Birthday art show delayed by snow

Adam Hewitt • Published 13 Jan 2010 14:00 0 Comments

A PROMINENT exhibition of artwork by some of the town's best-known painters, sculptors, photographers and other artists is opening a little later than planned due to the snow.

Reading Guild of Artists (RGA) is celebrating its 80th birthday with a full exhibition at the Museum of Reading in Blagrave Street from Saturday, January 16 until Sunday, March 21. The opening date of the exhibition, called Eighty!, was pushed back from last Saturday because of the atrocious weather.

A linked display called Working Drawings, at the Peacock Gallery at Maiden Erlegh School in Silverdale Road, Earley, is also going on show from Saturday until Thursday, January 28.

RGA, which was founded in 1930 by a professor at Reading University's Fine Art Department and the Curator of Reading Museum, today has 160 artists who work with almost every medium. The organisation has put on an annual exhibition every year since its founding, except for in 1939.

The Peacock Gallery's Joan McQuillan said the Working Drawings exhibit would be well worth a look.

She said: "These recent drawings by members of the RGA reveal a multitude of purposes. Drawing can intensify observation, be bold or tentative, explore minute details or capture big free impressions. Its immediacy makes it ideal for working out ideas, and its sensitivity can record the subtlest nuances. A quick sketch often captures something easily lost in a finished work."

The free Peacock Gallery exhibition is open 10am-4pm on Saturdays, and 2.30-4.30pm on weekdays.

The Reading Museum exhibition, called Eighty!, is open from 10am-4pm from Tuesdays to Saturdays and 11am-4pm on Sundays. It is closed on Mondays and entrance is free.

Visitors will have the chance to add their own messages to a balloon installation, and see a timeline on art and changing attitudes over the decades.

There is also a series of linked lunchtime talks, visit:

http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/news/diary.asp

For details call 0118 939 9800 or visit www.rga-artists.org.uk

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