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Indepth Arts News:
"Paul Nash & Fay Godwin"
2010-07-21 until 2010-11-14
Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery
Sheffield, ,
UK United Kingdom
Paul Nash and Fay Godwin is a new exhibition at the Graves Gallery shining a spotlight on two very different artists who share a common fascination; the British landscape. Drawing on photographs from Sheffield's Visual Art collection, this new free exhibition will showcase the painterly approach of Nash's photographic work alongside Godwin’s celebrated rural images.
One of the most significant British painters of the early 20th century, Paul Nash is best known for his work chronicling the first and second world wars and his startling surrealist landscapes. Turning to landscape photography later in his career, Nash continued to embrace the themes which had always featured strongly in his paintings.
Fay Godwin began her career as a portrait photographer, producing images of a number of renowned literary figures including Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing and Kingsley Amis. Later in life she became enthralled with the scenery she found while out walking and before her death in 2005, became one of Britain’s best-known landscape photographers.
Paul Nash & Fay Godwin will feature a series of Nash’s photographs taken between 1931 and his death in 1946, which form part of the ‘Private World’ collection, originally published in 1978. Taken on his travels around England and across the globe, they vividly illustrate Nash’s painterly eye for shape, detail and symbolism. Alongside Nash’s work, the exhibition will feature a selection photographs by Fay Godwin produced for the book Remains of Elmet, published in collaboration with the poet Ted Hughes in 1979. With Hughes’ evocative words complemented by Godwin’s atmospheric images, the book illustrated the remains of culture, legend, myth and industry in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Whilst taking these photographs Godwin became passionate about the Yorkshire landscape, describing it as ‘so very different from anything I’d seen before’.
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