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Catmose Arts Coach Trip to London Exhibitions

Wednesday 1 July
Fee: £30 inclusive travel, exhibitions, insurance

Booking: Arts Office artsadmin@catmose.rutland.sch.uk or 01572 725904

12pm J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite

This major retrospective of Pre-Raphaelite artist, John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) will feature over 40 paintings together with sketchbooks and drawings from public and private collections worldwide.

The exhibition will consider how Waterhouse's paintings reflect his engagement with contemporary issues ranging from medievalism and the classical heritage to spiritualism and the New Woman. Born the year the Pre-Raphaelites declared their rebellion against the Royal Academy, Waterhouse also inherited their taste for Tennyson, Keats, and Shakespeare, and drew from classical myth as interpreted by Homer and Ovid.

During the 1890s, Waterhouse gravitated toward images of metamorphosis: lily-like nymphs seducing Hylas into their pool; Circe pouring the poison that will transform Scylla; Echo and Narcissus pining away; Lamia enchanting Lycius with her snake-scale shawl wrapped around her. Waterhouse’s career closed with a decisive return to emotive "Pre-Raphaelite" narratives such as The Lady of Shalott, Tristram and Isolde, and The Decameron.

1pm Summer Exhibition

The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is the largest open submission contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a wide range of new work by both established and unknown living artists. Now in its 241st year, the exhibition includes around 1200 works, the majority of which are for sale.

BP Portrait Award 2009

This year’s exhibition coordinators are Royal Academicians Will Alsop, Ann Christopher and Eileen Cooper, and the theme is Making Space. It is hoped that this will be explored in all mediums throughout the exhibition both within the works exhibited and in the format of the exhibition itself.

The Portrait Award, now in its thirtieth year at the National Portrait Gallery and twentieth year of sponsorship by BP, is the most prestigious portrait competition in the world, highlighting the very best in contemporary portrait painting. The competition and resulting exhibition aim to encourage artists to focus upon and develop the theme of portraiture in their work.

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Spotlight 7: Angela Harding, Elaine Winterton, Malcolm Mitton, Peter Welton & Will Illsley

17 July – 5 September Preview: 16 July 4pm - 9pm
Music by college students 7.15 - 7.30pm and welcome and meet the artists at 7.30pm

Returning for its seventh year to celebrate the breadth and talents of artists working in and around Rutland. From printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and textiles, through to oil and watercolour painting, all mediums are represented here by five much-loved artists, all at their finest, and all for sale.

Angela Harding, Wing: Printmaker and Painter
www.angelaharding.co.uk

Malcolm Mitton, Wing: Oil Painter Winner of the Rutland Art Prize 2008
www.malcolmmitton.co.uk

Elaine Winterton, Barkby: Textile Artist

Will Illsley, Stamford: Sculptor

Peter Welton, Arnesby: Watercolour Painter
www.peterwelton.com

Making art affordable, we now offer the Own Art scheme. The Own Art loan scheme is designed to make it easy and affordable for everyone to buy original, high quality contemporary art and craft. You can borrow up to £2,000, or as little as £100, to be paid back in equal instalments over a period of 10 months – interest free*
Please ask for details, call 0845 300 6200 or go to www.artscouncil.org.uk/ownart.

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