15 January \u2013 27 March 2022<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n
This winter, The Lightbox will host the new Upper Gallery exhibition Hubert Arthur Finney: Out of the Shadows. <\/strong>The achievements of Hubert Arthur Finney (1905-1991) have been largely overshadowed. This exhibition, the first in over fifty years, shines a light on unrecorded works from Hubert Arthur Finney\u2019s studio alongside the first-ever publication on the artist (1905-1991), based on his recently discovered autobiography.\u00a0<\/p>\n Amongst Finney’s most original and modern compositions are his interior and exterior views illuminated by artificial light \u2013 city streets and domestic interiors \u2013 which form a counterpoint to his more traditional gentle Berkshire and Surrey landscapes, painted preferably at dawn and dusk.\u00a0<\/p>\n For Finney, who had a reclusive personality, drawing and painting served both as a means to approach the world but also as a place where he could find refuge from it. His subject matter moved unconsciously between two domains – that of daylight hours, and that of the night. The former resulted in compositions capturing subtle changes in light and colour –\u00a0 but, there is almost always a sense of light fading, dissipating into the dark . Night-time\u00a0appears to be the habitat where Finney, his compositions emerging out of the shadows, was more naturally at home.\u00a0<\/p>\n Initially studying painting under Amy Browning and Percy Jowett, and etching under Eric Gill, Finney went onto the Royal College of Art where he became a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of William Rothenstein. After a travelling scholarship to Rome, in 1929, Finney returned to become a teacher at Chelsea School of Art – working alongside Henry Moore who was in charge of the Sculpture Department and Graham Sutherland, the Department of Design.\u00a0<\/p>\n In 1939, Finney joined the Light Rescue Service of the Civil Defence – producing a fascinating series of images of life on the Home Front.\u00a0 After the war he took up a part-time teaching post at Reading University and remained in charge of life drawing until his retirement in 1970.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n During the 1960s Finney spent a year in America, on an exchange program at the University of Wisconsin, living in Milwaukee. While there, he produced a vibrant body of new work inspired by friendships with celebrated American artists such as Joe Freibert and Danny Pierce.\u00a0<\/p>\n In spite of a retrospective at the University of Oxford’s Institute of Education in 1964, Finney’s star, at the time barely resonant enough to leave more than a faint trace, has since all but passed into oblivion. Even with a nod in the direction of Finney’s own self-effacing sense of modesty it is surely time to bring his work back to public attention \u2013 out of the shadows and into the limelight.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hubert Arthur Finney: Out of the Shadows<\/strong> will be on show at The Lightbox gallery and museum from 15 January \u2013 27 March 2022<\/strong>. For further information on the exhibition please visit thelightbox.org.uk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5106,"template":"","meta":[],"ga_event_category":[406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_pressrelease\/5105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_pressrelease"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ga_pressrelease"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ga_event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guildfordarts.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ga_event_category?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}