Coming Soon: Fry’s Popular Delights
The Farmyard watercolour by Edward Bawden 1950. A design for a tapestry for the Edinburgh Weavers Ltd. Difficult to pigeon-hole precisely, Popular Art is a non-academic, non-fine art with bold visual impact, jolly and decorative. Posters, prints, wallpaper, shadow...
Appointment of new Chair of Fry Gallery Trustees
As we look ahead to a new exhibition year, we are delighted to announce that the Fry Art Gallery has appointed a new Chair, Mark Myers to succeed David Oelman, who stands down at the beginning of March 2026. Mark’s professional background is at board level in...
New season: People at work!
The gallery is closed for the winter and the walls are bare. But behind the scenes things are stirring. Colin Wilkin, the Keeper of the Fry Collection has been busy with Mark Hearld selecting pieces from the stores to put on show in ‘Fry’s Popular Delights’. The...
Recent arrival: Richard Bawden’s watercolour box
Watercolour box owned by Richard Bawden The Fry Gallery’s collection doesn’t consist solely of artworks. We also own a surprising quantity of ephemera relating to ‘our’ artists, as well as an ever-expanding treasure trove of archive material....