VERONICA RYAN: ‘TEN GOOD YEARS’
MAY 2026: THE HEONG GALLERY, CAMBRIDGE
29 May – 11 October 2026
Veronica Ryan, Nat a Pappi Sho!, 2025. Courtesy of Alison Jacques, London. © Veronica Ryan. Photo: Michael Brzezinski
The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, is ten years old. Since 2016, it has built a significant reputation as a leading platform for modern and contemporary art, with exhibitions by artists including David Hockney, Ai Weiwei and Yoko Ono.
Ten Good Years celebrates the gallery’s anniversary by paying homage to its inaugural exhibition Generation Painting 1955–65: British Art from the Collection of Sir Alan Bowness. This exhibition showcased works from the collection of Bowness, a former Director of the Tate Gallery and a Downing College alumnus. Ten Good Years re-shows selected works from this collection by significant mid-twentieth-century artists such as Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, and introduces new works produced over the past ten years by artists with connections to West Penwith, Cornwall, including Lubaina Himid, Veronica Ryan, and Ro Robertson. […]