Adam Dant, Bread and Circuses. Ink and photographs on paper, 2010
This February and March, we organised a contemporary show with Ancient & Modern and Hales Gallery, a small but diverse exhibition of contemporary drawings, ceramics, collages and sculpture alongside our own collection.
Adam Dant, winner of the Jerwood Drawing prize (2002). Three large, Hogarthian gouache and ink drawings.
Charlotte Hodes, another winner of the Jerwood Prize for Drawing (2006) and first Associate Artist at the Wallace Collection (2005- 2006). Ceramics inspired by French 18th century decorative arts.
Volker Eichelmann. A series of intricate decoupages of imaginary flowers mounted on black gloss paper, emerging from an elaborate 18th century practice made particularly prominent in Britain by the ‘paper mosaicks’ of Mary Delany (1700-1788).
Des Hughes’ bronze sculpture ‘ Do You Think Of Me Often’, tenderly acknowledges both the 20th century modernist canon and critically looks beyond it to an earlier, per-romantic and more medieval moment.
Tom Price uses traditional techniques and materials to make these extraordinarily naturalistic representations in bronze, heroic in their ‘unidealised’ state.
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