Lectures
Lecture Diary Dates
Jan 26 Feb 23 Mar 23
Apr 27 May 25
Jun 22 Sep 28
Oct 26 Nov 23
Paper version of Programme for printing
January 26
In the Bleak Mid Winter: Artists'
Responses to Snow
From 15thC peasants drying their clothes, through 17thC Frost Fairs to
19thC skaters on the Bois de Boulogne, we trace how artists have responded
to the challenge of winter. Over 500 years of instructive shivering.
Lecture by Ann Clements, a university and worldwide lecturer, cataloguer
for the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and researcher for the Paul
Mellon Foundation.
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February 23
Sleeping Beauties: The Irish Country House
Filled with treasures from the Grand Tour, fine furniture and decorative
arts these houses played host to a vanished world, often with eccentric
lifestyles.
Lecture by Tom
Duncan a retired university lecturer. He also leads tours on the
architecture and archaeology of Ireland and to the Mediterranean basin.
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March 23
Heritage from the Orient: the Birth of European Porcelain
From its origins in the 10thC China, porcelain manufacture spread to Japan
and Europe leading to the growth of the famous French factories and the
great 18thC English centres.
Lecture by Amanda Herries, past
Curator at the Museum of London, lecturer, writer and broadcaster. Lived
and worked in Japan during 1980s and 1990s.
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April 27
Picture Hanging and Interior Design
from 1600 to Today
Traces the way that collecting and hanging paintings have evolved over the
past 300 years and ends with some practical options for hanging in today's
homes.
Lecture by
Stephen Taylor a visiting lecturer at the Inchbald School of Design. A
professional landscape painter, who has held recent exhibitions at
Cambridge, Olympia and Art London.
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May 25
Daniel Libeskind, Architecture for the V&A and the Twin
Towers in New York
Work includes the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the new Imperial War Museum
in Manchester. Discover the logic behind the unusual approach to design of
this Polish architect who is also a poet, musician and historian.
Lecture by
Alicia Salter founder of the ‘Art Circle’, worldwide lecturer and tour
leader. Contributor to Hibbert & Weinreb’s Dictionary of London.
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June 22
AGM at
7:30 followed by lecture-recital
Vermeer - his Musical Pictures
These serene scenes are often coded and heavily charged with erotic
overtones. Some show virginals being played and we will sample their
explosive sound on a lavishly decorated modern replica.
Lecture
recital by Peter Medhurst, musician and scholar who studied singing and
early keyboard instruments at the Royal College of Music and at the
Mozarteum in Salzburg.
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September 28
Ellen Terry & Aesthetes
The finest Shakespearean actress of her age and friend to distinguished
artists, authors and poets. Wilde wrote sonnets for her and she was
painted by John Singer Sargent and by G. F. Watts of Compton who was her
first husband.
Lecture by
Frances Hughes, lecturer at the Theatre Museum, V&A, NPG and the London
Centre for Theatre Studies. Secretary of the Shakespeare Reading Society
and Vice-Chairman of the Irving Society.
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October 26
Let's talk of Graves, of Worms and Epitaphs...British Funeral Sculpture
and the Making of History
We learn about the people who commissioned these magnificent works, the
heroes (or villains) they represent and the wider issues of mortality in
Georgian and Victorian Britain.
Lecture by Jo
Walton, freelance lecturer and art bookseller who has worked with
Christies. A guide at Tate Modern and Tate Britain.
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November 23
NB Lecture at 7:30
Victorian Christmas through the Magic
Lantern
Based on a Magic Lantern theatre programme from 1880 using 2 lanterns and
the original readings and music.
Followed by seasonal refreshments.
Show by
Phillip Banham, assisted by Rosemary Banham, who has given performances in
Arts Festivals and theatres as well as lecturing to international
conferences, museums and art galleries.
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