Extra security at Candie for Renoir exhibition

Preparations for the show are well under way at the museum.

As part of this work, the Guernsey Museums team has been working with Guernsey Police to implement some changes to the security at the museum, to ensure it is ready ahead of the arrival of the 19th century artworks.

‘In the near future, staff will begin locking the gates of Candie Gardens at night to ensure the site is secure,’ a States spokesman said.

‘This measure will remain in place for the duration of the exhibition, which ends on 17 December 2023.’

The police’s dog section will be taking advantage of the locked gardens to exercise its dogs in the park later in the evenings.

Signs have been put up to make the public aware the dogs will be in the area, however this will only be after the gates are locked.

The exhibition – Renoir in Guernsey, 1883 – represents thousands of hours of work over four years, put in by the various teams.

David Ummels, the founder of Art for Guernsey, which has worked in partnership with Guernsey Museums & Galleries and the Musee des Impressionnismes Giverny to make the exhibition a reality, described it as not just a fine art exhibition, but a celebration of the island’s rich cultural heritage.

In 1883 the French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and a group of friends spent slightly more than a month in Guernsey.

In that time he painted 15 pictures of the island.

These paintings have become scattered in both public and private collections across the world, but the idea of this project was to bring a group of them together for a local exhibition.

Tickets for a 60-minute slot are on sale at artforguernsey.com, with adult tickets costing £10 and children’s tickets £5.

The exhibition opens on 30 September.