19 Jun 2019
Paid Curatorial Traineeship Salary: £31,500 Type: Fixed Term Full-Time Closing date: 30 June 2019 Interview date:1st stage: 17 July. 2nd stage: 24 July. The National Gallery with the Art Fund and the assistance of the Vivmar Foundation are working together on a programme to offer two fully funded twenty-two month Curatorial Traineeships with two regional … Continue reading →
22 Mar 2019
Artworks from Southampton City Art Gallery and The Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum are to be joined by masterpieces from national collections, including Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal Academy. The exhibition, entitled Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy, is supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund, and will … Continue reading →
29 Jan 2019
Southampton City Art Gallery will be just one of 12 venues hosting simultaneous exhibitions of Leonardo da Vinci’s work, which is on loan from the Royal Collection in partnership with Royal Collection Trust, to mark the 500th year since his death. The gallery is honoured to be the only venue on the south coast of … Continue reading →
28 Sep 2018
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s, Fisherman upon Lee-Shore in Squally Weather, 1802, Oil on canvas, has returned to our shores from Japan and has been installed in the Defining and Defying Convention: Royal Academy 250 exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery. The Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art in Fukuoka Prefecture hosted a special exhibition of work … Continue reading →
31 Aug 2018
As the Royal Academy of Arts celebrates its 250th anniversary, Southampton City Art Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of works by celebrated British artist and current President of the Royal Academy, Christopher Le Brun. Composer will bring together new paintings and works on paper, most of which have not been on public display … Continue reading →
31 Aug 2018
Beneath the Surface: William Stott of Oldham and British Impressionism exhibition will open 14 September 2018 – 12 January 2019 The star of the show, William Stott of Oldham’s painting Le Passeur (The Ferryman) is considered a key moment in the breakthrough of British Art to naturalism and established Stott as one of the most … Continue reading →
31 Aug 2018
The evenings may be drawing in but don’t worry, there is still so much to see and do at all three of our venues this autumn. The Art Gallery’s walls will be bursting with colour as we present artworks by one of Britain’s most important artists, Christopher Le Brun. The City’s rich maritime, local history, … Continue reading →
18 May 2018
After being on tour since April 2015 the Untitled (Diver), 1983, lead and fibre glass resin sculpture has been caringly reinstalled by the exhibitions team at Southampton City Art Gallery. It can now be seen in the Gallery’s main hall from today. 1994 Turner Prize winner Antony Gormley, best known for his sculpture, The Angel of the North, uses his … Continue reading →
18 May 2018
A new exhibition, Pillars of Dawn from celebrated, new media artist Kelly Richardson, opens 24 May 2018 at Southampton City Art Gallery, in collaboration with Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art. Taking cues from 19th-century painting, 20th-century cinema, and 21st-century planetary research, acclaimed Vancouver Island based artist Kelly Richardson crafts prints and videos that offer imaginative glimpses into … Continue reading →
21 Apr 2018
The critically acclaimed exhibition George Shaw: My Back to Nature from the National Gallery, opens on Friday 4 May at Southampton City Art Gallery, on the final stop of its 18-month nationwide tour. My Back to Nature – a free exhibition of more than fifty new paintings and drawings – is the result of George Shaw’s two-and-a-half years as the National Gallery’s Rootstein … Continue reading →