Private View: Touch Point – The Graham Collection Re-presented
Saturday 20 September, 2pm – 4pm
Talks & Tour start from 2.30pm
Free Admission
Touch Point is a new exhibition celebrating a major gift to the Harlow Art Trust - the art collection of architect and local gallery owner John Graham. It will re-visit and re-present the 2006 exhibition Graham curated at the Gibberd Gallery. It will bring together works from his collection, alongside pieces from two others also held by the Trust: the collections of Sir Frederick Gibberd and the Foundation for Essex Art (Basildon Art Trust).
Together, these works offer a unique insight into how two individuals and a public body collected art inspired by the ideals behind the New Towns built in post-war England. The exhibition also reflects on a particular type of English art from the late 20th century-deeply connected to ideas of landscape, place, and national identity.
These themes feel especially relevant today, in the context of ongoing conversations about Englishness and identity in post-Brexit Britain.
Join us for the Touch Point private view on 20 September, where curator Andrew Mummery will lead a tour of the exhibition and talk about the ideas behind the show and the artworks on display.
Touch Point continues until Saturday 13 December. Open every Wednesday-Saturday 11am - 4pm. Closed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Getting here: The Gibberd Gallery is a 20-minute walk, short taxi ride or ten-minute bus ride from Harlow Town Station. Trains to Harlow Town run every 20 minutes from London Liverpool Street, Tottenham Hale, Stratford and Cambridge train stations.
The closest parking is the Water Gardens shopping centre. Please let us know in advance if you have any access needs or requirements, such as disabled parking. There are disabled parking places in College Square, CM20 1AJ. These are closer to the Civic Centre and Gallery than the disabled parking places in the Water Gardens car park. Please email: gallery@harlowarttrust.org.uk
