Exhibitions & Events at Lakeland Arts Trust

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ARTIST ROOMS: Richard Long

Exhibition continues until 17 December 2011
Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Since the late 1960s Long has made work in the landscape. His art of making walks in the natural world led him to be one of the most prominent and pioneering artists of his generation, extending art beyond the boundaries of the gallery setting. The artist records his walks, and the discreet sculptures he makes along the way through photography, maps and text works that together explore his relationship and engagement with places. He has also used natural materials such as slate, flint or sticks to make floor-based sculptures and frequently integrates mud into drawings and wall-works.

Watch Richard Long recreating 'River Avon Mud, Slow Hand Spiral' and 'Cornish Slate Ellipse' at Abbot Hall Art Gallery.

The works on display are taken from ARTIST ROOMS, a new collection of modern and contemporary art held by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland for the nation, including River Avon Mud, Slow Hand Spiral and Cornish Slate Ellipse which will be remade by Long. Also featuring new work chosen by Long.

Blackwell Within:
A Photographic Evocation

Until 31 December 2011
Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House

In celebration of Blackwell’s ten-year anniversary, an exhibition of photographs by Graham Murrell. Graham has an unerring eye for, and skill in, capturing the transient, the often unobserved angle or juxtaposition, the fleeting shades of day; in short, the spirit of a place.

Lecture on Aboriginal Art

Thursday 1 December 6.30pm
Abbot Hall Art Gallery

Rebecca Hossack has worked tirelessly to bring the diversity and strength of Aboriginal culture to the attention of a British audience. She was the first person in the UK to show work by Australian aboriginal artists in a commercial gallery. In partnership with the Royal Geographical Society.

Stanley Webb Davies

Until 19 February 2012
Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House

A display of furniture and designs by Windermere-based designer-craftsman Stanley Webb Davies (1894-1978). His workshop was run along the purest Arts & Crafts lines, producing furniture using only traditional techniques, made from the finest quality materials.

2011 & 2012
Opening Times

Blackwell will be open daily from 10.30am - 4pm (Tea Room from 10am) until 31 December (except Christmas Day and Boxing Day), reopening 13 January.

Abbot Hall and the Museum will be open Mon - Sat from 10.30am - 4pm until 17 December, reopening 12 January.

Something to look
forward to…

Turner and his Contemporaries
Abbot Hall Art Gallery
12 January - 14 April 2012

An exhibition of more than 40 outstanding works from the magnificent collection assembled by Sir Hickman Bacon, which is one of the most important private holdings of British 18th and 19th century watercolours in the world.