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The Fond Farewell by Edmund Blair Leighton (1852–1922), exhibited at Messum's

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 Tithe Barn.[1][2][3]

History

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David Messum Fine Art is an art gallery founded in 1963[4] 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.[5]

The gallery exhibits contemporary art and work by British Impressionist, modern and figurative painters and sculptors. Messum's has promoted the work of the early Newlyn and St Ives painters.[6] In 2012, a proposed development in Cork Street threatened to cause Messum's to move.[7][8]

In 2016, Johnny Messum founded Messums Org, an art gallery based in the tithe barn at Place Farm, Tisbury, Wiltshire.[9][10] Messums Org is a Non-profit organization with a branch in London known as Messums London, with sculpture and focus on Arte Povera. They had at least 114 exhibitions with 160 artists,[11] mostly in London. Messums Org participated in 3 art fairs, including twice in the British Art Fair 2019 in London and once in Photo London in the UK.[12]

Galleries

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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.[13] Messums London is a refurbished 1950s exhibition space on Cork Street,[14] run and managed by Johnny Messum and his team.[15] 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.[16] 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.[17]

Artists

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Artists who have exhibited at the gallery include William Bowyer, Peter Brown,David Chesworth,[18] James Dodds, Rose Hilton, Kurt Jackson,[19] Atong Atem,[20] Edward Piper, John Piper,[21] Elizabeth Frink[17],Laurence Edwards[22] and Jeremy Annear.[23]

References

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  1. ^ "Brown's London Art Weekend". Apollo Magazine. 4 July 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  2. ^ Chislett, Helen (3 September 2016). "Thatching a plan: how a medieval tithe barn became a contemporary art gallery". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  3. ^ "Messums London, London, UK". www.mutualart.com. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  4. ^ artLONDON Archived 16 January 2006 at the Wayback Machine, 2005.
  5. ^ "British Impressionism: A Garden of Bright Images". Pallant House Gallery. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  6. ^ "Modish modernists". www.ft.com. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  7. ^ "A third of Cork Street's galleries to close". Phaidon. 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2012.
  8. ^ Batty, David (20 August 2012). "Mayfair's art galleries under threat from developers". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Out of Africa and into Messums: UK gallery launches new photography department with vintage prints of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 10 May 2021. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  10. ^ "Messums of London art gallery comes to Harrogate". Great British Life. 26 July 2020. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  11. ^ "Gilbert Bayes Award 2022... | Exhibitions | MutualArt". sculptors.org.uk. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  12. ^ ArtFacts. "Messums Org | Institution". ArtFacts. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  13. ^ "Wiltshire's A303: the route to a buyer's art". Financial Times. 24 August 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  14. ^ Jansen, Charlotte (2 May 2024). "Yan Wang Preston review – gloriously confronting art history in the nude". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  15. ^ "'Who put a price on my head?' Mayfair gallery's show of coal miners' bronze busts sparks controversy". web.archive.org. 18 May 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  16. ^ "Lowestoft: Former post office restoration is complete". 14 May 2023. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  17. ^ a b "Saved from collapse, sculptor Elisabeth Frink's studio to be resurrected within 13th-century barn". web.archive.org. 3 December 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2025.
  18. ^ https://leberandchesworth.com/assets/Documents/21_Andrew_Stephens_SMH_print.pdf
  19. ^ Kurt Jackson — Biography Archived 5 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  20. ^ "Identity & Transformation in Multi-Layered, Multi-Cultural Environments: Atong Atem's "Self Portraits & Family Studies" @ Messums London". Irenebrination: Notes on Architecture, Art, Fashion, Fashion Law, Science & Technology. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
  21. ^ Musson, John, John and Edward Piper. Country Life, 7 June 2007.
  22. ^ https://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/news/orange-regional-gallery-set-to-host-exhibition-by-leading-british-sculptor-laurence-edwards/
  23. ^ "Jeremy Annear - Biography". Eastwood Fine Art. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
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