ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT
THE PRINTED LINE
THE BEANEY , 18 HIGH STREET , CANTERBURY , CT1 2BD
Until Sun 10th October 2021 ( Closed Mondays )
BIRGIT SKIOLD , MIGHTY BILLOW I , 1967 . ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION , SOUTHBANK CENTRE , LONDON © Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust .
The Arts Council Collection is primarily a collection of modern and contemporary British art , but early on in its history it also acquired prints by major 20thcentury European artists alongside British artists , forming an outstanding collection of more than 1,500 printed works by over 500 artists .
This exhibition considers how artists have used a variety of printmaking techniques to exploit the potential of the printed line , from the thick velvety line of drypoint and the heavy cross-hatching of etching to delicate wood engraving and boldly coloured screen prints and lithographs . Spanning the 20th century and up to the present day , the exhibition includes Sickert ’ s masterly cross-hatched etching The Old Middlesex ( c . 1910 ), Ben Nicholson ’ s rich drypoint Halse Town 1949 ( 1949 ), Eduardo Chillida ’ s bold etchings and David Hockney ’ s pared down linear etchings in Illustrations for Fourteen
Poems from C . P . Cavafy ( 1966-67 ). The use of colour is explored in screenprints by Bridget Riley and Kenneth Martin , as well as Simon Patterson ’ s witty lithograph reworking the lines of the London tube map .
The exhibition features approximately 50 framed works in the exhibition and artists will include Frank Auerbach , Patrick Caulfield , Eduardo Chillida , Prunella Clough , Keith Coventry , Derek Boshier , Paul Coldwell , Lizzie Cox , Barry Flanagan , Lucian Freud , Derrick Greaves , Anthony Gross , Gertrude Hermes , David Hockney , Oskar Kokoschka , Kenneth Martin , Henri Matisse , Ben Nicholson , Eduardo Paolozzi , Simon Patterson , Pablo Picasso , Eric Ravilious , Walter Sickert , Richard Smith , Ian Tyson , and Rachel Whiteread . It also celebrates the publication of Hayward Gallery Publishing ’ s A Century of Prints in Britain which contains an informative essay by Julia Beaumont-Jones .
The Beaney would like to thank the Arts Council Collection for loaning this exhibition , after its early closure last year due to Covid restrictions .
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