Sunday 8 December 2- 4pm | £12.50 per ticket (price includes free Museum entry to collection and exhibitions) Cost: £12.50 Concession: £7 - Art Fund, NSU Card (Full time student), 18-25 yr olds Pathways to Wellbeing participants: £5 Art for All! 25 places available Fast paced and fun, Bath Portrait Club welcomes everyone (not just...
Join us for a festive evening including mulled wine and mince pies, live festive music, and a chance to pick up some last-minute gifts from a range of local artists and makers. Stalls will spread throughout the Museum, offering a range of hand-crafted gifts for all the family including: Unique prints and cards Handmade jewellery...
CHRISTMAS CRAFTING Saturday 14 December | 10-11am and 11.15-12.15pm | £4.50 per person making Choose from a range of beautiful materials to create up to four colourful festive decorations with a twist! We’ll be taking inspiration from Chila Kumari Singh Burman’s bold neon artworks to make unique and eye-catching creations. Suitable for 6yrs+ Pre-booking essential....
Friday 28 February | 6-7pm | FREE This workshop is programmed as part of our February Up Late Event, and does note require pre-booking. Take lead from exhibiting artist Joshua Donkor to create collaborative artworks, inspired by you. This Visual Storytelling workshop is designed to create a space for people to share their personal experiences,...
Sunday 12 January (Sunday 12 Jan, Sunday 9 Feb, Sunday 9 March, Sunday 13 April) 2- 4pm | £12.50 per ticket (price includes free museum entry to collection and exhibitions) Cost: £12.50 Concession: £7 - Art Fund, NUS Card (Full time student), 18-25 yr olds Pathways to Wellbeing participants: £5 Art for All! 25 places...
The Holburne is pleased to present a display of recent works by Joshua Donkor (b. 1997, UK), a Ghanian-British painter who grew up in Bath. His work is deeply personal, using portraiture to reflect family history, identities and experiences, exploring how feelings of belonging and estrangement play out through different generations. Donkor approaches portraiture...
Featuring major names of 20th century art including Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Richard Hamilton, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol, Iconic: Portraiture from Francis Bacon to Andy Warhol brings rarely-seen works together to explore the ways artists are inspired by photography. The exhibition focuses on the period in the mid 20th century, particularly...
We are pleased to present the first exhibition in the UK by Diedrick Brackens (b. 1989, Texas, US) this spring. Born in Texas in 1989, his hand-crafted works employ techniques from West African weaving, quilting from the American South and European tapestry-making to create works that explore American history, African American and queer identity,...
'Pop' down to the Holburne to celebrate our brand new exhibition after hours. Try your hand at printing Pop Art icons onto tote bags, enjoy drinks in the Garden Cafe with DJ Pable Tinte and book your ticket for our headline lecture on Francis Bacon, with Director Chris Stephens. General admission to our 'Up...
Pop, Print, Go! Adult Drop-In Printing Workshop Friday 31 January | 5.30-8pm | £2 per small bag / £4 per large bag This workshop is programmed as part of our January Up Late event. No need to pre-book, just drop-in on the evening. Be inspired by Pop Art! Design and print your own patterned tote...
Probably the greatest British painter of the 20th century, Francis Bacon based almost all of his works on photographs. As curator of Iconic, Chris Stephens will reveal that source material and explore the ways it reveals the artist’s ideas and motivations. This event will take place during our January 'Up Late', which will also...
Join a musical evening inspired by the painter Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788), surrounded by his works in our splendid Picture Gallery. Gainsborough was an avid amateur musician known for hosting musical gatherings. The programme includes works by Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782), Carl Friedrich Abel (1723–1787); and Italians Felice Giardini (1716– 1796) and Valentino Nicolai (fl....
