Museums want to create the UK’s “largest ever art exhibition” – taking place in people’s front windows.
The National Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland are asking people to make artwork “to counter the gloom of the pandemic”.
The opening theme, chosen by Sir Antony Gormley, the British sculptor famous for the Angel Of The North, will be animals.
Artworks – drawn, painted, sculpted, built or created with other materials – can be put up on front windows, front doors, balconies or gardens.
Artwork depicting animals, created by Iggy and Romey, is displayed in a window in Acton, west London, to launch The Great Big Art Exhibition (David Parry/PA)
People across country to display artwork in their front windows
The theme for the first week is animals
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People across the country are being invited to create artwork at home and display it in their front windows.
Museums want to create the UK’s “largest ever art exhibition” – taking place in people’s front windows.
Published:
1:27 PM January 28, 2021
The first theme of the initiative is animals, a suggestion by Sir Anthony Gormley
- Credit: David Parry/PA
A Colchester arts venue has launched what could be the country s largest ever art exhibition as it encourages people to display their creative designs in their front windows.
Visual arts organisation Firstsite has created The Great Big Art Exhibition in conjunction with museums and galleries throughout the country.
The scheme is urging people to create artwork - such as drawings, paintings or sculptures - to counter the gloom of the pandemic and showcase their designs on their streets.
Thursday, January 28, 2021
The Great Big Art Exhibition has been announced with the faces of artists Ai Weiwei and Sir Antony Gormley flying the flag.
The UK’s “largest-ever art exhibition” will be held in people’s front windows - or wherever they can display it - due to lockdown and will feature the work of many well-regarded artists.
On board is The Tate, National Gallery, the National Galleries of Scotland and many more who are joining forces to encourage people to express and create art in the hope to “counter the gloom of the pandemic”.
The opening theme picked by Gormley will be animals and anyone can contribute by making drawings, paintings, sculptures or anything of the same theme then displaying it for all to see in their very own front windows, doors, gardens, outer areas or balconies.