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Messums Org is a collaborative space designed for artists, collectors, and thinkers. It serves as both a virtual and physical network for engaging with creative expression across various artistic genres. Originally founded as Messums Wiltshire in 2016 by Johnny Messum in a 13th Century

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History

David Messum Fine Art is an art gallery founded in 1963 in Bury Street, St. James's, London run by David Messum, with a branch in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Messums has staged significant exhibitions of British Impressionism, and in 1985 David Messum's publishing company published ''British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images'' by Laura Wortley. The gallery exhibits

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and work by British

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and figurative painters and sculptors. Messum's has promoted the work of the early

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and St Ives painters. In 2012, a proposed development in Cork Street threatened to cause Messum's to move. In 2016, Johnny Messum founded Messums Org, an art gallery based in the

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at Place Farm, Tisbury, Wiltshire. Messums Org is a

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with a branch in London known as Messums London, with sculpture and focus on

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. They had at least 114 exhibitions with 160 artists, mostly in London. Messums Org participated in 3 art fairs, including twice in the British Art Fair 2019 in London and once in

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in the UK.

Galleries

Messum West is a multi-purpose gallery and arts center based in Wiltshire, England. Opened in 2016 after a two-year restoration project to bring a thirteenth-century tithe barn back as an exhibition and event space. Messums London is a refurbished 1950s exhibition space on

Cork Street Cork Street is a street in Mayfair in the West End of London, England, with many contemporary art galleries, and was previously associated with the tailoring industry. Location The street runs approximately north-west from the junction of Burl ...

, run and managed by Johnny Messum and his team. Messums East, a significant new visual arts and cultural space to be opened in Lowestoft town center as part of a wider program of regeneration in Lowestoft. In 2019, the workings of Elizabeth Frink arrived at Messums Wiltshire with the reconstruction of Woolland studio in the historic tithe barn. The studio was rescued from collapse and revived as an exhibition space displaying works from Frink’s studio and elements of her working practice and environment.

Artists

Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include William Bowyer, Peter Brown,

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, James Dodds, Rose Hilton, Kurt Jackson, Atong Atem, Edward Piper, John Piper, Elizabeth Frink, Laurence Edwards and Jeremy Annear.

References

External links

Messum's website
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