Court on Canvas/A Gem of a Game
Webb & Webb have designed the identity, catalogue, leaflets, exhibition graphics and advertising material for the new exhibitions at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts Court on Canvas and Gem of a Game. The Barber Institute at the University of Birmingham is less than half a mile from the birthplace of the modern game – the garden of a villa in suburban Edgbaston.
Court on Canvas features paintings, drawings, prints and mixed-media works dating from the 1870s through to the 21st century, by artists as diverse as Lavery, Spencer Gore, LS Lowry, Stanley Spencer, Eric Ravilious, Winnie the Pooh illustrator EH Shepard, David Hockney and Tom Phillips. It also includes the iconic 1970s Athena Tennis Girl poster, which was photographed on a tennis court at the University of Birmingham reshot alongside original model Fiona walker. Whilst A Gem of a Game is curated by University of Birmingham students and contains historic artifacts and ephemera such as the dress worn by Ann Jones when she won the Wimbledon championships in 1969.
COURT ON CANVAS: Tennis in Art/A Gem of a Game, 27 May – 18 September 2011
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TS
Fiona Walker/Athena Tennis Girl photograph © Stefan Rousseau/PA
