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An art gallery exhibition with abstract paintings and sculptures. There are four framed abstract paintings with red and pink shapes on the walls. In the centre is a white cone-shaped sculpture on a pedestal. A person in a white shirt is viewing the artwork.
Exhibitions

Louise
Bourgeois

Nature Study

Saturday 6 July 2024 – Sunday 6 October 2024

Stunning, thought provoking, moving. A fantastic exhibition.

Audience Comment

Opening Times

Tue – Sun: 10am-4.30pm

Mondays: Closed, except bank holidays

Galleries are open 10.30am – 4.30pm

Christmas Opening Hours
Christmas Eve: 10am – 3pm
Christmas Day: Closed
Boxing Day: Closed
27 – 29 Dec: Open as usual
New Years Eve: 10am – 3pm
New Years Day: Open as usual

About the
Exhibition

 

An exploration of the exceptional career of Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010), one of the most influential artists of modern times.

With over 40 works, including some rarely seen in the UK, such as Lair (1962) and The Couple (2007-2009). Louise Bourgeois: Nature Study demonstrated Bourgeois’ versatility, as well as the enduring emotive power of her art.

The exhibition brought together works on paper, paintings, textile pieces and sculptures made across the artist’s seven-decade long career, from a rare early painting, made in the 1940s, to examples of her iconic bronze Spider sculptures from the 1990s, and À l’Infini, a series of monumental works on paper that envelop and immerse the viewer, made during the final years of Bourgeois’ life. Spread seamlessly from the galleries into the landscape, the exhibition explored important themes within Bourgeois’ work including cycles of time and nature, landscape as a metaphor for the mind and body, and the importance of memory.

Presented in collaboration with ARTIST ROOMS and The Easton Foundation, New York. The exhibition features important loans from The Easton Foundation alongside a remarkable body of her work from ARTIST ROOMS, the national collection jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.

Logos for ARTIST ROOMS, National Galleries Scotland, Tate, Art Fund, Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council England and Creative Scotland