Turner and Leeds in the YEP

On Saturday (18/07/09), the Yorkshire Evening Post published a feature on Turner and Leeds. Written by Justine Gaunt, it examines how a formative period in the city's history is portrayed in the work of an artist whose work, as author Professor David Hill comments, is 'almost never without social commentary'. The article's publication was timed to dovetail with Professor Hill's lecture on Turner at Harewood House, which was delivered on the same day. The piece really impressed everyone at JMP, so here is a link to it:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Portrait-of-the-artist.5462868.jp

Town and Country: Turner, Harewood and Leeds

To celebrate the publication of Turner and Leeds: Image of Industry, a new book exploring the art of J. M. W. Turner and the Industrial Revolution in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Harewood House, outside Leeds, is exhibiting some of Turner's best paintings in a brand new exhibition. Town and Country; Turner, Harewood and Leeds will showcase Turner's images of Harewood, many of which were commissioned by Viscount Lascelles (1764-1814). The exhibition focuses on Turner's use of figures in the landscape, and is the first opportunity for some time to see Turner's paintings of Harewood House and the Harewood estate together. To find out more about the exhibition, click here. To find out more about the book, click here.

The exhibition will also explore the relationship between Harewood and Leeds through a series of contemporary artists' projects in association with Project Space Leeds. See www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk for more.