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SEVENTEENTH SEASON - 2022
"BOOBS, BOMBAST and GIN - the Restoration & After"
Wednesday 5th January 2022. THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED to 3rd AUGUST to be given by Giles Ramsey who is an independent Theatre Director and Producer. His directing credits are too numerous to mention! He is a Course Leader in Theatre at the V & A Museum. This talk is a fascinating slant on History - how the theatre of the day reflected this most saucy of eras.
"Indians, Buffalo and Storms: the American West in C19thArt"
Wednesday 2nd February 2022. Artists were never very far behind the explorers who opened up the west of America in the 19th century. This is a story on a big scale, and who better than Toby Faber to use paintings to illustrate and chart the history of the arrival of the railroad, the confinement of the native American into reservations and the extermination of the buffalo.
"A Provocative Beauty - the Art of Grayson Perry" A.G.M 7.40
Wednesday 2nd March 2022. Grayson Perry who won the Turner Prize in 2003, is close to becoming a "National Treasure". His beautiful, finely crafted pottery, which frequently has a sting in the tail, and his colourful, imaginative and often amusing tapestries are enormously popular in the fine art world. In his lecture Frank Woodgate will look at his work in some detail, as well as considering his cross-dressing alter ego, Claire, and his fondness for his childhood teddy bear Alan Measles..
"Rooms and Views - filming in Florence with Merchant Ivory"
Wednesday 6th April 2022 - For more than 40 years Sarah Quill has been photographing the architecture and daily life of Venice creating and a unique and ever growing photographic archive. She is a Trustee of the "Venice in Peril Fund" and a new edition of her book "Ruskin's Venice - The Stones Revisited" was published in 2018. We are fortunate that she had the opportunity to attend and photograph Florence during the making of the film "Room with a View".
"From Downton to Gatsby" - Jewellery & Fashion 1890 - 1929
Wednesday 11th May 2022.
Andrew Prince is a respected craftsman, historian and lecturer and has created some of the finest crystal jewellery in the world: he was commissioned to make many of the jewels worn by the main characters in the acclaimed TV series "Downton Abbey". His lecture explores the extraordinary era when great couturiers collaborated with the finest craftsmen to produce creations of outstanding quality and glittering opulence. He promises to bring some examples of his craft for us to examine.
Andrew Prince is a respected craftsman, historian and lecturer and has created some of the finest crystal jewellery in the world: he was commissioned to make many of the jewels worn by the main characters in the acclaimed TV series "Downton Abbey". His lecture explores the extraordinary era when great couturiers collaborated with the finest craftsmen to produce creations of outstanding quality and glittering opulence. He promises to bring some examples of his craft for us to examine.
"Founders and Treasures of the Wallace Collection"
Wednesday 1st June 2022 - Stephen Duffy - recently retired as Senior Curator of the Wallace Collection; he will relate how this collection of paintings, furniture,porcelain, timepieces, arms and armour was brought together by five generations of the same family. This lecture tells the fascinating story of its formation and presents many of its finest treasures.
"Matisse - Master of Colour"
Wednesday 6th July 2022
Matisse is known for his mastery of colour, but how did this happen? His early life was inauspicious as an artist - but gradually the help of his teachers and the women he loved, gave him increasing confidence. He became a giant of modern art and towards the end of his life when ill health prevented him from painting, he began "Carving into Colour" with his series of spectacular cut-outs. Liz Strang will fill in all the details of his life and career and the invention of this new medium.
Matisse is known for his mastery of colour, but how did this happen? His early life was inauspicious as an artist - but gradually the help of his teachers and the women he loved, gave him increasing confidence. He became a giant of modern art and towards the end of his life when ill health prevented him from painting, he began "Carving into Colour" with his series of spectacular cut-outs. Liz Strang will fill in all the details of his life and career and the invention of this new medium.
XTRA MEETING on 3rd AUGUST
"BOOBS, BOMBAST and GIN" given by Giles Ramsay
transferred from 5th January
"A Passion for Piers"
Wednesday 7th September 2022 The great British coastline was once dotted with over one hundred Piers: today only a little half of those survive. But those survivors still "rule the waves" says our Speaker and Expert - Jackie Marsh-Hobbs - they are a powerful reminder of the ingenuity of the figures who built them. Her love of piers stems from her childhood in Brighton and stories of the West Pier being an exciting place to work.
"The Artist as Reporter" - British Artists and the First World War.
Wednesday 5th October 2022 - Jo Walton - makes a welcome return to look at the work of avant-garde British artists who were directly involved in the First World War, producing some of the most moving images of the past century.
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"Here's one They Prepared Earlier: the first efforts of Britain's greatest Architects"
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"Embroidery at the Palace"
Wednesday 7th December 2022 This lecture is all about the work that the Royal School of Needlework has produced since being based at Hampton Court Palace from 1987 – 2017 Given by the CEO of the R.S.N. - Dr Susan Kay-Williams
