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. Other featured artists include Hannah Collins, Tony Cragg, Tim Head, Giorgio Morandi, Ben Nicholson, Ginny Reed, William Scott, Jane Simpson, Jack Smith, Richard Wentworth and Rachel Whiteread. Closed on Monday.
Admission is free.
The Language of Things. The speakers will include Jane Simpson and Richard Wentworth. Prior booking is essential. Jane and May Morris. A lecture by Jan Marsh, who is well known as a biographer and cultural historian.