ART EVENTS

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Water World exhibition in Brook Kitchen
16 JUNE - 12 AUGUST 2023

Exhibition featuring the work of: Julia Manning and Louise Scammell
All the artwork on the walls in Brook Kitchen is for sale. Please enquire with the team...
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Talk by Julia and Louise
28 JULY 2023
​3pm-5pm

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Summer Portrait Painting Evenings
19 JULY + 16 AUGUST + 13 SEPTEMBER 2023
5.30pm - 8.30pm

If you’ve been enjoying the Art Club’s monthly portrait sessions, here’s your opportunity to continue painting through the summer months. New male and female models have been booked for each session and you may bring whatever materials you wish to work with in the media of your choice. Tables and chairs will be provided but do bring an easel or drawing board if you wish, plus of course your art materials.

The cost of each session will be £12 payable on the day 
Places available on a first-come, first-served basis

Drinks and a special menu will be on offer - Payable on the night

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Evening Art Talks by John Francis

AUTUMN DATES TBA
​The Art of Protest

To many artists Art is rebellion. In the 18th and 19th century Goya was an essential social and political commentator of Spanish society. In our discussion we will explore how artists assume the role of activist and critic in the context of bringing about political change. The Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei has become a symbol of resistance in the government corridors of power as well as the open spaces of an art museum. We will explore the work of contemporary protest artists such as Ai Weiwei, Grayson Perry, Kara Walker, Keith Haring and Judy Chicago. How do these artists seek to change and represent a new social consciousness? ​

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Evening Art Talks by John Francis

AUTUMN DATES TBA
​The British Landscape tradition:
​Thomas Gainsborough to Richard Long

This wide ranging survey starts in 1749 with Mr and Mrs Andrews. Portrait artists like Gainsborough were beginning to gaze out towards the countryside. Turner and Constable could be said to portray our national identity through images of peace and plenty while sometimes ignoring unrest and poverty. Later, Stanley Spencer and Paul Nash used landscape as a search for inner knowledge, fantasy and religious values. The photography of Bill Brandt and Bert Hardy documented modern urban landscape. Andy Goldsworthy and Richard Long chose to move from the studio and use the physical material of the landscape itself.​

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Evening Art Talks by John Francis

AUTUMN DATES TBA
​The urge to buy and the art of advertising

The relationship of Art to Advertising has an early start.  Sir John Everett Millais’s painting of ‘Bubbles’(1885) was sold for £2,200 to help sell bars of soap. In this lecture we will trace how the advertising industry became so successful and in particular why advertising in the UK is often thought of as Art. From posters to the fifteen second television adverts, we explore some of the most successful adverts and unpack the psychological and cultural context behind them. Award winning adverts by Guinness, Silk Cut and Nestle will be subject to a detailed analysis.​

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Modern Masters: Norman Ackroyd
​Collectors Gallery

Norman Ackroyd's artwork is still available and on show in our Collectors Gallery next door to Brook Kitchen for a limited period of time. Please enquire with the team...

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