Grundy Art Gallery is excited to announce its reopening on 29 July 2020 with a new exhibition ‘For Your Health and Pleasure’. The title of the exhibition takes inspiration from a heritage postcard, extolling the virtues of a visit to Blackpool.

The exhibition, drawn entirely from Grundy Art Gallery’s collection, is devised as a ‘simple show for complex times’. Starting with the small painting, ‘View From My Window’ (1937) by one of gallery’s founders, Cuthbert Grundy, the exhibition unfolds as a travelogue – of sorts – showcasing how landscape and overseas travel are represented in the gallery’s collection.

‘For Your Health and Pleasure‘ features works from the Grundy Collection by: Frederick Appleyard, Antony Ayrton, Delmar Harmood Banner, Nina Blaker, Charles Ernest Cundall, Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher, Stanhope Alexander Forbes, F. H. Glasbury, Cuthbert Cartwright Grundy, John Relph Greenhow Grundy, George Houston, Sir Herbert Edwin Pelham Hughes-Stanton, Samuel Henry William Llewellyn, Maximilien Luce, Levi Lumb, David Murray, Adelsteen Normann, Albert Julius Olsson, Patricia Ramsay, Georg Anton Rasmussen, Eric Ravilious, Algernon Talmage, Julian Trevelyan, John Michael Wilshart, William Thomas Wood.

 

For Your Health and Pleasure was initiated by Tom Ireland as part of a curatorial secondment in 2020.

The exhibition is be supported by a remotely delivered programme of engagement activity. More information about (SOUNDTRACK) For Your Health and Pleasure can be found here: https://www.thegrundy.org/whats-on/single/for-your-health-and-pleasure-soundtrack/