Special Exhibitions @ York Art Gallery
Bird in Hand
This display being shown in the Little Gallery closes on 28th March 2010, and focuses on a unique installation by the ceramicist Eve Bennett.
Her intensely personal exhibition features ceramic specimens of birds and pieces that refer to personal memories including the traumatic experience of her mother accidentally gassing her uncle’s collection of exotic birds.
Japanese Sashiko Textiles
Sashiko is a form of quilting used by Japanese peasants who used to patch or reinforce clothes with a running stitch technique called “little stabs.” This became a highly decorative form of functional embroidery and evolved into elaborate patterns of diamonds, bamboo fences, woven bamboo, fishing nets and flashes of lightning patterns.This exhibition is the first to take place in Britain before touring the country and displays textiles and clothes including patchwork boots, work trousers and kimonos. Also incorporating two air raid hoods that survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that symbolise the hope for peace, the exhibition runsuntil the 24th January 2010.
Gallery of Pots – First Exhibition 3 Collectors
The entire collection contains 12,500 pieces that span the entire history of pottery production from prehistoric times to the present day.
This first exhibition includes artefacts from three of the best 20th century collectors including some 3,670 pots from Eric Milner-White (1884-1963), the Dean of York Minster; the biggest collection of functional pots ever made belonging to the Yorkshire librarian WA Ismay (1910-2001) who stored them in his two-bedroomed terrace in Wakefield and the more aesthetically appealing pots of Henry Rothschild (1913), who was the founder of the Primavera Gallery.Pieces include Leaping Salmon by Bernard Howell Leach and pottery by Hans Coper and Wiliam Staite Murray. A mammoth pot by Felicity Aylieff, Hua De Tu An Flower Pictures ll, that is almost 2m tall was made by two potters working together on a wheel in Jingdeshen, China and is a more permanent fixture.
The gallery also contains a study area where visitors can learn about the collectors who assimilated the pots and the character and techniques of the potters themselves.
The gallery also contains a study area where visitors can learn about the collectors who assimilated the pots and the character and techniques of the potters themselves.
This exhibition closes on Bank Holiday Monday, 3rd May 2010.
Opening Times:
Open daily from 10am to 5pm (except 25th, 26th December and 1st January)
FREE admission
Families welcome, Photography is welcome but no flash, tripods or lights.Address:
York Art Gallery
Exhibition Square
York YO1 7EW
Tel: 01904 687687