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.
