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Painted Quartets
4 -18 July 2009
Academicians Peter Swan and PJ Crook are among artists who have contributed to an exciting new exhibition to mark 250 years of the string quartet and which will be on display throughout this year's Cheltenham Music Festival. Painted Quartets is curated in association with Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum and is made up of damaged, beyond-repair violins, violas and cellos which have been lovingly painted and brought back to life by local and national artists. Other artists who have contributed include FLX, who recently curated and exhibited in the Crimes of Passion exhibition, Lincoln Seligman and Anthony Frost. After they have toured, the instruments will be auctioned for charity.
As part of the initiaitve and to support the exhibition, hundreds of cardboard violins are being painted in schools and community art groups.
Painted Quartets can be viewed from 4-18 July at the Pittville Campus’s Summerfield Gallery and the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Cheltenham Music Festival runs from 3- 18 July, www.cheltenhamfestivals.com.
RWA Education and Marketing Manager
Fiona Davies
0117 9735129
fionadavies@rwa.org.uk