With work by a wide range of artists, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery is hosting a new touring exhibition from the Arts Council Collection.
The exhibition, The Printed Line, includes Walter Sickert’s cross-hatched etching The Old Middlesex, Ben Nicholson’s rich drypoint Halse Town 1949, etchings by Eduardo Chillida, and David Hockney’s Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy.
Exhibitions Officer at the High Life Highland venue Cathy Shankland said: “It is wonderful to be able to show this quality of work in Inverness.
“The exhibition demonstrates different kinds of printmaking from some very famous names as well as from less well-known artists.
“The exhibition is a delight, even if you know nothing about the techniques of printmaking it covers methods from the thick, velvety lines of drypoint, to intense cross-hatching of etching to delicate wood engravings and boldly-coloured screenprints.”
Spanning the 20th century and up to the present day, screenprints include work by Bridget Riley and Kenneth Martin, as well as Simon Patterson’s lithograph reworking the lines of the London tube map.
Curator of the Arts Council Collection Ann Jones said: “We are delighted to be working once again with Inverness Museum and Art Gallery in our 75th anniversary year and to be showing some of the highlights from our print collection.
“We hope visitors will enjoy the variety of works in the exhibition.”
The works are selected from the Arts Council Collection which is primarily a collection of modern and contemporary British art, but early on in its history it also acquired prints by major 20th century European artists alongside British artists, forming a collection of more than 1,500 printed works by over 500 artists.
The exhibition runs at Inverness Museum and Art Gallery until January 8.
