A photographic exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe will be appearing at exhibitions in Clydebank, County Durham and Aberystwyth as part of ARTIST ROOMS on Tour 2015. The 2015 ARTIST ROOMS programme of exhibitions and displays now in its seventh year on tour will be seen outside London and Edi
THE 2015 ARTIST ROOMS programme of exhibitions and displays now in its seventh year on tour will be seen outside London and Edinburgh in Aberystwyth, Blackburn, Carlisle, Cheltenham, Clydebank, County Durham, Helmsdale, Kirkcaldy, Norwich, Orkney, Penzance, Peterborough, Plymouth, Sleaford, Southampton and St Ives.
New exhibitions will go on show at 17 venues across the UK in 2015 and a further seven exhibitions already open will continue to run into that year.
The Tour will include displays at 12 venues new to ARTIST ROOMS and a Damien Hirst ARTIST ROOMS exhibition will go to The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, the most northerly part of Britain to host a display of the artist’s work.
2015 will be an outstanding year for photography. Don McCullin will be seen in Shetland, Diane Arbus in Kirkcaldy, Robert Mapplethorpe in Clydebank, County Durham and Aberystwyth and Francesca Woodman in Powys.
Mapplethorpe’s work will be shown at Aberystwyth Arts Centre, part of Aberystwyth University, the first University gallery to take part in the project and the first time Mapplethorpe will be shown as part of the tour inWales.
By the end of 2015, ARTIST ROOMS will have been shown in 78 museums and galleries nationwide and 149 displays and exhibitions will have opened since 2009. ARTIST ROOMS have been seen by over 31 million people to date. The tour is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and through the continued support of the Art Fund and, in Scotland, intended support from the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.
The total number of artists now part of the ARTIST ROOMS collection is 39. This year an important group of works by Dan Flavin was added, joining recent acquisitions of the work of Alex Katz, Douglas Gordon and Louise Bourgeois and was recently shown in Dumfries.
Once again, there have been record numbers of visitors, notably to Gilbert & George, the first tour of these artists’ work as part of the scheme, where the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter had 69,805 visits.
The Robert Mappleforth exhibition dates are:
Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery
Robert Mapplethorpe
28 February – 23 May 2015
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Robert Mapplethorpe
8 August – 7 November 2015
The Bowes Museum, County Durham
Robert Mapplethorpe
28 November 2015 – 26 April 2016
The full 2015 ARTIST ROOMS On Tour programme is as follows:
Spring
Southampton City Art Gallery
Louise Bourgeois
January 16 – April 18, 2015
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust, Carlisle
Anselm Kiefer
February 7 – June 7, 2015
Kirkcaldy Galleries
Diane Arbus
February 14 – May 31, 2015
Clydebank Museum and Art Gallery
Robert Mapplethorpe
February 28 – May 23, 2015
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Roy Lichtenstein
March 14, 2015 – January 10, 2016
National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford
Vija Celmins
March 21 – June 28, 2015
Summer
Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
Jeff Koons
May 9 - September 6, 2015
Tate St Ives
Dan Flavin
May 23 – September 27, 2015
Timespan, Helmsdale
Joseph Beuys
June 5 – September 6 2015
The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Damien Hirst
June 20 – September 12, 2015
The Exchange, Penzance
Robert Therrien
July 18 – October 10 2015
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Robert Mapplethorpe
August 8 – November 7, 2015
Autumn
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery
Ed Ruscha
September 11 – December 5 2015
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Gerhard Richter
September 26 – January 16, 2016
The Wilson, Cheltenham
Bill Viola
October 3 2015 – February 7, 2016
Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery
Andy Warhol
October 16 2015 – January 31, 2016
The Bowes Museum, County Durham
Robert Mapplethorpe
November 28, 2015 – April 26, 2016
Exhibitions which opened in 2014 and will continue into 2015:
Tate Modern
Joseph Beuys
Until December 31, 2015
Tate Modern
Laurence Weiner
Until December 31, 2015
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester
Georg Baselitz
September 20, 2014 – January 15, 2015
Burton Art Gallery and Museum, North Devon
Richard Long
October 4 2014 – January 10, 2015
Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland
Lawrence Weiner
October 25, 2014 – April 12, 2015
Oriel Davies, Powys
Francesca Woodman
November 15, 2014 – February 25, 2015
Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland
Shetland Museum & Archives
Don McCullin
November 29, 2014 – February 22, 2015
ARTIST ROOMS is owned jointly by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland and was established through The d’Offay Donation in 2008, with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.
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