> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # PREVIEW: The ARTIST ROOMS On Tour 2015 – a year of photography - URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/preview-the-artist-rooms-on-tour-2015-a-year-of-photography/ - Published: 2014-10-30T14:06:39.000Z - Updated: 2014-10-31T22:11:56.000Z - Description: 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 - Author: Besi - Tags: Arts, Exhibitions ## 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. ![Robert Mapleforth](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/web-600111.jpg) **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. **For more information about ARTIST ROOMS On Tour 2015, [click here:](http://http//www.artfund.org/what-to-see/artist-rooms?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**