2001 WILLIAM MORRIS EVENTS IN THE UK

Compiled by the William Morris Society (UK)

Unless otherwise stated, all lectures are at Kelmscott House and start at 2.15 pm; tickets £3 for WMS members, £4 for non-members. Address all applications for tickets to Judy Marsden, The William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.

To 21 January 2001
The House Beautiful: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior
Oscar Wilde was the Aesthetic Movement personified. He helped it to flourish, and when he died in November 1900, ostracised and disgraced, the Movement died with him. This exhibition locates Wilde in the context of London's cultural scene in the late nineteenth century and traces his influence in creating the notion of the "house beautiful". The effect of the Aesthetic Movement on middle-class interiors is examined in detail, with furniture, wallpapers, textiles and decorative arts displayed in the manner described in the numerous books and manuals on decoration published from the 1860s onwards, and drawing on the evidence of contemporary furnishing catalogues, photographs and paintings.
At the Geffrye Museum, Shoreditch, London. Closed on Monday. Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday, 12.00 - 17.00. Admission is free. Tel. (0207) 739 9893.

To 27 January 2001
The Doves Press
Doves Press books have to be seen for real if one is to appreciate their use of a fine typeface on strong white paper, with the occasional letter in colour. This exhibition is chiefly drawn from the library of Emery Walker, who was the key figure behind Morris's Kelmscott Press as well as the Doves Press. Emery Walker and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson were the two partners who worked so closely on the Doves Press but then spectacularly fell out, with Cobden-Sanderson throwing the type into the Thames. Only one piece survives - for a Christmas card in 1900 - and this is included in the exhibition, along with the Doves Bible, the supreme masterpiece of the Press.
At Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Closed on Sunday. Open Monday - Saturday, except bank holidays, 10.00-17.20. Admission is free. Tel. 01242 - 237 431.

17 October 2000 - 9 February 2001
Archibald Knox
The first temporary exhibition at this new museum examines the work of Archibald Knox, who designed Art Nouveau pieces for Liberty. The items on show include his large pastel designs for wallpapers and furnishings, as well as examples of his work in pewter and silver, including cigarette boxes and clocks.
At Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University, London N11. Closed on Monday. Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00-17.00; Sunday, 14.00-17.00. Admission is free. Contact Claire Swanton for more details: Tel. 020 - 8362 5244, c.swanton@mdx.ac.uk.

1 January-3 June 2001.
Kendal, Cumbria: Abbot Hall Art Gallery. Li Yuan-chia.
This exhibition is an invitation into the world of the artist Li Yuan-chia (1929-94), who is regarded as one of the most significant Chinese artists of the twentieth century. At once an artist, curator, poet and archivist, Li Yuan-chia had an inclusive approach to art and life, and he explored the convergence of Western and Eastern art, linking photography with 1960's kinetic and conceptual art. Li Yuan-chia was born in Kwangsi, South China, in 1929. After a childhood spent in orphanages, he went to study art in Taipei. In the 1950s, he was one of the founders of Chinese abstract painting. In 1961, he left China and lived briefly in Italy. Then Li Yuan-chia moved to London, but he left there in 1968 to settle in a remote, rural part of the Lake District. From Winifred Nicholson he bought a run-down farmhouse at Banks by Hadrian's Wall and gradually repaired and extended it. In 1972, he opened it as the LYC Art Gallery and Museum. Li Yuan-chia had a profound impact on the lives of the local people and on the cultural scene in Cumbria and his generosity of spirit led him to create opportunities for over 300 artists and poets including Andy Goldsworthy and Bill Woodrow. Open every day, 10.30-17.00. Adults £3.00; concessions £1.50; families £7.50. 01539 - 722 464 or <info@abbothall.org.uk>.

1 January-7 June 2001.
Ditchling, East Sussex: Ditchling Museum. Spring Lines: Contemporary Calligraphy from East and West.
In China, Japan and the Arab world, calligraphy has long been the most respected of all art forms. Yet in different ways each of these traditions has had to adjust to vast cultural changes in the twentieth century. The Tunisian callirgrapher Nja Mahdaoui works on various surfaces, including denim, whereas the Algerian Rachid Koraichi taps into ancient traditions of writing on ceramics and in cast metal plaques. Toko Shinoda, the eminent Japanese woman artist now resident in New York, builds grand, strong gestures into minimalist compositions of great power and simplicity. Recent Chinese calligraphy by some of the greatest living masters is being shown outside China for the first time since the Cultural Revolution. This exhibition also includes The Space of Writing, specially commissioned from the American calligrapher Thomas Ingmire, a series of variations on the Hevajira Tantra, 'By passion the world is bound, by passion too it is released'. Open Tuesday - Saturday and Bank Holiday Mondays 10.30-17.00; Sunday, 14.00-17. Closed on other Mondays except for pre-booked groups. Adults £2.50; students £1.00; children 50p; other concessions £2.00. 01273 - 845 777.

17 February 2001
Philip Webb: Architect, Artist and Friend
Dr Sheila Kirk, an architectural historian and lecturer at the University of Newcastle, will outline the life and work of Philip Webb, who was a leading pioneer of Arts & Crafts architecture and one of William Morris's oldest colleagues and a close friend. Webb's architectural achievements include Red House and Standen. Sheila Kirk is closely involved with the Society of Architectural Historians, the Victorian Society and the SPAB, and she is the author of a recent book on Philip Webb. There are only a few tickets left for this event, which is the lecture postponed from 17th June 2000.

24 March 2001
William Morris and the Howard family
In 1867, George Howard commissioned Philip Webb to design a town-house at 1 Palace Green in Kensington. Kathy Haslam will describe the controversial design and the planning of the house which was completed in 1872. The subsequent decorative schemes for the house, undertaken by Morris & Co. with Philip Webb and Edward Burne-Jones, resulted in a stunning interior.

Kathy Haslam won the Peter Floud Memorial Prize last year and is currently writing her doctoral thesis on George Howard (1843-1911). She works as Exhibitions Officer at the Geffrye Museum of Domestic Interiors. After this lecture, we shall celebrate William Morris's birthday with wine and birthday cake.

1 April-24 June 2001.
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University, EN4. The Silver Studio Then & Now: A Design Practice at Work. Until.
The Silver Studio was a commercial design practice, which from 1880 to 1963 was a leading source of pattern for Britain's homes. This exhibition looks at the working life of the Studio - where the ideas came from, the technicalities of preparing designs, the importance of the manufacturers' requirements and what it was like to be a designer. Today, some Silver Studio designs are again available: this exhibition shows how contemporary products have been created using original artwork. There are over 100 items on display, including original designs, textile and wallpaper samples, photographs, record books and correspondence. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10.00-17.00; Sunday, 14.00-17.00. Closed on Monday. Admission is free. 020 - 8411 6639 or <moda@mdx.ac.uk>.

1 April-24 June 2001.
Tate Britain. Stanley Spencer.
A unique opportunity to see more than 100 of Stanley Spencer's paintings and drawings gathered from public and private collections worldwide. It includes all of the artist's well-known works, as well as some that are less familiar, such as a selection from his extraordinary Beatitudes of Love series of 1937-38. See below, under 'Other Events', for related lectures and a symposium. Open daily 10.00-17.50. Adults £8.50; concessions £5.50; families (2 adults + 2 children) £22.50. 020 - 7887 8008.

1 April-15 July 2001.
Museum of London. Creative Quarters: the art world in London, 1700-2000.
This exhibition celebrates 300 years of the life and work of the artist in London and it looks particularly at the districts where they congregated. It includes works by Joshua Reynolds, John Constable, James McNeil Whistler, William Blake, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Sickert, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon. Open Monday - Saturday 10.00-17.50; Sunday, 12.00-17.50. Adults £5.00; adult concessions £3.00; free to children under 16 years old. 020 - 7600 3699 or <info@museumoflondon.org.uk>.

1 April-25 August 2001.
Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2. Hogarth's Election Entertainment: Artists at the Hustings. Until.
Anticipating the onset of "election fever" across Britain, this exhibition of political art features work by William Hogarth alongside more recent pieces, including a generous selection of cartoons from Private Eye magazine. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10.00-17.00. Closed on Sunday. Admission is free. 020-7405 2107.

2 April-28 April 2001.
Wolseley Fine Arts, 12 Needham Road, W11. Eric Gill, 1882-1940: Drawings and Engravings from the estate of Mrs Petra Tegetmeier (Part 1: 1913-1928).
This is an opportunity to see and perhaps buy from 95 drawings and engravings that were owned by his daughter Petra. The subjects and styles cover most of Gill's range and include some works not previously exhibited or published. Open Tuesday - Friday 11.00-18.00; Saturday, 11.00-17.00. Closed on Monday. Admission is free. 020 - 7792 2788 or <info@wolseleyfinearts.com>.

5 April-29 July 2001.
Victoria & Albert Museum. Inventing New Britain: The Victorian Vision.
This exhibition explores five themes central to Victorian life: the Royal Family, society, nature, the world and army, and technology. The items on show include a sculpture of Lady Godiva given to Queen Victoria by Prince Albert, paintings by Alma Tadema and Walter Sickert, gems and jewellery from around the British Empire, and even a stuffed tiger. Open Wednesday and the last Friday of the month, 10.00-22.00; all other days, 10.00-17.45. Adults £5.00; concessions £2.50; free to children under 18 years old. 020 7942 2000.

21 April 2001
Against the Grain: Opposition to Socialist Ideas in the Victorian Age
William Morris was a middle-class poet, artist and later businessman and craftsman - so why, after 1876, did Socialism mean so much to him? The advance of Socialist theories and practice during the twentieth was perhaps remarkable given the strength of opposition to those ideas during the Victorian period. Tony Carr will examine some of the Establishment's attitudes to Socialist ideas during Morris's lifetime. Tony Carr was a lecturer in History at the University of London, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, and is now an academic advisor to US universities.

2 May 2001, 18.00
Lancaster: Frankland Lecture Theatre, Bailrigg. Ruskin and Gandhi.
The 2001 Mikimoto Memorial Lecture, given by Judith Brown, Beit Professor of Commonwealth History at Oxford University. Admission is free. 01524 - 592 450.

3 May 2001, 14.30-15.30.
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, E17. Tour of the William Morris Gallery.
A special guided tour of William Morris's boyhood home and the collection of the gallery now housed there, which includes numerous works by Morris and his associates. This event has been organised by the Museum of London. Tickets cost £6.00 (no concessions) and places must be booked in advance. 020 - 7600 3699 or <info@museumoflondon.org.uk>.

4 May 2001, 13.00
Tate Britain (Clore Auditorium). A Vision of the World Transfigured: Stanley Spencer's Religious Painting..
A lecture by Dr Susanna Avery-Quash of the National Gallery. Admission is free. 020 - 7887 8008.

5 May 2001, 2.15 pm
The William Morris Society's 46th Annual General Meeting
To be held in the coach-house of Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London. Following the AGM, David Rainger, Chair of the Library Committee, will present the first Penelope Fitzgerald Address, on Edward Burne-Jones and entitled The King, the Maiden and Others. Admission is free and all members of the Society are encouraged to attend.

May 5-August 18 2001
Aberdeen: Aberdeen Art Gallery. A Scottish Collection: Treasures from Aberdeen Art Gallery.
This loan collection of 80 of the greatest works of art from the Fine Art collections of Aberdeen Art Gallery has toured Japan, where it was seen by by over 100,000 people. The exhibits show the remarkable artistic wealth of the city of Aberdeen. Oil paintings, watercolours and drawings cover the last 250 years and range from a charmingly naive view of the city by William Mosman, through fascinating and revealing portraits such as Allan Ramsay's quintessentially Scottish Janet Shairp, Victorian narrative paintings such as Edwin Landseer's Flood in the Highlands, to Realist and Impressionist masterpieces and to modern abstract and figurative work. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.00-17.00; Sunday, 14.00-17.00. Admission is free. 01224 - 523 700.

11 May 2001, 13.00
Tate Britain (Clore Auditorium). A Commissioned Vision: Spencer's War Paintings..
A lecture by Roger Tolson, curator of the Imperial War Museum. Admission is free. 020 - 7887 8008.

11-13 May 2001.
Business Design Centre, Islington, N1. Period Living & Traditional Homes Show
The first Period Living & Traditional Homes Show features over 100 exhibitors, offering products, expert advice and inspiration for interior restoration, decoration, furniture and ornaments, especially for those who live in period homes. The exhibitors include the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, the Real Wood Furniture Company, Victorian Classic Style and numerous antique dealers. Open Friday 11.00-19.00; Saturday, 10.00-17.00; Sunday, 10.00-15.30. Adults £8.00; free for accompanied children under 16 years old. 0870 - 739 9400.

Saturday-Sunday, 12-13 May 2001.
Ditchling, East Sussex: St Margaret's School. Spring Lines in Depth
In association with the Spring Lines exhibition at Ditchling Museum. A practical workshop led by the renowned calligrapher Ewan Clayton, applying principles derived from contemporary Japanese and Arabic calligraphy to Western lettering. Places cost £60.00. 01273 - 845 777.

18 May 2001.
Tate Britain. Stanley Spencer.
A one-day symposium led by David Mellor, Timothy Hyman and Patrick Wright, aiming to re-evaluate Stanley Spencer's career and focusing on fresh approaches to his work. Speakers will include Jane Beckett, Judy Collins, Michael Dickens, Kitty Hauser, Alun Howkin and Sue Malvern. Topics will include 'Spencer and the Self', 'Spencer's work at Burghclere', 'Spencer and Gender', 'Spencer's Writings' and 'Spencer and Englishness'. Places cost £22.00; concessions £17.00. 020 - 7887 8008.

18-21 May 2001
William Morris Society Weekend in Paris
This event is now fully booked
William Morris knew Paris well and often went there for pleasure with his family and friends, sometimes for business; no fewer than 13 occasions between 1854 and 1886. The Society's weekend in Paris will include visits to the Musee Carnavalet (the Museum of Paris, where the story of the French Revolution is presented), the Musee National de Ceramique (which has a fine collection of Sevres work together with modern and Art Nouveau ceramics), the Musee d'Orsay (a superb gallery including numerous world-famous paintings) and the Musee Cluny (which Morris visited many times, the first occasion in 1854 particularly to see the Lady with the Unicorn tapestries). There will also be opportunities for shopping, eating and drinking with friends.

The approximate cost will be £225 per person. A deposit of £50 per person must be paid when reserving places. All travel and accommodation will be arranged through Eurostar. The two chosen 3-star hotels are situated in the Opera area and the group may eat together or separately. We shall travel out on Friday 18th May at 08.23 hours by Eurostar from London Waterloo to Paris Gare du Nord, and then by Metro. We shall return on Monday 21st May, arriving at London Waterloo at about 21.00 hours. Except for breakfast, no meals are included in the tour cost, nor are any admission charges or local fares. Rooms will be twin-bedded and some sharing of rooms will be necessary. Full notes, maps, etc. will be provided on the outward journey.

The party will be limited to 24 members. Please note that 12 places have already been booked and the reservation list will close at the end of January. Contact the Society's office at Kelmscott House for more information about this event.

22 May 2001, 19.30
City of Westminster Archives Centre, 10 St Ann's Street, SW1. William Blake, Joanna Southcott and the Gendering of Apocalyptic Thinking.
Organised by the Blake Society. A lecture by Anne K Mellor, Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of California in Los Angeles. She is the author of many books and articles on British Romanticism and has received numerous scholarly awards. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. <keri.davies@cwcom.net>

Saturday-Sunday, 26-27 May 2001.
Ditchling, East Sussex: St Margaret's School. The Healing Brush.
In association with the Spring Lines exhibition at Ditchling Museum. A calligraphy workshop led by Kazuaki Tanahashi, painter, writer and environmental worker, reproducing ideograms with a brush in a traditional East Asian way. Participants should "sense how consciousness changes by making slow and relaxed movements or by using brushes of different sizes". Prior experience of calligraphy is not required. Places cost £60.00. 01273 - 845 777.

1 June 2001, 13.00
Tate Britain (Clore Auditorium). Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline..
A lecture by Tim Wilcox. Admission is free. 020 - 7887 8008.

2 June 2001, 10.30-16.45.
Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, Cat Hill Campus, Middlesex University, EN4. Designers at Work: the Process and Practice of Pattern Design.
A study day presenting case studies from the last 160 years to illuminate what it means to be a textile designer; from the completely anonymous mass-market studio hand through to the famous and saleable freelancer. A contemporary designer will bring the story up to date. There will also be an opportunity to view MoDA's current exhibition, The Silver Studio Then & Now (see above). Places cost £27.00 (some concessions are available on request) and must be booked in advance. 020 - 8411 5244 or <moda@mdx.ac.uk>.

5-16 June 2001.
Richard Dennis Gallery, 144 Kensington Church Street, W8. William De Morgan: A Selling Exhibition
A small, select selling exhibition of William De Morgan's work. The organisers sent us photographs of some lovely ceramics offered for sale there. Open Monday - Saturday 10.00-17.00. Closed on Sunday. Admission is free. 01460 - 24 00 44.

9 June 2001, 2.15 pm
Morris family tree workshop
Although much is known about William Morris's family, there are still many missing links. This workshop will recap on what is known, discuss some of the outstanding mysteries and decide what might be done to complete the picture. There will be no charge for attending this event.

9 June 2001, 20.00
The Epicentre, West Street, E11. The Forgotten Side of a Marxist: the Lyrical Poetry of Bertolt Brecht..
An informal talk by Bob Archer, who has worked as a printer, a translator and a lecturer in further education, and is currently Head of Modern Languages at an East-London school. He regards Brecht as one of the foremost poets of the twentieth century. This is a meeting of the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248.

19 June 2001, 19.30
City of Westminster Archives Centre, 10 St Ann's Street, SW1. "Art Degraded Imagination Denied War Governed the Nations": William Blake's Laocoon Engraving..
Organised by the Blake Society. A lecture by Rosie Paice, a lecturer on Romantic and Victorian Literature at the University of Manchester and currently nearing completion of doctoral research on William Blake's Laocoon engraving. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. <keri.davies@cwcom.net>

4 July 2001
Visit to Goddard & Gibbs Studios Ltd
This event is now fully booked
Goddard & Gibbs have been creating and restoring stained glass (including the 'Sandroyd' quarries now displayed in Kelmscott House) for more than 125 years. David Rainger will lead this visit to the firm's new studios, where we shall hear about the history of Goddard & Gibbs, see glass restoration and modern glass work. Meet outside Pudding Mill Lane station on the Docklands Light Railway at 1.45 pm. This is the visit postponed from 13th September 2000. Tickets, which must be bought in advance, cost £7 and do not include travel or refreshments. There are only a few tickets still available.

Saturday 7 July 2001, 2.15 pm
 Ten Journeys to the Venusberg
Florence Boos, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, will explore the evolution of William Morris's treatment of the 'Venusberg Legend' and his ten successive drafts. Morris made more revisions of 'The Hill of Venus' than of any other tale in The Earthly Paradise. She will also consider why Morris found the story's moral complexities liberating as well as problematic. Professor Boos has written extensively on Morris, and edited William Morris's Socialist Diaries with distinction. Currently she is preparing for publication a study of working-class women poets in nineteenth-century Scotland.

9-10 July 2001
The Rossettis: Cosmopolitans in Victorian London
Conference at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. Keynote speakers: J.B. Bullen, Angela Leighton, Jan Marsh, and Jerome McGann. The name 'Rossetti' brings to mind a substantial body of work in various media of arts and letters, the work of four siblings and their father in Victorian England. But it is also a name which, as Helen Guglielmini, a Rossetti descendant, reminds us, is commonly mispronounced: 'my family insisted on pronouncing Rossetti with the soft s as the Italians do, instead of with the hard s favoured by Anglo-Saxons.' The error is telling. The work of the Rossettis is often assessed without due recognition of their cosmopolitanism. The conference aims to draw attention to the bearings the Rossettis' unique position in English society had on the modes and media they chose for self-expression. There is particular interest in the case of Dante Gabriel Rossetti given the diversity and breadth of his work as painter, poet, translator, designer, etc. Maria Francesca (1827-76), Dante Gabriel (1828-82), William Michael (1829-1919), and Christina Rossetti (1830-94) were born in London where they lived and worked all their lives. Their father Gabriele Rossetti (1783-1854), Professor of Italian at King's College London,was a political exile from Naples. His wife Frances Polidori was half-English half-Italian, and her father Gaetano Polidori was a political exile from Tuscany. The Rossetti family environment was multi-lingual and multi-cultural. The social and cultural anomalousness of the Rossetti family struck many of their English friends and acquaintances, among them William Holman Hunt, John Ruskin, William Sharp and Ford Madox Hueffer. This conference aims to re-evaluate the achievement of the Rossettis' work by situating them in Victorian London, and by examining their relationships with the London literary and art world -- poets, writers, engravers, painters, sculptors, architects, photographers, patrons, colourmen, bookbinders, engravers, framemakers and publishers.

12-15 July 2001.
London Science Museum. Locating the Victorians..
This year is the 150th anniversary of the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the centenary of Queen Victoria's death. It is therefore an excellent time to hold a major interdisciplinary conference to assess the Victorian period and its legacy. This conference has been organised into 21 strands in seven parallel sessions over the three days: these include 'Art and Consumption', 'Civilising and Educating', 'Liberty and Authority', 'Religion and Culture', 'Victorians and Working Class Culture' and 'Victoria Herself', and the strand managers include Paul Greenhalgh (Research Department, V&A), Florence Boos (University of Iowa), Michael Sanders (University College, Northampton) and Peter Mandler (London Guildhall University). Places cost £130 and must be booked in advance. 020 - 7940 5555; <j.speller@nmsi.ac.uk>.

28 July - 23 September 2001
Cambridge: Kettle's Yard.
Winifred Nicholson.
Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981) is one of the best-loved and deeply admired English painters of the twentieth century. "She paints a pot of flowers", wrote Jim Ede, "and in it you feel the laws of universal birth--it isn't just these flowers growing--it is the whole life of nature." Having married Ben Nicholson in 1920, Winifred worked with him at Lugano, Switzerland and, after 1924, at Bankshead in Cumbria, frequently visiting London and Paris. Ben acknowledged her as a strong influence but, with the break-up of her marriage in 1930, she took her children to Paris, where she experimented in abstraction. On the eve of war, she returned to Britain, dividing her time between Bankshead, which remained her home until her death, and her father's house at Boothby. From there in later years she wrote to Jim Ede: "When one is young one is satisfied with a flower petal or a sparkle. Now I want more. I want the rainbow scale of the flower and the reason and the travel of the sparkle - and most of all a long quiet time of intense peace and uninterrupted thought - none of which one can get." This exhibition explores the development of Winifred Nicholson's work, particularly her engagement with colour, spirituality, the Modern Movement and a sense of place.
Open Tuesday - Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 11.30-17.00. Admission is free. 01223 - 352 124. <http://www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk>.

Until 27 August 2001.
London: Victoria & Albert Museum (Canon Photography Gallery).
Rural England through a Victorian Lens: Benjamin Brecknell Turner.
Benjamin Brecknell Turner was renowned for his beautiful photographs of tranquil English English country scenes; but he also photographed the architecture of his time, including the radically modern Crystal Palace. Between 1852 and 1854, Turner compiled 60 of his images under the title Photographic Views from Nature and this superb collection forms the basis of this display (organised by the V&A in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Aside from their intriguing historical and topographical value, Turner's photographs are also creative expressions in their own right and provide a fascinating glimpse of nineteenth-century rural and urban life.
Open Wednesday and the last Friday of the month, 10.00-22.00; all other days, 10.00-17.45. Adults £5.00; concessions free. 020 - 7942 2000.

Saturday 1 September 2001, 2.15 pm
William Morris, Persia and Pattern Design
Dr Francesca Vanke will describe William Morris's use of Islamic art and consider its influence on his products, designs and later politics. Dr Vanke, Research Fellow in the History of Applied Arts at Camberwell College of Art and Design, has studied nineteenth-century British design history and Victorian cultural and aesthetic attitudes towards the Orient.

Saturday 8 September 2001, 2.30 - 5.00 pm
Kelmscott House Garden Party
The Garden Party will be held in the main garden of Kelmscott House, by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Birney. In addition to some summer entertainment and tea, guided tours of the main house will be arranged. Tickets £6 (non-members £7) including tea, from the Society.

Saturday to Sunday, 14-16 September 2001
Arts and Crafts Weekend in Dublin
This event has been cancelled.

Saturday, 15 September 2001, 1.30 - 5.00 pm
Original Thinkers at The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
An afternoon of talks and discussion chaired by Christine Poulson.

This meeting is arranged for the afternoon so that members from outside Sheffield will have time to travel there and, hopefully, to look around the Millennium Galleries which opened in April this year. Within the building are the Ruskin Gallery, the Metalwork Gallery, the Craft and Design Gallery and the Special Exhibition Gallery (currently showing an exhibition - in collaboration with the Tate--of the works of Francis Bacon). The Galleries are in the city centre, a short walk from the railway and bus stations. Tickets cost £5 (£3 concessions). Lunch is not included but can be taken in the cafe in the Galleries, where tables will be reserved for members of our group. Afternoon tea or coffee will be provided. For tickets or further information about this event, contact Dawn Morris at 7 Spring Hill, Sheffield, S10 1ET; telephone 0114 - 266 2726; email <dmorris-wmsoc@supanet.com>. Please make your cheque payable to "The William Morris Society," send a stamped addressed envelope, and indicate if you will be staying in Sheffield, if you wish to join the evening gathering and if you would like information on other events in Sheffield that weekend.

Entrance to the Francis Bacon exhibition is £4 (£3 concessions), but a group discount can be obtained for 10 or more tickets. Please indicate if you would like a "group" ticket; they will be booked in advance, to be paid for on the day. Visitors may wish to take the opportunity of staying on in Sheffield, either to look around the city, to go to either of the two theatres or to join fellow WMS members for a meal and social gathering on Saturday evening. The theatre programme is not yet available, but Dawn Morris will provide it to anyone who requests it.
Bed and breakfast accommodation at Halifax Hall (University of Sheffield) can be booked at a cost of £37 (including VAT) for a single en suite room or £23 (including VAT) for a single standard room. To book accommodation, please contact Shauna Huson, Assistant House Manager at Halifax Hall: telephone 0114 - 222 8813 or email <s.huson@sheffield.ac.uk> and quote "The William Morris Conference." You will be required to make payment on arrival by cash or cheque made out to "The University of Sheffield."

22 September 2001, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm
London Open House Day
The William Morris Society will participate in the London Open House Day by opening to visitors our lower-ground-floor premises and coach-house at Kelmscott House. If you can assist as a guide or steward, please contact the Curator, Helen Elletson: telephone 020 - 8741 3735 or email <williammorris@care4free.net>.

1-6 October 2001
London: Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, 37 Spital Square, E1.
The Repair of Old Buildings: a course of lectures and visits..
Running since 1951, the SPAB's week-long repairs course meets the needs of those professionally involved with historic buildings. The subjects covered include: the principles of repair and conservation; lime and its use in repair; the nature, decay and repair of timber; cleaning and repairing masonry; repairing and conserving plaster and render; conserving historic ironwork; and the impact of building regulations on historic buildings. The course includes two days touring relevant repair projects.
The course costs £550. Further details from the SPAB: telephone 020 - 7377 1644, email <info@spab.org.uk> or website <http://www.spab.org.uk/>.

Saturday 6 October, 2.15 pm
George Edmund Street and his Pupils
Alan Johnson will talk on the work of William Morris’s architect friend George Street and his famous pupils, notably Norman Shaw and John Sedding. Alan Johnson is a Senior Officer in the Government Historic Buildings Advisory Unit of English Heritage and is also Honorary Architect to the Victorian Society.

13 October 2001 - 13 January 2002.
Swindon: National Monuments Record Centre.
The Arts & Crafts Movement.
Examples of craft and design from the workshops of Morris & Co. and others, supplemented by photographs from the National Monument Record. Admission is free. 01793 - 414 797.

18 October 2001 - 13 January 2002.
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University.
Bungalow Blitz: Another History of Irish Architecture.
Using specially commissioned photographs by Andrew Kearney and Paul Antick, this exhibition considers the impact of the "Bungalow Blitz" on Ireland and explores the contrast between these self-built bungalows and the traditional cottages of that country. The bungalows first began to appear in 1972, following the publication of Bungalow Bliss, a book of house plans by the Irish architect Jack Fitzsimon which went through seven editions by 1989. This book, together with the lack of planing restrictions in Ireland, made it relatively easy to build one's own "dream home" there. By the 1990s, however, those dwellings were being widely criticised for their usual stylistic banality and for imposing a suburban character upon much of rural Ireland. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10.00-17.00; Sunday 14.00-17.00; closed on Mondays and 22nd December to 1st January inclusive. Admission is free. 020 - 8411 5244.

18 October 2001 - 17 November 2001.
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum.
The Defining Moment: magnificent Victorian Paintings from the Forbes Collection.
A rare opportunity to see paintings by JE Millais, William Holman Hunt and Arthur Hughes, as well as numerous other Victorian artists, from the private collection of Kit Forbes. A lavishly illustrated catalogue is available for £19.99. Open Tuesday - Sunday 10.00-17.00; closed on Monday. Admission is free. 01202 - 451 858.

20 October 2001
Textiles and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Faraday Lecture Theatre, Lancaster University

  • Alan Crawford. The Arts and Crafts Movement in England: a sketch.
  • Linda Parry (Victoria and Albert Museum). Arts and Crafts Textiles: origins and definitions of a style 1880-1914.
  • Mary Schoeser (Research Fellow, Central St Martin's College of Art and Design). Textiles: the Arts and Crafts Legacy.
  • Jon Press (Bath Spa University College). Wealth, Taste and Market Formation: William Morris and the decorative arts in Victorian Britain.
  • Jennie Brunton (Lancaster University). Annie Garnett and the Arts and Craft Movement in the Lake District.
  • Stephen Wildman (Ruskin Library, Lancaster University). Necessary and Inevitable Utterances: the influence of John Ruskin on the Arts and Crafts Movement.
In the evening the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University will host a pre-dinner reception.
Sunday 21 October 2001 - Optional Coach Excursion to the Ruskin Museum, Coniston, and to Blackwell, the Artistic House, Bowness on Windermere. En-suite accommodation will be available for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at Lancaster University. For further details - full programme and booking form please contact: christine.wilkinson@lancaster.ac.uk, Telephone & Voice Mail 01524 593770, Fax: 01524 594725.

Sunday 21 October, 3.00 pm
Hampstead Walk
Edwin Walters will lead a tour of Hampstead, describing personalities known to William Morris who lived there, passing the location in Ford Madox Brown’s famous painting Work and Keats House. A stop will be made for tea. Meet at Hampstead Parish Church, Church Row (near Hampstead underground station) at 3 pm. The area is hilly, only suitable for good walkers. Tickets cost £2 (tea extra). Numbers are limited; please book in advance.

31 October 2001 - 26 January 2002.
Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Cecil Collins: Works on Paper.
This display shows a selection of recently acquired prints, drawings and gouaches by a celebrated twentieth-century visionary artist. A Neo-Romantic artist linked with the Apocalypse group and a founder of the Cambridge Society of Painters, the work of Cecil Collins (1908-89) is overtly mystical, encouraging comparison with that of William Blake, yet its typical style is more akin to Adam Kossowski's or even Marc Chagall's. Comparisons are inadequate to describe the powerful originality of this artist. Our members will also be interested to know that, in the 1930s, when Collins lived near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, he was an acquaintance of Eric Gill and David Jones, and that in the 1950s he taught at the Central School of Art in London, where his pupils included Mervyn Peake. Gallery open Wednesday and the last Friday of the month, 10.00-22.00; all other days, 10.00-17.45. Adults £5.00; concessions free. 020 - 7942 2000.

Friday 2 November, 6.30 pm
2001 Kelmscott Lecture
Following the death of Roderick Gradidge, who was booked to deliver this year’s lecture, a replacement speaker is being sought. Details will appear in the next Newsletter.

1 November 2001 - 7 April 2002.
London: British Library.
Lie of the Land: the Secret Life of Maps.
What we see on a map is rarely the same as the land under our feet. Some maps deliberately set out to deceive; many show a selective view and reflect only the interests of the people who made them. In every case, there is more to a map than meets the eye. This thought-provoking exhibition includes maps showing the distribution of different races, others made in World War II for bombing raids on Germany and England, maps made by prisoners of war for their escape, another purporting to show the locations of the Garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel, and a fake map of Roman Britain. Open Monday and Wednesday - Friday 09.30-18.00; Tuesday 09.30-20.00; Saturday 09.30-17.00; Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday 11.00-17.00; closed 24th-26th and 30th -31st December, 1st January and 29th-31st March inclusive. Admission is free. 020 - 7412 7332.

3 November 2001, 15.00.
London: National Portrait Gallery.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
A talk by Alfred Bradley and Susan Morris. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 7312 2463.

3 November 2001, 11.00-16.30.
Cardiff: National Museum and Gallery.
John Brett Study Day.
This study day includes presentations by Ann Sumner, Christopher Newall, Christopher Gridley and David Cordingly, as well as a tour of the Gallery's current exhibition John Brett: a Pre-Raphaelite Painter on the Shores of Wales (see under 'Exhibitions'). Tickets cost £20 and must be bought in advance. Contact Clare Smith for further information or to book a place: 029 - 2057 3104.

Until 3 November 2001.
London: Wolseley Fine Arts, 12 Needham Road, Westbourne Grove, W11.
John Buckland Wright: The Golden Cockerel Years, 1936-1954.
John Buckland Wright - JBW, as he became known - was born in 1897 in Dunedin, New Zealand. He came to England in 1905 for his education. After public school and Oxford University, he commenced a career as an architect, but he abandoned this in 1922. By 1926, he had established himself in Brussels and was busy teaching himself engraving. He next moved to Paris, but the outbreak of war forced his speedy return to England, taking with him little more than his engraving tools and the plates which he had just finished for The Vigil of Venus to be published by the Golden Cockerel Press. JBW remained active during World War II on Golden Cockerel Press commissions. He produced 58 illustrations for Endymion, published in 1947, and the following year he began his involvement with the Folio Society and other presses which introduced his work to a wider audience. This exhibition includes all the major Golden Cockerel Press books illustrated by JBW in special and ordinary editions, prints from the published editions, rare proofs where no editions were made, and examples of rejected plates and drawings. Most of the items on show are for sale. Open Wednesday - Friday 11.00-18.00; Saturday 11.00-17.00; closed on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Admission is free. 020 - 7792 2788.

3 November 2001, 10.00-16.00.
Barnet, Hertfordshire: Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University.
Weaving Workshop for Adults and Children.
Both beginners and those with some experience of weaving are welcome to this workshop which is suitable for adults and children aged eight years and over - if accompanied by a paying adult. It will entail hand twisting with plain and textured woollen yarns to make an open lent effect woven on a simple frame. The resulting structure will be wet finished and lightly felted. Take along a towel measuring at least 60 x 30 centimetres. All other materials will be provided. Full rate £25; concessions for OAPs, students, registered disabled and ES-40 holders £20; children £5. Lunch is not provided. Prior booking is essential. Phone 020 8411 5441 or email r.lumb@mdx.ac.uk.

3 November 2001 - 12 January 2002.
Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Dupatta and Dubka:Traditional and Contemporary Embroidered Costumes from Pakistan.
This display features modern costume from Pakistan. The traditional shalwar kameez and dupatta are worked with a contemporary twist in gorgeous colours and wonderful fabrics. Intricate embroidery using metallic threads, mirror-work and beads makes each each ensemble a work of art. The highlight of the display is a magnificent red and green wedding costume richly decorated with beadwork and embroidery. Presented in association with the Aberdeen Pakistani Women's Association. On 10th and 11th November from 2.00-4.00 pm, there will be demonstrations of traditional dubka embroidery and henna painting by members of the Aberdeen South Embroiderers Guild. Gallery open Wednesday and the last Friday of the month, 10.00-22.00; all other days, 10.00-17.45. Adults £5.00; concessions free. 020 - 7942 2000.

9 November 2001, 10.15-16.30.
Barnet, Hertfordshire: Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University.
Bungalow Blitz Study Day: Creating Contemporary Social Histories.
This study day will consider the issues surrounding the uses of photography and oral history in representations of history. Workshop sessions will include opportunities to discuss the material collected in the course of research for the current Bungalow Blitz exhibition (see above). Full rate £35; concessions for OAPs, students, registered disabled, ES-40 holders and Friends of MODA £22. A sandwich lunch is included. Prior booking is essential. Phone 020 8411 2341 or email z.hendon@mdx.ac.uk.

10 November 2001, 11.00-18.00 and 11 November 2001, 10.00-17.00.
Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane.
UK Fine Press Book Fair 2001.
This is the largest book fair in the UK devoted to private presses. It features stalls presenting the work of 60 private presses, 25 specialist booksellers and ten trade suppliers. Refreshments available. Admission is by the purchase of a catalogue costing £5 and is valid for both days. Further information from the Fair Manager, Michael Taylor: 01379 - 853 889.

10 November 2001, 10.30-16.00.
Barnet, Hertfordshire: Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University.
Furniture-making Workshop for Adults.
Create furniture and decorative objects for your home and garden from newspaper with the guidance of Darcy Turner and the help of his newspaper-rolling machine. No previous experience is necessary and the cost includes all materials. Full rate £25; concessions for OAPs, students, registered disabled and ES-40 holders £20. Lunch is not provided. Prior booking is essential. Phone 020 8411 5441 or email r.lumb@mdx.ac.uk.

15 November 2001, 13.10.
London: National Portrait Gallery.
Gender and Self-Portraiture.
A talk by Ludmilla Jordanova in conjunction with the Gallery's current Mirror, Mirror exhibition. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 7312 2463.

17 November 2001 - 6 January 2002.
Wakefield: Wakefield Art Gallery.
Edward Ardizzone, 1900-1979: Etchings and Lithographs.
Edward Ardizzone was a major and popular artist of the twentieth century. He is probably best remembered as an illustrator, producing designs for nearly 200 books and contributing images to the Radio Times for more than 20 years, starting in the 1930s. The centenary of his birth was celebrated in 2000 with various exhibitions including the start of this touring show of his etchings and lithographs. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10.30-16.30; Sunday 14.00-16.30; closed on Monday. Admission is free. 01924 - 305 796.

17 November 2001 - 12 January 2002.
Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Precious Paisleys: Shawls from Kashmir to Scotland.
A fascinating exhibition which traces the history of the Paisley shawl, a favourite fashion accessory of Victorian women. These shawls were well known for their "curled pine cone" motifs, intricate patterns, bold colours and quality workmanship. Despite taking their name from the Renfrewshire town where so many were made, the Paisley pattern owes its origin and inspiration to the Indian province of Kashmir. The shawl, or plaid, also has connections with the centuries-old South Asian tradition of single-piece garments. Precious Paisleys explores the cross-over influences between these textile traditions and illustrates the distinctive beauty of the Paisley pattern. Gallery open Wednesday and the last Friday of the month, 10.00-22.00; all other days, 10.00-17.45. Adults £5.00; concessions free. 020-7942 2000.

Saturday 17 November 2001, 2.15 pm
Morris’s Socialism for Beginners
David Rainger will present an illustrated lecture on how William Morris became a Socialist, and why be became a crusading activist who went out on the "cinder heaps" to talk to working men and women. He will also compare the political situation of Morris’s time with our own. David Rainger, The Society’s Librarian and past Chairperson, first read News from Nowhere over 50 years ago.

20 November 2001, 13.10.
London: National Portrait Gallery.
William Hazlitt (1788-1830).
A talk by William Hazlitt's biographer Anthony Grayling. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 7312 2463.

20 November 2001 - 30 June 2002.
London: University of London Library, Senate House, WC1.
Worth Ten Thousand Words.
An exhibition, selected from the collections of the University of London Library, celebrating illustrated books from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. Open Monday - Thursday 09.00-21.00; Friday 09.00-18.30; Saturday 09.30-17.30; closed Sunday. Between 17th December and 5th January, open Monday - Friday 09.00-18.00; Saturday 09.30-17.30; closed Sunday. Admission is free. The library is on the fourth floor of Senate House. On arrival there, ask for an exhibition pass from the Membership Desk. 020 - 7862 8500.

21 November 2001, 19.00.
Swindon: National Monuments Record Centre.
"Art as a Fulfilment of Life": Aspects of the Arts & Crafts Movement in England.
A lecture by Peter Cormack, Assistant Curator of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. Admission is free. 01793 - 414 600.

21 November 2001, 19.00
Swindon: National Monuments Record Centre.
"Art as a Fulfilment of Life": Aspects of the Arts & Crafts Movement in England..
A lecture by Peter Cormack, Assistant Curator of the William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow. Admission is free. 01793 - 414 600.

25 November 2001, 18.30.
Birmingham: All Saints' Church, King's Heath High Street.
William Morris: A Secular Theologian for Our Time?
A talk by Dr Rosie Miles, of the English Department at the University of Wolverhampton. She was a winner of the Peter Floud Memorial Prize in 1997 and has recently been appointed Editor of The Journal of the William Morris Society. This talk will be given within an Evensong service and admission is free. Further information from the Vicar of All Saints' Church, John Wilkinson: 0121 - 444 1207.

Until 25 November 2001.
Cardiff: National Museum and Gallery.
John Brett: A Pre-Raphaelite on the Shores of Wales.
John Brett (1830-1902) is best known for painting The Stonebreaker and The Hedger, depictions of labourers in Sussex and Kent respectively, and some remarkable Alpine scenes such as Val d'Aosta and The Glacier of Rosenlaui. His landscape-painting in Wales is little known, however, so this is the welcome theme of a substantial exhibition in the National Gallery of Wales. It features more than 30 of his highly detailed seascapes and some of the sketchbooks from Brett's regular family holidays on the Pembrokeshire coast taken from 1882 onwards. In 1883, he bought a yacht for sailing up and down the Welsh coast, and the next year a cottage at Fishguard. Brett was also a highly accomplished amateur photographer, some of whose work in this medium is included in the exhibition. Open Tuesday - Sunday 10.00-17.00; closed on Monday. Admission is free. 029 - 2057 3104. There is related study day on 3rd November: see under 'Other Events'.

Until 25 November 2001.
Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.
John Ruskin: The Power of Drawing and the Love of Nature.
John Ruskin felt passionately about the value of drawing in the vital study of nature. He aimed "to teach drawing that my pupils may learn to love Nature," he said, rather "than to teach the looking at Nature that they may learn to draw". This is an exhibition of Ruskin's drawings on loan from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, mostly of material that Ruskin himself gave to the University. Open Monday - Saturday 10.00-17.20; Sunday 14.00-16.20. Admission is free. 01242 - 237 431.

28 November 2001 - 7 December 2001.
Standen, near East Grinstead, West Sussex.
Lecture Lunches.
The fourth series of Lecture Lunches in this beautiful Arts & Crafts house, designed by Philip Webb and now owned by the National Trust, includes two lectures of particular interest to our members. On Wednesday 28th November, Wendy Hitchmough will speak on 'CFA Voysey: Architect and Designer'. On Thursday 6th December, Richard Holder (Senior Architectural Advisor to the Victorian Society) will speak on 'Arts & Crafts versus Urban Sprawl', when he will examine the influence of William Morris, the Arts & Crafts Movement and architects such as Edwin Lutyens on modern town housing. Starting with coffee at 10.30am, these lectures will take place in the Barn Restaurant from 11.00, followed by lunch at 12.30. Tickets are £15.95 per person and include lunch based on an historical menu linked to Standen. Limited to 50 places and prior booking is essential. Phone 01342 - 323 029 or email sstpro@smtp.ntrust.org.uk for further information. Also in this series though rather more than a lecture, there are two embroidery workshops on Friday 30th November. Judith Stanley will supervise the workshops providing an opportunity to embroider a William Morris motif while learning the basics of traditional crewel work. The morning workshop begins at 10.00, concluding with lunch; the afternoon workshop at 2.00, preceded by lunch. Limited to 20 places on each workshop. The cost and booking details are the same as for the lectures.

29 November 2001, 13.10.
London: National Portrait Gallery.
Dress and Fashion: Choices for Work and Leisure (1880-1920).
A talk by Anthea Jarvis, Principal Curator of the Gallery of Costume, Manchester. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 7312 2463.

1 December 2001 - 13 January 2002.
Cheltenham: Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum.
The Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen.
The Christmas exhibition of the Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, who work in the Arts & Crafts tradition of CR Ashbee and his associates, presents an opportunity to buy high-quality hand-made presents for family and friends. The work on sale includes textiles, ceramics, jewellery, clothing and furniture. Open Monday - Saturday 10.00-17.20; Sunday 14.00-16.20. Find out about Christmas opening hours nearer the time. Admission is free. 01242 - 237 431.

11 December 2001, 19.30.
London: City of Westminster Archives Centre, 10 St Ann's Street, SW1.
Jerusalem: A Tract for Our Times.
William Blake's major poem Jerusalem is, of course, much more than a tract, but in this talk Bob Catterall, as an urbanist concerned with urban and social regeneration, will argue that Blake does indeed speak to these concerns. Organised by the Blake Society but everyone is welcome. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. Further information by email only from Keri Davies, Secretary of the Blake Society: keri.davies@cwcom.net.

Until 21 December 2001.
Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria: Blackwell.
The Japanese Craft Tradition: Kokten Korgei.
Works by more than 60 contemporary Japanese craftspeople, who are members of the prestigious Kokugakai Society, have been brought from Japan to be displayed in the beautiful setting of this Arts & Crafts house. The exhibition includes silk kimonos, exquisite weavings and printed textiles, glass, pottery and lacquer work. In addition, on loan from the Nihon Mingeikan (the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum) are important pieces by Tomimoto Kenkichi, Hamada Shoji, Serizawa Keisuke, Bernard Leach and others. Open daily 10.00-16.00. Adults £4.50; children and students £2.50. 015394 - 46139.

Until 21 December 2001.
Kendal: Museum of Lakeland Life.
Spotlight on the Arts and Crafts.
Hand-crafted oak furniture, local metalwork and beautiful dyed and woven textiles are all featured in this small exhibition. These items date from around 1900 and show how the beauty of the Lake District, combined with an abundance of natural resources - wool, leather, copper, wood and minerals - inspired local craftspeople to establish successful cottage industries. Makers such as Arthur Simpson, Stanley Davies and Annie Garnett all drew on the ideas of John Ruskin (and one supposes William Morris too) to revive traditional skills and produce wonderful items. Open daily 10.30-17.00 (16.00 from 1st November). Adults £3; OAPs £2.80; children £1.50; families £7.50. 01539 - 722 464.

Until 6 January 2002.
Norwich: Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.
Frederick Sandys and the Pre-Raphaelites.
A major exhibition centred on the work of the Norwich-born artist Frederick Sandys, who was a friend and follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Sandys excelled as a brilliant draftsperson, a wonderful portrait-painter and a colourful - somewhat Bohemian - character in the Victorian art world. The exhibition brings together more than 100 examples of Sandys's work together with pictures by Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Arthur Hughes, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Open Monday - Saturday 10.30-17.00; Sunday 14.00-17.00. Adults £2.90; concessions £2.55; children £2.25; families £8.90. 01603 - 493 625.

Until 13 January 2002.
Swindon: National Monuments Record Centre.
The Arts & Crafts Movement.
Examples of craft and design from the workshops of Morris & Co. and others, supplemented by photographs from the National Monuments Record. Admission is free. 01793 - 414 797.

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