Exhibitions
Corinium Museum Temporary Exhibitions - 2010
The Corinium Museum strives to encourage access for all to its nationally important collections. Access to the museum collections is provided through the permanent displays within the museum, plus an extensive education and outreach programme. Further access is achieved through a diverse and imaginative temporary exhibitions programme.
Chedworth Roman Villa, past, present and future.
Saturday 26th June - Saturday 21st August
Copyright NTPL/Ian Shaw.
Chedworth Roman Villa is coming to the Corinium Museum in this exciting look at Chedworths' Roman artefacts, some of which may not have been seen before by the public.
We will see how the Villa was discovered and what the public can see today at the Villa: 'the villa from the golden age of Roman Britain'. And the future plans they have for new buildings to cover and protect the villa, enabling more mosaics to be revealed, along with innovative interpretation.
Philip and Frannie Leach and Merlyn Chesterman
Saturday 4th September - Saturday 25th September
Philip and Frannie Leach are potters who belong to the great West Country dynasty of Leaches, and are based in Hartland, North Devon. Philip is the grandson of the legendary Bernard Leach, and son of the late Michael Leach, in whose pottery Frannie trained. Frannie also studied in New York, and Philip spent six years in Iran, where he was involved in setting up student workshops. Philip and Frannie married in 1977, and opened Springfield Pottery two years later.
They produce a rich variety of functional earthenware pottery. Their work is mainly thrown, but they also produce slab plates, vases and pressed tiles. Influences for some of their work have come from Iran and Japan, where Philip worked with the Japanese potter Kazutoshi Yamada, and exhibited together in Toyota and Nagoya.
Merlyn Chesterman is a hugely talented painter and printmaker, and has exhibited and taught extensively, and won many awards for her work. In this exhibition Merlyn will be showing a new series of woodcuts which were commissioned for an exhibition in July 2010 for the Mini Print International of Cadaques, Spain. Merlyn grew up in Hong Kong and returned there and to China to produce work for most of this series. There are also some woodcuts based on the North Devon coasts ever changing landscape where Merlyn now lives.
Tony Meeuwissen - Illustration and Graphic Art, 1965-2010
Saturday 2nd October - Saturday 30th October
In this latest exhibition of Tony Meeuwissen's work from 1965 to the present day, his intricate and witty designs are guaranteed to engage the viewer. Tony has had many prestigious commissions and awards amongst which was a set of playing cards commissioned by the V&A, and the Key to the Kingdom won him the WHSmith illustration award, his Weather postage stamps were voted best loved stamps of 2001. Tony is a local artist having lived in the Stroud hills and valleys for thirty years.
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