During this year’s Lightpool Festival take the opportunity to visit Grundy Art Gallery after hours to enjoy the exciting and engaging exhibitions on display and participate in an exhibition themed family friendly activity. Including a major solo exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills, whose work can also be seen in this year’s Lightpool Festival and Blackpool Illuminations, visitors can also experience, After the Archive, a multi-disciplinary and inter-generational exhibition of emerging artistic voices from Blackpool and Barrow, presented by Grundy in partnership with SIGNAL, Barrow, as well as a solo exhibition by pARTnership artist, Dawn Ward as part of Grundy’s Forecourt Gallery programme.
JASON AND THE ADVENTURE OF THE 254 – Commissioned by Wellcome Collection
Image Credit Line: Jason and the Adventure of 254, an exhibition by Jason Wilsher-Mills at Wellcome Collection. Gallery Photo: Benjamin Gilbert. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).
The Grundy Art Gallery was founded by the brothers Cuthbert and John Grundy in 1911 with the ambition to show the best art of the day to the people of Blackpool. It has been at the centre of artistic life in Blackpool for over 100 years and is now recognized as a leading contemporary visual arts venue in the northwest region with a growing national and international profile. It has been an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation for the past 8 years and holds Museums Accreditation status.
Grundy’s current position has been achieved through ambitious and contextual programming, which makes the most of its beautiful exhibition spaces and the unique cultural environment and context which exists beyond the gallery walls.
Grundy inspires audiences through an ambitious and varied year-round exhibitions programme that draws on the unique and invigorating context and heritage of Blackpool, for instance exploring the space between contemporary art, entertainment and popular culture.
Blackpool is an extraordinary location of rich cultural history and contemporary popular culture and Grundy’s programmes continue to explore these and add new perspectives to help better understand and appreciate them, working with key national and regional partners such as TATE, Southbank Centre/Hatward Touring, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, the British Council, the ICA, the Whitworth Art Gallery and LeftCoast.
Grundy continues to develop it’s permanent collection, embedding it into our of high quality temporary exhibitions programme and providing opportunities for audiences to think in new and unexpected ways through art.
Grundy is committed to developing Blackpool’s cultural offer through an engagement with high quality contemporary art exhibitions and events for both visitors and residents of the town. It contributes to the visitor economy in Blackpool, attracting higher spending visitors, generating press and promoting the town centre as a sub-regional centre and helping to sustain jobs in the local creative economy.
