JMW Turner: The Sun is God

23 June - 1 October 2000

Admission £4, £3 concessions (includes entry to Douglas Gordon)

Tate Liverpool's summer show presents a new vision of the work of JMW Turner. Mark Francis, formerly chief curator of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, USA, has selected thirty oil paintings and watercolours from the Turner Bequest. His approach to the exhibition invites new interpretations of Turner's work, highlighting the relationship between sketching and painting and clarifying Turner's working methods.

Turner's paintings, the majority of which date from the 1830s and 1840s, will be presented unframed and in natural light, much as they would have looked in his studio. Tate Liverpool is surrounded by water, and the effect of showing these paintings without frames and in the ever-changing, reflected daylight of the Gallery's top floor is an experiment in seeing Turner's work 'as new'.