Williamson Art Gallery: Williamson Open 2017

Williamson Art Gallery: Williamson Open 2017

When

8.4.17 - 7.5.17    
All Day

Where

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum
Slatey Road, Birkenhead, CH43 4UE, Wirral

Event Type

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An Open Exhibition has been part of the local art scene for as long as most of us can remember. After Birkenhead opened its first Museum and Art Gallery in 1912 there were two Spring Exhibitions but the First World War stopped them and the initiative was not picked up in the town afterwards.

The Borough of Wallasey, however, did take it up and from 1962 a Spring Exhibition was held each year at Earlston Library. Following the creation of Wirral Borough Council the exhibition became open to all in Wirral but continued to be shown in Wallasey until 1983 when the first Wirral Spring Exhibition was held at the Williamson.

In 1989 the exhibition was opened to photographers, with the support of Birkenhead Photographic Association who continued that support for 25 years.

The exhibition has gone from strength to strength over those years and it has been a consistent factor that prize winners are purchased for the gallery collections. In this way the Williamson has acquired some fantastic work to maintain its representation of local artists that stretches back over 200 years. Long may it continue.

Colin Simpson

Principal Museums Officer

Details for artists here