exhibitions April - August 2008

All exhibitions at New Greenham Arts are open from 10am - 5pm, Monday - Friday, with a late night viewing on Thursdays till 8pm, and on Saturdays by appointment only - call 01635 817480 to book.

'THE GREENHAM MUSEUM - THE GREENHAM RESORT ' Roger Perkins Monday 18th February - Friday 11th April The Gallery Coming to New Greenham Arts...the newly refurbished Greenham Common Museum - home to the History of The Greenham Holiday Resort. In its 1950's and 1960's heyday Greenham Holiday Resort could boast that it was the place to go to relax and enjoy the modest but modern facilities it had to offer. Yet, nowadays, few people will remember it at all or that it was such a popular holiday destination. Many people visiting our museum for the first time will be surprised by this post-war government initiative and how much it was enjoyed and appreciated by its visitors. So come and visit us to see for yourself!

'ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES - ALTERNATIVE VOICES' Local young and elderly people Tuesday 8th - Friday 18th April Studio 2 Through a series of photography and reminiscence workshops Alternative Histories - Alternative Voices emerges bringing a fresh perspective of how our community engages with Greenham Common. Created by a group of local young people and elderly, this exhibition will be a visual and audio adventure into the past and the future.

'INSIGHT 2008' Open Studios Thursday 8th May - Sunday 1st June The Gallery 90 artists open their studios and are represented in a massive linked exhibition at New Greenham Arts called 'Insight 2008'. Read all about the artists, times and dates for studios and details about workshops in a glossy, free Directory of Artists, available from the Corn Exchange Box Office, the Central Library, the Tourist Information Centre and New Greenham Arts from April 1st.

'HOME' Robert Golden Thursday 5th - Friday 27th June The Gallery 'Home' is an exhibition by Robert Golden of 70 black and white photographs interspersed with documentary films, texts and some traditional music. As tourism, fast food joints, brands, movies, language and music travel across borders without constraint, a homogenization of culture is occurring in which people lose not only the sense of where they belong but the memory of belonging, the sense of HOME itself…the place which is distinctive and theirs. 'Home' reveals the demise of the British Industrial working class in the 1970s and the global financial and cultural assault on farmers and rural areas today around Europe.

'SKIES' Giles Penfound Thursday 3rd July - Friday 1st August The Gallery “Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its infinity.” Bayard Ruskin, The True and Beautiful - The Sky ‘One of the simpler and less contentious truths I have realised is that we all tend to ignore in varying degrees that which we see every day. We see the sky every day but seldom are conscious of the truly staggering beauty that is inherent in its form. Perhaps on occasion we might remark at the beauty of a sunrise or sunset, the dark brooding menace of a thunder storm; but what of all the other vistas that are present every day and night?’

For details about hiring the exhibition spaces at New Greenham Arts see the building's facilities page or contact the Visual Arts Manager, Sally Childs, on 01635 817480 or e-mail sally@ng-arts.org.uk