A new art gallery is opening in the headquarters of
the former Tetley brewery in Leeds.
The gallery,
named The Tetley, is officially launched on Thursday before being opened to the
public on Friday.
The art deco
building will also include a museum dedicated to the brewery, which closed in
2011 after 189 years.
The
headquarters has undergone a £1.5m conversion and hopes to attract 45,000
people a year. The first exhibitions are on the theme of "a new
reality".
Artist James
Clarkson will create new work on site using objects he has found during the
renovation. The other artists in the launch programme are Emma Rushton, Derek
Tyman and Rehana Zaman.
The venue will
host artists who have outgrown the city's grassroots galleries and are yet to
step up to the Leeds Art Gallery and Henry Moore Institute.
The Tetley
director Kerry Harker said it is not intending to compete with the £35m
Hepworth gallery, which opened in 2011 in nearby Wakefield and attracts more
established names.
"We're not
trying to replicate anything the Hepworth has been doing," she said.
"This is a
£1.5m project and it's on a more modest scale. It responds to the environment
we're in now economically. We're not seeing any more of those big £35m capital
projects at the moment."
Source: BBC
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.