Feature Image Credit: Joseph Kosuth, Neon (1965)

The Grundy Art Gallery forms part of Blackpool Council’s Art Service. The gallery delivers projects to local residents, communities and schools and supports the local art community.Exhibitions have included work by critically acclaimed artists, including the recent exhibition ‘FEELINTHECAT’ by artist, Mark Leckey.

Upcoming Exhibition: Neon: The Charged Line (September 2nd – January 7th 2017)

Neon: The Charged Line will explore Blackpool’s longstanding history of showing neon works, and is part of LightPool at Blackpool Illuminations. The exhibition will include works from the Illuminations Archive and artworks from famous artists who have used neon in their artwork .  In Britain, Blackpool was one of the first places to widely show neon in the early 1930s.  The exhibition will explore how artists since then have examined the physical and scientific properties of a light designed to be seen rather than illuminate.

Exhibition Themes Curriculum Focus Links
Relationship between sign, text and language, drawing on key early examples from the 1960s English Language, Poetry, Literacy and Oracy Skills
Neon as a drawn line, two dimensional, and an investigation of the space between drawing and sculpture. Art and Design

Science Technology Engineering Maths

 
Scientific properties of the medium
Blackpool has a long heritage of displaying Neon, in the illuminations, and there are many links with cultural history. Spiritual Moral Social Cultural and British Values

Get Involved: Open Exhibition for Schools

Light and Shade (working title)

Key Dates:

Exhibition Dates: (28th January- 10th March)

Submission Deadline for Artworks: Monday 19th December 2016

Theme: The theme of the Schools Exhibition is Light and Shade

Brief: The Schools Exhibition will explore Light and Shade, in reference to drawings and paintings.  The exhibition will run for 6 weeks from the 28th January to the 10th March. Key works from Grundy Art Gallery’s collection will be selected as an inspiration for students.

Schools Offer during Autumn Term:

  • Education Resource Packs
  • Artists Workshops

Criteria: All works submitted would need to be no bigger than A4, for the works to shown in the exhibition. Individual and group submissions are welcome.

Installation: Submitted works will be projected onto the walls of the gallery, creating a dynamic viewing experience for the viewer.

For more information contact taneesha.ahmed@blackpool.gov.uk

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