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Exhibitions

Is there still life in British still life?

1 June 2024

9:00 AM

1 June 2024

9:00 AM

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 20 October

‘The tyrannical rule of nature morte is, at last, over,’ announced Paul Nash in the Listener in 1931. ‘Apples have had their day.’ Since Cézanne fulfilled his famous boast that he would astonish Paris with an apple, artists had been trying the same trick in London, with limited success. Astonishment, unfortunately, only works once.

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