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What
Jerwood Gallery in Hastings opens March 2012
When
Opens 17 March 2012
Where
Hastings, Sussex
The Fanfare
The new £4-million Jerwood Gallery gallery will open in the seaside town of Hastings in March 2012.
The Jerwood Gallery will display the Jerwood Foundation’s collection of 20th and 21st century paintings, which will be on public display for the first time.
These include works by Stanley Spencer, L S Lowry and Augustus John, alongside works from winners of the Jerwood Painting Prize, Craigie Aitchison, Maggi Hambling, Patrick Caulfield and Prunella Clough.
The gallery is part of a £9-million redevelopment of the Stade, a historic area in the Old Town area of Hastings on the south coast of England. Hastings has Europe’s largest beach-launched fishing fleet.
The Jerwood Foundation is a leading private arts foundation that has invested more than £75 million into the arts since 1991.
Alan Grieve, chairman of the foundation, says the project is
‘the culmination of the initiative to make a new home for Jerwood’s collection of 20th and 21st century art and place it in the public domain for the first time.
Hastings is linked with a number of artists who are featured in the collection.
With its rich history and strong, ever-expanding artistic community, we felt that Hastings was the perfect location for the gallery.’
The new building is on the edge of the working fishing beach near Hastings’ unique net shops.
The gallery’s exterior is clad in 8,000 black ceramic tiles which were hand-glazed a few miles away in Kent.
The tiles reflect the changing seaside light.
There will be a range of gallery spaces from small rooms through to a 180 sq metre gallery for a temporary exhibition programme.
The building is being engineered to be as environmentally efficient as possible and will create 60% less CO2 than an average museum of comparable size.
It will establish Hastings in a ‘string of pearls’ of prestigious cultural attractions along the south coast: the Turner Contemporary at Margate, the Folkestone Triennial, the Towner in Eastbourne, the De la Warr Pavilion at Bexhill and Pallant House at Chichester.
The Jerwood Gallery will open on 17 March with the UK’s first retrospective of the works of Kent-based artist Rose Wylie, who has been awarded the 2011 Paul Hamlyn Prize for Visual Arts.
Admission charges to be confirmed.
The Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, Sussex
Website: www.jerwoodgallery.org
Twitter: @JerwoodJVA
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