Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
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Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax is an exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery that revisits a historic exhibition from the Second World War. It features the works of artists Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, and contemporary artist Olivia Bax, exploring their artistic conversations.
The exhibition revisits one of the pioneering and legendary exhibitions the then Leeds Curator Phillip Hendy organised for Temple Newsam House during the dark years of the Second World War when the City Art Gallery was closed. Temperamentally quite different, though admirers of each others work, the often intense, vibrant paintings of Matthew Smith and the raw, modernist bronze sculpture of Jacob Epstein resonated for visitors in the rooms of the Jacobian country house. Here, 84 years on, we bring them back together along with a third guest – contemporary artist Olivia Bax’s sculpture and assemblages, for floor, wall and table, rooted in material imagination and bright tactility, bring fresh perspectives to these conversations between old friends.
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Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax takes place on Saturday, 28 August 2027.
Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax is held at Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds (LS1 3AA).
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Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax is an exhibition at Leeds Art Gallery that revisits a historic exhibition from the Second World War. It features the works of artists Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, and contemporary artist Olivia Bax, exploring their artistic conversations.
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The exhibition revisits one of the pioneering and legendary exhibitions the then Leeds Curator Phillip Hendy organised for Temple Newsam House during the dark years of the Second World War when the City Art Gallery was closed. Temperamentally quite different, though admirers of each others work, the often intense, vibrant paintings of Matthew Smith and the raw, modernist bronze sculpture of Jacob Epstein resonated for visitors in the rooms of the Jacobian country house. Here, 84 years on, we bring them back together along with a third guest – contemporary artist Olivia Bax’s sculpture and assemblages, for floor, wall and table, rooted in material imagination and bright tactility, bring fresh perspectives to these conversations between old friends.
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When is Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax?
Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax takes place on Saturday, 28 August 2027.
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Dinner Party: With Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax is held at Leeds Art Gallery in Leeds (LS1 3AA).
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