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Caro & Girling at Peterborough City Gallery 2018

Anthony Caro & Sheila Girling: A 64 Year Conversation About Art

 

City Gallery, Peterborough Museum, 27 April – 21 July 2018

Peterborough Museum and City Gallery present works by internationally renowned sculptor Sir Anthony Caro and modernist painter Sheila Girling. Spanning the duration of his career from the 60’s to early 2000’s, the exhibition includes Caro’s iconic large scale abstract metal works in block colour, smaller table pieces which he began to work on after his larger works and paper sculptures. Exhibited alongside will be paintings by Sheila Girling. Distinguishable by her intense hues in acrylic, her work balances between figuration and abstraction.

Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling exhibiting together in Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery 2018

Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling exhibiting together in Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery 2018. Photography by Tony Nero

Caro and Girling met at the Royal Academy in 1948 when he used her drawing board by mistake. Their arguments about art apparently started at that first encounter and within six months they were married. Girling’s use of colour proved to be hugely influential on Caro, who was more interested in form than colour. Perhaps his most well known piece Early One Morning was originally painted green until Girling suggested that he change it to red.

Viviacity says: ‘We are very proud of our new exhibition Anthony Caro & Sheila Girling: A 64 Year Conversation About Art which has just opened at Peterborough Museum & City Gallery. For the first time ever the work of the late Anthony Caro and his wife, modernist painter Sheila Girling are displayed in the same gallery space. The artists work have been shown all over the world, are part of major art collections and both individuals are internationally renowned in their own right.’

Don’t miss out on this extraordinary show, which continues until 21 July.

AddressPriestgate, Peterborough PE1 1LF

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Anthony Caro and Sheila Girling exhibiting together in Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery 2018. Photography by Tony Nero


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