Brian Whelan: Transmetropolitan and City Heights
RA alumnus Brian Whelan is showing his 9ft x 12ft polyptych Transmetropolitan at the Ipswich School of Art Museum for the “From the class of…” exhibition. Brian taught drawing at the Ipswich Art School in the ‘90s. Other artists, who were teachers or students at the Ipswich School of Art showing their work include Maggie Hambling CBE, Brian Eno and Bernard Reynolds.
‘Transmetropolitan’
Mixed media on board
Looking at a Whelan painting is like looking at a stained glass window, through the eyes of Bart Simpson
Steve Martin, writer and critic
Transmetropolitan was such a hit with young students, that the museum has produced a documentary, which will be premiered 7 May. This will be the second documentary that features the painting. The first is being finalized in Philadelphia, where the painting was shown as part of The Quiet Men - London Irish Painters exhibition (see RASA article of August 16 2010 below).
City Heights
Mixed media on board
Contact Curator Emma Roodhouse emma.roodhouse@colchester.gov.uk for information about the current exhibition, the film and the auction.
Ipswich Museum
Art School Gallery
1 Upper High St.
Ipswich, Suffolk IP1 3QH
29th January – 11th June 2011
Hours: Tues – Saturday
10:00am – 17:00pm
www.brianwhelan.co.uk
Wendy Roseberry
Roseberry Crest
The Stables, Hanworth Hall
Hanworth
Norfolk, NR11 7HP
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