the diary
Artists & Illustrators 11
David Hepher
23 April to 23 November
David Hepher turned 80 last year
and celebrates belatedly with this
major retrospective. The former
Slade professor has straddled the
conceptual and the traditional
throughout his career, tackling
everyday subjects in a graphic
manner via a range of media.
Curator Sonja Kielty plans to
hang Hepher’s vast suburban oils
(1973’s The Windows of No 19,
pictured) together to form a street
in the gallery, while the Surrey-born
artist’s latest works will utilise
concrete and paint to form abstract
impressions of city life.
Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford.
http://www.bradfordmuseums.org
John Piper: An Eye for the Modern
2 March to 8 May
How the 20th-century artist embraced abstraction.
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. http://www.jerwoodgallery.org
Alberto Giacometti: A Line Through Time
23 April to 29 August
Assessing the sculptor’s impact on British art.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.
http://www.scva.ac.uk
Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection
Until 15 May
Rare Pop prints with added fizz.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. http://www.ashmolean.org
The Romantic Thread in British Art
Until 4 June
Pastoral paintings, prints and drawings.
Southampton City Art Gallery.
http://www.southampton.gov.uk
Shakespeare in Art
19 March to 19 June
Paintings inspired by the Bard’s best works.
Compton Verney, Warcs. http://www.comptonverney.org.uk
John Craxton: A Poetic Eye
Until 7 May
Bohemian paintings by Freud’s artist friend.
Salisbury Museum. http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk
John Constable: Observing the Weather
Until 8 May
The cloud studies that inspired Impressionism.
The Lightbox, Woking. http://www.thelightbox.org.uk
Edward Lear: Travels and Nonsense
Until 8 May
Landscape sketches from Europe and India.
Ashmolean Museum Broadway, Worcestershire.
http://www.ashmoleanbroadway.org
SCOTLAND
The Artist and the Sea
Until 8 May
Modern paintings of seafaring Scotland.
City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
http://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk
Masters of the Everyday
4 March to 24 July
17th-century Dutch paintings by Vermeer and more.
Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh. http://www.royalcollection.org.uk
Bridget Riley: Paintings, 1963-
15 April to 16 April 2017
Monochrome and colour works of Op Art.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art,
Edinburgh. http://www.nationalgalleries.org
Comic Invention
18 March to 17 July
Picture stories, from Hogarth to Batman.
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. http://www.gla.ac.uk
WALES
Rose Wylie: Tilt the Horizontal into a Slant
Until 29 May
Eccentric imagery from the late-blooming painter.
Chapter, Cardiff. http://www.chapter.org
Augustus John in Focus
Until 30 September
Exciting early 20th-century portraits.
National Museum Cardiff. http://www.museumwales.ac.uk
Romanticism in the Welsh Landscape
19 March to 18 June
Hills, valleys and green, green grass.
MoMA Wales, Powys. http://www.momawales.org.uk
IRELAND
A Weed is a Plant Out of Place
2 April to 30 September
Artists create new work inspired by weeds.
Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford.
http://www.lismorecastlearts.ie
Sarah Pierce: Pathos of Distance
Until 1 May
Visualising Irish migration and diaspora.
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
http://www.nationalgallery.ie
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