Past Exhibitions
Watts Gallery: A Journey of Hope
1 April - 28 September 2008 (extended from 31 August due to popular demand)
The final exhibition at Watts Gallery, Compton, will tell the story of the Gallery and its 104 year history. Since it first opened to the public on 1 April 1904 (the same date as the exhibition opens) the Gallery has succeeded in bringing important art to a wide audience, cementing G. F. Watts and Mary Watts’ vision of art for all.
The exhibition will explore the past as well as the future of the Gallery with a newly commissioned model of the Gallery site and images of how the newly restored rooms will look. The exhibition will look at the history of the Gallery and how, by recapturing the original vision of its founders through closely studying the original paint colours, wall coverings, room structures and restoring accurately what was a state of the art building for its time, the unique ‘sense of place’ that visitors regularly comment on will be preserved in the restoration.
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