Inspired by our exhibition Canaletto: Painting Venice Professor Dario Camuffo will explore his use of Canaletto’s paintings as a proxy method to study the changes of sea levels in Venice. What can eighteenth-century paintings tell us about modern-day Venice? What information can be extracted from past depictions of the city in order to understand its present?...
Join Nicholas Pope and curator George Vasey for a conversation on the artist’s current exhibition at the Holburne Portraits of a Marriage and recent projects with The Sunday Painter and Roche Court. George Vasey is an independent curator who has recently worked with organisations including The Welcome Collection, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and Chapter...
Making a Splash! 200 years of the Cleveland Pools, Swimming History and Costume Design Head to the Holburne Museum in August to see a brand new exhibition by the Cleveland Pools Trust, who are busy restoring Bath’s historic lido ahead of its grand re-opening next year. A display in the Museum Garden Cafe window gallery,...
A rare opportunity to see this delicate portrait of Jane Austen by her sister Cassandra, usually only on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of the most beloved writers in English literature. A resident of Bath between 1801 and 1806, she lived across the road from the Holburne at...
Aaron Angell & Steven Claydon Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome… (etc.) 9 Sept 2021 – 3 Jan 2022 Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome… (etc.) presents the fruits of a recent anagama kiln firing by Aaron Angell and Steven Claydon. These two leading British artists share an anachronistic approach to historical influence, in this instance in the vernacular of ceramics...
Until 18 December at the Edge Art Centre, University of Bath Kenneth Alme, Sara Barker, Harriet Bowman, Dicken Drury, Jesse Darling, Sean Edwards, Lilah Fowler, Ryan Gander, Jasleen Kaur, Tessa Lynch, Joanne Masding, France-Lise McGurn, Natasha McVoy, Kate Owens, Laure Prouvost, Emily Speed, and Yu-Chen Wang & Andro Semeiko. This project, curated by Will Cooper...
This autumn sees a unique show devoted to one of the giants of Victorian art – the first ever exhibition dedicated to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portraits. The Times ⭐⭐⭐⭐ You can book in advance here, or you can also just purchase tickets on arrival at the Museum. A unique show devoted to one of the...
To accompany its major new exhibition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s portraits, the Holburne is proud to announce a display of photographs by Sunil Gupta that explore the legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites and their influence on contemporary art. You can book in advance here, or you can also just purchase tickets on arrival at the Museum....
Free Zoom Lecture with artist Sunil Gupta 7pm Thursday 11 November Join artist Sunil Gupta in this talk where he discusses creating a new iconography of same sex desire. He notes of his series of pictures, ‘The Pre-Raphaelite group of painters in England were formed to contest the stifling norms of their world and to...
FREE ENTRY - NO BOOKING REQUIRED (£7 for Rossetti Portraits - purchase tickets on arrival) Join students from Bath Spa University from BA Creative Writing and BA Music for an after hours evening at The Holburne as they respond to the museum's unique atmosphere through poetry and prose with a backdrop of jazz. Whilst enjoying...
Hornet, hailstone, crab eye, aerodrome…(etc) presents the results of a recent anagama kiln firing by British artists Aaron Angell (b. 1987) and Steven Claydon (b.1969). Join the two artists In Conversation with Will Cooper, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Holburne, at 7pm on 9 December where they will discuss their display which is drawn...
Medieval Revivalism in Pre-Raphaelite Fashion Free Zoom Lecture with fashion historian, writer and broadcaster Amber Butchart to celebrate our exhibition Rossetti's Portraits 7pm Thursday 16 December Fashion historian, writer and broadcaster Amber Butchart delves into the fashion of the Pre-Raphaelite era to consider the romantic medieval revivalism at the heart of many styles and techniques,...