Dulwich Picture Gallery - What's On - Jan-Apr 2017

January – April 2017
VISITOR INFORMATION
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Road, Dulwich Village,
London SE21 7AD
Telephone 020 8693 5254
(Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm)
OPENING TIMES
10am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday
and Bank Holiday Mondays
Closed Mondays
ADMISSION CHARGE
£8* Permanent Collection
£7* Senior citizens
FREE Unemployed, disabled,
students, under 18s, Friends
*Ticket prices include a voluntary
Gift Aid donation.
EXHIBITION TICKETS
MAKING DISCOVERIES
Entry included in the standard
admission charge
VAN DE VELDE
£12.50* Adult
£11.50* Senior Citizens
£7* Students, unemployed,
disabled
FREE Children and Friends
*Ticket prices include a voluntary
Gift Aid donation.
VANESSA BELL
£14* Adult
£13* Senior Citizens
£7* Students, unemployed,
disabled
FREE Children and Friends
*Ticket prices include a voluntary
Gift Aid donation.
LEGACY: PHOTOGRAPHS BY
VANESSA BELL AND PATTI
SMITH
Entry included in the standard
admission charge
SARGENT/JANSSON
£15.50* Adult
£14.50* Senior Citizens
£7* Students, unemployed,
disabled
FREE Under 18s and Friends
*Ticket prices include a voluntary
Gift Aid donation.
GALLERY HIRE
The Gallery and its spaces
are available for private hire.
For more information call 020
8299 8713 or email events@
dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
FREE TOURS
Free tours of the Gallery on
Saturdays and Sundays at 3pm
(admission charges apply).
GUIDED TOURS
For guided group tours
reservations please visit www.
dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/visit/
group-visits
ACCESS INFORMATION
The Gallery is on one level with
facilities for disabled visitors,
including a hearing loop in the
Linbury Room and parking in the
car park off Gallery Road. This guide
is available in large print on request.
Call 020 8693 5254
THE GALLERY SHOP
Shop open during normal Gallery
hours or visit our online shop.
THE PICTURE GALLERY CAFÉ
There is a licensed café, opening
onto landscaped gardens,
serving delicious meals and light
refreshments. Opening times:
8am - 5pm Tuesday - Saturday,
9.30am - 5pm Sunday
To book a table in the café call
020 8299 8717
Closed Mondays
GETTING TO DULWICH PICTURE
GALLERY… IT’S EASY!
TRAIN
13 minutes from Central London:
London Bridge to North Dulwich,
London Victoria to West Dulwich.
Steps at stations and no
wheelchair facilities, call 08457
484950 for details
BUS
P4: Brixton Tube Station/Forest
Hill (Horniman Museum) or
Lewisham Bus Station to Dulwich
Picture Gallery.
No 3: Central London to West
Dulwich Station
No 37: South West London to
North Dulwich Station
ROAD
The Gallery is in Dulwich Village,
just off the South Circular (A205).
The Gallery lies between Gallery
Road and College Road. Ample
unrestricted parking.
VANESSA BELL
(1879-1961)
8 FEBRUARY - 4 JUNE
© The Estate of Vanessa Bell,
courtesy of Henrietta Garnett
Front Cover: Vanessa Bell, The Other Room, late 1930s, oil on canvas, 161 x 174 cm.
Private Collection. © The Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy of Henrietta Garnett. Photo:
Bill Philip Photography
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HOW TO BOOK
January - April 2017
Online at
dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
By phone on
020 8299 8750
WELCOME!
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Our thanks to the Friends of
Dulwich Picture Gallery for
organising the InTown Lecture
series, Gallery Music, the puppet
shows, Gallery Film and the
InSight Lecture series.
To join the Friends or volunteer
visit dulwichpicturegallery.org.
uk/join or call in at the Friends
desk in the Gallery.
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Exhibitions
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Permanent
Collection
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Family Events
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Lectures and
Talks
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Gallery Film
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Gallery Music
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Practical Art
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Off The Wall
Join us as we celebrate the start of our
200th year of opening with Vanessa
Bell, the first major retrospective of
the radical Bloomsbury artist.
Enjoy the show after hours in
a special exhibition Late which
includes a performance from the
critically acclaimed ballet, Woolf
Works, and a lively panel discussion
(page 4).
In a new series celebrating the
Gallery’s bicentenary we take a
look back at Dulwich’s first visitors
and see how the collection was
originally displayed (page 10).
Time for a creative challenge?
Learn the art of ceramic tiling or
develop your skills in collage with one
of our practical courses (page 20).
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Visits & Walks
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EXHIBITIONS
VANESSA BELL (1879-1961)
Vanessa Bell 1879–1961,
Self–Portrait, ca. 1915, Yale
Center for British Art, Paul
Mellon Fund. © The Estate
of Vanessa Bell, courtesy
of Henrietta Garnett
8 February - 4 June 2017
Widely acclaimed as a central figure of the Bloomsbury
Group, the modernist painter, Vanessa Bell (1879-
1961) was a pivotal player in 20th century British art,
inventing a new language of visual expression.
Sister of Virginia Woolf, muse to fellow artists
such as Roger Fry and mastermind of the idyllic
Bloomsbury life at Charleston – Bell’s reputation as
an artist has long been overshadowed by her family
life and romantic entanglements. A radical innovator
in the use of abstraction, colour and form, Bell will be
presented for fresh consideration in the first major
exhibition of her work.
Approximately 100 paintings as well as fabrics and
photographs will be arranged thematically to reveal
Bell’s pioneering work in the genres of portraiture, still
life and landscape, focusing on her most distinctive
period of experimentation in the 1910s.
Generously supported by the Vanessa Bell Syndicate
RELATED EVENTS
Exhibition Curator’s Lecture
Thursday 9 February
12.30 – 1.30pm
£12, £10 Friends
SPECIAL EVENT
Exhibition Late: Woolf Works
9 February
6.30pm-9.30pm
£20 Adults, £15 Students/
Concessions
Join us for a special evening
during the opening week of
Vanessa Bell. Enjoy the show
after hours and see a live
performance from Wayne
McGregor’s acclaimed ballet,
Woolf Works, inspired by the
literature of Bell’s sister. This
will be followed by a panel
discussion with Uzma Hameed,
dramaturg and Sarah Milroy,
co-curator of the exhibition.
Also enjoy a special reading
by author Alison MacLeod and
an in conversation with Bell’s
granddaughter and writer,
Virginia Nicholson.
Join exhibition co-curator and Sackler Director
of Dulwich Picture Gallery, Ian Dejardin, for an
exploration of Vanessa Bell.
See In View magazine for an exclusive article on
the exhibition by co-curator Sarah Milroy
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EXHIBITIONS
Patti Smith, Paint brushes, Duncan Grant’s studio, 2008, ©
Patti Smith. Courtesy of the artist and Robert Miller Gallery
Patti Smith, Vanessa Bell’s library, Duncan Bell’s painting
of Vanessa Bell in her mother’s dress, 2006 © Patti Smith.
Courtesy the artist and Robert Miller Gallery
Adriaen van de Velde, The beach at Scheveningen,
1658, Oil on canvas, © Museumslandschaft Hessen
Kassel, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
LEGACY
PHOTOGRAPHS BY VANESSA BELL
AND PATTI SMITH
8 February - 4 June 2017
ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE
DUTCH MASTER OF LANDSCAPE
Until 15 January 2017
A special display bringing together photographs
by Vanessa Bell and the American writer, artist
and musician, Patti Smith (b. 1946).
Smith has long been drawn to Charleston,
Bell's farmhouse on the Sussex Downs. Her black
and white photographs sensitively capture the
lingering remains of the life Bell led there - in
particular with her life companion, Duncan Grant.
Bell's own photograph albums include
pictures from her childhood summers in St Ives
and of her own young family and the circle of
leading intellectuals and artists that surrounded
her throughout her life.
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While Smith's photographs depict places
abandoned to the forces of time, Bell's teem with
a host of characters, captured by her sharp eye
and framed by her keen compositional instincts.
Seen together, the photographs offer two different
artistic visions which both capture a lasting
Bloomsbury legacy.
Entry included with your ticket to the Permanent
Collection
The world’s first exhibition devoted to one of
the finest landscape artists of the Dutch Golden
Age, Adriaen van de Velde (1636 – 1672).
Over a career of less than two decades,
van de Velde produced a varied body of
tranquil landscapes matched by a superb
collection of preparatory drawings in
exquisite red chalk, making him one of the
most sought-after names among collectors
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The exhibition brings together 60
paintings and drawings, including the
masterpiece The Hut, 1671, which is displayed
with its exquisite studies. The show offers not
only a survey of the artist’s oeuvre but also a
rare glimpse of a seventeenth-century Dutch
landscape painter at work.
A quiet revelation... and
delightful rediscovery
The Telegraph
Varied, accomplished and sensitive
Evening Standard
Time Out
This exhibition is part of Rediscovering Old Masters:
The Melosi Series.
Supported by a grant from the American Friends of
Dulwich Picture Gallery Inc., made possible through the
generosity of The Arthur and Holly Magill Foundation.
In-kind support from Farrow & Ball.
Exhibition organised by Dulwich Picture Gallery,
London and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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EXHIBITIONS
John Singer Sargent, The lady with the
umbrella (detail), 1911, watercolour and
pencil on paper, 65 x 54 cm, Museu de
Montserrat. Donated by J. Sala Ardiz. Image
© Dani Rovira
Tove Jansson, Mysterious Landscape, c. 1930,
oil on canvas, Ateneum Art Museum. Photo:
Finnish National Gallery / Hannu Aaltonen.
SARGENT: THE WATERCOLOURS
TOVE JANSSON (1914 - 2001)
21 June - 8 October 2017
25 October 2017 - 28 January 2018
The first UK show in nearly 100 years
devoted to watercolours by the American
artist, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).
Renowned as the portraitist of his
generation, Sargent also devoted time
to developing his talent in watercolour,
undertaking several painting expeditions
to Europe in the early twentieth century.
Free from the constraints of his studio he
was able to take inspiration from the places
he visited – from the streams and glacial
moraines in the Alps to the renaissance and
baroque architecture he explored in Venice.
Working en plein air, Sargent developed
a distinctive way of seeing and composing,
his subjects often appearing fragmented
and disorienting.
Frequently dismissed as travel souvenirs,
Sargent’s watercolours dazzle with light
and colour, demonstrating a technical
brilliance and striking individuality, offering
an alternative perspective on the artist. This
exhibition brings together 80 paintings from
private and public collections, revealing
Sargent’s idiosyncratic view of the world and
the scale of his achievement.
The first UK retrospective of one of the most
celebrated illustrators of the 20th century,
Tove Jansson (1914-2001).
Known internationally as creator of
the Moomin characters and books, a
phenomenon which continues to delight
across generations, Jansson’s broader
outputs of painting and graphic illustration
are relatively unseen outside her home
country of Finland.
This exhibition brings together 150
works, including a large body of selfportraits
and paintings never seen before
in the UK. Arranged thematically, the show
will trace the key stages of Jansson’s prolific
career including her surrealist-inspired
paintings of the 1930s and abstract works of
the ‘60s, her satirical anti-war cartoons and
book jacket designs, as well as her original
Moomin illustrations and comic strips.
An exhibition produced by Ateneum Art Museum /
The Finnish National Gallery
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MAKING DISCOVERIES
THE PRIVATE MADE PUBLIC
PERMANENT COLLECTION
AM I
REMBRANDT?
Until 5 March 2017
The final display of the Making
Discoveries series brings
Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait, Wearing
a Feathered Bonnet to London for
the first time, and looks at how
new technical analysis has been
used to authenticate the work as a
genuine Rembrandt. Using the loan
as a starting point the display also
examines the authorship of Dulwich’s
own works by the Dutch master,
acquired by the Gallery’s founders in
the late 18 th century.
Supported by
The Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Self-portrait,
wearing a Feathered Bonnet, 1635, National
Trust, Buckland Abbey, gift from the estate of
Edna, Lady Samuel of Wych Cross
As part of the Gallery’s bicentenary
celebrations, enjoy a series of displays
throughout the year that reflect the
Gallery’s founding principle of bringing
great art into the public realm.
THE FIRST VISITORS
Tuesday 14 March – Sunday 4 June 2017
Free with a ticket to the Permanent Collection.
Learn more about a typical visit to Dulwich Picture
Gallery in the 19th century. James Stephanoff’s
watercolour The Viewing at Dulwich Picture Gallery,
c. 1830, is the earliest known view of the Gallery’s
interior and gives an indication of what visitors may
have encountered upon their arrival. See an example
of an early Gallery handbook, as well as an original
visitor book that all entrants were required to sign.
The visitor books bear the signatures of both local
residents and contemporary celebrities, including:
Claude Monet, Walter Sickert, Rodin, Edith Wharton
and Virginia Woolf.
Future displays
Antonio de Pereda
Tuesday 6 June - Sunday 8 October 2017
Jacopo Bassano
Tuesday 10 October 2017 - Sunday 21 January 2018
The Private Made Public is Dulwich Picture
Gallery’s 2017 Appeal. Please help us to conserve,
transport and install this remarkable series.
Donate at dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/appeal or
contact us at appeal@dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk.
James Stephanoff, The Viewing at Dulwich Picture
Gallery, watercolour on paper, c. 1830, By permission of
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FAMILY EVENTS
Mini Masterpieces
10.30am –12pm
£16 per adult and child
Experience the delights of
our collection with your child
aged 6 – 18 months. Enjoy an
informal, child–friendly gallery
visit followed by a hands–on,
sensory art session tailored for
you and your baby. Collection–
based themes change monthly.
Come to one or all!
Windows and Light:
Exploring the Architecture of
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Thursday 19 January
You and Me: Family Portrait
in the Gallery
Tuesday 7 February
Thursday 23 February
Wildlife: Animals in Nature
Tuesday 7 March
Thursday 23 March
By Land or By Sea:
Landscapes and Seascapes
Tuesday 4 April
Thursday 20 April
ArtPlay
2 – 4pm
Free with Gallery Ticket.
Selected Sundays of every
month. Get creative together
at ArtPlay, our practical drop-in
session, making everything
from bunting to block prints.
Felt Characters – Draw and Sew
22 January
Taking inspiration from the
Permanent Collection, explore a
variety of techniques including
drawing, mark making, stitching
and appliqué. Make your own
creative and colourful characters.
With artist Francesca Centioni
Ideograms – Mark Making
5 February
Create a series of symbolic
pictures using old tools and
techniques.
Still Life in My Pocket –
Draw and Make
19 February
Take inspiration from Vanessa
Bell's paintings and the radical
way the Bloomsbury group
added colour and design to
their homes and everyday
objects. Draw your own objects
in miniature then fold your
drawings into a concertina.
With artist Michelle Weiner
Omega Workshop –
Book Making
5 March
Take inspiration from the
Gallery’s Collection and
design your own book covers!
With artist Sarah Weatherall
Spring Birds – Painting
19 March
Take inspiration from the
Permanent Collection and
explore a variety of painting
and mark making techniques.
Create colourful birds with
unique patterns and prints.
With artist Francesca Centioni
Gallery Stories
2.30pm and 3.10pm
Free with Gallery Ticket
Selected Sundays of every
month: Participate in interactive
storytelling in the main gallery.
Please meet the storyteller at the
gallery ticket desk.
Sunday, 15 January
Sunday, 29 January
Sunday, 12 February
Sunday, 26 February
Sunday, 12 March
Cavatina Children’s Concert
The Magnard Ensemble
Sunday 8 January
2.15pm for 2.30pm start/
Linbury Room
5–12 yrs
Children free, £5 for every
accompanying adult (up to
five children per adult)
No interval. Fruit after the
concert for the children.
A wonderful afternoon for
children with The Magnard
Ensemble who will present
Revolting Rhymes and
Marvellous Music - a music
and drama workshop based
on stories by Roald Dahl.
Explore weird and wonderful
worlds in this creatively
stimulating concert.
Puppet Shows
Sunday 26 March
10.30am and 1.30pm/Linbury
Room
2–8 yrs
Tickets £5 per person, babies
under one year free
Fruit at the end
Early booking recommended
Drew Colby will tickle your
giggle switch, conjuring up
magical images and stories,
using his hands to make
delightful puppets.
With artist Nikki Gardham
Sunday, 26 March
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LECTURES AND TALKS
Contextual Lecture Series 2017
London: The Making of a
Global City
All lectures, Tuesday mornings
at 10.30 – 11.30am
£12, £10 Friends
What makes a global city
and how do we maintain its
expanding fortitude? Join
expert speakers as they
examine aspects of London
identity from 1817 - 2017, two
centuries of social, industrial
and cultural innovations. This
series will explore the ins
and outs of the capital city,
including its architecture,
infrastructure, social housing
and culture and economic
growth through both business
and scientific advancement.
A.C. Grayling
Thinkers' London
After Waterloo
21 February
This lecture looks at the
decades immediately following
1815 when London came to be
the intellectual capital of Britain
John Robertson
Enlightenment London
14 March
London will be compared
with two other centers of
Enlightenment, Edinburgh and
Naples, to explore the different
characteristics of the cities,
with a focus on the strength of
London’s publishing industry.
Paul Brassley
Rural History
21 March
This talk examines the
changing products of
agriculture over the last two
centuries and surveys the
different political, economic
and scientific contexts within
which the changes occurred.
A.C. Grayling
Nick Barratt
Greater London: The Story
of the Suburbs
28 March
This talk looks at the various
phases in greater London’s
development from the first
Roman suburbs to the modern
expansion, exploring the
impact this had on the people
who chose to dwell in the
suburbs.
Robert Skidelsky
Keynes: A Revolution in
Economic Thinking
11 April
John Maynard Keynes
remains highly relevant to an
understanding of the financial
collapse of 2007–8. This
lecture provides a Keynesian
perspective on the reform of
the world's monetary system,
and concludes with reflections
on the role of the state and the
state of economics.
Mary Evens
A City of Women But Not
Always For Us: London
1817 - 2017
25 April
This lecture will discuss the
many ways in which access to
the city, and what we define as
'the city' has, in the past one
hundred and fifty years been
gendered.
IN TOWN
A series of lectures about
major exhibitions in other
London galleries
7.00 for 7.30pm/Linbury Room
£12, Friends £10
Includes a glass of wine
Organised by the Friends
Clash of the Titans -
Michaelangelo, Sebastiano
del Piombo and their Rivals
Thursday 23 February
Alongside the National Gallery
exhibition Michelangelo-
Sebastiano: A Meeting of
Minds, this lecture looks at
the fierce, bitter competition
between the artistic Titans of
the renaissance – Michelangelo,
John Singer Sargent, Italian sailing
Vessels at Anchor, c. 1904-07, The
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Presented
by Miss K. de Hochpied Larpent, 1943.
Image © Ashmolean Museum, University
of Oxford
Leonardo, Raphael and Titian,
and the combining of forces to
surpass rivals.
The exhibition at the National Gallery
runs from 15 March – 25 June 2017
Revolutionary Russian Art
1917-1932
Thursday 16 March
A hundred years after the
Russian revolution this powerful
exhibition explores one of
the most momentous periods
in modern history through
its art, surveying the entire
artistic landscape of postrevolutionary
Russia, including
films, ceramics, textiles, graphic
design and architecture.
The exhibition at the Royal Academy
runs from 11 February – 17 April 2017
The painting techniques of
John Singer Sargent
Thursday 30 March
Ahead of Sargent: The
Watercolours at Dulwich
Picture Gallery this June, Dr
Townsend will discuss recent
Tate research into Sargent’s
painting materials and his
methods for painting portraits.
Sebastiano del Piombo, The Raising of
Lazarus © The National Gallery, London
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LECTURES AND TALKS
IN SIGHT
10.30-11.30am/Linbury Room
Series of 3 £32, £26 Friends
Single lecture £12, £10 Friends
Coffee afterwards
21st Century Women Artists: a
stellar collection in Cambridge
Paula Rego, Cornelia Parker,
Maggi Hambling, Bridget Riley
and Judy Chicago all have work
in the New Hall Art Collection,
Murray Edwards College,
Cambridge. It is the largest
and most significant collection
of contemporary women’s art
in Europe, and is still growing.
This series looks at the story of
the collection with talks by the
artists represented.
Why women, why then,
why now?
Wednesday 25 January
Eliza Gluckman tells the story
of the New Hall Art Collection
through its paintings, from the
acquisition that spurred it in
the late 1980s, to its continued
importance in the story of
women artists and their careers.
Eliza Gluckman, Curator, New Hall
Art Collection
Gayle Chong Kwan, Artist
Wednesday 1 February
Scottish-born and Londonbased,
Gayle exhibited in the
Venice Biennale in 2011 and
internationally. She works
primarily with photography and
installation to create fantastical
landscapes and environments
consisting primarily of waste
materials, creating beautiful,
challenging art works.
Eileen Cooper RA, Keeper of
the Royal Academy
Wednesday 8 February
An accomplished painter and
printmaker, Eileen Cooper’s
practice is underpinned by
drawing. The figure of a woman
is central to her imagery:
heroine, goddess, mother, lover.
Eileen will talk about her practice
and her view on women’s art as
seen from her current role as
Keeper of the RA.
All in the detail: art in
miniature
This series examines three
diverse forms of art, to show
how the finest artists and
craftsmen adopted a small
format to create a big impact in
terms of beauty, charm, drama
and emotion.
‘My portrait in little’: 16th
century portrait miniatures
Wednesday 1 March
The miniature is among the most
sophisticated products of 16th
century England. This lecture will
focus on the finest Tudor portrait
miniaturists, including Hans
Holbein II, Nicholas Hilliard and
Isaac Oliver.
Karen Hearn, Hon. Professor,
University College London
The World Made Small:
miniatures from the V&A
Museum of Childhood
Wednesday 8 March
The miniaturisation of everyday
objects has a long history,
but what is it that makes them
so charming? Both adults
and children delight in these
treasured items, many of which
are in the Museum’s collections.
They show us a child’s eye view
of our world, from home, travel,
war and entertainment.
Esther Lutman, Curator at the V&A
Museum of Childhood
Microcosms and
Microworlds: ivory carvings
from the Middle Ages
Wednesday 15 March
Medieval ivory diptychs,
triptychs and tiny tabernacles
contain miniature worlds.
Tableaus of biblical scenes
and apocryphal stories are
contained and framed. This
lecture explores the skill of the
medieval carver and the role
that miniaturisation played in
the status of ivory carvings.
Naomi Speakman, Curator Late
Medieval Europe, British Museum
Hepworth Statue: © New Hall Art
Collection at Murray Edwards College,
University of Cambridge
Gayle Chong Kwan, Babel 2004, © New Hall Art Collection at
Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge
Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a
Young Man, Probably Robert
Devereux, Second Earl of
Essex, 1588
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GALLERY FILM
GALLERY MUSIC
Each sociable evening
includes:
A complimentary glass of wine,
snacks and film notes
Bar opens at 7.00pm
Screenings at 7.30pm
Linbury Room
£9, £7 Friends
Shirley Valentine
(1989)
Cert 18/108 mins
Monday 9 January
Directed by Lewis Gilbert with
Pauline Collins, Tom Conti, Julia
McKenzie, Alison Steadman,
Joanna Lumley and Sylvia
Syms.
Award-winning romantic
comedy telling the story
of Shirley, a middle-aged
Liverpool housewife, who
breaks free of a world of
domesticity.
East of Eden
(1955)
PG/115 mins
Monday 13 February
Directed by Elia Kazan with
James Dean, Julie Harris,
Raymond Massey and Burl Ives.
Based on the novel by John
Steinbeck, a wilful young man
contends against his brother
for the attention of their
religious father.
Quiz Show
(1995)
Cert 15/133 mins
Monday 13 March
Directed by Robert Redford with
Paul Scofield, Rob Morrow, John
Turturro and Ralph Fiennes.
A true story of the
discrimination, pay-offs, and
cover-ups behind the scenes
of the most popular intellectual
game show in 1958.
American Friends
(1991)
Cert PG/95 mins
Monday 10 April
Directed by Tristram Powell,
with Michael Palin, Alfred
Molina, Jonathan Firth and
Connie Booth.
Oxford Professor Frances
Ashby meets and befriends two
women holidaying in the Swiss
Alps in 1861. They follow him
back to campus and move into
a nearby home to pursue him
but unfortunately, university
professors are forbidden to
marry, and Francis must choose
between love and his career.
Includes a personal introduction
by the director, Tristram Powell
and a Q&A session at the end.
Why ‘Live’ Matters – where
Britain’s Cultural Revolution
is going
Thursday 2 February
7.30pm/Linbury Room
£14, £12 Friends includes a
glass of wine
Tom Sutcliffe, long-time opera
critic for the Guardian and the
Evening Standard, will share his
concerns about the future of
live classical music.
The Castalian String Quartet
Castalian String Quartet
Wednesday 22 March
7.30pm/Gallery
£20, £18 Friends includes a
glass of wine; under 18s £10
The Castalians are rapidly
emerging as an exciting
voice on the international
chamber music scene.
Prize-winners at Hanover
(2013), Lyon (2015) and
at Banff (2016), they have
already performed widely
throughout Europe. They will
play Schubert, Schumann
and Beethoven.
LUNCHTIME CONCERT
SERIES
From Blues to Bach
1.30-2pm/Christ’s Chapel
Wednesdays January 18, 25
February 1, 8, 15
March 1, 8, 15
Enter from the cloister in
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Admission free
The free lunchtime concerts
are back again with talented
students from local schools:
Dulwich College, JAGS and
Alleyn’s School, who will both
entertain and impress you with
their musicianship, all in the
impressive surroundings of
Christ’s Chapel.
James Dean, East of Eden, 1955
Pauline Collins and Tom Conti,
Shirley Valentine, 1989
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PRACTICAL ART
FOR ADULTS
PAINTING AND DRAWING
Expressionist Nudes
Five Mondays from 23 January
to 20 February
10.30am – 12.30pm
£150, £145
Take inspiration from the iconic
pink nudes of Vanessa Bell and
Henri Matisse. Learn to paint in
oil and acrylics and work from
both life models and still lives
to create several expressionist
paintings. Includes a special visit
to the Vanessa Bell exhibition.
With artist Rebecca Allen
Vanessa Bell: Still Life
Five Mondays from 13 March
to 10 April
10.30am – 12.30pm
£150, £145
Adopt Vanessa Bell’s bold use
of colour in your compositions
on paper. Work from classic
interior set-ups to emulate
the work and style of The
Bloomsbury Group and create
finished oil pastel drawings.
With artist Liz Charsley–Jory
Artists’ Choice
Five Tuesdays from 17 January
to 14 February
10.30am – 12.30pm
£150, £145
Through the study of practical
work, exercises and discussion
you will create works on paper
by considering process and
observation, materials and
colour. At the end of the course
you will have explored many
techniques inspired by the
Gallery’s Permanent Collection.
With artist Kim Jacobson
MIXED MEDIA
Collage: Colour, shape
and composition
Five Tuesdays from 28 February
to 28 March
7 – 9pm
£150, £145
Explore different collage
techniques inspired by Vanessa
Bell’s experimental approach
to the medium. Develop your
colour mixing and compositionbuilding
skills and create a series
of bold and innovative works.
With artist Jo Lewis
Applied Patterns
Five Tuesdays from 7 March
to 4 April
10.30am – 12.30pm
£150, £145
Take inspiration from the
Bloomsbury Group and explore
a range of applications for
decorative applied art. Design
and make ceramic tiles and
produce small prints to apply
to handmade book covers and
endpapers.
With artist Jo Veevers
Composition Workshop
Saturday 11 March
10am – 3pm
£75, £70
This one day workshop, based
in the studio and Gallery will
explore the practical tasks it takes
to establish a strong composition,
including movement, diction,
depth, volume and light and dark.
With artist Peter Brown
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
15 – 18 YRS:
The Artist’s Practice: painting
and drawing
Five Tuesdays from 3 January
to 31 January
4.30 – 6pm
£75
Explore several aspects of an
artist’s practice and build a
portfolio under experienced
guidance. Using a range a
materials including chalks,
charcoals, graphite, paints and
inks, create works on paper.
With artist Kim Jacobson
Vanessa Bell: Portraiture
Five Tuesdays from 28 February
to 28 March
4.30 – 6pm
£75
Create well-composed
portraits and self-portraits and
enhance your life drawing skills.
Taking inspiration from the
work of Vanessa Bell and The
Bloomsbury Group, experiment
with oil pastels and learn new
techniques, including colour
building and blending.
With artist Liz Charsley-Jory
11 – 14 YRS:
The Book Project
Three Thursdays from 26
January to 9 February
4.30 – 6pm
£45
Become a bookbinder
and printmaker! Visit the
Vanessa Bell exhibition and
the permanent collection to
gather ideas, and experiment
with various relief and intaglio
printmaking techniques to
create high-quality prints and
hand-bound books.
With artist Nikki Gardham
Mosaics
Five Thursdays from 2 March
to 30 March
4.30 – 6pm
£75
Explore the decorative arts of
The Bloomsbury Group and
create your own mosaic designs.
Learn techniques such as cutting,
grouting and fixing tiles and
create your very own mirror
frame and pot.
With artist Jo Veevers
7 – 10 YRS:
When I’m an artist
Five Wednesdays from 4
January to 1 February
4.30 – 6pm
£75
Explore traditional materials
such as egg tempera and
gold leaf, and learn painting
techniques used by Monet,
Pollock and Hirst. In this course
you will create original artworks
inspired by interesting artists and
their innovative techniques.
With artist Jo Lewis
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LONDON VISITS AND WALKS
Decorative Art
Five Wednesdays from 1 March
to 29 March
4.30 – 6pm
£75
Create your own patterns inspired
by the decorative arts of Vanessa
Bell and The Bloomsbury Group.
Develop your drawing and
sculpting skills and create your
own decorative papier mache
bowls and pot designs.
With artist Jo Veevers
Half Term Courses:
6 – 9 YRS:
Self–portraits in the classical
style
Two days Wednesday 15 and
Thursday 16 February
10.30am – 12.30pm
Take inspiration from the Gallery’s
old master paintings and create
your own unique self–portrait
finished in a "gilded" frame.
With artist Liz Charsley – Jory
10 – 12 YRS:
DPG in CMY (Cyan, Magenta,
Yellow)
Two days Wednesday 15 and
Thursday 16 February
2 – 4pm
Using a layered printing process,
create exciting interpretations
of the Gallery’s masterpieces. By
overlaying the CMY colours, red,
green and purples will appear,
revealing surprising images at
the last moment!
With artist Nikki Gardham
OFF THE WALL
Saturday 21 January
Saturday 11 February
Saturday 18 March
Saturday 15 April
2 – 4pm
FREE
“I like not knowing what
we’re doing until I turn up!”
Discuss, debate and
have your say!
Meet new people, work with a
professional artist and engage
in lively discussion as you
challenge the role of Galleries
for young people today – what
they represent and who they’re
for. Working in the Gallery
you will explore universal
themes such as love, power,
beauty and equality using
the collection and temporary
exhibitions as your stimuli. Join
us as we find new and creative
ways to express these ideas -
it’s your space and your voice.
Book your place
Emma Hollamby
020 8299 8753 / e.hollamby@
dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk
Generously supported
by the Sir David Hancock
Learning Fund
The Speaker’s House,
Parliament
Tuesday 10 January
11.00am for 11.45am (20
minutes needed to clear
security)
£12, Friends £10
Meet: 11.00am at the Cromwell
Green entrance to Parliament
Wheelchair access: Yes, but
please arrive early
Queen’s House, Greenwich
Monday 6 February
11am – 12pm
£14, Friends £12
Meet: 10.45am, outside
Romney Rd, Greenwich,
London SE10 9NF
Wheelchair Access: Yes
The Great Fire of
London Walk
Wednesday 22 February
10.30am - 12.30pm
£12, Friends £10
Meet: 10.30am, outside the
entrance to the Monument to
the Great Fire, EC4R 9AA
Wheelchair access: No,
participants need to be fit and
fully mobile
British Library
Conservation Studio
Thursday 9 March
2 – 3pm
£20, Friends £15
After an introduction on
the work of the studio,
conservators will show us
what they are working on
and describe the task and
techniques involved.
Meet: 2.00pm in the Foyle
exhibition area, Centre for
Conservation, British Library
Wheelchair access: Yes
Vintners Hall
Tuesday 14 March
11am - 12.30pm
£18, Friends £15
Meet: 10.45am at the front
door, 68 Upper Thames Street,
London, EC4V 3BG
Wheelchair Access: No
Bloomsbury Literary Walk
Thursday 23 March
10.30am - 12.30pm
£15, Friends £12
See the homes of Vanessa
Bell and Virginia Woolf, and
discover more about other
members of the group, all
within a well-preserved
quarter of Georgian London.
Meet: 10.30am outside Warren
Street tube station
Wheelchair access: No,
participants will need to be fit
and fully mobile
Spencer House
Monday 10 April
11.00am – 12.30pm
£16, Friends £14
Meet: 10.45am, outside 27
St James's Place, London,
SW1A 1NR
Wheelchair Access: Yes
GALLERY CAFÉ
A taste of what you can enjoy at
the Gallery’s contemporary café
this winter
Early morning openings and
brunch
From 4 January the café will
open from 8am Tuesday -
Saturday and 9.30am on
Sundays. Treat yourself to a
healthy and hearty breakfast
which includes chia and oat
porridge and smashed avocado
on sourdough. For the late risers,
relax over brunch with family and
friends.
Union Roasted Coffee
The café has partnered with
Union Roasted Coffee to provide
the perfect beans to match the
new breakfast menu.
Craft Beers
Sample craft beers from local
Herne Hill micro-brewery,
Canopy Beer.
Winter Menu
The café’s new winter menu
features British favourites such
as kedgeree, bubble & squeak
and stilton rarebit, as well as a
traditional Sunday roast with
supersized Yorkshire puddings.
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