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Thursday, 15 August 2019


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Possibly the lightest artwork in #reflectionexhibition @ferensartgallery - and another favourite: Fun Bag by @sinforvictory
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James Russell
Bristol, United Kingdom
I'm the curator of 'Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious', which runs at Dulwich Picture Gallery from November 2024 to May 2025. I've been a fan of Garwood's uncanny paintings and collages, sharp-eyed wood engravings and decorative marbled papers for many years, and was able to feature a selection in the 2018 exhibition 'In Relation: Nine Couples who Transformed Modern British Art' at RWA Bristol. The Dulwich show is my third for them, following previous exhibitions devoted to Eric Ravilious (2015) and Edward Bawden (2018). Garwood's work is probably less familiar, and I can't wait for people to see it! For previous books and exhibitions please see the appropriate pages. Likewise currently available lectures.
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Some Comments on my Books:

‘Ravilious’s watercolour landscapes of the South Downs … are beautifully reproduced here alongside insightful essays…’ (London Review of Books, Jan 2010)

‘James Russell’s writing has the clarity and concision of the paintings, and is both properly informative and enjoyably readable... Glorious.’ (Andrew Lambirth, The Art Newspaper, Sept 2010)

‘Alluring… convivial…’(Paul Laity, The Guardian, May 2011)

'Russell s commentaries on the individual exhibits are engaging, entertaining and enlightening. His introduction is compelling and refreshingly direct, urging us to look closely but concluding, rightly, that there can be no correct interpretations of Ravilious, whose pictures still quiver with mysterious life.' (Richard Green, Burlington Magazine, May 2015)

'Excellent catalogue...' (Richard Dorment, The Daily Telegraph, March 2015)

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ARC Winchester
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Art in Coates
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Bardfield Historical Society
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Beacon Hastings
Blenheim Literature Festival
Bridport Arts Centre
Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
Bruton Art Society
Canterbury Festival
Colwyn Pier Preservation Society
Contemporary Art Society Wales
Cutty Sark
Dame Laura Knight Society
Dillington House
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Ferens Art Gallery
Friends of the South Downs
Frome Art Society
Fry Art Gallery
Glasgow Antiques & Fine Art Society
Halesworth Festival
Hastings Contemporary
Hatchards
Higgins Bedford
Hidden Histories
Lansdowne Club Arts Group
Leeds Art Gallery
Lexden Arts Festival
Lightbox Woking
National Maritime Museum
NT Sandham Memorial Chapel
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Nottingham Contemporary
Pallant House Gallery
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Ways with Words
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Ravilious Maps

Follow these links for location maps you might like to look at if you're reading Ravilious in Pictures: Sussex and the Downs or Ravilious in Pictures: A Country Life. More to follow as time permits...

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