Gill Hedley is an independent curator, writer and consultant on contemporary visual arts. The menu to the left leads to different aspects of her work. On some pages blue links in bullet points open for more detail. Below are current and recent projects, with more on the archive page.
I was commissioned to write a history of the Incorporated Church Building Society which celebrates its 200th anniversary this spring.
In the confused and debt-ridden years just after Waterloo a group of influential men persuaded the government to commit substantial funds to create churches in urban areas to cope with the influx of migrants from the countryside displaced by the Industrial Revolution. Extraordinarily, a grant of one million pounds was voted, followed swiftly by another half million. Yet the same group of men decided to raise their own funds with a greater emphasis on extending existing churches and making as many seats possible free to all worshippers.
ICBS finally became absorbed in to the National Churches Trust under the chairmanship on Michael Hoare, whose family provided many of the Treasurers from 1818 onwards. Hoares Bank has commissioned the book to support the work of NCT and it is published by Umbria Press.
→ see the link to buy the book (www)
St. Mary’s, Market Place, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1855
The 13th century parish church was rebuilt between 1853 and 1855 by Thomas Larkins Walker with a grant from ICBS. The chantry chapel was rebuilt to accommodate nearly 300 children while new seating, flooring, heating and lighting were installed. It is listed Grade II* by National Heritage for England. Photo credit: Erewash Borough Council.
Ann Sutton’s exhibition Looking Through: Presenting new works by Ann Sutton will be at Winchester School of Art this summer 2018. They staged her exhibition of developmental studies - No Cheating - in 1995 and now she returns with an exhibition of new work.
→ Opening Reception Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 6pm to 8pm
→ Ann Sutton In Conversation with Gill Hedley
Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 5pm to 6pm
Lecture Theatre A, First Floor, West Side Campus Building
Winchester School of Art
→ Ann Sutton's website
(www)
→ catalogue essay On The Grid on Ann's latest work (PDF)
→ installation photos of On The Grid at Gallery Oldham
→ summary of Ann's work on this site
The Winchester Gallery
Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
West Side Campus Building, Ground Floor
Park Avenue, Winchester, Hampshire, SO23 8DL
Open: Wednesday, 11 July 2018 – Wednesday, 15 August 2018
Mondays – Fridays, 10am to 4pm, Saturdays, 11am to 3pm
Installation shot of On The Grid, Gallery Oldham, 2016
Installation shot of On The Grid, Gallery Oldham, 2016When I worked in Southampton Art Gallery, in the mid 1980s, I came across the
collector/dealer Arthur Jeffress and planned, though never completed, an exhibition to celebrate
the bequest to the gallery in 1961 of his subversive little collection
.
After I left CAS (over eleven years ago now) and knowing a lot more about collectors, I decided to see if there was enough material for a biography. One decade and 100,000 words later, I am delighted to say that a publisher also thinks the story is worth publishing.
I am discussing an exhibition with Southampton City Art Gallery in 2020 to coincide with the book.
Oriel Ross, Portrait of Arthur Jeffress, 1927, collection Gill Hedley
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