Wallace 100

praesentia

Press release  for  ‘Wallace 100’

A group exhibition and Art Trail

by artists, Caryl Beach, Veronica Grassi and Sally Tyrie under the group name of ‘Praesentia’

Dates; Thursday 7^th Nov 2013  for approx. 2 weeks

Location; Hertford Town Centre – shop windows / walls inside premises.

Caryl Beach, Veronica Grassi and Sally Tyrie studied together at the University of Hertfordshire on the MAFine Art course and are currently based at Digswell Arts Trust studios near Welwyn. Following on from a very successful show at Courtyard Arts in Hertford in 2012, which explored aspects of Hertford’s past, they have come together again to create and display work that responds to one of Hertford’s historical residents, Alfred Russell Wallace. Their exhibition titled ‘Wallace 100’ coincides with nationwide events being organised by the Natural History Museum and partner institutions around the world to ‘commemorate the life and work of Alfred Russell…