HAPPY!

Opening times

Monday – Saturday, 10am – 5pm.

Price

Free entry (donations welcome).

The Hatton is pleased to present an exhibition curated from the Jerwood Collection by the Hatton Gallery’s young people’s group, L-INK.

The Jerwood Collection is a preeminent collection of modern British art, offering the group an unparalleled opportunity to work with a range of major artworks by British Artists.

Unlike most other professions or vocations every artist becomes an artist in different ways and at different times in their life. Some artists are art-makers all the time; others have relationships to the creative process which vary in their intensity, incidence and fluidity.

L-INK have been curious to understand the turning points and pivotal moments in the lives of artists that have been transformational, specifically, the ways in which artists have progressed their practices through the pathways they have taken, by way of both formal and informal education and their own lived experiences.

This exhibition will also celebrate the works of young artists at different stages of their arts development, in homage to Victor Pasmore’s 1957 Art Education Exhibition at the Hatton Gallery. As part of this project, one class from three different North East schools has worked with the Hatton on an in-depth exploration of selected artworks from the Jerwood Collection. Artworks made by pupils will also be displayed as part of the exhibition.

Image: L-INK young people’s group get HAPPY! with artworks made by a local school.

About L-INK
L-INK are a group of young people, aged 16 – 24, who work with the Laing Art Gallery and Hatton Gallery to collaborate, co-curate, produce events, work with artists and create artworks. In the past, L-INK have worked on facilitated projects with gallery staff, and have had the opportunity to meet artists, curators and different gallery teams; they have explored collaborative practice, exhibited their own artworks and offered creative interpretations of works on display. 

About Jerwood Collection
The Jerwood Collection of Modern and Contemporary art has been acquired during the last 30 years by Jerwood Foundation, a charity dedicated to supporting the arts in the U.K. Originally displayed on the walls of the Foundation’s then office in Fitzroy Square in London, the focus of the Collection is now to provide public benefit through its active exhibition and loaning programme.  

The history of the Jerwood Collection reflects, in part, the wider story of Jerwood itself and, as with most private collections, many works have a personal significance. In the first years of collecting Jerwood Foundation Chairman Alan Grieve CBE (1928-2025) was guided by the Jerwood Advisory Board and the late Sir Peter Wakefield (Director, National Art Collections Fund, now the Art Fund) who suggested some early key purchases including, Sir Frank Brangwyn’s From my Window at Ditchling. Bought in 1993.

Through its promotion of a broader understanding, interpretation and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art, an important part of Jerwood's philanthropic mission is delivered by the Jerwood Collection, which holds a significant number of paintings, works on paper, sculpture and prints by artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, John Piper, Stanley Spencer RA, Barbara Walker and Rose Wylie RA. It continues to grow with new acquisitions and donations under the direction of Lara Wardle, Executive Director and Trustee.