{"id":258082,"date":"2025-11-03T04:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258082\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:30:10","slug":"penrith-rheged-gallery-holds-25th-anniversary-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/258082\/","title":{"rendered":"Penrith Rheged gallery holds 25th anniversary exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">An art gallery is marking a quarter of a century since it opened with an exhibition featuring 25 artists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Twenty Five &amp; Onwards, staged at Rheged in Penrith, includes painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and textiles by artists selected from across Cumbria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Many have previously displayed pieces at the venue, while others have been chosen as emerging talents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Organisers said it takes inspiration from Rheged&#8217;s first show, which was titled Twelve and featured work by a dozen people, and the gallery &#8220;wanted to honour the incredible artists who have been a key part of our story so far&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;This exhibition is both a celebration of the past and an exciting look ahead to the future of art in Cumbria,&#8221; curator Claire Harrison said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Derek Eland, who is among those whose work is on display, said Rheged had &#8220;never shied away from giving contemporary artists in Cumbria a high-quality platform to exhibit interesting and sometimes challenging work&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His contributions include Lakeland paintings as well as items produced following time spent in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The free-to-enter exhibition is open daily and runs until 1 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An art gallery is marking a quarter of a century since it opened with an exhibition featuring 25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-258082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}