The lunchtime talks which accompany exhibitions are usually given by curator Sophie Cummings and give a wonderful insight into the thinking behind the title, and the reason for bringing together these particular works and displaying them in a certain way.…
For our July talk, we were very fortunate to have Professor Ann Sumner talking to us about the history of tennis in art, following the publication of a book, or to give the full title:International Tennis Art – Swindon’s Vicente…
We visited The Dulwich Picture Gallery for the second time on 9 July to look round the fantastic exhibition of prints made by the Grosvenor School in the 1930s, curated by Gordon Samuel of Osborne Samuel Gallery, who gave us a wonderful…
For our June talk, Emile de Bruijn agreed to come and talk about his work with the National Trust, specifically how decisions are made about how properties owned by the National Trust should be presented to the public. Looking Emile…
Our May talk was by Swindon based David Bent, prompted by the fact that Swindon Museum and Art Gallery were hosting an exhibition of his work.entitled 'Out of the Box'. We had an extremely entertaining evening, no time for snoozing…
I first heard about David Lomax's work when I went to the unveiling of Hoarusib, a life sized sculpture of a bull elephant, at Liddington Manor on 4 December 2016. The elephant had been moved to the coombe beside Liddington…
Thursday, 4 April 2019 Lunchtime talk on Artist and Model exhibition Or to give the new exhibition in the main gallery its full title: Artist and Model:Portriats, Self Portraits and Figure Studies form the Swindon Collection. Last Friday's FREE lunchtime talk by…
Ken White and Andy Binks in Conversation Our March talk proved so popular that it sold out weeks before the event took place. It was a rerun of the life of Ken White first staged at Christ Church on 8 June last year. I…
Thursday, 21 March 2019 Michael Gray's Talk on the Wyvern Theatre I first met Michael Gray when he came to talk to the Friends about Swindon's Town Hall, designed by Brightwen Binyon, three years ago. The great advantage of having…
We were fortunate enough to have a wonderful evening with Janet Boulton in conversation with Curator Sophie Cummings. It was our last event of 2017, and a real treat for those who have admired Janet's exhibition: A Seeming Diversity: that…