OUT OF THE WOOD
Highlights
Artists (31)
- John Buckland-Wright
- Edward Gordon Craig
- Eric Fitch Daglish
- John Farleigh
- Robert John Gibbings
- Eric Gill
- Barbara Greg
- Joan Hassall
- Gertrude Hermes
- Blair Hughes-Stanton
- Norman Janes
- David Jones
- Sydney Lee
- Clare Leighton
- Iain Macnab
- Guy Malet
- Henry Moore
- Thomas Sturge Moore
- John Nash
- Paul Nash
- Agnes Miller Parker
- Claughton Pellew
- John Edgar Platt
- Gwendolen Raverat
- Bernard Rice
- Charles Ricketts
- Charles Shannon
- George Soper
- Charles F Tunnicliffe
- Leon Underwood
- Clifford Webb
An exhibition over 60 woodcuts and engravings selected by Simon Brett and drawn from the rich holdings of the British Council collection. The works were acquired between 1938 and 1947 from funds donated at the inception of the Council by Lord Wakefield. The exhibition was in part the result of the renewed interest in wood engraving which began in the early 1980s. A shift in the cultural climate allowed the art to assume a profile it had not had since before the Second World War. The show included almost all the significant practitioners and several of the most celebrated images of the period when wood engraving was being taken up by artists as a creative medium and covered what has come to be seen as a sort of Golden Age of British wood engraving. A catalogue with an essay and entries by Brett was published (ISBN 086355 118 1) and the exhibition toured from 1992 until 1997.
Glossary (2)
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Engraving
An intaglio process whereby lines are cut into a metal or wood plate using an engraving tool (a burin), which is pushed in front of the hand to achieve a sharp controlled incision capable of great delicacy. This technique requires a great deal of control and is not suited to spontaneous mark-making.
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Medium
Refers to either the material used to create a work of art, craft or design, i.e. oil, bronze, earthenware, silk; or the technique employed i.e. collage, etching, carving. In painting the medium refers to the binder for the pigment, e.g. oil, egg, acrylic dispersion. The plural form is media.
Exhibition map
Past venues (23)
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Slovakia, Kosice, STATE GALLERY
- 01 September 1998
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Poland, Warsaw, MUSEUM NARODWE WARSZAWIE
- 15 January 1998 − 15 February 1998
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Philippines, Manila, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
- 06 June 1996 − 13 September 1996
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Japan, Kawaguchi, KAWAGUCHIKO MUSEUM
- 01 April 1996 − 12 May 1996
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Japan, Hokkaido, OBIHIRO MUSEUM
- 03 February 1996 − 27 March 1996
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Japan, Koriyama, KORIYAMA CITY MUSEUM
- 02 December 1995 − 21 January 1996
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Japan, Kanagawa, KANAGAWA PREFECTURAL MUSEUM
- 07 October 1995 − 12 November 1995
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Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, NATIONAL ART GALLERY
- 16 May 1995 − 25 June 1995
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India, Calcutta, CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL MODERN ART
- 21 December 1994 − 29 December 1994
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India, Santiniketan, KALA BHAVANA VISVA BHARATI
- 09 December 1994 − 12 December 1994
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India, Bhopal, BHARAT BHAWAN
- 19 November 1994 − 27 November 1994
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India, Jaipur, JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA
- 08 November 1994 − 17 November 1994
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India, Chandigarh, THE GOVERNMENT MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY
- 25 October 1994 − 04 November 1994
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India, New Delhi, THE QUEEN'S GALLERY
- 06 October 1994 − 20 October 1994
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Sri Lanka, Colombo, BRITISH COUNCIL
- 01 August 1994 − 06 September 1994
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Sri Lanka, Kanda, BRITISH COUNCIL
- 14 July 1994 − 06 August 1994
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Australia, Newcastle, NEWCASTLE REGION ART GALLERY
- 10 January 1993
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Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE IN BULAWAYO
- 14 October 1992
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Zimbabwe, Harare, NATIONAL GALLERY OF ZIMBABWE
- 13 August 1992 − 13 September 1992
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Kenya, Kisumu, BRITISH COUNCIL
- 20 July 1992 − 25 July 1992
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Kenya, Mombassa, BRITISH COUNCIL
- 15 July 1992 − 20 July 1992
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Kenya, Nairobi, BRITISH COUNCIL
- 06 July 1992 − 11 July 1992
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Zambia, Lusaka, MPAPA GALLERY
- 01 April 1992 − 30 April 1992
