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Entrance to the Gallery is free. It is open during Library opening hours.
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  15Jun
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  End date

  29Jun
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  Izzy Brimelow
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  Paintings By Geoff Sawers & Isobel Brimelow
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  Reading Artists Geoff Sawers and Isobel Brimelow present a new selection of paintings and drawings in their first joint exhibition for two weeks at the Holybrook.

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  20Jan
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  27Jan
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  Jo Baker
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  Jo Baker – Tree Museum
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  This exhibition was inspired by my love of trees and our fragile relationship with the natural world.

  My ‘lumpy’ paintings celebrate texture and incorporate both natural and manmade elements; from beads, to shells, stones and discarded objects.

  Website: jojotoes100.wixsite.com/artist

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  25Nov
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  2Dec
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  S. Fernandes
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  Mapp Art Group
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  The Mapp Art Group is a lovely crowd of art enthusiastic people. Watercolour+ you could call it, as we are always trying to include all sorts of other media in our Friday morning watercolour gatherings. Most of us have been with this class for more than a decade.

  What used to be run by an art teacher, who sadly retired 2018, is now running on its own. As we have been doing this for a while now, there is always friendly advice available, which keeps us motivated. Come and see for yourself what we have accomplished in the past years. Contact us on https://www.facebook.com/Mapp-Art-Group-561668267640583/

   

   

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• Start date

  25Oct
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  1Nov
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  Food4Families RISC
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  The Power Of Growing
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  The Power of Growing is a collaborative project with participants of Food4families 8 community food growing spaces and Artist Lisa-Marie Gibbs .

   

  It comprises of a installation ‘Findlings’ inspired by treasures found in the garden and a selection of ‘Garden X-rays’- mono-prints made of beautiful things found on the sites because we look but we don’t always see…

  

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• Start date

  16Sep
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  30Sep
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  CIRDIC
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  On The Edge
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  Churches in Reading Drop – in Centre (CIRDIC) provides a safe and welcoming refuge for people who are homeless and/or living on the edge of society.

  Every Tuesday and most Fridays throughout the year clients are given the opportunity to be creative at the art table. This show is a selection of work that has been created during these sessions.

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• Start date

  15Jul
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  22Jul
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  MECE Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge.
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  MECE 2019
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  This exhibition is a celebration of Maiden Erlegh Chiltern Edge’s Fine Art Class of 2019 Art work. On show are selected prints of students GCSE final outcomes

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• Start date

  24Jun
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  6Jul
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  Heather McAteer, Sarah Read and Fong Scott
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  ‘…to the Power of 3’
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  Heather McAteer, Sarah Read and Fong Scott reprise their ‘…to the power of 3’ collective at the Holybrook Gallery for Open for Art 2019

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  7May
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  28May
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  Open Studios Accredited Reading Artists - West Berks and North Hampshire
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  Get Reading Art
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  West Berkshire Open Studios artists in the Reading area, are showing a taste of their work in the heart of the town. The wide and varied selection will run in an exhibition to whet the appetite and discover more!

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  2Apr
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  End date

  18Apr
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  Isobel Brimelow
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  Lines of Thought
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  An exhibition of paintings drawn from imagination, evoking untold stories and remembered dreams. The artworks, in oil and watercolour, are characterised by fluid lines which are interwoven and sometimes incised. Elements from nature, myth and folklore are combined and re-invented to create dream-like images, touched with darkness and open to interpretation.

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• Start date

  4Mar
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  End date

  1Apr
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  Richard Young
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  Figurative Passions
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  An eclectic mix of beautiful, deeply passionate figurative fine art, featuring original oil paintings, pastels and signed Artist’s prints of dancers, musicians and portraiture.

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• Start date

  4Feb
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  11Feb
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  Reading Pride
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  Have Pride
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• Start date

  28Jan
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  End date

  2Feb
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  Chris Forsey
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  Reading And Clonmel, A Twinning History
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  10Dec
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  End date

  17Dec
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  Maria Teresa Molner
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  Scenes
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  Apart from being an artist, I am also a picture restorer.

  My paintings are inspired by light, colour and the natural world, capturing a brief glimpse of beauty and excitement.

  I use a pallet knife to create an impressionistic look.

  I live in Reading and have had numerous exhibitions

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• Start date

  26Nov
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  3Dec
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  Whiteknights Studio Trail
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  – comes to Town for Christmas

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• Start date

  20Nov
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  End date

  24Nov
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  Heather McAteer & Paul Woolley
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  A Dialogue In Light And Shade
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  Works on Paper by Paul Woolley and Heather McAteer
  An engaging exhibition of work by two artists presenting contrasting responses to a theme.
  Inspired by places of cultural and personal significance, Heather McAteer’s work discusses how the narratives of the past are constructed and presnted, particularly in relation to her
  native Northern Ireland.
  Paul Woolley’s work relates to landscape and the environment with special interest in natural/organic forms and how they can interact with more geometric shapes, to form new images and motifs.
  Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24 November 2018
  Private View: Thursday 22 November 6-8pm

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• Start date

  6Nov
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  17Nov
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  Liz Real & Martina Hildebrandt
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  Reading in the margins
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  An exhibition of new work: lino cuts, mixed-media, painting and collage based around the theme of the margins of Reading in every sense of the word.

  Martina’s work will feature women of Reading within her strolling figures series while Liz will include a series of works inspired by her visit to Reading Prison when it was opened to the Public a couple of years ago as well as other features of the town that are ‘on the edge’.

  There will also be an opportunity to meet the artists on several days while the exhibition is on. Dates to be confirmed.

  

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• Start date

  9Oct
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  End date

  13Oct
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  Senior Citizens' Art Group
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  Aspects of Life
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  18Sep
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  End date

  1Oct
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  Federico Peloppa
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  Beyond The Border
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• Start date

  13Aug
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  End date

  20Aug
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  Kate Spencer-Millan
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  Of Heart And Determination
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  An exhibition of heart and determination. For the love of The Camino de Santiago and the love of painting. I have created these alcohol inks paintings to relive and share with you, my personal journey. A personal journey of ups and downs as I hiked 500 miles across Spain.

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• Start date

  23Jul
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  4Aug
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  Anna Suchodolska
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  Curious encounters in one of the Universes
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  Marcin Kulabko observes the actions of the people from his surroundings. His nameless characters, objects and patterns are applied individually to paper. Kulabko’s practice touches on surrealism; there is a playful element to his work, as the skilful blend of coloured marker-pen enhances the lunacy of the works perspective

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• Start date

  10Jul
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  21Jul
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  Chris Forsey
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  Hung drawn & quartered: photographs of the Abbey restoration
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  3Jul
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  7Jul
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  Jelly Arts
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  Open for Art
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• Start date

  22Jun
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  23Jun
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  Equaliteas – pop in for free tea and cake
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  EqualiTeas is a UK parliament-backed celebration of the 1928 Equal Franchise, which gave men and women the right to vote on the same basis in general elections. Our Equaliteas are also part of Vote 100 Reading – celebrating 100 years since (some) women were able to vote. Pop in anytime between 2.30 and 4.30pm for free tea and cake and find out about Berkshire’s, sometimes quirky, ways of voting.

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• Start date

  20Jun
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  30Jun
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  Jenny Halstead
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  Ancient and Modern – The Role of a Berkshire High Sheriff
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  An exhibition of paintings and sketches produced during the year of office. Looking back at the origins of a High Sheriff in 1064 and the role today.

  

  

  

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• Start date

  22May
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  2Jun
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  Jo Thomas
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  Presencing place
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  An exhibition reflecting on how we come to know and shape our places

  Jo Thomas is a Reading based artist whose work responds to place. Her work encompasses a range of media: gestures, photographs, actions, being, drawing, walking, instruments of intervention and participation. Thanks to the local studies library for continuing to be such a valuable source of all things local to Reading.

  
  
  

  
  
  

  
  

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• Start date

  9May
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  19May
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  Julie Simmonds
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  The Reading Project
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  A visual record of the development of Reading’s architectural heritage

  
  

  

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• Start date

  24Apr
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  5May
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  Darran K Roper
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  Fragments of Sight
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  A photographic journey in colour through the eyes of a local street photographer.

  I’m affected by the photograph and the immediate nature of street photography. I’m captivated by the instantaneous curation required; the series of choices and sensibilities a photograph is shaped by. I emotionally respond to colour and form and strive to find the rhythm that flows through.

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• Start date

  12Apr
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  21Apr
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  Reading Guild of Artists
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  …and the waters flowing beneath…
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  A group exhibition featuring some of Reading Guild of Artists’ 170 Members

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Entrance to the Gallery is free. It is open during Library opening hours.
Please check these on the Central Library website