**PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. ALL TICKET HOLDERS HAVE BEEN EMAILED AND REFUNDS ARE BEING PROCESSED** Art historian, curator and novelist Alicia Foster draws on previously unpublished archival sources in her book Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris to explore John’s many relationships with artists and writers. She offers...
Mary Moore is the only child of Henry Moore. She has curated numerous exhibitions and written extensively on her father’s life and work as well as appearing on radio and television programmes internationally. She will be hosted by Chris Stephens, Director of the museum, in a discussion that explores Henry Moore’s life and legacy. Garden...
HOLBURNE PRIDE Celebrating our Creative Community Friday 14 & Saturday 15 June The Holburne Museum is celebrating PRIDE for the first time... Over two days our PRIDE event aims to increase the engagement of the local community with Queer arts and culture through talks, creative workshops, films, cabaret, and silent discos. Exclusively programmed by the...
Chris Stephens will be in-conversation with a member of the Holburne Future Collective. Their discussion will cover the role that museums, exhibitions and those running them can play in shaping how Queer art is perceived and consider the opportunities and challenges such institutions present in promoting Queer Art. With sixteen years of experience at Tate...
Maggie Hamblings portrait of Derek Jarman that now sits within the Holburne Collection will be the focus of this lecture, alongside the broader subject of queer art. Bob Mills is Professor of Medieval Studies and Head of the History of Art Department at UCL. Between 2015 and 2018 he directed qUCL, UCL’s LGBTQ+ research network, and previously he was...
During these talks a member of the Holburne Future Collective will interview a panel of young queer artists. Featuring Matthew Dennis and Eryn McDonald the panel will give each speaker the opportunity to talk for fifteen minutes and will have a particular focus on the challenges and opportunities which young queer artists face. Giving viewers...
Chris Stephens, Director of the Holburne, will chair a lively conversation with Sebastiano Barassi, Head of Collections & Programmes at Henry Moore Foundation and Francesca Whitham, specialist in modern and contemporary art at Dreweatts auction house, exploring the impact and influence of Moore’s work in the 20th century. The Garden Cafe will be open for...
One of the leading experts on 20th century British painting and sculpture, Chris Stephens, Director of the Holburne, has published extensively on Henry Moore and curated Tate Britain’s major retrospective in 2010. He will share his insights into Moore’s work and dig into the themes of our current exhibition, including the importance of intimacy to...
The Emerge Studio presents ‘Grassroots Bath’ a look beneath the surface of our city, in a night of street performances, drop-in workshops and disruptive art celebrating Bath's rich culture of grassroots creatives. Starting at 5:30pm the Holburne will be transformed into a street art and underground exhibition with pop-up talks, live DJs, performances, and work ...
Price includes a glass of prosecco or non-alcoholic alternative (cafe open from 6pm) Discussing his new book, Encounters with Artists, leading art critic and broadcaster Richard Cork will share his personal encounters with some of the world’s most influential artists including Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, David Hockney and Tracey Emin, revealing the...
*This event is now sold out* Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols and fairytales. She wrote the introduction for Paula Rego’s 2010 publication of Nursery Rhymes and her recent collection, Forms of Enchantment, includes an essay...
The work of British pop artist Pauline Boty expresses many of the social changes and tensions for young women in Britain in the 1960s. This lecture will look at Boty’s work and, in particular, her self-portraits and photographic portraits of her, in the context of shifts in morality and sexuality in the period and the...
