New Botanical Exhibition comes to Huddersfield Art Gallery
A new botanical art exhibition is coming to Huddersfield Art Gallery! The paintings invite the viewer to look closely at plants and join the painters in delighting in our extraordinary vegetive world.
Entwined: Plants in Contemporary Painting, features artwork by leading British painters. Painters include winners of the John Moores and Contemporary British Painting Prize.
Who features in the exhibition?
Several Yorkshire based artists are featured including Judith Tucker (Holmfirth), Helen Thomas (Wakefield), Iain Nicholls (Barnsley) and Joanna Whittle (Sheffield). Other UK artists include Amanda Ansell, Bryony Benge-Abbott, Hannah Brown, Graham Crowley, Sam Douglas, Michele Fletcher, Barbara Howey, Linda Ingham, Juliette Losq, Paula MacArthur, Joe Packer, Julian Perry, Narbi Price and Harvey Taylor.
What can you expect?
The paintings work with and against the rich traditions of the various visual traditions of depicting plants, from botanical illustration to decoration and design. One of the highlights is Julian Perry’s monumental Benacre Birch series. The Benacre Birch series had its premiere at the Venice Biennale, a major international cultural exhibition.
Entwined is curated by artist-curators Judith Tucker and Barbara Howey with Grant Scanlan, Curator at Huddersfield Art Gallery.
The exhibition is supported by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, whose botanists provided another perspective on the artworks in the exhibition.
Where and when can you view the exhibition?
The free exhibition is at Huddersfield Art Gallery: Unit 7, The Piazza Shopping Centre, Huddersfield. The exhibition runs from Wednesday 9 November 2022 to Saturday 28 January 2022, opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm.