Bankside Gallery
| Address: | 48 Hopton Street, SE1 9JH |
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| Phone: | 020-7928 7521 |
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| Opening times: | Daily 11:00–18:00 during exhibitions |
| How to get there: | Tube: Blackfriars/Southwark |
| Entry fee: | Usually free |
| Additional information: | Bookshop |
| A modern, airy building designed by Fitzroy, Robinson and Partners, with fine views of the river and St Paul’s Cathedral, and with Tate Modern nearby, Bankside Gallery opened in 1980 and is home to the Royal Watercolour Society (founded 1804) and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (founded 1880). Both have a distinguished history, the former attracting members such as John Sell Cotman, John Varley, Edward Burne-Jones and John Singer Sargent, the latter Laura Knight, Walter Sickert and Graham Sutherland. The Painter-Printmakers, formerly known as the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, was formed to promote recognition for etchers, engravers and mezzotinters, who at the time were not eligible for membership of the Royal Academy (printmaking being deemed a reproductive, not a creative, process). Selections from the collection of diploma works, given to the Societies by artists on their election to membership, are sometimes on display. The Printmakers have their annual exhibition in May, the Watercolour Society an exhibition every spring and autumn. Otherwise, the gallery has a changing programme of contemporary watercolour and original print exhibitions. | |
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