Creative Wellbeing session Free to attend but please book your place through Eventbrite A creative networking session for anyone who has lived experience of ill-health. In the session we will explore the relationship between creativity and wellbeing. A partnership between the Holburne Museum, LENS (Lived Experience Network), Arts & Health South West, and the Culture,...
***This event is now fully booked*** Ease into summer with an evening of sampling and sipping in our Garden Café. Great Western Wine’s latest partner, Domain Cazes, from Southern France will be on hand to answer your questions in this informal tasting. Discover their extraordinary range of organic wines, including the 8th best Grenache in...
ADULT WORKSHOP Saturday 15 June & Sunday 16 June, 10.30am-4.30pm Join artist Andrew Lansley for this two-day course in drawing and painting the city of Bath. Spend the first day sketching and exploring the local area on foot, and learn key skills in drawing, colour application and composition. On the second day, you will work...
Forest of Imagination 20 to 24 June FREE Forest of Imagination is a collaborative, creative partnership. Discover a free, fantastical forest and outdoor gallery right in the heart of Bath! Designed by a collective of local and international artists and creative professionals. Forest of Imagination will transform areas around the Holburne and Sydney Gardens into...
Join award-winning poet and novelist, Sue Hubbard, for a friendly one-day workshop inspired by our exhibition Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned writer of poetry and prose, this workshop invites you to come and discover your voice. Taking Vuillard’s nostalgic paintings of interiors as a point of...
Join artist Saied Dai for an intensive drawing day with a life model, exploring the links between observation, experience and ideas, along with the challenge of expressing them. This workshop will focus on developing a composition when studying the figure within a setting. The day will equip you with enough material and ability to apply...
ADULT WORKSHOP Be inspired by the colours, characters and patterns in our temporary exhibitions with illustrator Jessica Palmer and create your own work of art using specialist paper-cutting and collage techniques. In this one-day workshop, you will visit the exhibitions, Vuillard: The Poetry of the Everyday and Lauren Child: The Art of Illustration, before experimenting...
Adult Workshop Illustration for Children’s Books with Sean Julian An integral part of illustrating a picture book is the visual creation of a world in which the story takes place. In this one-day workshop with illustrator Sean Julian, you will learn how to create a character and then take inspiration from objects in the Museum’s...
Thursday 22 August, 6.30-8.30pm Amelie (cert 15) 5.30-6.30pm Exhibition open and Garden Café open for drinks Join us for a relaxed screening of this French classic. Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s award-winning film Amelie (2001) tells the story of a shy French waitress (Audrey Tautou) from Montmartre who, on her mission to help those around her, finds love...
Join us on the last Friday of every month from 5-9pm to experience the Museum free of charge after-hours. Immerse yourself in an eclectic programme of pop-up talks, art demos, installations, performances, DJ-sets and cocktails. All Up Lates are specially curated by student talent and arts practitioners from the Universities of Bath Spa, Bath and...
Join art critic and BBC broadcaster, Alastair Sooke, in conversation with Holburne Director, Chris Stephens, as they discuss the work of 19th-century French painter, Édouard Vuillard, in celebration of our major exhibition, The Poetry of the Everyday. “For all their quiet modesty, and debt to traditional domestic interiors by Vermeer, Vuillard’s ‘intimiste’ paintings (as they...
In Partnership with the Jane Austen Festival Re-enactment group His Majesty’s 33rd Regiment of Foot return to camp out at the Holburne. Experience what life would have been like for a soldier living in Jane Austen’s time through talks, demonstrations, and displays of camp life. The Regiment will also lead the annual Austen promenade on...
