Our exhibitions offer a space to reflect on issues and ideas played out in the hands of exceptional craftspeople, makers, curators and creative practitioners from the UK and around the world.

Exhibitions are always free at New Brewery Arts

Georgia O'Keeffe: Memories of Drawings
13th April - 15th june 2024

We are delighted to present this exciting new touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery at the Southbank Centre, London, which presents a remarkable collection of work from the pioneering American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. This exhibition showcases twenty-one photogravures of drawings produced by the artist between 1915-1963, reflecting the period in which O'Keeffe established herself as a major figure in American Modernism.

Although best known as a painter, drawing was central to O’Keeffe’s practice. She used drawing as a language to evoke important moments and emotions – the curve of a flower petal, a desert horizon, the wave of one's hair, or the flow of a winding road.

The works in this exhibition demonstrate O’Keeffe’s distinctive style and chart the key trajectories and motifs in her practice.

Photogravure is a printmaking process that produces etchings with the tone and detail of a photograph through exposure onto a copper plate. The exhibition includes nine prints of her earliest charcoal abstracts alongside works originally rendered in pencil and watercolour, capturing subjects ranging from the artist’s early morning excursions with her sister, to surreal still lifes of seashells, banana flowers and animal horns.

Georgia O'Keeffe: Memories of Drawings is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from the Southbank Centre, London.

New Brewery Arts exhibition is supported by The Finnis Scott Foundation and individual friends of New Brewery Arts.

TALK: Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley and Modern Art in Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s

wednesday 24th April

An Arts Society Corinium talk by Tricha Passes

This talk draws impetus from the recent O’Keeffe exhibition at Tate Modern which repositions the work of O’Keeffe and challenges the reception of her work through the prism of female sexuality. The stirring landscapes of the American South-West were an inspiration to her and numerous artists who settled and worked in New Mexico. There are a range of visual interpretations of the landscape that the lecture will address including the work of Marsden Hartley, Ernest Blumenschein and the photographers Laura Gilpin and Ansel Adams.

Arts Society Corinium talks are free for members, a contribution of £8 is requested from from visitors. 

NOTE: This event is hosted by a partner organisation, and takes place at Cirencester Baptist Church, Chesterton Lane, Cirencester GL7 1YE