Where: Various locations.
When: The 3rd Thursday of the month.
Time: As arranged.
Leader: Carol.
We have in common an interest in appreciating art and enjoy experiencing it in many forms. We visit galleries and occasionally studios across the North East, some using public transport and others cars. Hopefully our visits are fun, often including coffee and/or lunch.
Art Appreciation Mima Visit. Many thanks to Mary who organised our visit to Mima to view the paintings and ceramics held in their archives. We were shown some of the paintings and given information on them by the assistant curator. Star of the show was a small painting by [...]
A happy bunch at Raby Castle. The terrible weather failed to spoil our day as we enjoyed the convivial company, the very interesting guided tour and the well served lunch. Many thanks to Jean Bradley for organising the bus ! Click any image to enlarge.
This photograph was taken by Gordon Ayre at Raby Castle.
On April 16th, the Art Appreciation Group went to the Bowes Museum to see an exhibition featuring Gerald Scarfe's drawings of former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. We were fortunate to enjoy a talk by Greville Worthington (pictured kneeling), the curator of the exhibition, who had the creative vision which [...]
16.04.2015 Bowes Museum 21.05.2015 to be decided. 18.06.2015 Raby Castle
Our visit to the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle on February 20th.was the first for many of the fifteen strong group. Our main purpose was to see “Marilyn Monroe, A British Love Affair” which was an exhibition of photographs and magazine covers from 1947 to 1962 highlighting the British photographers and [...]
On Thursday, 16th January, our group visited the Mima to view William Tillyer’s exhibition “Against Nature”. We thought we ought to view his work because of statements such as that by Brian Appleyard, writing in the Sunday Times, saying: “Many people think he is the finest painter in Britain”. [...]
Our “Autumn Term” of 2013 began on 19th September with a visit to Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to view “The Vanity of Small Differences”, an exhibition of tapestries by Grayson Perry. This proved to be an apt social commentary for our materialistic society and was of particular interest [...]
Art Appreciation Group News Feature Suggested Programme of Events for the period ending July, 2013. March 21st. Oriental Museum, Durham April 18th. Bowes (or Harrogate with Sunderland Group) May 16th. Mima, Middlesbrough June 20th. Laing, Newcastle July 18th. Durham (Lindisfarne Gospels) I have 22 tickets reserved, price £6.50. Please let [...]
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