Date: Saturday 1 June 2024 – Saturday 30 November 2024
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From an unpromising start as a Southport painter and decorator, Philip Connard rose to prominence as a successful Impressionist artist and a Royal Academician. This exhibition charts his career including a remarkable period as a war artist serving on the Navy’s first submarines to an important muralist who created magnificent decorations for the room housing Queen Mary’s dolls house.
This exhibition brings the work of an overlooked artist back into the spotlight, featuring examples of his work from our national collections.
A new publication by Stephen Whittle accompanies the exhibition offering insight into the artist’s life. The comprehensive catalogue features numerous illustrations of Connard’s sketches, paintings, and murals. Available for £7.99.
- Suffolk Pastoral, Philip Connard, 1875-1958. Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
Get Involved:
Inspirations: Poetry & Creative Writing Competition 2024
Download entry form: Word / PDF
Competition deadline: 17 August 2024
Online exhibition: 24 August 2024
Winner announced: 4 September 2024
The Atkinson, in partnership with The Arts Society Southport, would like to invite anyone over 18 with links to the Sefton Borough to take part in our third Poetry and Creative Writing Competition.
Responding to artworks featured across two exhibitions at The Atkinson, Philip Connard and Edwardian Impressionists, you are invited to submit one entry with a maximum of 1000 words.
The competition is for poetry, stories, song lyrics, essays, letters, blogs, zines or any form of creative writing you can come up with.
The entries will be reviewed by a panel appointed by The Atkinson. Winners receive a prize awarded by The Arts Society and their creative writing will be displayed in the Art Gallery
Inspirations Gallery:
- The River Tang, 1913. Philip Connard 1875-1958. © Manchester Art Gallery / Bridgeman Images
- Suffolk Pastoral, Philip Connard, 1875-1958. Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
- Theatre of Young Artists, Dieppe, France, Walter Richard Sickert (1860–1942). Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
- The Ratcatcher, c.1922, Philip Connard, 1875-1958. Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
- The Bathers Frederick William Jackson (1859 – 1918). Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
- An Eastern Gown, William Orpen, 1878-1931. Atkinson Art Gallery Collection.
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