MOST RECENT PROJECT: OLD MASTERS – DIFFERENT HEROINES
Solo exhibition at Brand Contemporary Art, Groningen, Netherlands,
12 March – 2 May 2009, featuring 11 works in all of which 4 are based on paintings by J.W.Waterhouse.
The exhibition ran alongside the major retrospective J.W.Waterhouse (1849-1917) The Modern Pre-Raphaelite at Groninger Museum. Phil Sayers is featured in the documentary film about Waterhouse which accompanied that exhibition and was also broadcast on Dutch TV in January. The Waterhouse retrospective comes to the Royal Academy of Arts, London in June, and then to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in October.
PREVIOUS PROJECT: CHANGING PLACES 2007-8
The final exhibition of Sayers and Lundgreen’s Changing Places project was at Leeds Art Gallery, June – November 2008
Previous exhibitions in the Changing Places cycle were at:
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool & Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (Oct 2007 - April 2008)
Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives (Nov 2007 - Feb 2008) The Collection & Tennyson Research Centre, Lincoln (Feb - April 2008)
At each venue there were photographic , video and object-based interventions embedded in the collections and made in response to specific works there. The project was substantially funded by Arts Council England with additional financial support from the galleries.
There are two 72-page illustrated catalogues available by contacting Phil Sayers.
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Changing Places 2007 With textual contributions from: Richard Burns, Curator, Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives Sheila McGregor, Former Curator, New Art Gallery Walsall Dorothy Rowe, Art Historian, University of Bristol Lindsay Smith, Professor of English, University of Sussex ISBN 0-9538915-7-7 |
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Changing Places with Leeds 2008
With textual contributions from: Nigel Walsh, Curator of Contemporary Art, Leeds Art Gallery Dorothy Rowe, Art Historian, University of Bristol ISBN 978-0-9547300-7-9 |