In Conversation: Ken Loach and George Shaw £10 (Main exhibition and café open, 6-7pm) Join acclaimed director and activist Ken Loach in conversation with Holburne-exhibiting artist and Turner-prize nominee George Shaw as they talk about the links between their works. Best-known for his films Kes (1969), I, Daniel Blake (2016) and The Wind that Shakes...
FREE EVENT* as part of Forest of Imagination. Children’s author and illustrator Lauren Child MBE, creator of the hugely popular Charlie & Lola books, joins the Holburne’s director Chris Stephens to discuss art and creativity amongst children and adults. There will be a book signing after the talk. PDF with full programme details 21 to...
*FREE event as part of Forest of Imagination Contemporary ‘slogan’ artist Bob and Roberta Smith shares a reading from his new book UR an artist and discusses with Professor Anita Taylor the role of art in society through an open discussion with the audience, including young people. * This is an outdoor event with no seating....
Join art critic and BBC broadcaster, Alastair Sooke, in conversation with Holburne Director, Chris Stephens, as they discuss the work of 19th-century French painter, Édouard Vuillard, in celebration of our major exhibition, The Poetry of the Everyday. “For all their quiet modesty, and debt to traditional domestic interiors by Vermeer, Vuillard’s ‘intimiste’ paintings (as they...
Iain R. Webb In Conversation with Princess Julia and Christine Binnie - 1980s Fashion To complement Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, fashion writer Iain R Webb, Neo Naturist founder member Christine Binnie and DJ and fashion writer Princess Julia explore the 1980s post-punk counter-cultural explosion, centred on clubs like Billy’s, Blitz, Hell, and Taboo and...
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...
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...