Banners honour artistic heritage
2:30pm Sat Feb 04, 2012
Work by some of Newark’s most famous and important artists will be appearing across the town as part of a project to celebrate their role in the art world.
The work will be seen throughout the town on banners produced by Newark Archaeological and Local History Society.
Early last year the family history section of the society embarked on a project to produce a series of heritage art banners depicting the work of artists who were either born in, or worked in, Newark, and who attained national and international acclaim.
Five were chosen: William Harold Cubley (1816-1896); William John Caparne (1856-1940); Sir William Nicholson (1872-1949); Robert Kiddey (1900-1984) and Peter Brannan (1926-1994).
Examples of work by each were chosen for banners, which also include information about the artists and their work.
The banners will go on display in locations where art is not normally seen.
The idea is to seek out further work by the artists, and to advertise the town’s art heritage.
When it was discovered that William Nicholson had won a gold medal in the graphic arts section of the 1928 Olympic Games, a sixth banner was designed depicting some of his woodcut illustrations from his Almanac Of Twelve Sports, for which he won the medal.
Three of the banners have been paid for by the Heritage Lottery Fund through the Trent Vale Landscape Partnership, a project aimed at conserving, enhancing and celebrating the landscape and communities between Farndon and West Stockwith.
The Olympic banner was paid for by EDF Energy.
The banners have been commissioned from Design by Distraction of Newark.
Their launch, part funded by a grant from Newark Town Council, will be on February 29 in the Town Hall.
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