When the artist's gaze falls on other artists - Chichester exhibition - video Dailymotion

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After a Sussex landscape exhibition in 2023 and still life in 2024, Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery now turns its attention to portraiture and a major exhibition running until the start of November.

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00:00so good morning my name is phil hewitt group arts i just wrote six newspapers lovely spits

00:06melanie about a fascinating sounding new exhibition just opened at panham house gallery

00:11in jochester seeing each other portraits of artists now you mentioned some of the exhibitions

00:16you've had in recent years this seemed a very natural next step but what's the significance of

00:21the fact that it's artists looking at other artists what does that into it thank you phil

00:29so i think at its heart this is an exhibition about relationships and it's an exhibition about

00:35relationships between makers between artists so through looking at portraits of artists not only

00:42do we get an insight into the portrait individual but also into their relationship with the maker

00:50with the portraitist and through doing so we might get an insight into the artistic circle in which

00:57they might have worked together we might get an insight into their kind of creative thinking

01:03around the time you know a lot of those portraits are kind of expressing the effervescence of

01:08creativity that these two artists might have been um working with and i think they say a lot about

01:17the history of british arts and how modern and british arts modern and contemporary british art is uh

01:24is is is is um is very much defined i think through the way in which people have been working with each

01:34other alongside each other looking at each other developing ideas together or in relation to each other

01:40and i think also what's so striking about the exhibition is the depth of some of those relationships you have

01:49uh friendships that have lasted decades which are represented in the exhibition and those decades of

01:56friendships will have informed each other's uh making and each other's development

02:02so if it's an artist painting and other artists you can be sure that there's a lot more going on than

02:07words yes and there's not just paintings there's not just paintings we have paintings sculpture photography

02:13installation film um so very much looking at the breadth and depth of uh british art and you you get

02:22a sense of progression through the history of british art as well as you walk through the gallery so we

02:26started 1900 we finished in 2025 um and in doing so we we get a sense also what was going on in in the

02:35country or in the world at the time you know none of those portraits are made in a vacuum they very much express

02:41the times in which both artists lived it sounds fascinating very much looking forward to seeing

02:47it and lovely to speak to you thank you thank you

When the artist's gaze falls on other artists - Chichester exhibition

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