installation. Gazing at each other and paying homage are the likes of Lucian Freud, Lubaina Himid, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Eric Ravilious, Paula Rego, […]

  • Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

    In her short lifetime, ‘the most neglected serious painter of her time’ (Tate director Sir John Rothenstein) rarely exhibited her work, which she never signed, and was better known for her association with the Bloomsbury group than her artwork. Carrington received a flurry of recognition late last century, with a major retrospective of her portraits […]

  • The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

    Remarkably, Pallant House’s publicity department declare this to be the ‘first major exhibition to explore British still life’. Artists exhibited include (draw a deep breath): Hurvin Anderson, Vanessa Bell, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Lucian Freud, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, Eric Ravilious, Anwar Jalal Shemza, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Stanley […]

  • John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

    John Craxton (schooled and part-brought up in rural Sussex) was inseparable from fellow Goldsmith’s student Lucian Freud in the mid-1940s, and he was, if anything, more successful than his friend during his early career. But after he discovered the pleasures of Greece – where he lived more on than off for the rest of his […]