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Rare art display in city exhibition

Worcester Editorial 21st Oct, 2015 Updated: 19th Oct, 2016   0

SOME of Worcester’s most rare pieces of art work have been on display as part of a special exhibition.

Illustration Beats Explanation has taken 100 pieces of work that explore the use comics, storyboards, graphics and drawings to express new ideas, by artists past present and future and is showing them at the Worcester City Art Gallery and museum until November 21.

The exhibition will include a collection of prints from William Hogarth’s Marriage a-la Mode, as well as work by famous caricaturists Sir Bernard Partridge, Robert Searler the creator of St Trinians and Ralph Steadman, best known for his work with Hunter S Thompson.

Visitors can also enjoy the work created by the pupils of Riversides school and St George’s Catholic Primary School who have worked with Museums.




Worcestershire education team to produce their own comic strip links to stories of the sturgeon and the albatross that can be found at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum.

Philippa Tinsley, senior curator at Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum, said: “This exhibition is a fantastic exploration of illustration in all its forms, from work by living artists to work dating back to the 1700s.


“It’s great to be able to show some rarely-seen works from the museum’s collection as well as the contemporary work Nathaniel is bringing to the exhibition. It’s also wonderful to be able to show children’s work in the gallery and to see how the collection has fired their imaginations.”

The exhibition is free and is shown between 10.30am and 4.30pm Monday to Sunday, for more information contact the Art Gallery and Museum on 01905 25371 or visit www.museumsworcestershire.org.uk or follow @worcestermuseum.

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