TEN GOOD YEARS

Fri 29 May - Sun 11 October

The Heong Gallery

Since 2016, The Heong Gallery has built a significant reputation as a leading platform for modern and contemporary art, with exhibitions by artists including David Hockney, Ai Weiwei and Yoko Ono.
'Ten Good Years' celebrates the gallery’s anniversary by paying homage to itsinaugural exhibition 'Generation Painting 1955–65: British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness'. This exhibition showcased works from the collection of Bowness, a former Director of the Tate Gallery and a Downing College alumnus.
'Ten Good Years' re-shows selected works from this collection by significant midtwentieth-century artists such as Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, and introduces new works produced over the past ten years by artists with connections to West Penwith, Cornwall, including Lubaina Himid, Veronica Ryan, and Ro Robertson.
'Ten Good Years' is an exhibition about connections through time. It reveals the way in which themes, places and sympathies evident in Bowness’s collection extend across generations, by exhibiting a selection of contemporary pieces which specifically resonate with this mid-century work. The exhibition’s name derives from the title of Bowness’s essay in the 'Generation Painting' catalogue, in which he reflects on the “notion of a decade as a marker of a generation”.

Cost: FREE