2003 WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY EVENTS IN THE U. K. Events Sponsored by the Morris Society Other Events in the UK Society Events: Programme to 7 November 2003. Unless otherwise stated, all lectures are at Kelmscott House and tickets for these cost £3 for WMS members and £4 for non-members. Write for tickets to Ticket Applications, The William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA, enclosing payment (cheques payable to "The William Morris Society") and a stamped addressed envelope. Saturday 22 February, 2.15 pm Saving Our Commons: William Morris's Unfinished Business Kate Ashbrook, General Secretary of the Open Spaces Society, Britain's oldest national conservation body, will explain how the Society continues Morris's campaign and is battling to save the 1.3 million acres of common land in England and Wales from encroachment, to rescue threatened open spaces and to reopen historic rights of way. Saturday 22 March, 2.15 pm William Morris in Paris William Morris visited Paris many times between 1854 and 1889. In this Penelope Fitzgerald Memorial Address, Derek Baker and David Rainger will talk of the many aspects of Morris's visits, whether for pleasure, business or politics, and will bring them together with the Society's visit to Paris which they led in May 2001. After the talk, we shall celebrate William Morris's birthday with wine and birthday cake. Saturday 12 April, 2.15 pm William Morris and Twentieth-Century Book Illustration The illustrated books that Morris produced for the Kelmscott Press are well known, but much less well known are the numerous illustrated editions of Morris's works - mostly his poetry - produced in the twentieth century. For the last two years, Dr Rosie Miles has been seeking out as many of these volumes as she can. In this highly visual talk, she will show how illustrations offer us interesting readings of Morris's texts. Rosie Miles is currently writing a book on Morris's poetry and is the Editor of the Journal of William Morris Studies. She teaches English at the University of Wolverhampton. Tuesday 29 April, 11.00 am Visit to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford We shall meet at the main entrance to the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Castle Close, Castle Lane, Bedford (telephone 01234 - 211 222), to be met by our Society's Curator, Helen Elletson, who will lead a tour of the Gallery with displays of De Morgan's ceramics, decorative arts including items by William and May Morris, and the famous collection of William Burges furniture. The Gallery's Curator will show us watercolours by Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Millais, Holman Hunt, Albert Moore, Ford Madox Brown and others. In the afternoon, the group will be free to view the current exhibition, Bedford Pictures, visit Bedford Museum (admission not included) and explore this riverside market town. Tickets £5 from the William Morris Society. Saturday 31 May, 2.15 pm The William Morris Society's 48th Annual General Meeting To be held at Fulham Palace, Bishop's Avenue, London SW6. Following the AGM, there will be a guided tour of the Palace followed by tea. We hope that a large number number of members will participate in the AGM. Admission is free and places need not be booked in advance. Saturday 28 June, 10.00 am - 5.00 pm Calligraphy, Lettering and Illuminating William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement were crucial to the revival of the craft of calligraphy in the nineteenth century. The William Morris Society hosts a day of demonstrations and lectures on calligraphy, lettering and illuminating, led by practising calligraphers whose work is rooted in the ideas of the Arts & Crafts Movement. Numbers are strictly limited, so please book early.Tickets cost £7 which includes a buffet lunch. For further details, write to David Gorman at Kelmscott House. Saturday 5 July, 2.15 pm William Morris and Victorian Angling Tony Pinkney, of the Department of English at Lancaster University, having recently completed a book with this title, will talk to us on the subject. Saturday 12 July, 10.30 am - 12.00 noon Visit to the De Morgan Centre We are to meet at the new De Morgan Centre, at 38 West Hill, Wandsworth, London SW18, where we shall be given an introductory talk before examining the exhibits. William De Morgan was the foremost ceramic artist of the Arts & Crafts Movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century. His wife Evelyn was an accomplished artist and one of the first women students at the Slade School of Art. Tickets cost £5.00 for WMS members, £6.00 for non-members, and must be purchased in advance from the Society. Saturday 26 July, 11.00 am - 4.30 pm Visit to Cambridge Led by John Purkis, a past Honorary Secretary of our Society. We are to assemble at Kettle's Yard, which is off Castle Street, where we shall be given a talk. This will be followed by a private tour of the house and its outstanding collection of modern art. Afterwards we shall walk to Westcott House, Jesus Lane, for lunch. In the afternoon, we are to visit Jesus College Chapel and All Saints' Church containing work by AWN Pugin, GF Bodley, William Morris and their associates. Tickets, which cost £15.00 including coffee and lunch, must be purchased in advance from the Society. Friday 15 August Visit to Red House We have been able to arrange an early visit to Red House, Bexleyheath, recently acquired by the National Trust. Meet at the gates of Red House at 1.45 pm. It is about 15 minutes' walk from Bexleyheath Station, which is reached from either Charing Cross or Victoria. For those travelling by car, parking is available in nearby Danson Park. Those who wish may gather for lunch at The Stables pub in the Park at 11.30 am. Following our visit to the house, at approximately 4.00 pm, there is the option of also visiting Hall Place, a historic house and garden owned by the London Borough of Bexley, and refreshment will be available here before we disperse. Numbers are strictly limited and places must be booked in advance. Tickets £2.00 from the Society. Non-members of the National Trust will also have to pay £5.00 entry to Red House on the day. Saturday - Sunday, 30 - 31 August Sitting on the World: In Memory of Nicholas Salmon Tapton Hall, The University of Sheffield. This event will be an opportunity for Nick Salmon's friends to pay tribute and for WMS members who did not know him to find out how William Morris's life and work inspired, enthused and influenced him. The programme of talks and informal discussion will reflect Nick's interests, commitments and capacity for good fellowship. Nick was probably best known for his work on Morris's politics, but his interests and scholarship ranged much wider. His wife Bridget will try to chart Nick's political transformation from card-carrying Tory to revolutionary socialist and beyond. David Grove will take as his starting point Nick's article entitled 'William Morris: The Final Socialist Years,' published in the Summer 2002 issue of our Journal. Using The William Morris Chronology produced by Nick with Derek Baker as a research tool and model, Tony Pinkney will consider the parallels between Sherlock Holmes and William Morris and consider whether or not they could ever have met. Peter Faulkner will speak on Morris and AC Swinburne, Martin Delveaux on News from Nowhere, and Ruth Levitas will repeat her very popular Kelmscott Lecture on Morris and Hammersmith. There will also be an opportunity to visit the Groves Art Gallery to see the exhibition William Blake: Inspiration and Illustration. A formal dinner would be inappropriate: Nick's trademark shorts would not normally be worn with a white shirt and bow tie. Instead, on Sunday, we shall travel by coach to Thornbridge Hall in Derbyshire for a picnic in the grounds (weather permitting) and more relaxed discussion of the themes of the weekend, including readings from Morris and Nick's own account of what Morris meant to him. Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £70.00, which includes lunch and dinner at Tapton Hall on Saturday and coach travel and a picnic lunch on Sunday; alternatively £50.00 for Saturday only. The weekend will begin at 9.30 am on Saturday. Accommodation at Tapton Hall will be available on Friday and Saturday nights at £22.20 per person per night in a single standard room, £34.35 in a single en-suite room, £17.75 in a twin standard room or £27.25 in a twin en-suite room. For more details or for tickets (£25.00 deposit required; full payment by the end of July), write to Dawn Morris, 7 Spring Hill, Sheffield, S10 1ET, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, or email dmorris.wmsoc@btopenworld.com. Sunday 7 September, 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. There will be a book stall and craft demonstrations and guided tours of the main house will be arranged. Tea will be provided. Tickets £6.00 for WMS members, £7.00 for non-members, from the Society. Saturday 13 September, 2.15 pm The Relevance of William Morris's Socialism This lecture will be given by Dr Ruth Kinna, Lecturer in Politics in the Department of European and International Studies at Loughborough University. It will present a critical defence of Morris's political thought and attempt to consider the ways in which Morris evaluated the relevance of his ideas of socialist organisation. Saturday 20 September, 1.00 - 5.00 pm London Open House Day The William Morris Society participates in the London Open House Day by opening its lower-ground-floor premises and coach-house at Kelmscott House to visitors. If you can assist as a guide or steward, please contact the Curator, Helen Elletson: 020 - 8741 3735 or william.morris@care4free.net. Saturday 27 September, 3.00 pm Recital for Clavichord and Flute Sturm und Drang, consisting of Bridget Cunningham (clavichord) and Byron Mahony (Baroque flute), will give a recital for clavichord and flute: a musical fantasy with thoughts that relate to William Morris, George Bernard Shaw and Arnold Dolmetsch, as well as the revival of the clavichord and its music. The programme will include works by JJ Quantz, CPE Bach, WA Mozart, JS Bach and GF Handel. Admission is free, but a collection will be made to cover expenses. For further information or to reserve a place, please contact Helen Elletson: 020 - 8741 3735 or william.morris@care4free.net. 1 October 2003 Deadline The Pre-Raphaelite Ideal This conference invites proposals (300 words) for papers that address the art, literature or cultural context of the Pre-Raphaelites and their circle, along with influences on and responses to their work. Papers that adopt an inter-disciplinary approach are especially sought, but studies with a narrower focus are also welcome. Deadline: 1 October 2003. A selection of the papers will be published as Volume 7 of the Leeds Working Papers in Victorian Studies, and distributed in advance to all participants. Send proposals to: Paul Hardwick Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies Trinity and All Saints Brownberrie Lane Leeds, LS18 5HD (+44) 113-2837294 p_hardwick@tasc.ac.uk Saturday 11 October, 2.15 pm DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELED. Morris and Violence: William Morris's Views of the "Ethics of War." In his essay 'War and Peace' (1880), a little-known response to "the Eastern Question," William Morris mordantly critiqued patriotic manipulation and the systematic state-organised savagery we call "war." Florence Boos, Professor of English at the University of Iowa, will review Morris's cogent remarks, compare them with other contemporary views and interpret them as anticipations of his later narrative efforts to represent history and the arts of peace, and to envision a society in which there might yet be "war no more." Friday 31 October, 6.30 pm Morris, Shaw and Politics Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1. George Bernard Shaw and William Morris were friends and worked together for several years when they were both active in the political field and shared many speaking platforms. This lecture, arranged jointly by the Shaw Society and the William Morris Society, will be given by David Rainger, Chair of our Library Committee. Please note the venue of this event. Tickets £1.00 from the William Morris Society. Friday 7 November, 6.30 pm 2003 KELMSCOTT LECTURE: Dreaming London: The Future City in Morris and Others Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1. William Morris dreamed of London "small, white, and clean" and News from Nowhere offers a vision of a regenerated city in which fellowship and co-operation may prosper. Other writers of Morris's time had their own visions of a future London, ranging from the polluted wasteland of Richard Jefferies's After London (1885) to the gleaming technological metropolis to be found in some of H. G. Wells's fiction. This lecture, by Peter Preston, will explore the constructions of London to be found in a variety of texts, fictional and non-fictional, optimistic and pessimistic, and will place Morris's work in a context of contemporary city planning and city dreaming. Peter Preston is Senior Lecturer in Literature and Acting Head of the School of Continuing Education at the University of Nottingham. Formerly Honorary Secretary of the William Morris Society and Editor of our Newsletter, he was closely involved in the organisation of the 1996 William Morris Centenary International Conference at Exeter College, Oxford. Tickets £6.00 for WMS members, £7.00 for non-members, including wine and canapés, from the Society. Saturday 22 November, 2.15 pm Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum The Pre-Raphaelite collections in the V&A reflect the diversity of materials and media in which these artists and designers worked. This lecture will be given by Suzanne Fagence Cooper, whose new book, exploring the decorative as well as the fine arts, offers a fresh approach to the history of the movement. Saturday 6 December, 2.15 pm John Ruskin's Critique of Political Economy John Ruskin was one of the biggest influences on the aesthetic and political thought of William Morris. In this lecture, David Gorman will look at Ruskin's critique of political economy and the division of labour, focusing on The Stones of Venice and Unto this Last. Other Events and Exhibitions: Aberdeen: Aberdeen Art Gallery. The Silken Thread: Embroidery from the Collection. Until February 1. Embellishing fabrics with embroidered designs has been practised for centuries by the domestic needlewoman. Not merely a pastime, it was almost a necessity, as furnishings such as bed-hangings and chair-covers were made at home. When ready-printed fabrics became widely available, embroidery was used mainly to personalise dress and household linen. More recently, embroidery's status has been raised from purely craft to an art form. This display brings together a selection of nineteenth and twentieth-century embroideries illustrating a wide variety of techniques. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 14.00 - 17.00. Admission is free. 01224 - 523 700. Aberdeen: Aberdeen Art Gallery. The Pre-Raphaelites. February 1 - March 31. A display of works on paper from Aberdeen Art Gallery's permanent collections by the Pre-Raphaelites and their followers. JE Millais, William Holman Hunt, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon and William Dyce will be among those represented. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 14.00 - 17.00. Admission is free. 01224 - 523 700. Aylesford, near Maidstone, Kent: The Friars Repair of Timber-Frame Structures. September 24, 09.30 - 16.30. A one-day course organised by the SPAB for professionals, exploring the repair of timber-frame structures and the techniques used to construct new timber-frame buildings. Speakers include Stuart Page (architect to Ightham Mote, Kent), Edward Morton (structural engineer), Douglas Kent (SPAB Technical Secretary), McCurdy & Company (builders of the Globe Theatre, London) and David Martin (historic timber-framing expert). The day will also include a visit to a seventeenth-century barn under repair. Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £50.00 (students £35) including lunch and other refreshments. Further information and bookings: 020 - 7377 1644 or info@spab.org.uk. Barnet, Herts: Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University, Cat Hill. Local History Study Day. May 10, 10.00 - 16.15. This study day offers an overview of the variety of housing types and styles in North London. The speakers will include Dr Gillian Gear (a local historian) on 'The Effect of the Great Northern Railway on the Development of East Barnet, Post-1850', Hugh Petrie (Heritage Officer, Barnet) on 'The Education of Girls in Local Schools for Domestic Service', Natalie Zara (Documentation and Collections Assistant, MoDA) on 'The Working-Class Warners of Waltham Forest: A Look at Turn-of-the-Century Purpose-Built Flats in the Walthamstow Area' and Ruby Galili (a local historian) on 'The Palmers Green Building Boom, 1902-20'. Places must be booked in advance. The full fee is £15.00 (concessions £11.00), which includes tea and coffee, but not lunch, which can be ordered in advance for a further £6.50. Further information from Natalie Zara: 020 - 8411 4383 or n.zara@mdx.ac.uk. Barnet, Herts: Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University, Cat Hill. From Slavery to Superwoman: Cooking, Cleaning and Eating, 1850-1960. June 7, 10.00 - 16.30. Household management, the preparation of food and the conventions of eating are a fundamental part of daily life; but these activities are constantly changing, reflecting wider social, cultural, economic and technological changes. Cookery books, etiquette books, household manuals, magazines and - more recently - television programmes offer a wonderful source of information on such matters. This study day will draw upon such material to give an overview of this phenomenon. The speakers will include Antonia Byatt (Director, The Women's Library) on 'Kitchen Cupboards and Queen-Like Closets: 400 years of the household manual', Professor David Brady (New York University) on 'The "Servant Problem" and the Problem with Servants', Irene Gilchrist (Principal Reference Librarian, Guildhall Library) on 'Food and Cooking, 1850-1960' and Hugo Dunn-Meynell (writer and former Chairman of the International Wine and Food Society) on 'Cookery Personalities'. There will also be plenty of time for discussion. Places must be booked in advance. The full fee is £23.00 (concessions £18.00) which includes tea and coffee, but not lunch, which can be ordered in advance for a further £6.50. Further information from Chantal Vosloo: 020 - 8411 4394 or c.vosloo@mdx.ac.uk. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum Holy Grail Tapestries. Until August 31. This exhibition, situated in Gas Hall, provides a rare opportunity to see the Holy Grail tapestry series from Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's collection. The tapestries were designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris and John Henry Dearle and woven by Morris & Co. between 1895 and 1900. The series illustrates the Arthurian legend of the Quest for the Holy Grail by the knights of the Round Table. It is one of the outstanding achievements of the Arts & Crafts Movement. The exhibition also includes other material produced by Morris & Co. and work on related themes by artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and Arthur Gaskin. Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11.30 - 16.00; closed on Monday. Admission is free. 0121 - 303 1966. http://www.bmag.org.uk. Birmingham: Birmingham Museum Camden Town to St Ives: British Painting and Sculpture, 1900-1960. Until September 14. Dominated by Jacob Epstein's spectacular Rock Drill, this exhibition - situated in Waterhall - of 60 works of art from Birmingham's collection traces some key movements in twentieth-century British art. Starting with the works of Richard Sickert and Sylvia Gosse of the Camden Town school, it reveals how artists responded to ideas flooding in from abroad - Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstraction - and the impact of two world wars. The journey ends in St Ives, in the remote Penwith peninsula of Cornwall, which became the powerhouse of British art in the 1950s. Here, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and Patrick Heron created a new kind of painting in direct response to the elemental forms of the landscape. Alongside old favourites by LS Lowry, Stanley Spencer and Barbara Hepworth are newly acquired works by the Birmingham Surrealist Emmy Bridgewater, vivid images of Birmingham at war by Norman Neasom, the exquisite Urn Burial and Garden of Cyrus drawings by Paul Nash and a selection of visionary prints by Cecil Collins - all shown here for the first time. Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11.30 - 16.00; closed on Monday. Admission is free. 0121 - 303 1966. http://www.bmag.org.uk. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston. Rodney Hilton's Middle Ages: 400-1600. Saturday & Sunday, September 13 - 14. The historian Rodney Hilton (1916-2000) will be remembered and celebrated in this conference which will focus on the ideas and approaches which he devised. It is being held at the university where he taught for 36 years and is being sponsored by Past and Present, the journal whose editorial board he chaired for 14 years. The sessions are arranged under five headings: 'Lordship, Rent and Social Structure: What was the impact of Lordship on Society and Economy?', 'The Peasantry as Class and Communities: Can we talk of a "Peasant Society"?', '"Non-feudal islands in the feudal seas": How did Towns relate to Feudal Society?', '"Bond men made free: Rebellion and Liberation' and 'The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: Changes in Medieval Society and the origins of the Modern World'. Places, costing between £25.00 non-residential and £83.50 fully residential, must be booked in advance. For further information and registration forms, contact Dr Heather Swanson, Department of History, University of Birmingham, B15 2TT; 0121 - 459 4038; hcs4@tutor.open.ac.uk. Bournemouth: Russell-Cotes Art Gallery. Eric Gill: Printmaker. Until April 27. A selection of prints by Eric Gill (1882-1940), the famous designer of typefaces but even more celebrated as a sculptor and printmaker. Gill was a leading figure in the early twentieth-century Arts & Crafts Movement and his distinctive aesthetic has influenced countless artists and craftspeople. Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10.00 - 17.00. Closed on Mondays. Admission is free. 01202 - 451 858. Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria: Blackwell. Nine Colourways: Contemporary Glass. February 12 - April 27. An exclusive exhibition featuring recent glasswork from a range of contemporary British makers, including pieces by former members of London's renowned Glasshouse studio. Founded in the 1970s by a group of contemporary designers working with hot glass techniques, the Glasshouse in Covent Garden was a seminal influence in the creation of an art glass field in the UK. Its founder members are now leading figures, continuing this relatively young tradition through both studio and production work, as well as through teaching the makers of tomorrow. Jane Bruce, Bob Crooks, Catherine Hough, Annette Meech, Steven Newell, Pauline Solven, Fleur Tookey and Christopher Williams will be exhibiting their work alongside that of David Kaplan and Annika Sandstrom who represent their Scottish contemporary, Lindean Mill. Visitors will be able to purchase items from the exhibition. Open seven days a week, 10.00 - 16.00 until April when it stays open until 17.00 except on Fridays. Adults £4.50; children £2.50; families £12.00. 015394 - 46139 or http://www.blackwell.org.uk. Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria: Blackwell. Sense and Perception: Ceramics by Felicity Aylieff. May 7 - July 13. This exhibition presents a significant body of new work from Felicity Aylieff, who in recent years has emerged as a key figure in the field of sculptural ceramics and was shortlisted for the prestigious Jerwood Applied Arts Prize in 2001. Visitors will be encouraged to touch these surprisingly large exhibits to explore the interplay between surface texture and sculptural form that is the cornerstone of Aylieff's work. Open seven days a week, 10.00 - 16.00 until April when it stays open until 17.00 except on Fridays. Adults £4.50; children £2.50; families £12.00. 015394 - 46139 or http://www.blackwell.org.uk. Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria: Blackwell Arts & Crafts Metalwork. July 23 - November 2. This exhibition surveys the wealth of material produced by Arts & Crafts metalworkers between 1880 and 1910, including work by WAS Benson, Archibald Knox, Ernest Gimson, CFA Voysey, John Pearson and John Paul Cooper, as well as the Guild of Handicraft, the Keswick School of Industrial Arts, the Birmingham Guild and the Newlyn School. Open daily, 10.00 - 17.00. Admission £4.50. 015394 - 46139. http://www.blackwell.org.uk. Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria: Blackwell Bruce Bernard: Artists and their Studios. October 25 - December 24. This exhibition of 24 photographs demonstrates Bruce Bernard's talent as a photographer as well as a picture editor and a curator of photography. It includes six studies of Francis Bacon in 1984 and a series of portraits of Lucian Freud in the 1990s, as well as photographs of the performance artist Leigh Bowery and painters Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews and Euan Uglow. Alongside these images, artists' work on show includes etchings by Lucian Freud and paintings by Frank Auerbach, Stanley Spencer, Paula Rego, Michael Andrews and Maggi Hambling. Open daily, 10.00 - 17.00. Admission £4.50. 015394 - 46139. http://www.blackwell.org.uk. Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria: Blackwell David Watkins: Encounters. November 11 - December 24. This exhibition brings together more than 60 pieces of jewellery as well as drawings and photographs by David Watkins, one of the leading artists working in the field of jewellery design. Born in 1940, he trained as a sculptor and has been producing jewellery since the mid-1960s. He has been Professor and Head of Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery at the Royal College of Art since 1984, and his work has been exhibited internationally, worn by individuals and collected by museums for the last 30 years. Open daily, 10.00 - 17.00. Admission £4.50. 015394 - 46139. http://www.blackwell.org.uk. Brampton: St. Martin's Church. 125th Anniversary Celebration. November 14-15, 10.00-4.00; November 16, 12.00-4.00. St. Martin's Brampton was the only church built to a design by Philip Webb, and also has a complete set of fourteen Morris and Co. windows, with most of the designs by Edward Burne-Jones. It is entirely Pre-Raphaelite in its conception and execution, with little change having been made since it was built. In order to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the church's consecration in November 1878, there will be an exhibition of memorabilia realted to the building, including Webb's original plans. Free. Contact Miss E. M. Alexander, St. Martin's Church, Kara Orchard, Lanercost Road, Brampton CA8 1EN Cumbria, 016977-3597, or ema@karao.demon.co.uk. Cambridge: Kettle's Yard. Ben Nicholson. March 20, 13.10. A lecture by Mary Conochie. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 01223 - 352 124. Cambridge: Kettle's Yard Alan Reynolds. August 9 - September 21. The quest for equilibrium has been at the centre of Alan Reynolds's art since he emerged from the Royal College of Art 50 years ago, already feted as "the golden boy of post neo-romanticism in England" (Bryan Robertson). Reynolds's engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by John Constable and Samuel Palmer, but also by Paul Klee and increasingly by Piet Mondrian, until depiction was firmly set aside in favour of the abstract. This exhibition traces the progress of Alan Reynolds's work from the early landscapes to the tonal modular drawings and constructed white reliefs of the last 25 years. Here, not only the times of day and season, but also curves and colour, give way to the interplay of horizontal and vertical - form, space, daylight and shadow, the rational and the intuitive. Open Tuesday - Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 11.30 - 17.00. Admission is free. 01223 - 352 124. http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk. Cambridge: New Hall, Huntingdon Road. Painting in Rags: Louisa Creed, Glenda Morris and Lewis Creed. May 4 - June 7. This exhibition shows what artists can do with a bit of hessian, a simple hook and some rags. In recent years, rag rugs have departed from their mainly utilitarian function to become an art form in their own right. The work of Louisa Creed, who has been "painting" in rags for the last 15 years, has been described as "organic" because she uses the constraint inherent in the hooking technique to give form and movement to the landscapes and character to the cats that she depicts. Glenda Morris attempts to overcome the constraint by making her rug designs unruly with as bold a use of textures and colour as the technique will allow. Her designs develop as the rug develops and have been compared with impasto or colour-field paintings. Lewis Creed, who has produced 50 rugs in the last five years, treats his rugs as carefully crafted mosaics, designed with the whimsy of a cartoonist, bringing a smile to the viewer's lips. Open daily 10.00 - 18.00. Admission is free. Further information from Patricia Acres: 01223 - 76 22 97. Clynfwy Countryside Centre, Pembrokeshire. An Introduction to the Repair of Old Houses. Saturday & Sunday, July 5 - 6, 09.30 - 17.30. A weekend course run by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, aiming to provide homeowners with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about the repair of their own property. It offers reliable advice about the care of old houses which is sometimes difficult to obtain elsewhere. Places, which cost £110.00 including lunches and refreshments but not accommodation, must be booked in advance. Further information and booking forms from the SPAB: 020 - 7377 1644. Cressing, nr Witham, Essex: Cressing Temple Understanding Historic Buildings. July 22, 09.30 - 16.30. A one-day seminar looking at the recording of historic buildings, archaeology and legislation, national policies, structure, materials, and the development of plan-forms and joints of timber-framed buildings. The day will finish with a tour of the granary at Cressing Temple, originally a moated manor owned by the Knights Templar. Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £50.00 including lunch. 01245 - 437 672. Cressing, nr Witham, Essex: Cressing Temple Lime Plaster. August 7, 09.30 - 16.30. A one-day hands-on course showing how to repair lime plaster using traditional materials. Working on the Grade-I-Listed Barley Barn at Cressing Temple, originally a moated manor owned by the Knights Templar, this is a wonderful opportunity to work on a real job. Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £80.00 which does not include lunch. 01245 - 437 672. Cressing, nr Witham, Essex: Cressing Temple Access to Historic Buildings. August 19, 09.30 - 16.30. A one-day seminar looking at the Disability Discrimination Act and how it affects historic buildings. Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £50.00 including lunch. 01245 - 437 672. Cressing, nr Witham, Essex: Cressing Temple Paints and Historic Buildings. September 16, 09.30 - 16.30. A day of illustrated talks on paints suitable for use on historic buildings. Topics covered will include linseed, eco-lead paints and limewashes, as well as when historic fabric should be left alone. Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £50.00 including lunch. 01245 - 437 672. Ditchling, East Sussex: Ditchling Museum David Jones in Ditchling, 1921-1924. Until August 31. David Jones (1895-1974) is known as one of Britain's most original artists and poets of the twentieth century. He first visited Ditchling in 1921 where he met Eric Gill at the newly formed Roman Catholic community of craftspeople, the Guild of Saint Joseph and Saint Dominic, on Ditchling Common. The four years he subsequently spent living in the community can be seen as crucial to his development as painter, engraver, carver, poet and inscription-maker. This is the first exhibition devoted to this formative period in Jones's life. It includes work lent from private collections as well as the National Museum and Gallery of Wales, the National Library of Wales, the Tate Gallery and Archive and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Open Tuesday - Saturday and Bank Holidays, 10.30 - 17.00; Sunday 14.00 - 17.00. Admission £2.50; senior citizens £2.00; students £1.00; children 5-14 50p; children under 5 free. 01273 - 844 744 or http://www.ditchling-museum.com. Ditchling, East Sussex: Ditchling Village Hall. Crafts: New Technology and Sustainability. Saturday & Sunday, August 9 - 10, 10.00 - 16.00. From its origins under the leadership of Eric Gill, the craft community in Ditchling has been interested in the role of technology in work, in quality-of-life issues and the context for human flourishing. This conference will build on that tradition by offering a forum for creative exchange between practitioners in the crafts and thinkers and researchers in new technology and sustainable living. The conference fee of £120.00 includes entry to the Ditchling Museum and a buffet supper on Saturday evening. For more information or to book a place, phone 01273 - 844 744 or email info@ditchling-museum.com. Edinburgh: Scottish National Portrait Gallery. John Ruskin Live. Monday August 18, Tuesday August 19, Thursday August 21 & Friday August 22. 150 years ago, John Ruskin delivered four lectures at the Philosophical Institution in Queen Street, Edinburgh. His themes were Gothic architecture versus Classical, Turner and the European landscape tradition, and the emergent group of artists who called themselves the Pre-Raphaelites. His lectures were subsequently published as the famous Lectures on Architecture and Painting and have exerted an influence on the way we look at art and architecture ever since. As part of the Edinburgh International Festival 2003, all four of these lectures will be re-enacted by the art historian Paul O'Keeffe. The venue for the performances is just a few doors away from where these lectures were heard originally. Each lecture will begin at 1.00 pm, the first taking approximately 90 minutes and the others 60 minutes each. Tickets costing £5.00 each (or £16.00 for all four performances) may be bought from the SNPG shop (0131 - 624 6418) or Edinburgh Festival Fringe Office (0131 - 226 0000). Further information is available from Julie Lawson: jlawson@nationalgalleries.org. Glasgow: Gilmorehill Centre and Hunterian Art Gallery, Centre for Whistler Studies, University of Glasgow Whistler Centenary Conference. 3 - 6 September 2003. Commemorating the centenary year of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and the web publication of his correspondence. The programme includes LILLY KOLTUN, Portrait Gallery of Canada on 'Whistler and the Photographers', KATHARINE A. LOCHNAN, Art Gallery of Ontario 'Whistler and Monet: Impressionism and Britain,' CAROLINE ARSCOTT, Courtauld Institute of Art 'Stenographic Notations: Whistler's Late Etchings' and JOY NEWTON, University of Glasgow 'Whistler and Art Criticism in France.' A special session will be devoted to Whistler's materials and studio practice. The speakers include LESLIE CARLYLE, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage 'From Pigments to Colours: the Change in Artists' Oil Painting Materials 1840-1900', MARGARET F. MACDONALD, University of Glasgow 'What is a Whistler?' and JOYCE H. TOWNSEND, Tate Britain 'Whistler's Choice of Painting Materials.' An open session will showcase documentary projects and electronic editions. Speakers include RUPERT SHEPHERD, Ashmolean Museum 'Ariadne Electronica: Digitising the Ruskin Teaching Collection', MIRANDA STEAD, Artists' Papers Register 'From Aalto to Zut: the Artists' Papers Register.' The Centre for Whistler Studies will also be demonstrating 'The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler 1855-1903, On-line Centenary Edition.' For more information: "http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/conference.htm. Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire. An Introduction to the Repair of Old Houses. Saturday & Sunday, June 21 - 22, 09.30 - 17.30. A weekend course run by the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, aiming to provide homeowners with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about the repair of their own property. It offers reliable advice about the care of old houses which is sometimes difficult to obtain elsewhere. Places, which cost £110.00 including lunches and refreshments but not accommodation, must be booked in advance. Further information and booking forms from the SPAB: 020 - 7377 1644. Kendal, Cumbria: Abbot Hall. The Enduring Image: 100 Years of Figurative Painting in Britain. February 12 - April 3. This diverse exhibition will focus on the continuity of figurative painting in Britain in the twentieth century, including key works by major figures such as Walter Sickert, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Victor Pasmore, David Bomberg, Stanley Spencer, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Michael Andrews, Maggi Hambling, Tony Bevan and Paula Rego. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.30 - 16.00. Closed on Sundays. Adults £3.75; children £1.85; families £9.50. Further information from Sandy Kitching or Deborah Prince (015394 - 46191) or on the website at http://www.abbothall.org.uk/. Kew: The National Archives, Ruskin Avenue The March of the Women. Until December 31. This exhibition reveals new perspectives on the women's suffrage movement in Britain. It includes rarely seen material which reveals the complex and volatile relationship between the state and this new breed of campaigners and activists. Open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 09.00 - 16.45; Tuesday 10.00 - 18.45; Thursday 09.00 - 18.45; Saturday 09.30 - 16.45; closed on Sunday. Also closed from 1st - 6th December inclusive and on Bank Holidays. Admission is free. For further information, phone 020 - 8392 5202, or visit the web page at http://www.pro.gov.uk/events/. Lancaster: The Ruskin Library, Lancaster University. Ruskin's Romantic Tours, 1837-38. Until September 28. John Ruskin's important early tours of the Lakes and Scotland are the focus for this exhibition, featuring more than 30 of Ruskin's drawings - seen together for the first time - as well as other relevant items. In 1837, when he was 18 years old, Ruskin accompanied his parents on a trip to the Lake District lasting two months, during which he immersed himself in the landscape made famous by the Romantic poets, especially William Wordsworth, whom he would meet two years later. In 1838, the Ruskins took the same road north through Yorkshire and again returned via the Lakes, but their main destination was Scotland, where they saw the country of Walter Scott - another of John Ruskin's literary heroes - which had also been represented by JMW Turner. This exhibition examines these experiences and their significance for the young John Ruskin. Open Monday - Saturday, 11.00 - 16.00; Sunday 13.00 - 16.00. Admission is free. Further information from Jessica Abrahams: 01524 - 593 587. Liverpool: Florence Nightingale Memorial Audsley Liverpool Guided Walk. August 6, 14.30. Joseph Sharples will lead a guided walk around some of the beautiful buildings designed by William James Audsley and his brother George Ashdown Audsley, as well as others designed by their contemporaries. Highlights include Princes Road Synagogue and the Greek Orthodox Church. Tickets are free but must be obtained in advance from the shop at the Walker Art Gallery. Meet at 2.25 pm in front of the Florence Nightingale Memorial at the corner of Upper Parliament and Princes Road. 0151 - 478 4199 or http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker. Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery The Audsleys: Masters of Victorian Design. Until September 7. William James Audsley (1833-1907) and brother George Ashdown Audsley (1838-1925) were born in Scotland. The better-known George was originally apprenticed to the architects A&W Reid in Elgin; however, by 1856, the Audsleys were both in Liverpool, George working alongside the Corporation's surveyor John Weightman on plans for Liverpool Free Public Library and Museum (now Liverpool Central Library and Liverpool Museum), and William working for John Cunningham, the architect responsible for the original Liverpool Philharmonic Hall and the Sailors' Home at Canning Place. In 1860, the brothers set up a partnership under the name W&G Audsley and went on to become important figures in Liverpool society, joining the Liverpool Scottish Volunteer Rifles and playing an active role in the Liverpool Art Club, for which their contribution included lending items for exhibitions, giving lectures, organising events and writing catalogues. The brothers worked so closely together on their many different projects that it is often unclear which of them took the lead. Later in their careers, they relocated to London and eventually to America. Over the years, they worked on domestic architecture, churches, synagogues and even a skyscraper, as well as a variety of decorative arts, such as designing stained-glass windows and musical instruments. Today the Audsleys are mostly remembered for their publications on architecture and decoration. Few of the original patterned interiors that the brothers designed remain intact, but their work also appeared in pattern books created for professional and amateur decorators to copy. These books brought them international repute and some have been recently reprinted for design students to use today. This exhibition revisits their influential designs and architectural achievements, including the celebrated interior of Princes Street Synagogue. Unusual items on display include an ornate Egyptian-style upright piano and a silver brooch decorated with dragons and thistles, set with quartz, citrine and amethyst. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 12.00 - 17.00. Admission is free. 0151 - 478 4199 or http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/. Liverpool: Walker Art Gallery Rossetti. Until January 18. For the first time in 30 years, more than 150 of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's best works are assembled for this exhibition, being shown only at this gallery in the UK. It has been rigorously selected to concentrate on visual quality and includes works from American and German collections, some of which have not been seen in England for 50 years and many of which were never publicly displayed during Rossetti's lifetime. Other rarely seen pieces include a sequence of drawings of Elizabeth Siddal and photographs of Jane Morris (possibly rehearsing positions for paintings) posed by Rossetti. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 12.00 - 17.00. Admission is free. 0151 - 478 4199 or http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/exhibitions/rossetti/index.asp. London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. Victor Horta. January 29, 18.30. The first major building designed by Baron Horta (1861-1947), the Hotel Tassel in Brussels (1892), established him as the preeminent architect of Art Nouveau. In this lecture, David Dernie, a practising architect and Lecturer in Architecture at Cambridge University, will review the career of this leading practitioner of a style treated with deep suspicion in Britain. An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk. London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur. February 5, 18.30. Thanks to two major buildings, Waddeston Manor, Buckinghamshire, and the Imperial Mausoleum at Farnborough, Hampshire, Destailleur (1822-93) is probably the best-known foreign architect to have worked in nineteenth-century Britain. His scholarly approach to revived French styles also brought him immense acclaim in his native country. In this lecture, Anthony Geraghty, Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of York, will describe Destailleur's glamorous career. An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk. London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. H. H. Richardson. February 10, 18.30. Despite the shortness of his career, established with his mighty Romanesque masterpiece, Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts, Richardson (1838-86) was America's most influential nineteenth-century architect. In this lecture, Gavin Stamp, who teaches Architectural History at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, will examine Richardson's legacy and discuss his sole British commission, the extraordinary Lululand at Bushey, Hertfordshire. An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. February 18, 18.30. Almost no original building by Viollet-le-Duc is at all well known, yet he was probably the most influential nineteenth-century architect of all: his theory of Gothic, his restorations of major French medieval monuments and above all his publications were eagerly studied - if not always approved of - throughout the world. In this lecture, his work will be discussed by Jean-Michel Leniaud, Director of Studies at the École Practique des Hautes Études in Paris, a commissioner for the Monuments Historiques, and one of France's most distinguished scholars of nineteenth-century architecture. An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. Jean-Baptiste Béthune. February 24, 18.30. As AWN Pugin was to Britain and as Viollet-le-Duc was to France, so Baron Béthune (1821-94) was to Belgium: an antiquary, architect and designer of genius, who devoted his life to the promotion of the Gothic Revival. In this lecture, his work will be described by Peter Howell, an expert on nineteenth-century Catholic architecture and a former Chairman of the Victorian Society. An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. Adler & Sullivan and early Frank Lloyd Wright: an English Perspective. March 5, 18.30. One of the most poetic geniuses of nineteenth-century architecture, Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) stands at the centre of an influential school of Chicago architects. In this lecture, Andrew Saint, Professor of the History of Architecture at Cambridge University, will examine Sullivan's partnership with Dankmar Adler (1844-1900), a much-neglected figure, and his influence on the young Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959). An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk London: Art Workers' Guild, WC1. Dom Paul Bellot. March 12, 18.30. Thanks to Pevsner's declaration that Quarr Abbey, begun in 1908, reveals its architect to be "one of the pioneers of twentieth-century Expressionism," Dom Bellot (1876-1943) is the most celebrated foreign architect to have worked in Britain in the early twentieth century. In this lecture, Martin Meade, who teaches at the École Speciale d'Architecture in Paris (founded by Viollet-le-Duc; see above), will discuss this Benedictine monk's remarkable career in France, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the Isle of Wight. An event organised by the Victorian Society. Doors open at 6.10 pm and wine will be available before the lecture. Tickets, costing £7.00, must be bought in advance. 020 - 8994 1019 or http://www.victoriansociety.org.uk. London: Business Design Centre, Islington, N1. Period Living & Traditional Homes Show. May 9 - 11. This year's show features more than 120 exhibitors, including businesses offering furniture, fittings, decorating materials, craft items and gardening requisites, and the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings. There will also be a range of free seminars offering advice on conservation, restoration and stylistic improvements for period homes. Open Friday and Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday, 10.00 - 15.30. Admission costs £10.00 per adult on the door, or £7.00 in advance; children under 16 free. Further information is available on the website at www.periodlivingshow.co.uk or by phoning 0870 - 120 0140. London: City of Westminster Archives Centre, 10 St Ann's Street, SW1. "Oh Mercy": William Blake and Bob Dylan. May 20, 19.30. A lecture by Bill Goldman, who is completing his PhD thesis on William Blake and Robert Browning at King's College London. He has been Programme Secretary for the Blake Society since 1997 and a Dylan fan since long before that. An event organised by the Blake Society. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. keri.davies@cwcom.net. London: City of Westminster Archives Centre, 10 St Ann's Street, SW1. Beat Readings of Blake. July 15, 19.30. A lecture by Dr Josie McQuail, who will explore the mystical connection between Allen Ginsberg and William Blake. Ginsberg claimed that in auditory hallucinations he heard Blake sing some of his Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Blake did supposedly sing these songs, but never wrote down the tunes. Ginsberg transcribed the music he heard accompanying the songs, learning how to write music in order to do this, and he would often begin his own readings by performing some of these. Blake's influence is also obvious in much of Ginsberg's own poetry. An event organised by the Blake Society. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. keri.davies@cwcom.net. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery. Arthur Rackham. Until March 2. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is one of the world's most popular artist-illustrators. The creator of inimitable illustrations for Rip Van Winkle, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Wind in the Willows, his interpretations have achieved classic status. This is the first full-scale exhibition in Britain of his work for more than 20 years. Trained as a black-and-white illustrator of magazines alongside such greats as Aubrey Beardsley, Rackham created some of the finest colour book illustrations of the early twentieth century. A master of the grotesque, yet possessing a childish naive vision of the world, he used a bold scratchy pen to draw anthropomorphised trees, gnarled dwarfs and gnomish creatures, which he then painted with pale washes. This exhibition brings together over 70 original works by Rackham, representing the full range of his output, along with family photographs, travel sketches and scrapbooks compiled by his descendants. Open Tuesday - Friday, 10.00 - 17.00; Saturdays and Sundays, 11.00-17.00. Closed on Mondays. 020 - 8693 5254. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery. Abstraction on the Beach: John Piper in the 1930s. Until June 22. John Piper (1903-92) was one of the pioneers of Modern art in Britain. This exhibition charts his early career, when he engaged with artistic and political influences so powerful that they overwhelmed many of his contemporaries. Piper emerged from the extraordinary upheaval of the 1930s with a distinctive vision of the world and a sense of the artist's duty to society. It was this voyage of self-discovery which made possible his moving records of the Second World War and his later work as a theatre and stained-glass designer, as well as a landscape painter. Piper began the 1930s living at Rye Harbour on the Sussex Coast. The trim functionalism and holiday swagger that he admired in seaside architecture were also features of Modern art and design. Whilst searching in his gouaches and collages for the means by which to portray the atmosphere of coastal scenes, he was also assimilating the Cubist language of Pablo Picasso. His own abstracts of the mid-1930s are filled with reminiscences of buoys, masts, stays and hulls of boats and vibrate with the festive atmosphere of the seaside. This exhibition seeks to bring out this tension between abstraction and realism. Within a decade, Piper embraced International Modernism and returned to a new, contemporary and individual form of representation. This was partly a response to the threat of war: as he wrote in 1938, "Abstraction is a luxury". Piper went on to be renowned as an artist who recast the great tradition of English landscape painting in Modern terms. Open Tuesday - Friday, 10.00 - 17.00; Saturday, Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays, 11.00 - 17.00. Admission £7.00; OAPs £6.00; students, registered disabled, unemployed people and children £3.00. These prices cover the ordinary admission charge to the Gallery plus that for the exhibition. Further information from Kate Knowles or Isabel Evans: 020 - 8299 8710/1. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Linbury Room. The Triumph of Light and Nature: Scandinavian Art, 1740-1940. May 1, 12.30 - 13.30. A lecture by Dr Neil Kent, an art historian based at Cambridge University. Admission is free, but there will be a collection at the end. Further information from Isabel Evans: 020 - 8299 8711. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery Shakespeare in Art. July 16 - October 19. Many painters have chosen to depict characters and scenes from William Shakespeare's plays. This exhibition concentrates on those, such as William Hogarth, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, JE Millais and William Holman Hunt, of the eighteenth and centuries who did so. With some 70 works on display, it explores the full range of that period's artistic Bardolatry, from Rococo to Sublime, from Classical to Romantic, and reveals much about theatrical production and scenography, as well as the great actors who performed Shakespeare, together presenting a Shakespeare who is both familiar and significantly different from ours today. Open Tuesday - Friday, 10.00 - 17.00; weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays, 11.00 - 17.00. Entry to the Gallery and exhibition is £7.00; senior citizens £6.00; other concessions £3.00; children free. 020 - 8299 8711 or http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk. London: Dulwich Picture Gallery William Heath Robinson. November 5 - January 18. William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) is now most widely remembered for his wonderful humorous drawings and illustrations. His ambition was to become a landscape painter, but he realised that such painting probably would not pay the bills, so he followed his brothers into book illustration, where his reputation was rapidly established. The creator of inimitable illustrations for poetry by Edgar Allan Poe and Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie and Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, his interpretations have ranked him alongside Arthur Rackham and the other classic illustrators. At the time of his death, however, only few people remembered Heath Robinson as a serious illustrator, though his humorous work - often executed to the same high standard - was widely celebrated, and even today his name is popularly used to describe fantastical contraptions. In recent years, too, his stature as a serious artist has been largely recovered. This exhibition offers the chance to see more than 100 original drawings and paintings from the collection of the William Heath Robinson Trust. It is curated by Geoffrey Beare, Chairman of the Imaginative Book Illustration Society (IBIS), who is an authority on Heath Robinson whose work he has himself been collecting since 1971. Open Tuesday - Friday, 10.00 - 17.00; weekends and Bank Holiday Mondays, 11.00 - 17.00. Entry to the Gallery and exhibition is £7.00; senior citizens £6.00; other concessions £3.00; children free. 020 - 8299 8711 or http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Music, Emotion and Masks. February 8, 19.30 for 20.00. Robin Thompson-Clarke is a cellist who teaches at the Royal College of Music. He will perform on the cello and then talk about the emotional content of music, both consciously and subconsciously, with reference to recent events, and about how musicians wear "masks." An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. The City of Dreadful Night: Poverty, Philanthropy and Mayhem in Victorian East London. March 15, 19.30 for 20.00. A talk by Professor Bill Fishman, who is a historian from Queen Mary College, University of London. He regularly lectures on the story of Jack the Ripper which he regards as a catalyst for social change in Victorian London. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. The Application of the Whitehall Study to Re-invent Social Politics in New Zealand. April 12, 19.00 for 19.30. Marek Kohn, who writes in The Independent newspaper and is the author of As We Know It, will discuss New Zealand's application of the Whitehall Study of civil servants which showed that a lower position in the hierarchy correlates strongly with increased mortality. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Human Genetics and the threat of a New Eugenics. May 10, 19.30 for 20.00. A talk about genetic research and its possible implications by Dr Dave King, Co-ordinator of the Human Genetics Watchdog Group, who has appeared on BBC 2's Newsnight programme speaking about genetic issues. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Art and the Russian Revolution. June 14, 19.30 for 20.00. A talk by Roger Huddle, a graphic designer and revolutionary socialist. He will analyse the relationship between revolution and artists' expression of their desire for change. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. The Peckham Experiment: Preventative Health Care. July 12, 19.30 for 20.00. Peter Frost, a dentist living in Peckham and Chair of the Peckham Society, will present two films and talk about the radical and innovative Pioneer Health Centre which existed from 1935 to 1950. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Industrial Common Ownership. August 9, 19.30 for 20.00. A talk by Manuella Sykes who, in 1974, started a campaign which led to the Industrial Common Ownership Act of 1976. A former Westminster City councillor and economic development officer, she describes ICO as "an enterprise which is owned and controlled exclusively by its total workforce". She is currently Editor of Voice of the Unions. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Black Arts: Global and Local. September 13, 19.30 for 20.00. Adeyami, a local Black arts organiser and speaker, will discuss the overall world influence of Black art and its impact locally. This will be followed by an opportunity for those present to perform their own work in whatever media. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Common Convictions: the Prison Experiences of Suffragettes. October 11, 19.30 for 20.00. A talk by Hayley Truman, who is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the experiences of grassroots activist suffragettes between 1905 and 1914. She teaches the history of feminism at the University of North London. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. Is there such a thing as Ethical Journalism? November 8, 19.30 for 20.00. A talk by Pat Stannard, editor of the Waltham Forest Guardian, who will discuss the ethics of journalism. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: The Epicentre, West Street, E11. An evening of Poetry with Moniza Alvi. December 13, 19.30 for 20.00. Moniza Alvi is a London poet who was born in Pakistan. Her poetry, mostly published by Bloodaxe Books, includes the collections The Country at my Shoulder, Bowl of Warm Air, Carrying My Wife and most recently Souls. She will read from her work and then discuss it, followed by questions from the audience. An event organised by the News from Nowhere Club. Admission is free and everyone is welcome; no prior booking is required. 020 - 8555 5248. London: Fulham Palace, Bishop's Avenue, SW6. Enjoy Embroidery 2003: From Medieval to Morris. Thursdays, January 16, 23 & 30 and February 6, 10.30-15.30. The theme of this year's embroidery course at Fulham Palace is the high point of English embroidery, medieval opus anglicanum and its later influence upon the work of William and May Morris. The first session, on 16th January, will be of especial interest to WMS members, because it includes an illustrated lecture by Emma Taylor (Area Museums Officer for Norwich; formerly of the V&A Textiles and Dress Department) on the Morrises and their medieval precursors in the craft of embroidery. This lecture commences at 2.00 pm and it can be attended (admission £6.00) separately from the rest of the day's course. The topics for subsequent days are 'Faces and Halos' on 23rd January, 'Embroidered Jewellery' on 30th January and 'Letters and Borders' on 6th February. This course is suitable for all abilities. Places on each day of the course cost £15.00 which includes most materials and tea and coffee. Sandwiches will be available for sale, or one may take one's own lunch. For more details or to book a place on any or all of these days, phone 020 - 7736 3233. London: Library Print Room, Royal Academy of Arts. The Gifted Hand: Drawings by John Everett Millais from the Royal Academy's Collection. Until May 16. A rare chance to see the RA's collection of drawings by JE Millais. A child prodigy and a prolific sketcher, Millais became the Academy's youngest-ever student in 1840 at the age of 11. This display includes some of the artist's earliest work - impressive academic studies of Classical statues, comic sketches and prize-winning drawings of historical scenes. Millais's later work is represented by studies for well-known Pre-Raphaelite paintings such as The Proscribed Royalist, as well as by drawings made shortly before his death in 1896. The Library Print Room is open Tuesday - Friday, 11.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 16.00. A trained volunteer is available to give an introduction to the display. Admission is free. 020 - 7300 8000. London: Royal Academy of Arts The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection. Until December 12. Andrew Lloyd Webber's collection contains paintings by the most significant Pre-Raphaelite artists including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones and William Waterhouse, as well as furniture by William Morris, AWN Pugin and William Burges, and ceramics by William De Morgan. This is a unique opportunity to view an outstanding private collection. Open Friday 10.00 - 22.00; all other days, 10.00 - 18.00. Admission £9.00 standard; over-60s and registered disabled £8.00; students £6.00; unemployed £3.00; children 12-18 years £3.00; children 9-11 years £2.00; children under 8 free. 020 - 7300 8000. http://www.royalacademy.org.uk. London: Senate House, Malet Street, WC1. Vernon Lee: Literary Revenant. June 10, 09.30 - 20.00. A conference, organised by the Institute of English Studies, with four plenary speakers (Vineta Colby, Hilary Fraser, Angela Leighton and Martha Vicinus) and three blocks of parallel sessions. The topics covered will include 'Vernon Lee and her Contemporaries', 'Vernon Lee and Music', 'Vernon Lee and Italy', 'Vernon Lee and Hellenism', 'Vernon Lee and Controversy', 'Vernon Lee, Philosophy and Ethics', 'Vernon Lee and the Supernatural' and 'Vernon Lee and the Past'. The conference will close with a reception between 6.30 and 8.00 pm. Places cost £25.00, including refreshments (coffee, tea and the evening reception) but not lunch. Further information available from Joanna Nixon, ies@sas.ac.uk or 020 - 7862 8675, and on the website at http://www.sas.ac.uk/ies. London: Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1. When Paris was British: Franco-British Connections, 1814-55. May 9, 13.00. A lecture by Philip Mansel, author of Paris between Empires, 1814-1852 (2003). Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1. Eroticism to Abstraction: Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Four Tuesdays, June 3 - June 24. Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) and Henry Moore (1898-1986) are two giants of twentieth-century British art. Both of them born in Yorkshire, they became pioneers of modern sculpture in Britain in the 1920s and '30s, subsequently developing their art in innovative ways that reflected the changing mood of the times and new responses to the natural world. Both artists gained international celebrity. Coinciding with this year's Barbara Hepworth Centenary, this course will explore the dominant themes in her work and that of Henry Moore. In the inter-war period, they shared a passionate commitment to the renewal of sculpture through direct carving and truth to materials. After the Second World War, Moore's art became more figurative as he made a series of works expressive of the human condition. Much of Hepworth's work remained purely abstract, with a continuing emphasis on the beauty of form and surface, as well as a close engagement with landscape. The course will be led by Simon Wilson, author of Holbein to Hockney: A History of British Art and Tate Gallery: An Illustrated Companion. Places cost £48.00 (concessions £36.00) and must be booked in advance. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1. An Englishman in Paris: Artist's Talk. June 4, 18.30. Raymond Mason, best known for his monumental bronzes, has made a distinctive contribution to the history of modern sculpture. Based in Paris since 1946, he has also mixed with some of the greatest figures of twentieth-century art, including Francis Bacon, Jean Cocteau and André Malraux. At this event, Raymond Mason will talk to Richard Morphet about his work and his meetings with other artists. Admission costs £7.00; concessions £4.00. Prior booking is strongly recommended. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1. Peter Blake: Artist's Talk. June 18, 18.30. A leading figure in the British art world, Peter Blake is most often associated with Pop Art and is celebrated as the creator of the cover of the Beatles's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album (1967), yet his career spans five decades and he has worked with many subjects, using many different techniques and media. He is acclaimed by established and younger artists alike and bridges the divide between the Academy and the avant-garde. At this event, he will talk to Natalie Rudd, author of a new book about his work. Admission costs £7.00; concessions £4.00. Prior booking is strongly recommended. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1. John Constable. June 20, 13.00. A lecture by William Vaughan, Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College London and the author of a new book on John Constable's art. He will draw upon recent research to explore Constable's profound perception of nature and his innovative approach to painting. Admission is free and no prior booking is required. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1. The Presence of Painting. May 13, 18.30. The twelfth annual Peter Fuller Memorial Lecture will be given by Rudi Fuchs, who is a curator, museum director and writer on art, arguably one of the most influential figures in contemporary art in recent decades. He has organised numerous major exhibitions, was Director of Documenta 7 in 1982, and has been Director of the Stedeliik Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Haags Gemeentemuseum in the Hague and the Stedeliik Museum in Amsterdam. Admission costs £7.00; concessions £4.00. Prior booking is strongly recommended. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1. Creative Workshop: Artists' Books. Saturdays, May 17 & 31. Led by Jane Rolo and Maria Fusco from Book Works, with Damian Abbott, Paul Claydon and Adam Scrivener from Inventory, this two-day workshop offers an opportunity to explore the world of artists' books. On the first day, the tutors will discuss key concepts and examples within the genre and encourage participants to view rare editions from both Tate and Book Works's archives. Emphasis will be placed on contemporary practice and members of the artists' collective Inventory will contribute to the workshop, discussing the place of bookmaking in their work. In response to discussions, participants will be asked to develop ideas for a book work of their won, bringing their thoughts and examples in to share with the group during the second day. Suggestions will be given for places to undertake research and see further examples of book art between the two sessions. Places cost £40.00 (concessions £25.00) and must be booked in advance. 020 - 7887 8888. London: Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1. Painting Present: Curating Painting. May 20, 18.30. A panel of experts - Bice Curiger (Editor of Parkett), Alison Gineras (Curator of Cher Peintre at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, 2002), Douglas Fogle (Curator of Painting at the Edge of the World at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, 2001) and the artist Richard Wright - will discuss the increasingly complex relationship between painting and curatorial practice. Admission costs £7.00; concessions £4.00. Prior booking is strongly recommended. 020 - 7887 8888. London: University of London Union, Malet Street, WC1 The Anarchist Bookfair 2003. October 25, 10.00 - 19.00. No longer being held at Conway Hall, this year's Anarchist Bookfair is the biggest ever, with a plethora of stalls offering books from publishers such as Freedom Press and Phoenix Press, some second-hand booksellers, and numerous campaigning and activist groups. There is also a busy programme of meetings and video-showings. A crêche, a bar and food are available. Further information from http://www.anarchistbookfair.org. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Art for Votes' Sake: Visual Culture and the Women's Suffrage Campaign. Until December 20. Art for Votes' Sake reveals the power of art in the women's suffrage campaigns, 75 years on from equal enfranchisement. Determined to fire the public's imagination, suffragist artists exploited everything from traditional embroidery to the latest printing technologies. Meanwhile, however, some suffragettes damaged great paintings as a form of protest. A rich array of material is on show, much of it for the first time. Exquisite enamels by Ernestine Mills and drawings by Sylvia Pankhurst are displayed alongside new media such as experimental posters and photo-journalism. Stunning appliquéd banners hang with rare painted and printed versions. Portraiture was deployed imaginatively, with leading figures appearing in cartoons, paintings and photographs. Completing the exhibition, the Reading Lounge offers a chance to browse the cultural and literary life of the time. How did writers such as Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf react to the campaign? If you want to explore the original campaign journals and leaflets, just ask in the Reading Room. Open Monday - Wednesday, 09.30 - 17.30; Thursday 09.30 - 20.00; Friday 09.30 - 17.30; Saturday 10.00 - 16.00; closed on Sunday. Admission is free. 020 - 7320 2222. http://www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Women and the Arts. October 11, 12.00. In this lecture, the art historian Jan Marsh (a well-known member of our Society) will examine women artists' reactions to the campaigns for women's suffrage. These will include the painters Barbara Bodichon and Evelyn De Morgan and the craftspeople Mary Lowndes and May Morris. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 New Art for the New Woman. October 11, 14.30. In the late nineteenth century, new media reflected the modern industrial world's pace of change. The commercial publishing boom allowed women to work as book illustrators, while colour printing technology created posters that changed the urban landscape. Photographers like Julia Margaret Cameron challenged the authority of the male gaze. In this lecture, the curator and author Suzanne Fagence Cooper will consider their impact. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Wearing the Colours: Jewellery and the Women's Suffrage Movement. October 11, 16.30. In 1908, the Women's Social and Political Union devised a highly successful purple, white and green "corporate" colour scheme. Sympathisers used jewellery as a means of expressing their allegiance. In this lecture, the curator Elizabeth Goring will put suffrage jewellery in context and present some remarkable makers and wearers. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Street Walking: Men, Women and Crowds in Victorian London. October 23, 18.30. How did people move through and experience the streets of a Victorian metropolis? In this lecture, Lynda Nead, acclaimed author of The Victorian Nude, will draw on a range of visual material to focus on the nature of gender relations in the context of the street and examine the image of the female pedestrian dreaming in front of shop windows. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Well-Placed Women: Suffrage Politics and Architecture. October 30, 18.30. Retracing the sites of the women's movement in this lecture, the writer and academic Lynne Walker will visit both suffragists' homes and the gendered spaces of Victorian and Edwardian architecture. Here, the concept and nature of the home were thought of as a political space, and public space was claimed, created and utilised by campaigners such as Barbara Bodichon, Emily Davies and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 The Literature of the Women's Suffrage Movement. November 8, 12.00. Like suffrage art, suffrage writing used creativity and inventiveness. In this lecture, the writer and academic Maroula Joannou will give an overview of the fiction of the Women Writers' Suffrage League and others, including popular successes such as Gertrude Colmore's Suffragette Sally and Elizabeth Robbins's The Convert. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Rebecca West: Paradoxical Pioneer. November 8, 14.30. The figure of the suffragette appears in Rebecca West's journalism and in her early novels. In this lecture, Kathryn Laing, who recently discovered the hidden manuscript of The Sentinel, will discuss West's vivid portraits and the fascinating cultural and political context they reveal, as well as West's own complex and shifting feminist allegiances. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 "Another procession . . . was blocking Long Acre": Virginia Woolf and Women's Suffrage. November 8, 16.30. Virginia Woolf was strongly involved in the history and development of the women's movement, and in particular the split between the militant and pacifist branches during the First World War. In this lecture, the critic Julia Briggs will argue that Woolf's later thinking about women and war, which finds its ultimate expression in Three Guineas, was largely conditioned by that split. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 "My God, what women!": George Bernard Shaw and Women's Suffrage. November 13, 18.30. In this lecture, the acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw will describe the part he played as dramatist and political campaigner in the campaign for women's suffrage and will compare it with that of his friend, rival and fellow Fabian HG Wells. Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 "Art for Man's Sake": Fiction and the New Woman. November 20, 18.30. "We appreciate art, but not art for art's sake; art for man's sake is what we demand", wrote Sarah Grand, the leading New Woman, in 1896. It became the rallying cry of the New Women as they sought to bring about social and political change through fiction. In this lecture, the writer Angelique Richardson will consider the different, sometimes unpredictable, positions the New Woman took towards the vote and citizenship Tickets £5.00 (concessions £3.00). Advance booking is recommended. 020 - 7320 2222. London: The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, Old Castle Street, E1 Dare to be Free: An Examination of the legacy of the campaigns for the Women's Vote. November 22, 09.30 - 17.00. National Archives and the Women's Library present a conference to mark the anniversaries of the founding of the Women's Social and Political Union (1903) and the Equal Franchise Act (1928). The contributors include Hilda Kean, June Purvis and Clare Midgley. What were the key issues around the campaigning culture and the interaction between women's movements and government? How did the campaigns spread beyond the war and beyond Britain? Places, which must be booked in advance, cost £40.00 (concessions £28.00), including refreshments. For further information or to book a place, phone 020 - 8392 5202. Marlborough College Summer School "Art and Architecture in 19th Century Britain" is a weeklong course encompassing works by Morris, Burne-Jones, Barry and Smirke. This will run from 21 - 25 Jul 2003. For details, see http://www.mcsummerschool.org.uk/. Oxford: Plater College Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953). Friday - Sunday, August 29 - 31. A three-day residential conference considering the life, works and influence of this poet, novelist, biographer, historian, travel-writer and campaigner whose writings are still popular and whose views remain as controversial as when they were first vividly enunciated. The speakers will include Anthony Cooney on 'Distributism,' Aidan Mackey on 'Belloc's Critics,' Fr Ian Ker on 'Belloc's Catholicism,' Michael Hennessey on 'Belloc and Parliament,' Blaise Compton on 'Belloc's Poetry' and Professor Jack Scarisbrick on 'Belloc and the Reformation.' The standard conference fee is £106.00, which covers accommodation and all meals. For further information or to book a place, write to The Hilaire Belloc Society, 1 Hillview Cottage, Elstead, nr Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 0JX, or phone 01730 - 835 575. Oxford: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square. News from Somewhere: William Morris and the Kelmscott Landscape. Friday - Sunday, May 9 - 11. Kelmscott Manor was the country house of William Morris from 1871 to 1896. Organised by Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education, this weekend course will describe the results of a project, initiated by the Society of Antiquaries of London, to explore the making of the landscape which inspired some of Morris's poetry, prose writings, designs and philosophy of conservation. The speakers include John Payne on 'Kelmscott and Englishness', Linda Parry on 'The Morris Family and the Manor' and Carol Davidson Cragoe on 'The Architecture and Context of Kelmscott Church'. There will also be a visit to Kelmscott and a guided tour of the Manor. Prior booking is essential and early registration is advised. Accommodation at Rewley House is in modern, comfortably furnished rooms. Residential places cost £172.00 single, £150.00 shared; non-residential with meals excluding breakfast, £112.00; non-residential without meals, £75.00. Further details from the Administrative Assistant, Day & Weekend Schools, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA; 01865 - 270 368; ppdayweek@conted.ox.ac.uk. Oxford: Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square. William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement. Saturday - Saturday, August 2 - 9. This week-long course will enable students to explore the many aspects of William Morris, including his design work, craftsmanship, writings and political theories, as well as their enduring influence. Work in Oxford by Morris and his associates will be viewed and there will be an optional visit to Kelmscott Manor. The tutor, Antony Buxton, who is a member of our Society, lectures on furniture history and the domestic interior for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education and for Rycotewood College. Further details are available from Oxford University Summer School for Adults, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JA; 01865 - 270 360; http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/oussa/. Reading: University of Reading. The Allotment: Its Past, Present and Future. May 31. A one-day conference organised by the Rural History Centre. The speakers will include Dr Jeremy Burchardt on 'The Nineteenth-Century Allotment Movement', Dr Phillada Ballard on 'Guinea Gardens', Professor David Crouch on 'The Art of Allotments', Michael Wale on 'Inner-City Allotments' and Dr Richard Wiltshire on 'Thinking the Undiggable: A Future Without Allotments?'. The fee of £25.00 includes lunch. Places must be booked in advance. For further information and booking forms, contact Dr Rachel Stewart: 0118 - 378 8306. Scarborough: Crescent Arts. Resist! May 13 - June 28. This exhibition has been inspired by the massive wave of global protest against capitalism that was most visible at Seattle in 1999. It brings together different kinds of political art from documentary work and socialist realism to work made as a direct response to the current political climate. The artists include: Paul Brandford, who works from images in newspapers to try and trace back a fragment of the real event; Peter Lewis, who makes large ceramic pieces which highlight the struggles of Palestinians; Robert Lee Jenkinson, who uses advertising as a medium for challenging elitism in art; Loberto Leone, who documents political graffiti; and Catherine Graham, who subverts everyday objects. Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10.00 - 13.00 and 14.00 - 17.00; closed on Sunday and Monday. Admission is free. Further information from Patrick Burke (01723 - 351 461) and at http://www.crescentarts.co.uk/. Scarborough: Scarborough Art Gallery. Colour Feel: Paintings and Designs by Sally Greaves-Lord. April 12 - June 28. As Creative Director of Issy Miyake from 1986 to 1991, Sally Greaves-Lord's window installations by herself and invited contemporary artists have gone down as pivotal moments in recent design history. She is now even better known for her distinctive hand-painted silk banners. Sally Greaves-Lord's work is held in the V&A collection, the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and other prestigious locations worldwide. This is the first exhibition to present examples from the full range of Sally Greaves-Lord's remarkable work in art and design using various creative media. Open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 11.00 - 16.00. Admission £2.00; students and children £1.50. Further information from Lara Goodband: 01723 - 37 47 53. Scarborough: Scarborough Art Gallery A Gardener's Labyrinth: Portraits of People, Plants and Places by Tessa Traeger and Patrick Kinmouth. November 1 - January 4. Following a recent commission from the National Portrait Gallery to photograph important British horticulturists for its collection, Tessa Traeger and Patrick Kinmouth have photographed - in their chosen settings - more than 50 gardeners, garden history writers, plant-finders, garden designers and artists who are shaping new attitudes to plants and gardens. Alongside each portrait will be a photograph of the garden most closely associated with the sitter, including Kew Gardens (Ghillean Prance), the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (Charles Jencks), Gresgarth Hall (Arabella Lennox-Boyd), Sissinghurst (Ann Scott-James), Waddesdon Manor (Beth Rothschild), Mottisfort Rose Garden (Graham Stuart Thomas) and Helmingham Hall (Xa Tollemache). Tessa Treager is one of the outstanding still-life photographers of her generation and has exhibited regularly since 1978 in Paris, London, Hamburg and New York. She is especially known for her photographs taken on large-format cameras, many of which were published during her long association with Vogue magazine. Her collaborator on this project, Patrick Kinmouth, who has also curated and designed the exhibition, is known as a writer on photography, artistic director and opera designer. Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11.00 - 16.00; closed on Monday. Admission £2.00; students and children £1.50. Further information from Lara Goodband: 01723 - 374 753 or lara.goodband@scarborough.gov.uk. Sheffield: Millennium Galleries Colour Feel: Paintings and Designs by Sally Greaves-Lord. Until August 10. As Creative Director of Issy Miyake from 1986 to 1991, Sally Greaves-Lord's window installations by herself and invited contemporary artists have gone down as pivotal moments in recent design history. She is now even better known for her distinctive hand-painted silk banners. Sally Greaves-Lord's work is held in the V&A collection, the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and other prestigious locations worldwide. This is the first exhibition to present examples from the full range of Sally Greaves-Lord's remarkable work in art and design using various creative media. Open Monday - Saturday, 10.00 - 17.00; Sunday 11.00 - 17.00. Admission is free. 0114 - 278 2600. Wakefield: Wakefield Art Gallery. Hepworth - Polished Bronzes. May 17 - June 29. 2003 is the centenary of Barbara Hepworth's birth in Wakefield. She is internationally acclaimed as one of the major sculptors of the twentieth century. This exhibition presents her highly polished bronzes, characterised by a sensuous golden finish, which were all produced in the last 15 years of her life. Open Tuesday - Saturday, 10.30 - 16.30; Sunday 14.00 - 16.30; closed on Monday. Admission is free. 01924 - 305 796. Wakefield: Wakefield Art Gallery. Dame Barbara Hepworth. May 21, 13.30 - 15.00. A lecture by Nino Vella, Keeper of Art at Wakefield Art Gallery, discussing Barbara Hepworth's life and art, with special reference to the current exhibition of her bronzes at this gallery. Admission is free. 01924 - 305 796. Editor's Note: I try to ensure that the information I give about exhibitions and events is both adequate and accurate, but I cannot claim to be infallible. I therefore advise readers to check important details (telephone numbers are always provided) before travelling. M. H. HOME · NEW · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · SITE ARCHIVE · ABOUT THE SOCIETY MORRIS' LIFE AND WORKS · PRODUCTS · LINKS · SITE MAP · CONTACT US LAST UPDATE 2 OCT 2003 · PLEASE REPORT BROKEN LINKS TO WEBMASTER @ MORRISSOCIETY.ORG