Free exhibition of John Berger's drawings, early oil paintings, prints and books from the John Berger Estate, marking his centenary.
John Berger, A Life of Drawing opened at Mandell's Gallery on 17 October and runs until 21 November. It's a collection of Berger's visual work — drawings, paintings, photographs and books — drawn from the John Berger Estate, and it's billed as the only UK exhibition of his visual work on display during his centenary year.
Drawing, alongside writing, was one of the great constants of Berger's daily life, and this show brings together work from his art school days in the 1940s right through to his 90th birthday. A good deal of it has never been shown in public before. You'll see early oil paintings from private collections and the experimental photo sequence At Remaurian from the 1960s. The exhibition was co-curated by John Christie and Martin Battye, and it's accompanied by a 52-page book featuring 25 drawings with texts by Berger, John-Paul Stonard and Geoff Dyer, plus an end piece by the artist Yves Berger.
It sits at the centre of a wider centenary programme across Norwich. There's John Berger: From Life at The National Centre for Writing, Four Horizons: John Berger's Pilgrimage to Ronchamp at The Forum, and the choral reading Do You Know What I Watch?, performed by his son Yves Berger and daughter Katya Berger Andreadakis.
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Mandell's Gallery is on Elm Hill in the Cathedral Quarter (NR3 1HN). Entry is free. It's open Tuesday and Wednesday 10am to 4.30pm, and Thursday to Saturday 10am to 5pm.
