Exhibition: Great Artists | Great Teachers

The Levinsky Gallery
Roland Levinsky Building
University of Plymouth
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AA

Tel: 01752 585050

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Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Great Artists | Great Teachers brings together the work of some of the most significant artists/teachers working across the 20th Century and into the present. Selected as important artists in their own right, each of the artists are recognised as being hugely influential art teachers, helping to shape the direction of art education and inspiring the next generation of artists.

Featured artists:
Anthony Caro, Phyllida Barlow, David Batchelor, Michael Craig-Martin, Richard Hamilton, Lubaina Himid, Janice Kerbel, , Rosalind Nashashibi, Wendy Pasmore, Victor Pasmore, Carl Plackman, Bob and Roberta Smith, Jon Thompson and Richard Wentworth.

Great Artists | Great Teachers has been curated in response to the 250th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in Autumn 2018 and takes as its starting point the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, born in Plymouth (1723 –1792), one of the principal founders and first presidents of the Royal Academy of Arts. The exhibition includes a series of extracts from Reynolds' Discourses on Art drawn from the city's permanent collections

This is a partnership exhibition delivered by The Arts Institute and The Box, Plymouth.

Opening times: Monday-Friday 10:00-17:00, Saturday 11:00-16:00

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