Outside Events : Community Arts Workshop

Events & Exhibitions

The following activities are not run by CAW, but they are listed here as they might be of interest. Please contact the organisers direct.

Touch

TOUCH
16 September - 28 November 2010

The new exhibition at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, TOUCH, will run from 16 September until 28 November 2010.

Contemporary artist Lyndall Phelps explores the use of the Royal Pump Rooms as a centre for healing, where medical treatments, including hydrotherapy and physiotherapy, were undertaken from the early 19th century to the mid-1990s. When the Art Gallery & Museum moved from its premises on Avenue Road to the Royal Pump Rooms in 1999, it acquired medical equipment and photographs relating to this chapter of the building's history.

Download the press release (PDF).

Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, The Parade, Leamington Spa, CV32 4AA
Open: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 10:30am - 5:00pm; Thursday 1:30pm - 8:00pm; closed Monday. Entrance is free.

Posted on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

Halfway to Paradise

Harry Hammond: Halfway to Paradise
2 July - 5 September 2010

An exhibition of prints by the first great photographer of British Rock 'n' Roll, Harry Hammond (1920 - 2009), comes to Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum this summer.

Starting in the late 1940s, Hammond captured the definitive images of virtually every leading British musician from Cliff Richard and Shirley Bassey to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, as well as many visiting American artists including Buddy Holly and Little Richard.

This exhibition of over 100 of Hammond's prints from the V&A collection captures the emergence of British Rock. It features many of his most famous images of leading artists performing on stage and provides an insight into the wider music industry. The photographs will be set against a soundtrack of Rock music from the 1950s and 60s and there will be an interactive quiz.