Exhibition

CANCELLED – Cosmo Fry and friends in conversation

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

*Due to unforeseen circumstances this talk has been cancelled. We are working to refund all ticket buyers via their original method of payment.   Cosmo Fry and friends will talk about his father, the inventor and entrepreneur, Jeremy Fry and his scheme to make art accessible to a wider public, the subject of the exhibition...

Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries. The Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "it tugs the heartstrings and stirs the loins" The Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This lavish exhibition explores the role of portraiture in the process of marriage in Renaissance Europe. Marriage...

CANCELLED – Michael Simpson in conversation with Mark Wallinger

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

*Due to unforeseen circumstances this talk has been cancelled. We are working to refund all ticket buyers via their original method of payment.   To coincide with the first museum survey of his works on paper, we are delighted to announce that Michael Simpson will be in conversation with one of his greatest admirers, the...

£15.00

UP LATE – Summer of Love

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

The Holburne Future Collective is pleased to host our second Up Late: Summer of Love! Celebrating the Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits exhibition. Enjoy free entry into the collection and reduced entry into Painted Love, visitors can expect tours, portrait drawing activities in the galleries and help create a Love Wall inspired by Le mur...

£7.00

Jann Haworth & Liberty Blake: Work In Progress

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

This seven-panel mural depicting 130 women from British history and culture was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery as part of a three-year project to enhance female representation in its collection. The mural, by Jann Haworth and Liberty Blake, was inspired by the absence of women in the album cover for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely...

So long as breath controls my being: Love and Marriage Portraiture in Renaissance Europe

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Join guest curator Lucy Whitaker for an evening of discovery and exploration of marriage portraiture in the Renaissance. The social and political implications of wedlock, its rituals and ceremonies, and the way these aspects interacted with the fine and decorative arts, will be underpinned by an ultimately elusive and current question: how to convey deep...

£15.00

Lucie Rie: The Adventure of Pottery

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries "Sheer pleasure everywhere you look" Ali Smith, The New Statesman This major exhibition celebrates Lucie Rie (1902–1995), one of the most accomplished and influential potters of the twentieth century....

Sarah Biffin

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries. Sarah Biffin (or Biffen), (1784—1850), also known by her married name Mrs. Wright, was an artist working in the first half of the nineteenth century. This exhibition will be the...

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries. "A fascinating show reveals John’s radical side" Mark Hudson, The Independent "One of my shows of the year. John emerges as a soulful, inventive, brilliant presence." Waldemar Januszczak, The...

UP LATE – Art & Life

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Spend the evening with us and explore our Gwen John exhibition: Art and Life in London and Paris. Then enjoy drinks in our newly refurbished café. During the evening you can enjoy: FREE entry to our collection galleries Reduced entry to Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris Drinks in the Garden café...

£7

Lubaina Himid: Lost Threads

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Book your tickets in advance or pay on arrival. Members are granted free entry. Your General Entry ticket includes entry to all exhibitions and the Collection Galleries.   Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Lubaina Himid is a British artist who has dedicated her four-decades-long career to uncovering marginalised and silenced histories, figures, and cultural expressions. In...