David Jones: Vision and Memory
First posted: 19th April 2016 In Reviews David Jones (1895-1974) was a poet, a painter, engraver, illustrator and craftsman; a name synonymous with the modernist era but remains too little known. Vision and Memory , the current exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham’s Lakeside Arts, is a major exhibition organised to coincide with the publication of the new monograph of Jones’s work and marks the Battle of the Somme, in which Jones was seriously wounded. The exhibition is a partnership between Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, (where the exhibition was previously displayed) and Djanogly Gallery, having been organised by Amgueddfa Cymru, National Museum Wales, and includes works from both public and private collections such as the V&A and Tate. The Djanogly Gallery at Nottingham Lakeside Arts at the University of Nottingham seems an appropriate space to display Jones’s work, particularly in light of the University’s connections and promotion of another writer and artis