Charleston has announced an ambitious autumn/winter programme featuring works by Grayson Perry and Picasso. Visitors to the organisation's galleries in Lewes will be able to visit two new exhibitions from September 25, 2024. Grayson Perry: A Temple for Everyone will showcase works by the celebrated British artist that explore the idea of home.
The exhibition includes tapestries, pots, ceramic tiles and woodcuts and explores ideas such as what does it mean to call a place home? How does our definition of home affect our sense of identity? What does it mean to be British today? The artist has a home near East Dean. In Its Familiarity, Golden. Grayson Perry, 2015, Crafts Council Collection 2016 (Image: Grayson Perry) The exhibition will feature over 30 pieces from throughout Perry’s career, each telling a different story and inviting visitors to reflect on how the spaces we inhabit shape our stories, identities and the way we see the world.
Pablo Picasso, untitled. Coloured lithograph (Image: © Succession Picasso. DACS, London 2024) Running alongside, visitors will be able to discover the extraordinary story of how a modern art collection came into being through over 80 paintings passed on between three homes –that of Eddie Sackville-West, Eardley Knollys, and Mattei Radev in Collecting Modernism: Pablo Picasso to Winifred Nicholson.
Winifred Nicholson, Boat on the Far River (Image: Submitted) Known as the Radev Collection, it is one of the biggest and most important groupi.