His earliest work for the Studio included large pastel designs for wallpapers and furnishing textiles, many of which can be seen in this exhibition. Although accomplished in the design of flat-patterns, Knox is better known for his silver and pewter ware. Knox's metalwork designs successfully combined the hand-crafted look with the demands of factory production. Through his unique and inventive designs, Archibald Knox made a lasting impact on 'Liberty Style' and on the character of British Art Nouveau. Closed on Monday.
Admission is free.
The Language of Things. In the twentieth century, the idea of still life extended far beyond its traditional bounds. Across a range of painting, sculpture and photography, this exhibition locates certain strands of current still life practice in the context of earlier work. The Language of Things moves from the painterly illusionism of William Nicholson and the palpable photo-realism of the Spanish painter Manuel Franquelo to works which embody actual objects, others where the absence of the object is hauntingly felt, and others where the object is recreated. Far from being about safety, as John Berger recently suggested, many of these still lifes suggest a precariousness and sense of imminence which belies the apparent neutrality of their everyday and domestic subjects.