Location: England
Subject: Art, Archaeology
Dates: 2015
Related ACE Cultural Tours: Orkney, Archaeology Tours
Mission/Vision
To support the creation of new art.
Project History
The ACE TravelArt Award is a new project to encourage and support living art. The award allows artists to travel across cultural boundaries and create new works of art.
Project & ACE
Julia Sorrell RI RBA is the first artist to be awarded the ACE Foundation TravelArt Award.
With its striking geological features and archaeological remains, Orkney proved a rich subject for Sorrell’s artistic preoccupations. Her sensitive interpretation of its coastline and prehistoric structures has produced a fine series of paintings and watercolours, which give a wonderfully dynamic example of the interplay between form and feeling.
Living in her van and a coast guard survival suit for 5 weeks, Sorrell’s visit to Orkney followed in the footsteps of her father, noted archaeological illustrator and artist Alan Sorrell, who was commissioned to draw such sites as Skara Brae.
Exhibition at Abbott & Holder, 30 Museum Street, opposite the British Museum, London, WC1A 1LH | Friday 13 May to Saturday 21 May 2016 | 09.00-18.00 closed Sundays
Julia will be at Abbott and Holder on Saturday 14 May from 10.00-17.00
Illustrated Talk at the Art Workers’ Guild | Friday 13 May | 18.30 | Free admission. 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, WC1N 3AT
Further Exhibitions in Cambridge