Victor Willing

Hastings Contemporary opened a major retrospective of Victor Willing last week that has taken over the whole gallery.. The show charts his career from his time at the Slade School of Art, his time in Portugal and then in London.

I’m a big fan of Hastings Contemporary and as part of their ambitious and expanded programme, the exhibition features key loans from Tate, Pallant House Gallery, Arts Council Collection, Gracefield Arts Centre and private collections, bringing the best of Victor Willing’s works to the South Coast.

Willing was an artist who was called ‘a sort of spokesman for his generation’ by art critic David Sylvester, and worked alongside major names in British Art including Euan Uglow, William Coldstream and Craigie Aitchison. He was most famously married to Paula Rego The exhibition explores the relationship between Willing and his contemporaries and includes works by Elizabeth Frink, Michael Andrews and Paula Rego

The exhibition runs til 5th January 2010 at Hastings Contemporary, and includes a new short film by his son Nick Willing and material from the family archives.

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