Colony
Exhibition Details
Fred Cuming RA, Gus Cummins RA, Mick Rooney RA & Jacqueline Stanley HRHA ARCA
The liberal dictionary definition of “colony” refers to the organic congregation of artists in towns, villages and rural areas, often drawn by areas of natural beauty with the prior existence of other artists or art schools there, and importantly a lower cost of living. It was perhaps not so surprising that Muriel Belcher, searching out a name for her club and famous artist hang out in Soho, came up with the name ‘The Colony Room’.
Our Colony relates to an exceptional group of artists, a close continuity of art and friends working and painting together in our corner of the Kent – Sussex borders.
For this exhibition at Rye Art Gallery, we look at new work as well as paintings that reflect on the length and importance of the individual careers of three senior local Royal Academicians – Fred Cuming RA, Gus Cummins RA & Mick Rooney RA. Also, for the first time as part of their friendship circle, Jacqueline Stanley HRHA ARCA.
It is a connection between a generation of painters that Rye Art Gallery has enjoyed for over fifty years, initially through the support of the gallery’s exhibitions by the great British landscape painter Fred Cuming RA, who sadly passed away in June.
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