WHAT’S ON @
Guernsey Museums & Galleries
(Castle Cornet, Fort Grey and Guernsey Museum & Art Gallery)
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Brian White Gallery
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010
This popular annual exhibition returns with a stunning array of wildlife photography from around the World.
Featuring the winning images from the 2010 Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition, chosen from tens of thousands of entries from around the globe, this can justifiably claim to be the largest and most prestigious exhibition of its type in the world.
As always, the exhibition contains an awesome and inspiring range of images to remind us of the beauty and fragility of the world in which we live.
Wildlife Photographer of the Year is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
Plus foyer displays -
- Meet the Dodo (until 14 April)
- The Changing Face of the English Monarchy (from 15 April)
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| © Marcello Calandrini (Italy) Pickings From Puffins Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2010 |
Brian White Gallery
Mervyn Peake’s Sark
"To the sweep of a steel bay"
A celebration of the centenary of the writer and artist Mervyn Peake, who lived and worked for some years in Sark. He is probably best known for his Gormenghast trilogy and the The Story of Mr Pye, which was set in Sark. The exhibition includes a large number of original sketches made in Sark, plus oils and other works by this fascinating artist.
A free printed exhibition guide is available at the museum and also here as a PDF download.
A free lunchtime concert by the David Le Page Trio featuring music inspired by Peake's work will take place on August Bank Holiday Monday - More details...
Supported by Credit Suisse.
by Credit Suisse.
Plus foyer display - The Changing Face of the English Monarchy
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| Self-portrait in Oils Mervyn Peake |
Brian White Gallery
Watercolours from The Highgrove Florilegium
Original artworks for one of the world's most exclusive books
Illustrations of plants from the garden of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall. We are priviledged to be the first British museum to show any of these works since their inaugural exhibition at the Garden Museum in London. The result of a nine year project by 72 acclaimed botanical artists worldwide, the Highgrove Florilegium illustrates in exquisite detail just 124 plants grown in the royal garden.
A major artistic and publishing project, The Highgrove Florilegium took seven years to complete and was widely reported in the media. The BBC News Report from 2009 (below) explains something of the project. The work it features by Celia Crampton will be one of the seventy watercolours on show in the exhibition.
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| Jasminum nudiflorum (Oleaceae) Mieko Ishikawa © A G Carrick Ltd. |