Land and Life: The Landscape in Art

Land and Life: The Landscape in Art looks at how artists have captured the landscape in their paintings. Works on display are taken from the museum’s rich collection of art, ranging from the 17^th to the 20^th century, including masterpieces like Lowry’s ‘Industrial Landscape River Scene’ and van Ruisdael’s ‘River Scene with Fishermen’. Other artists include Auerbach, Bomberg, Trevelyan, Fulleylove and Nash. Additional works to be loaned to the exhibition include pieces by David Blackburn and German artist Mariele Neudecker.

 

An ‘exhibition within an exhibition’, is contemporary artist Maxine Beuret’s Semper Eadem (always the same): Familiar Interiors of Leicester. The exhibition, a special installation of photography and video, goes behind the doors of some of the city’s most familiar, yet sometimes overlooked places.

Stopping Places**

Based around photos, oral histories and written stories, ‘Stopping Places’ (the title suggests a place for reflection) celebrates Gypsy life in Leicester. The exhibition gathers photographs of older traditions and past generations as well as the contributions of today’s Gypsy communities in Leicester, in particular health, education, living conditions and the environment. 

Saturday 29^th March - Sunday 18^th May Discover the stories of three people who came to England seeking a place of safety and the different ways in which they have made Leicester their new home. One came in the 1970's and is now a successful businessman, another gained refugee status in the 1990's but remains anonymous for fear of repercussions on his family in Iran. The final contributor has been seeking asylum for over ten years but still calls Leicester home.