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None of the visionaries that dreamed of a picture gallery for the people of Nelson got to witness its opening, but I imagine that they would be so proud to see the Gallery today, the regard it’s held in, the high level of visitors and its continuing educational function.
BRADEN FASTIER / STUFF/Nelson Mail Make/Shift Spaces General Manager Anne Rush, left, and director of the Suter Gallery Julie Catchpole do some knitting at Nelson's bus depot next to a copy of a painting of Perrine Moncrieff by artist Marjorie Naylor as part of ArtWalk. A trip through central Nelson will become a walk of art, with 21 works adorning the walls of city buildings. The ArtWalk project is a joint effort by Make/Shift Spaces and The Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatū to reproduce and enlarge a selected group of artworks from The Suter’s permanent collection for display to cel...
COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had riding bets worth £4m today, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named him after the Teesdale village, sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. Cotherstone became regarded as the greatest racehorse of his day, but in an era when the sport of kings w...
COTHERSTONE has come home to the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle. A painting of the museum founder’s Derby-winning racehorse, on which he had bets worth £4m in today’s money riding, has been acquired at auction through a bequest left by a former headmistress of Polam Hall School in Darlington. John Bowes bred Cotherstone at his stud at Streatlam Castle, near Barney, in 1840, and, having named the horse after the Teesdale village, he sent him for training at John Scott’s yard in Malton in Ryedale. In those days, the sport of kings was notoriously crooked, and although Cotherstone...