Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up
Louise Bourgeois
ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois is a touring exhibition celebrating one of the most celebrated and influential figures in modern and contemporary art. Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) created a body of work over seven decades that was endlessly inventive, ranging from monumental installations to figurative sculptures and abstract collages.
This exhibition focuses on works produced during the last 20 years of her life, a period of extraordinary creativity, during which Bourgeois re-examined many of her lifelong concerns to create a body of powerful new work exploring identity, gender, childhood, family and memory.
For the first time on this current tour of ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois, Grundy Art Gallery presents one of Bourgeois’s monumental spider sculptures, Spider 1994, one of several important loans from The Easton Foundation in the exhibition.
Grundy Art Gallery is a beacon for contemporary art in the north-west with a year-round programme of contemporary visual art exhibitions and events and an award-winning learning and engagement programme. This is The Grundy’s second collaboration with ARTIST ROOMS, following a presentation of Roy Lichtenstein in 2019.
ARTIST ROOMS is a touring collection of international modern and contemporary art, presenting the work of individual artists in solo exhibitions. Its national programme reaches audiences across the UK and is developed through local partnerships. ARTIST ROOMS draw from a national collection jointly owned by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland that includes major bodies of work by international artists. ARTIST ROOMS gives young people the chance to get involved in creative projects, to discover more about art and artists, and learn new skills.
The ARTIST ROOMS programme and collection is managed by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland with the support of Art Fund, Henry Moore Foundation and using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and Creative Scotland. Its founding collection was established through The d'Offay Donation in 2008 with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, Art Fund and the Scottish and British Governments.
