Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Wolverhampton Art Gallery
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Jessica S
Wolverhampton, UK23 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
sept de 2023 • Familia
Beautiful building, inside very clean with lovely galleries. A very nice cafe, friendly staff and most of all love it when the gallery puts activities on for my kids, such as the art play events, will be bringing my children here much more when they're abit older!(age 3 and 0)
Escrita el 13 de marzo de 2024
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bantockbelle
Wolverhampton, UK63 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
feb de 2024 • Amigos
I’ve visited the art gallery many times but wanted to review the cafe following a recent visit. The service was impeccable. The cafe was spotlessly clean with friendly and welcoming staff; very professional. Atmosphere was relaxed and you didn’t feel compelled to leave.
My friends and I ordered brunch. I was thrilled with the avocado and homemade salsa on sourdough. Freshly cooked and a very hearty portion - lovely bread. Coffee was brewed with care and tasted superb. I asked the name of the person (supervising?) - Leah, who was charming and professional. The whole team seemed to interact well and looked happy being there. Customer service was 10/10. I’d highly recommend!! Mother’s Day afternoon teas available. I’d witnessed this council-owned cafe diminish over the years, to providing uninspiring pre- prepared food with no real atmosphere. It was a lovely surprise to see the current cafe setting the bar high once again!
Escrita el 29 de febrero de 2024
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4.0 de 5 burbujas
oct de 2023 • Solitario
Visiting the art gallery was an enjoyable experience. The refurbishment looks good - this is not a tired municipal gallery, like so many. Arts Council England has got on board with trying to regenerate Wolverhampton and the West Midlands. It is great to see investment and one can only hope a good ‘chain of pearls’ effect might come of that for the wider city, should the Council, and local organisations experienced in regeneration, seize the opportunity.

I get the impression the art gallery (and mayb the theatre, which I didn’t visit) is the only feature of the city that might put visitors at ease. Yet it cannot reasonably sustain interest without other excellent amenities nearby. Judging by my long walk across Wolverhampton, I suspect it will take time for these to develop around the gallery. At present, there are virtually no conspicuously good restaurants that would indicate a developing cultural quarter, but mostly greasy fayre diners which any international tourist would likely avoid. There is of course the art gallery’s cafe, Glaze, if you like cake, and very nice it is too. If it diversified its menu it could be a welcome lunch destination for tourists.

Wolverhampton’s art collection is strong and features nationally important works - the unique selling points being its British, and select international, works of Pop art, and Black art, including from the Midlands’ seminal Blk Art Group of the late Seventies and early Eighties. Aside from the Ulster Museum’s own definitive collection, Wolverhampton also has very strong coverage of art documenting the Troubles in Northern Ireland (although it is not immediately obvious as to why!).

The temporary exhibition space - a suite of rooms - is extensive and beautifully designed, and the Derek Boshier exhibition, put on by an external guest curator, offered a coherent career retrospective with a great selection of loaned in works. It was a bit baffling, though, that the display’s wall graphics were printed onto ordinary paper, black text onto white, and pinned up with magnets as if place holders for the decal graphics or graphics panels presumably on order. As wall graphics are not especially costly, I doubt this had to do with running out of budget - therefore, it might have been a good idea to put a notice up to explain that they were a work in progress for the recently opened exhibition. A nicely produced book-cum-catalogue for the exhibition was expensive, at around £35 for a fairly slim volume; the price point was too high, especially for a lesser-known Pop pioneer and for an anthology-style publication of short essays, as opposed to a name most audiences would know well, befitting a detailed monograph. I would expect a Marco Livingstone Hockney monograph to suit that price point.

The wider Pop room was a nice summing up of developments with one wall given over to regular rehangs - a great idea for keeping the curatorial effort and overheads manageable while providing good coverage of this nationally esteemed collection.

The modern and contemporary displays tend to be more confidently and fluently curated than the 18th and 19th century collections which slightly jostle for space and seem more like didactic social history specimens befitting a general museum, as opposed to aesthetic spectacles for art gallery engagement. The visual enjoyment factor needed greater attention. This alerted me to the issue of period specialisms waning for earlier art in favour of modern and contemporary and the importance of regional galleries’ need for specialists from both fields. I appreciate that is not easy to strike that balance, and with collections that have notable gaps - for example, the Victorian art collection is composed mostly of unremarkable rustic genre works, with few examples of Pre-Raphaelitism and aestheticism, which I expect would make it a challenge to develop a wholly stunning Victorian Room. Still, the collection does boast enough good 18th century portraits to develop a more coherent visual draw than that dedicated room achieved. And the room could have done with some wall colour and the removal of what appeared to be large office tables and conference equipment - a big monitor screen seemed to be a permanent wall fixture, which I thought was a shame. The room appeared to be for hire, presumably by local businesses or council personnel, when instead there might have been a discrete space developed for such activity as part of the capital works.

To achieve a greater balance of collection coverage in the permanent display rooms, I would suggest curating the periods not necessarily in discrete rooms but across all the rooms, and therefore starting with early works and continuing to contemporary in one long run - late 18th century works might feature next to 19th century, and late 19th next to early 20th century. This might make greater use of key collection works, encouraging a sense of art historical continuity and change, without being constrained by room theme and over-emphasising weaker aspects of the collection.

Great care has been taken by the curators to write captions thoughtfully and intelligently. It would seem that the tradition of expertise at Wolverhampton Art Gallery - stretching back to the late Sixties - has so far been maintained, which, again, we rarely see these days in many hard-stretched regionals, as roles are increasingly eroded and diluted with local authority funding cuts. This gallery, in contrast with others (BMAG?), serves to remind us that a museum is only as good as its curation, and when the curation is good funding for a capital redevelopment is deserved.

I enjoyed my visit and would return if I could combine a trip with another destination (ICON? East Side Projects?). I wish that Wolverhampton, the city, could be as enjoyable as the gallery, but I felt I was missing the vital ingredients of attractiveness, culture and cosmopolitanism. I suppose I had hoped there would be less of a contrast between life and art, which was rather abrupt but not necessarily because of the hard times we live through. My impression of the people of Wolverhampton was that they are not necessarily struggling more than many Londoners do (statistically, a greater percentage of Londoners are on Universal Credit, with a much higher cost of living), and I noticed that some seemed happy enough to spend money socialising in large groups outside pubs on a Monday late afternoon. It seems that in the Midlands disposable incomes are perhaps not quite as tight as in many boroughs of London, where pubs are largely empty even on Friday and Saturday nights. Therefore, I can think of few reasons why a cultural quarter development would especially alienate the locals, and if money from visitors could aid the local economy, all the better. I hope that the dots will be joined so that the art gallery becomes less an island and more a galvaniser.
Escrita el 5 de noviembre de 2023
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i_love_london2007
Norwich, UK12 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
oct de 2023 • Pareja
we visited on a late night opening on Saturday,welcomed at the door and the chap whos name i didnt get, saw i was interested in a couple of exhibits and gave me some interesting info which i appreciated.diverse collection,wit local as well as international items.
Escrita el 30 de octubre de 2023
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Footloosenfancyfree
Londres, UK69 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
oct de 2023 • Pareja
A terrific collection of Pop Art, and currently showing a mix of 2D and pottery items. Stimulating and controversial works by Roy Lichtenstein, Allen Jones, Patrick Caulfield, Bridget Riley and others.
Also an excellent cafe with delicious coffee and cakes.
Deserves to be more visited. Highly recommended.
Escrita el 26 de octubre de 2023
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Lynn H
8 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
jul de 2023 • Familia
The staff here are really friendly, helpful and knowledgeable and the displays are really worth seeing. We had a really enjoyable visit with great assistance to see all that was on offer. Reasonably priced cafe and shop too.
Escrita el 20 de julio de 2023
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John C
Whitehaven, UK43 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
may de 2023 • Solitario
Really nice gallery with some great Pop Art (the largest collection outside of London, apparently). The staff were exceptionally friendly and helpful. And it's free.
Escrita el 25 de mayo de 2023
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moondustnstarlight
Wolverhampton, UK7 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
feb de 2023
It is my favourite place in Wolverhampton. The exhibitions change on a regular basis. They are a mix of contemporary and more traditional art. There is something for everyone. The staff and volunteers are friendly and helpful. The restaurant is very popular and serves lovely food.
Escrita el 4 de febrero de 2023
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Sul
Wolverhampton, UK224 aportes
2.0 de 5 burbujas
nov de 2022 • Solitario
So. Been here before. Was okay. Came here again. Wasn't okay. Two stars are only because the Gallery liked the photo I took from outside. Prior to taking the photo, a security looking/maintenance man stopped me and put his hand out like he was begging for change. Apparently, he thought I'd stole a lip balm. About 90 seconds earlier, Iifted the lip balm which slipped out of the sleeve. I opened it as I didn't know what it was. I replaced it immediately. I advised the security/cleaner to be sure of what he was saying. He wasn't sure. I left and came back, giving him search options. He gave me the 'cavity search' look so I'm glad he declined. No apology. Will I come back? Of course I will. Most of the staff are nice. Food is decent and so is the art.
Escrita el 15 de noviembre de 2022
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malcolm f
Lichfield, UK249 aportes
5.0 de 5 burbujas
nov de 2022
Went to The Wildlife Pictures of The Year - 100 pics approx out of 29000 submitted, all beautifully displayed with superb back lighting. took us 2.5 hours to see them all twice. the gallery is frae but £5.50 to see the wildlife well worth it!
Also new cafe on ground floor beautiful light decor, top qualityfood but not cheap You get what you pay for. Excellent helpful staff & clean loos
Escrita el 14 de noviembre de 2022
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