A young woman’s life immersed in art and creativity is lovingly captured in Maggie Beale’s charming sketches of family. Drawn during and after her period of studies at the progressive Slade School of Art, her sketches provide a poignant insight into the rhythm of life at Standen, an example of Arts and Crafts design and […]
Imagine the house before the fire – the impressive scale, rich decoration, and lavish interiors, all the product of one woman’s vision. Step into Maud Messel’s imagined studio to see her vision evolve and add your own creative spin to Maud’s grand design.
This event was in June. So it should not show up when you hit the Today button. And it should not show up when you choose some date in July or August as "Upcoming", because it ain't.
To Know About Women: The Photography of Eve Arnold, until Jan 7 Eve Arnold was a Magnum documentary photographer, best known for the many photographs she took of Marilyn Monroe, over a ten-year period in the 50s and early 60s. If the two parts of that sentence don’t seem to go together, it should be […]
The latest series of work by the Laughton-based artist Alexander Johnson, is our favourite to date. Equally influenced by the Old Masters and punk iconography, Johnson reimagines figures and still lives by the likes of Velázquez and Zurbarán in charcoal, adding abstract swathes of colour to bring the characters and scenes into the twenty-first century.
When you think of Sir Brian May of Queen fame, a Victorian photographic phenomenon known as stereoscopy probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind - until now! Over the years, May has amassed a world-leading collection of stereoscopic objects, beginning with a stereocard (a card showing two stereoscopic images) depicting two hippos found […]
