Robert #2 from "The New Faces" exhibition is to become apart of Reading Museum's permanent collection.

After having exhibited his collection "The New Faces" at Reading Museum for their "Reading Steady Go! Exhibition" which ran from 6th April 2011 until 9th October 2011, Dean Chalkley offered "Robert #2" as a gift to the Museum.



This offer to donate the picture featuring the Reading-born subject "Robert Grindrod" was brought forward to the Reading Museum's acquistion's group.

We've recieved the wonderful news that the committee was unanimous in accepting this offer to add this picture to the Museum's fine art collection.

We are told that the museum's curators are concidering hanging "Robert #2" next to Gilbert Spencer's portrait "Reading Boy" of 1923; Wonderful news!

We'll keep you posted with more news on this soon, so watch this space...

LIBERATION!

Stephanie Binet from Liberation came over the channel last month to London to do a piece about Mod Culture. After coming to the premiere of Dean’s new short film YOUNG SOULS, which took place at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club in London, she traveled to Reading for the “Reading Steady Go” festival. The festival; run by Reading Museum is a retrospective of the explosion of 1960’s youth culture and it’s legacy today. Here Stephanie also encountered Dean’s exhibition “The New Faces” exhibition, which is centered around a group of young modernists.

The results of Stephanie’s exploration can be seen here in Liberation!