Wilhelmina Barns-Graham at Jerwood Gallery
8th Jun 2018
Opening on 13 June at the Jerwood Gallery, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Sea, Rock, Earth and Ice will explore Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s faithful depiction of landscape and inherent understanding of nature through four decades of her work.
Even as a child, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) had determined to become an artist. In defiance of her father’s wishes, she enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art in 1931, graduated six years later (following bouts of illness) and moved to Cornwall.
The exhibition forms part of Jerwood Gallery’s In Focus series, in which the context of a work from the Jerwood Collection is explored in a focused exhibition, curated by Lara Wardle, Director of Jerwood Collection.
Thus the Collection’s Winter Landscape (1952) will be displayed together with loans from the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust and key pieces from other national collections. The works will also be accompanied by archive material on loan from the Trust.
Image: End of the Glacier (detail), Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 1949, gouache on paper © Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust