Project Gallery
The Project Gallery showcases work with local communities and contemporary artists responding to our collections.
It is located to the left of the main entrance at York Art Gallery and admission is FREE (normal gallery opening hours apply).
Current Exhibition – Just Looking
29 March – 23 June 2019
In this free exhibition, visitors are invited to sit quietly with three carefully selected paintings from York Art Gallery’s collection.
The paintings have been positioned low on the walls of our quiet and intimate Project Gallery to encourage relaxation and savour the experience of just looking at art.
This exhibition is inspired by Ruskin, Turner & the Storm Cloud: Watercolours and Drawings.
Previous Exhibition – Standing in its own time
10 January – 24 March 2019
Combining sound, sculpture and performance, Rebecca Glover’s work conjures up journeys through imaginary landscapes in which bodies, space, time and scale are completely fluid.
Using small microphones to shift her perspective, she listens in to the sounds of objects, their resonance, their interior spaces and the way sound is coloured as it passes through them.
In performances, she uses sound as a sculptural material. Objects, bodies and speakers are used to filter, shape and spatialize sound, plotting routes through materials, space and the imagination.
Glover presents a rearrangement of Standing in its own time, an improvisation performed with Abstruckt (UK) and Contrechamps (CH) ensembles earlier this year.
Accompanying the recordings are a collection of images, listening scores, instructions and objects used to develop the piece. Arranged as a form of map these provide visual clues and orientation markers for the experience and interpretation of the soundscape.
Glover’s work resonates with Kaiser Chiefs and runs alongside their unique and experimental exhibition, When All is Quiet: Kaiser Chiefs in Conversation with York Art Gallery.
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