5 October 2010ARTIST ROOMS 2011 Tour AnnouncedThird Successful year of ARTIST ROOMS The Art Fund grants funding for 2011 tour 23 ROOMS will go on show at venues across the UK in 2011
Highlights of the 2011 tour will include:
The ARTIST ROOMS tours are estimated to have reached around 12 million people nationally, including those in London and Edinburgh. Outside the Capitals, ARTIST ROOMS will have been seen by the end of the second year of the tour by over one million people, from Thurso to Bexhill, Eastbourne to Helmsdale and from Llandudno to Stornoway. And by the end of the third year, 70 ARTIST ROOMS will have been shown across the UK, the work of 28 artists will have been shown and 39 venues, including Tate and National Galleries of Scotland will have taken part. A total of 372 works went on tour in 2009 with a further 377 lent in 2010. Works will travel in 2011 to six venues participating in the tour for the first time ensuring the collection will continue to reach new geographical areas and audiences. Six of the venues in 2011 being announced today have shown ARTIST ROOMS in previous tours, thereby continuing to build a network for contemporary-art audiences locally. Individual ARTIST ROOMS which have proved especially popular have included, Beuys at the Hunterian Art Gallery in Glasgow in 2010 which attracted over 37,000 visitors, Beuys at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill in 2009 with 56,000 visitors, Warhol at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2009 with 87,000 visitors, Diane Arbus at the National Museum in Cardiff in 2009 with over 33,000 visitors, Diane Arbus at Nottingham Contemporary in 2010 with approximately 64,000 visitors, Ron Mueck at Manchester Art Gallery in 2010 with 66,000 visitors and Andy Warhol at Perth Museum and Art Gallery attracting over 50,000 visitors in the first four months. The collection has also been seen in more remote parts of the country including the Pier Art Centre in Orkney with Bill Viola attracting over 14,000 and An Lanntair in Stornoway attracting around 10,000 to the Ian Hamilton Finlay ARTIST ROOMS exhibition in the last month. The full 2011 ARTIST ROOMS tour will be as follows: Aberdeen Art Gallery The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney Southampton City Art Gallery and Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries Wolverhampton Art Gallery Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Leeds Art Gallery Dick Institute, East Ayrshire Council, Kilmarnock The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Lakeland Arts Trust, Kendal National Museum Cardiff Mostyn, Llandudno Continuing into 2011 will be the Ed Ruscha ARTIST ROOMS Highland tour that began in 2010 at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery: Swanson Gallery, Thurso Timespan in Helmsdale ARTIST ROOMS exhibitions in 2011 at National Galleries of Scotland and Tate galleries will include: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Dean Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Tate Modern, London Tate Britain, London Tate Liverpool Tate St Ives
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Building on the outstanding successes of the ARTIST ROOMS tours in 2009 and 2010, which have seen over 60% of the ARTIST ROOMS Collection shown at institutions across the UK in the first two years, with 377 works lent in 2010 alone, National Galleries of Scotland and Tate announce plans for 2011. The tour in 2011 will include venues in Dumfries, Hull, Kendal, Kilmarnock, Leeds, Llandudno and Orkney and 23 ROOMS will open in that year. The Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for works of art, also announced that, for the third year running, it is sponsoring the UK tour with funding of £250,000 including funds set aside for regional galleries to spend on promotional, community and educational activities.
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