Saturday, 14 April 2012

The New Art Gallery Walsall

 I had forgotten how good this building is. The space which contains the Garman Ryan Epstein Collection is fantastic - domestic in scale with oblique views out to the city. Above this "house", the galleries for traveling exhibitions is brilliant: exposed concrete beams, picture windows looking out to Walsall, diffuse upper lighting. On second visit each space felt like being inside a 1:20 model. Slightly terrifying but ultimately brilliant.  Just two photographs of those upper galleries:




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