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Ref : 12/014 : Date : 17-02-2012

Worthing Museum and Art Gallery (In the Art Gallery)

18 February to 21 April 2012

With the support of the Public Catalogue Foundation and linked to the BBC project 'Your Paintings' the new Your Paintings exhibition at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery is your chance to discover some of the hidden gems from the museum’s collection.

Find out about stories and memories inspired by the art store as told by museum staff, members of the Friends of Worthing Museum, pupils of Davison Church of England High School and a wide range of other community groups and volunteers. In all thirty-five people were asked to choose their favourite paintings in the Museum collection.

Each person was also asked to give their thoughts about the painting they chose and their comments have been made into museum labels with a difference, as cartoon speech bubbles.

Hamish MacGillivray, exhibition curator, said: “It’s been a chance to ask Worthing residents to cast a fresh eye over our collections, and choose things they like. What has been very interesting is that the most popular paintings chosen are portraits and pictures that show extreme weather such as flooding in Worthing. This exhibition also shows the strong Sussex links that the collection has showing scenes from the Downs to the Coast.“

For those unable to visit the exhibition or wanting to add their own comments, images of all the Worthing Museum oil paintings are now available on the BBC Your Paintings website, making the collection accessible to a national and international audience.

To see more examples there is also a video of interviews on the exhibition on YouTube.

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