Current exhibition

20 May – 10 June 2009

Visionaries

working in the margins

Opening times
Tuesday – Friday 12pm – 6pm
Saturday 11am – 4pm
Admission Free

Downland Discourse, Noel White. Photo: Torsten White

Visionaries brings together artists working in this honourable and challenging tradition, which includes William Blake, Goya and Samuel Palmer – those who explore with passion the territories of the spiritual, the religious and the human condition. Their vigorous work spans almost 100 years. The exhibition will include works by a number of painters, who although they are no longer alive, are still hugely influential: Stanley Spencer, Cecil Collins, Norman Adams, Tony Goble and Albert Herbert. They are joined by contemporary artists: Peter Howson, Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Noel White, Paul Martin, Brian Whelan, the Chapman brothers, Billy Childish, Harry Adams and Adam Neate (tbc).

The prophetic tradition, with its history of dramatic enactment, is a rich one. Visionaries will therefore include a performance piece by Kit Poulson and David Shillinglaw will paint 'live' during the period of the exhibition.

The exhibition has been curated by Wallspace and will be on show at All Hallows on the Wall in the City of London from 20 May to 10 June. It will then travel to Greenbelt Arts Festival, at Cheltenham Race Course for the August Bank Holiday weekend, from 28 to 31 August.