Harrogate gallery offers place to relax and escape Covid tensions with new RESET exhibition

A Harrogate art gallery says it wants its new exhibition to provide a place where people can "relax and escape" in this year of Covid anxiety.
Spray paint on canvas at RedHouse gallery - New work from renowned Street Artist Nick Walker will be on show in Harrogate from this weekend.Spray paint on canvas at RedHouse gallery - New work from renowned Street Artist Nick Walker will be on show in Harrogate from this weekend.
Spray paint on canvas at RedHouse gallery - New work from renowned Street Artist Nick Walker will be on show in Harrogate from this weekend.

RedHouse gallery is about to launch ‘RESET’; a new group exhibition featuring emerging painters, printmakers and sculptors alongside established international bluechip artists from the fields of Pop Art, Street Art and Contemporary Art - with special emphasis on nine new paintings by Nick Walker set to go on display for the first time.

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The show will exist in reality at the gallery at 15 Cheltenham Mount but will also be well worth checking out digitally.

All the works on show at RedHouse have been extensively photographed to enhance the viewing experience and RedHouse are also offering virtual imaging options to bring the gallery into the home.

The title of the exhibition, which is launched next week, originates from a painting created by Nick Walker - who emerged from Bristol’s legendary street art scene with Banksy and Massive Attack’s 3D Del Naja.

Walker now lives and works in New York and has contributed nine new canvasses never previously shown in public.

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RedHouse director Richard McTague said: “RESET is a celebration of great art and great artists, there are no rules or boundaries.

"We envisage the gallery as a setting where people can relax, escape, be inspired.

"We are grateful to the amazing artists we work with who inspire us all on a daily basis and look forward to the response of our visitors.

"We need great art now more than ever.”

Highlights include two rare drawings by Pop Art pioneer Andy Warhol.

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These early works date from 1956 when Warhol was working as an illustrator in New York, showing a lesser-known side of the artist and his skills as a draftsman and great experimenter.

A group of drawings from the same period are currently on display as part of the artist’s major retrospective at Tate Modern.

RedHouse Originals Gallery specialise in Modern and Contemporary Art and has previously hosted major exhibitions by artists including Sir Peter Blake, Gered Mankowitz, Candie Payne and Dudley Edwards.

Initially established online, RedHouse has been actively involved in exhibition work since 2006.

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It also works with several leading multi-platform artists including Peter Doherty, Goldie, The Coral and Horace Panter.

‘RESET’ exhibition will features 100 artworks by 25 artists and opens at RedHouse on October 24 with works also featured online at www.redhouseoriginals.com

‘RESET’ at RedHouse will include the work of:

Banksy, Dan Baldwin, Peter Blake, Florence Blanchard, Thomas James Butler, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, KAWS, Danny Larsen, Gered Mankowitz, Lucy McLaughlan, John Middleton, Harland Miller, Horace Panter, Candie Payne, Bridget Riley, Schoph, Seen, Ian Skelly, Matt Small, Nick Walker, Andy Warhol, Jonas Wood and 3D Del Naja.

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