{"id":1673,"date":"2017-09-15T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:23:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:23:44","slug":"the-east-london-group-nunnery-gallery-29-september-17-december-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fcara.org.uk\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"The East London Group – Nunnery Gallery 29 September – 17 December 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Working Artist: The East London Group<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Nunnery, 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ<\/div>\n
Tues-Sun, 10am to 5pm
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The\u00a0East London Group<\/strong> returns to the Nunnery Gallery with a new collection of paintings, selected and curated by writer &\u00a0broadcaster Michael Rosen and radio producer & film-maker Emma-Louise Williams.<\/strong> Working during the interwar period, the East London Group of artists comprised ordinary working men and women, attending art classes and exhibiting their paintings. There were\u00a035 members \u2013 including Walter Sickert<\/strong>, Phyllis Bray<\/strong>, William Coldstream<\/strong>, John Cooper<\/strong>, Elwin Hawthorne<\/strong>, the Steggles brothers<\/strong>, Brynhild Parker<\/strong>, Henry Silk<\/strong> and Albert Turpin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rosen and Williams have selected\u00a0more than\u00a050 works for exhibition, with a special focus on little-known works by Albert Turpin. Turpin was not only a critically acclaimed artist but a prominent figure in local politics, as a leading force in the East End anti-fascist movement and Mayor of Bethnal Green. His works tell the story of the East End\u2019s resilience through a turbulent time of war and peace and will be shown alongside sketchbooks and political pamphlets that haven\u2019t been seen for 70 years, providing a vivid and contextual narrative to the paintings.<\/p>\n

Accompanying the exhibition will be a series of new commissions by artists working in east London today, highlighting recognisable sites in the paintings surrounding the Nunnery Gallery. Walking tours of the local area will guide visitors around these new public artworks, finishing at Queen Mary University of London \u2013\u00a0which has\u00a0supported the new commissions \u2013 where remnants of a mural painting by East London Group member Phyllis Bray can still be seen in the People\u2019s Palace.<\/p>\n

This exhibition, with its wealth of previously un-exhibited material, sheds new light on many of the characters of the group, who were accomplished artists \u2013 lauded by the art world \u2013 but also active war artists, heroes of east London politics and avid chroniclers of the changing face of the London of their time.<\/p>\n

Image: Salmon and Ball<\/em>, AE Turpin (courtesy the artist’s family, copyright A.E. Turpin Estate, 2017)<\/p>\n

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