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Queens Park Bolton
Oil on Board - (46cm x 40cm)
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery hosted the Sacred Sites touring exhibition from January 16th until March 13th 1999, during which time Jean Hesketh, a Bolton social worker, invited Jerry Gordon to lead a painting workshop. What transpired was a new and distinctive series of paintings. The Daubs were reborn, this time manifesting as the Park Lodge Daubs. Park Lodge is a Social Services facility situated adjacent to Queens Park, a resource helping people
overcome personal challenges. Queens Park is one of the town's amenities and a place of natural beauty. During the summer and on a few particularly sunny days, a group of Park Lodge painters, led by Jerry Gordon, painted scenes of Queens Park. As with the Greenbank Park project in Liverpool, five years earlier, inspiration was gleaned from the colourful Matisse-led Fauves.
The curating staff at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Adrian Jenkins, Lucy Whetstone and Caroline Ashworth, were so impressed with the new body of work that they agreed to show the pictures to the public. The Park Lodge Daubs exhibition was shown from July to October 1999 and opened by the towns Mayor and director of Social Services.
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indexThe curating staff at Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Adrian Jenkins, Lucy Whetstone and Caroline Ashworth, were so impressed with the new body of work that they agreed to show the pictures to the public. The Park Lodge Daubs exhibition was shown from July to October 1999 and opened by the towns Mayor and director of Social Services.
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"Whilst exhibiting in Bolton two extra things happened. The Diploma course I was in the midst of at the University of London, required a piece of academic work, a placement to be done on an arts venue – and so this was it. Course supervisor Trish Forrester made the trip up north to see this. Along with several essays and reports this all helped greatly in me eventually receiving that Diploma in Arts Management."