Wales’ newest gallery, at the Royal Welsh College of Music
& Drama, is to be named the Linbury Gallery
The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is delighted to
announce that the exhibition space in the £22.5 million development
is to be named the Linbury Gallery.
In 2008 Lord & Lady Sainsbury of
Preston Candover, through their charitable foundation the Linbury
Trust, donated the first major gift, £250,000, to the College’s
fund-raising campaign.
The College has a long-standing association with the Linbury
Trust through its involvement in the Linbury Prize
for Stage Design, in which Royal Welsh College graduates have
always excelled.
Sean Crowley, RWCMD’s Director of Drama, said: ‘We
are thrilled that thanks to the support of Lord and Lady Sainsbury
we are able to use the Linbury name – a name so closely associated
with excellence in theatre design. We are already using the space
to present the Society of British Theatre Design exhibition, and
are looking forward to using the Linbury Gallery to showcase the
College’s talented design students in the future’.
The new Linbury Gallery currently houses the Society of British
Theatre Design Exhibition,
‘Transformation & Revelation’ which finishes on 16
April.
The Linbury name also supports The Linbury Studio Theatre at the
Royal Opera House, the Linbury Galleries at Tate Britain and the
Linbury Studio at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.