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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens – ‘Received Wisdom’

February-May, 2020: Sunderland Museum selected four works from the Arts Council Collection, as part of its programme of working with regional galleries. A thought-provoking exhibition, it takes its title from an artwork by the artist Amikam Toren, who posed the question: who is deemed ‘creative’? The exhibition seeks to challenge ideas about what is expected of people engaged in art at different stages of life, by . . .

Blakesley Hall, Birmingham Museums - 'Nature's presence'

March-September, 2018; the exhibition included a Nerys work, selected from the Arts Council Collection: 'Lilies - Orange, Pink and Green on Grey Ground'.

Kilgallon Art Gallery, Northumberland

May-June, 2018; over 30 works, including charcoals, gouaches and etchings, were displayed.

Gallagher & Turner Gallery, Newcastle - '101 Years of British Art; 1916-2016'

September-November, 2017; the exhibition included several late flower paintings.

Gallagher & Turner Gallery, Newcastle - 'In Bloom'

July-September, 2017; the exhibition brought together four artists whose work examines botanical subjects and included a group of flower paintings by Nerys from 1998-2001.

Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton – 'Terrain: Land into Art'

March-July,2016; the exhibition included the painting ‘Three purple tulips with multi-leaf spray’ chosen from the Arts Council Collection.

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

July-August, 2014; the exhibition, curated by Martin Tinney, centred on works which depicted flowers and plant forms in colour.

Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge – 'Nerys Johnson - Another Language II'

April-May 2012; the exhibition was curated by Martin Tinney. Both this Gallery and the Martin Tinney Gallery specialize in leading Welsh-born or Welsh-based artists.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

January-June, 2012; a display of best loved works from the Gallery's Collection, included three Nerys paintings: ‘Fiery Lilies (& Dark Carnations)’ (1993); ‘Red/yellow tulip, deep purple ground’ (1998); and ‘Poppy on blue ground I' (1999).

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff - 'Nerys Johnson - Another Language'

June, 2011; an exhibition of flower and plant paintings.

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

June-September 2011: to mark the 10th anniversary of Nerys’s death, the Museum exhibited a group of her works and several sketchbooks from its Collection, displayed alongside works by Howard Hodgkin, including a large print, purchased for the Collection with support from NJCA Fund.

DLI Museum & Art Gallery, Durham - 'Nerys Johnson - Flower Imagery Over Time'

March-May 2011: a major exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary of Nerys’s death. It covered over 30 years, showing both continuity and change in her approach to her subject matter, through flowers which recur in her work. Gladioli, lilies, sunflowers and tulips were depicted in various media: charcoal and ink, watercolours, etchings and oil, as well as the late gouaches.

Hartlepool Art Gallery - 'John McCracken – His Work and Influence'

January-April 2011: the exhibition included two paintings by Nerys: ‘Royalist under Wraps’ (1994), and ‘Mother and Daughter’ (1992), displayed alongside works by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and others. McCracken (1936-82), a friend and colleague of Nerys's, was an artist, a gifted poet, jazz musician and an Art lecturer.

Broughton House Gallery and a private studio - 'From the Garden'

May, 2010: the exhibition, in Cambridge and London, showed paintings and drawings from Nerys’s last decade.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate - 'The Secret Garden'

April-June 2010: the exhibition, inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1910 classic children's novel, included three paintings by Nerys from the Gallery's Collection, including 'Fiery Lilies (and Dark Carnations)', 1993.

Falmouth Art Gallery - 'Mixed Bunch'

April-June 2010; the exhibition included ‘Maroon Tulip with Apricot Hyacinth and Blue Clematis’, Nerys's last work, painted on 28 May, 2001, which the Gallery had acquired. Falmouth Art Gallery received the first grant from the Fund, for a work by Trevor Bell (1930-2017); see NJCA Fund above.

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle - 'Newcastle Reinvented: Views Over the Ages'

September 2009-September 2010; the exhibition included 'Tyne Bridges at Night', a work donated by the Estate to Tyne & Wear Museums collection. It was one of 12 works showing the Tyne at Newcastle, commissioned as part of Visual Arts UK, and selected for Air UK 1997 calendar.

Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales

October-December 2006: the Centre exhibited a selection of works from 1992 to 2001, a fitting location, as Nerys was born in Colwyn Bay and some of her family still live in the area.

Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire

March-April 2006; flower and other paintings were shown at a venue chosen partly because Nerys spent her teenage years in nearby Mansfield, so the exhibition allowed people who knew her locally, and as an exhibitor with the Mansfield Society of Artists, to see how her early talent had developed.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate - 'Moments of Being'

June-July 2005: a selection of Nerys' work from the 1970s onwards, included landscapes, paintings from trips to Venice in the mid-1990s and paintings of flowers and plants. The title, 'Moments of Being', was taken from a touring exhibition Nerys devised and selected for the South Bank/Arts Council, 1988.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate - 'The Glory of the Garden: Flowers and Gardens in Art'

June-September 2004: the exhibition, which included several of Nerys’s late paintings, represented the nation in 'Europe in Bloom 2004'.

DLI Museum & Art Gallery, Durham - 'Nerys Johnson: the last year'

September-October 2003; a major selection from the works that Nerys painted towards the end of her life.

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Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens – ‘Received Wisdom’

February-May, 2020: Sunderland Museum selected four works from the Arts Council Collection, as part of its programme of working with regional galleries. A thought-provoking exhibition, it takes its title from an artwork by the artist Amikam Toren, who posed the question: who is deemed ‘creative’? The exhibition seeks to challenge ideas about what is expected of people engaged in art at different stages of life, by . . .

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Blakesley Hall, Birmingham Museums - 'Nature's presence'

March-September, 2018; the exhibition included a Nerys work, selected from the Arts Council Collection: 'Lilies - Orange, Pink and Green on Grey Ground'.

Kilgallon Art Gallery, Northumberland

May-June, 2018; over 30 works, including charcoals, gouaches and etchings, were displayed.

Gallagher & Turner Gallery, Newcastle - '101 Years of British Art; 1916-2016'

September-November, 2017; the exhibition included several late flower paintings.

Gallagher & Turner Gallery, Newcastle - 'In Bloom'

July-September, 2017; the exhibition brought together four artists whose work examines botanical subjects and included a group of flower paintings by Nerys from 1998-2001.

Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton – 'Terrain: Land into Art'

March-July,2016; the exhibition included the painting ‘Three purple tulips with multi-leaf spray’ chosen from the Arts Council Collection.

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff

July-August, 2014; the exhibition, curated by Martin Tinney, centred on works which depicted flowers and plant forms in colour.

Oriel Tegfryn, Menai Bridge – 'Nerys Johnson - Another Language II'

April-May 2012; the exhibition was curated by Martin Tinney. Both this Gallery and the Martin Tinney Gallery specialize in leading Welsh-born or Welsh-based artists.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

January-June, 2012; a display of best loved works from the Gallery's Collection, included three Nerys paintings: ‘Fiery Lilies (& Dark Carnations)’ (1993); ‘Red/yellow tulip, deep purple ground’ (1998); and ‘Poppy on blue ground I' (1999).

Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff - 'Nerys Johnson - Another Language'

June, 2011; an exhibition of flower and plant paintings.

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

June-September 2011: to mark the 10th anniversary of Nerys’s death, the Museum exhibited a group of her works and several sketchbooks from its Collection, displayed alongside works by Howard Hodgkin, including a large print, purchased for the Collection with support from NJCA Fund.

DLI Museum & Art Gallery, Durham - 'Nerys Johnson - Flower Imagery Over Time'

March-May 2011: a major exhibition to mark the tenth anniversary of Nerys’s death. It covered over 30 years, showing both continuity and change in her approach to her subject matter, through flowers which recur in her work. Gladioli, lilies, sunflowers and tulips were depicted in various media: charcoal and ink, watercolours, etchings and oil, as well as the late gouaches.

Hartlepool Art Gallery - 'John McCracken – His Work and Influence'

January-April 2011: the exhibition included two paintings by Nerys: ‘Royalist under Wraps’ (1994), and ‘Mother and Daughter’ (1992), displayed alongside works by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and others. McCracken (1936-82), a friend and colleague of Nerys's, was an artist, a gifted poet, jazz musician and an Art lecturer.

Broughton House Gallery and a private studio - 'From the Garden'

May, 2010: the exhibition, in Cambridge and London, showed paintings and drawings from Nerys’s last decade.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate - 'The Secret Garden'

April-June 2010: the exhibition, inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1910 classic children's novel, included three paintings by Nerys from the Gallery's Collection, including 'Fiery Lilies (and Dark Carnations)', 1993.

Falmouth Art Gallery - 'Mixed Bunch'

April-June 2010; the exhibition included ‘Maroon Tulip with Apricot Hyacinth and Blue Clematis’, Nerys's last work, painted on 28 May, 2001, which the Gallery had acquired. Falmouth Art Gallery received the first grant from the Fund, for a work by Trevor Bell (1930-2017); see NJCA Fund above.

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle - 'Newcastle Reinvented: Views Over the Ages'

September 2009-September 2010; the exhibition included 'Tyne Bridges at Night', a work donated by the Estate to Tyne & Wear Museums collection. It was one of 12 works showing the Tyne at Newcastle, commissioned as part of Visual Arts UK, and selected for Air UK 1997 calendar.

Ruthin Craft Centre, North Wales

October-December 2006: the Centre exhibited a selection of works from 1992 to 2001, a fitting location, as Nerys was born in Colwyn Bay and some of her family still live in the area.

Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire

March-April 2006; flower and other paintings were shown at a venue chosen partly because Nerys spent her teenage years in nearby Mansfield, so the exhibition allowed people who knew her locally, and as an exhibitor with the Mansfield Society of Artists, to see how her early talent had developed.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate - 'Moments of Being'

June-July 2005: a selection of Nerys' work from the 1970s onwards, included landscapes, paintings from trips to Venice in the mid-1990s and paintings of flowers and plants. The title, 'Moments of Being', was taken from a touring exhibition Nerys devised and selected for the South Bank/Arts Council, 1988.

Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate - 'The Glory of the Garden: Flowers and Gardens in Art'

June-September 2004: the exhibition, which included several of Nerys’s late paintings, represented the nation in 'Europe in Bloom 2004'.

DLI Museum & Art Gallery, Durham - 'Nerys Johnson: the last year'

September-October 2003; a major selection from the works that Nerys painted towards the end of her life.