A series of three illuminating Friday morning talks with Arts & Crafts expert, historian and curator Kirsty Hartsiotis
Tickets cost £7 per talk (£5 for Museum in the Park Members) with tea and coffee included.
We are also offering a fabulous £12 Early Bird ticket for the series. Early booking recommended!
Wee Folk, Good Folk: Fairies and Fairy Tales in Art (10.30am, 7 February)
Discover the great age of fairy and folklore painting and illustration in Victorian and Edwardian art. The Victorians and Edwardians loved fairy tales and were rediscovering the folklore of the places around them. Join Kirsty in exploring the work of artists from Richard Dadd's dark fantasies to Walter Crane's bright toy books and into the riches of the Edwardian age.
Women designers of the Arts and Crafts Movement (10.30am, 7 March)
The Arts and Crafts Movement was one of the first art movements to recognise the artistry and skills of women artists and designers – but they are still today not as well-known as their male counterparts. Many of these women worked in the Cotswolds, whether as commissioned designers like Veronica Whall designing stained glass in Gloucester Cathedral, or because they lived here, like Louise Powell, Georgie Gaskin and many more. This talk seeks to bring these women into the spotlight, exploring embroidery, ceramics, metalwork, stained glass, bookbinding and other ‘suitable’ crafts, and look at the perceptions of female designers and makers at the time they were producing in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Exquisite Embroideries to Glittering Glass: the Work of Women Artists in Cotswold Churches (10.30am, 11 April)
Women’s work has always been in our churches, but never more so than in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes we don’t know their names – but they’ve executed countless banners, vestments, and altar frontals as part of their work for their local churches. It’s definitely not only church flowers and kneelers, though! The growing emancipation of women in the latter part of the 19th century allowed them to set up in business, going into areas that men thought they couldn’t – stained glass, wood carving, metalwork. After the First and Second World Wars, women produced intricate calligraphy for rolls of honour, carved memorials and created memorial windows. We’ll discover work by women such as Theo Moorman, Veronica Whall, Mary Lowndes, Nora Yoxall and Nan Reid, among many unsung women whose work enriches our churches right up the present day.
