The Friends of Swindon Museum and Art Gallery exists to support the work of the museum, specifically as a registered charity we raise money for purchases, restorations, new works, exhibitions and currently the children's workshops. We also help publicise the museum, and many of us volunteer on the front desk, and act as assistants in the workshops, additionally we hold at least 10 talks each year and this year are we have organised 5 trips. We felt invitations to Private Views would be a really good selling point to encourage more people to join the Friends, and so we very pleased to be able to extend an invitation to all Friends when the current exhibition in the main gallery was launched.
To join the Friends, please go online: www.friendsofsmag.org or pick up a form from the museum.
Here's the information on Touring the Swindon Collection 60 years on from the website:
'In 1959, the Swindon Collection of Modern British art began a tour of 16 towns and cities of the United Kingdom.
To join the Friends, please go online: www.friendsofsmag.org or pick up a form from the museum.
Here's the information on Touring the Swindon Collection 60 years on from the website:
'In 1959, the Swindon Collection of Modern British art began a tour of 16 towns and cities of the United Kingdom.
From
Falmouth to Sunderland, Southend-on-Sea to Bolton, thousands of museum
visitors were introduced to paintings by Paul Nash, LS Lowry, Gwen John
and Graham Sutherland. This new exhibition celebrates the sixtieth
anniversary of this tour, which introduced the people of Britain to
Swindon’s remarkable art and established the reputation of the ‘Swindon
Collection’.
This
exhibition brings together the 44 works of art sent ‘on tour’ in 1959
and presents them alongside some of the most important acquisitions we
have made in the decades since. The exhibition explores the history of
the collection and the ambitions and challenges of touring so many
pictures to so many places.'
We gathered in the gallery, had drinks and at 6.30pm there were speeches from Curator Sophie Cummings, and magazine editor, Sue Pycroft. Erik Burnett-Godfree was to have given one of his fabulous insights into a painting at 7.15pm but was unable to do so.
What follows are so rather dark photos taken in the gallery:
We gathered in the gallery, had drinks and at 6.30pm there were speeches from Curator Sophie Cummings, and magazine editor, Sue Pycroft. Erik Burnett-Godfree was to have given one of his fabulous insights into a painting at 7.15pm but was unable to do so.
What follows are so rather dark photos taken in the gallery:
Details of our September private view will be sent to Friends soon.
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