{"id":6503,"date":"2015-03-24T10:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T10:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2015-04-21T15:59:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:59:50","slug":"colyer-fergusson-gallery-launches-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2015\/03\/24\/colyer-fergusson-gallery-launches-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Colyer-Fergusson Gallery launches next month"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the very great strengths about Colyer-Fergusson is its mulitplicity of purposing – the flexibility of the concert-hall, the practice-rooms functioning as green rooms during events, the social\u00a0area that also works as a performance space – and we are\u00a0very excited\u00a0to be drawing further on the building’s potential next month by launching the Colyer-Fergusson Gallery<\/strong>, which will run the length of the upper balcony.<\/p>\n

\"Balcony_CF_Gallery\"<\/a>The building welcomes plenty of visitors on a daily basis –\u00a0people using the practice rooms, ensembles using the rehearsal spaces, music teachers working with the Scholarship students, as well as members of the University community and the general public\u00a0using the social areas or passing through on their way through to the Gulbenkian. At weekends, the building\u00a0throngs with external events; choral concerts, orchestral performances,\u00a0visiting performers.\u00a0The first-floor balcony is a large space that offers scope for visual art to be presented to those moving through the building, and next month sees the first of three planned exhibitions which will adorn its walls.<\/p>\n

The first two exhibitions form part of the\u00a0Tokaido Road<\/em> <\/a>project (a touring chamber opera with a libretto by Nancy Gaffield, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, to music by Nicola LeFanu, which comes to the Gulbenkian Theatre\u00a0in May):\u00a0 Walk Swale Medway <\/em>by Faversham-based artist Hope Fitzgerald<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0and Saxon Shore Way: a response to Tokaido Road<\/em> by the local collective, Earthbound Women<\/strong><\/a>. Both\u00a0exhibitions will explore similar themes of journeying and of travel, as part of the project, drawing inspiration from\u00a0the landscape and the history of Kent.\u00a0In September, to coincide with the Alumni Weekend, the gallery will host a photographic exhibition by the University’s very own Matt Wilson, whose excellent photographs of music events often feature on these pages.<\/p>\n

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Image: Hope Fitzgerald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There’ll be more about each exhibition nearer the time. Walk Swale Medway<\/em> will be the first to grace the exhibition space, and will run from Friday 14 April to Friday 1 May<\/strong>. Leaflets about the new gallery can now be found in the foyer.<\/p>\n