Lewis Elton Gallery

Lewis Elton Gallery

Lewis Elton Gallery Location of gallery in Surrey
Address	Building AC, Stag Hill Campus University of Surrey
Location	Guildford
Coordinates	51°14′34″N 0°35′26″W
Type	Art gallery
Opened	1997 (1997)

The Lewis Elton Gallery was an art gallery at the University of Surrey's Guildford campus, which hosted exhibitions, lectures and events including sculpture, paintings and photographs.^[1] The Gallery was also responsible for the maintaining the University Art Collection and a range of special collections including the Lewis and Mary Elton Art Collection and E.H. Shepard archive.

The Gallery was named in 1997 after Professor Lewis Elton who initiated the display of original artwork at Surrey University's Physics Department in Battersea in 1963.

Exhibitions have included sculpture by Jon Edgar^[2] and photographs by Anne Purkiss documenting the restoration of Watts Gallery in 2011, and a retrospective of paintings and drawings by Sheila Healey^[3] in 2012.

References

1. "Lewis Elton Gallery - University of Surrey - Guildford". www.surrey.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 31 October 2011.
2. "THE HUMAN CLAY - University of Surrey - Guildford". www.surrey.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 December 2011.
3. "Sheila Healey - University of Surrey - Guildford". www.surrey.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 13 March 2012.

External links

• Arts at University of Surrey