Lectures
Andrew Davies – Canaletto in England
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichIn May 1746 the great Venetian artist Canaletto moved to England. For the next 9 years he created nearly 150 works of art showing us Georgian England, from the Lord Mayor's show and the...
Simon Whitehouse – Oscar Wilde: the Importance of Being Oscar.
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichIn this lecture we look at Oscar’s great literary successes, 5 smash hit plays in 3 years. Focusing on ‘The Importance of being Ernest’, one of the funniest, most performed and most frequently quoted...
Roger Mendham – Monopoly: A History
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichMonopoly is one of the world’s most popular and enduring board games, but how well do you really know it? Take a photographic journey around the Monopoly boards and expect some surprises.
Adam Busiakiewicz – Women Making Music in Art
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichUsing paintings by the likes of Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Vermeer, Watteau, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Lawrence, this talk will chart the various meanings, symbolism and iconography associated with women musicians.
Rachel Church – Courage Calls for Courage Everywhere – jewels in politics and history
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichThis lecture explores how jewels have played their part in politics and history.
Alice White – Ways to Look at Painting – an artist’s perspective
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichAlice provides a painter’s perspective on famous artworks from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed as artistic risk-takers, whose new combinations of glazes, surfaces, pigments and processes re-defined the...
Marie-Anne Mancio – The Only Blond in the World – Pauline BotyMarie
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichBritish Pop artist Pauline Boty is finally the subject of monographs, a biography and a forthcoming documentary film (Summer 2024). Known in her lifetime as a painter contemporary of Peter Blake, Hockney, Derek Boshier,...
James Vaux – Viking Gods and Valkyries – the art of Norse Mythology
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichWhen we walk into any gallery, why do we see so many depictions of the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, but not Viking ones? This lecture explores how Norse myths and legends have...
Ashley Gray – The Post War Textile Visionaries of Modern Art – A Yorkshire textile renaissance-
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichAn epic tale of two extraordinary figures from the same valley in Yorkshire who were destined to change the world of fashion and design for all time. A story that takes us from the...
Amy Lin – A Village in Heaven – Stanley Spencer’s Cookham
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichFew artists are as rooted in a place as Stanley Spencer and his beloved home village of Cookham. This Thames-side village was not only his birthplace, his home for most of his life, and...
Denise Heywood – Legend and Lustre – Jim Thompson and Thai silk
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichJim Thompson arrived in Bangkok as a US army officer in 1945, fell in love with it and stayed. Captivated by the beauty of Thai silk, an ancient craft in decline, he resuscitated it...
Timothy Walker – Paradise Lost and Found – 400 years of garden design
Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, SandwichThe history of garden design through the lens of the Oxford Botanic garden.