Choir to put on ‘joyous moving and uplifting’ Christmas concert<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n The exhibition, titled Levitate Me: Desire, Ecstasy and The Sublime, will showcase new oil paintings exploring themes of desire and euphoria, with nature interpreted through a female perspective.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ms Richardson, who was born in Southampton and spent much of her life in the city, has selected a selection of works from the city\u2019s collection to display alongside her own.\n<\/p>\n
\n The pairing is intended to highlight the influences and connections between historic and contemporary art.\n<\/p>\n
\n Newly acquired artworks will also go on public display for the first time, alongside rarely seen works on paper that were digitised during the gallery\u2019s temporary closure as part of the Unlocking Collections project, supported by Arts Council England.\n<\/p>\n
\n A photographic series documenting the refurbishment process, captured by award-winning Southampton-based architectural photographer Joe Low, will also form part of the displays.\n<\/p>\n
\n The refurbishment, supported by a \u00a32.23 million grant from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport\u2019s Museum Estate and Development Fund (MEND), ensures that this part of the Civic Centre and the nationally important art collection are preserved for current and future generations.\n<\/p>\n
\n The funding was awarded by Arts Council England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southampton City Art Gallery will welcome visitors back on Saturday, March 7, 2026. The opening will come more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-231140","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}