Multi- Award-Winning Laura I. Art Gallery is proud to organise and host this event to launch their fourth solo exhibition of this year,”Hollowed Landscapes,An Epoch of Color” which celebrates the fantastic work of Glenn Badham.
The gallery has adapted incredibly to the current epidemic challenges taking an innovative approach when organising their events and moved their attention to the digital platform. With this, Laura. I Gallery is excited to invite you to join us, online, in a conversation about the place of art in the national understandings of the landscape now and the impact it has on our cultural identity.
The depiction of landscape in art has played a major role in the creation of cultural identities.
Glenn`s paintings identifies the literal and metaphorical landmarks, values, and secrets around which the territory unites and made us as questions what landscapes mean to us, how can we look at them and recognised our heritage.
The launch will be hosted on zoom but the exhibition is curated on Artsy, the top leading art platform for art galleries and museums in the world.
Host:
Laura Iosifescu, CEO of Laura I. Art Gallery
Star of the evening:
Glenn Badham
Special guests:
Ole Mortensen (Danish Director of Cricket and Former Derby County Cricket Club Captain and Paceman)
And hear testimonials from Lee Benson (Author, Musician and former Gallery Owner)
“Hollowed Landscapes,An Epoch of Color” ,presented on ARTSY between 19th April -9th May 2021
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to accelerate our plans to expand our gallery online, making our programes and our artists more accessible to more people from across the UK and internationally, opening up new avenues of education and conversation, and ensuring that our artists have this vital platform to encourage the recovery of their businesses.
Building upon last summer`s `Wildcard` selection on the popular painting television programme, SKY Landscape Artist of the Year, Glenn has been producing new works and exhibiting and has had the good fortune to be shortlisted for 3 International Open Art Exhibitions: The Mall Galleries Pastel Society Open 2020, The Royal Cambrian Academy Open 2021, the Mall Galleries Society of Graphic Fine Arts Open 2021 and has passed into the second round of the London Bi-enniale 2021.