Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop at the Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale 21-29 September 2018, 10.30am-5pm in the Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop is delighted to participate in the Cambridge Original Printmakers Biennale 2018. We will be showing prints by our talented tutors and thank Dale Devereux Barker, Carl Borges, Peter...
This exhibition focusses on the early life and art of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88). It explores how Gainsborough made his first steps in the art world from the inspiration of the landscape surrounding his hometown of Sudbury, through his training in London in the 1740s, to his return to Suffolk around 1748. This is a particularly...
In 2015 Nicole Farhi, sculptor and former fashion designer created a bronze bust of Thomas Gainsborough for Gainsborough’s House. Four years later we are delighted to announce a solo exhibition of sculptural portraits of heads and hands by the artist. The exhibition includes busts of some of the great artists of the past 100...
Join us for an exhibition of original prints by members of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop at St Peter’s, Sudbury. Works on display include framed and unframed prints demonstrating printmaking processes including etching, mono print, silkscreen, engraving, collograph and lithography will be available for sale by over 30 members of Gainsborough’s House...
A significant private collection goes public for the first time. Gainsborough’s House is delighted to announce an exhibition of a private collection that will be shown in public for the first time. With major paintings from the golden age of British painting it shares with a new audience works by Gainsborough, Constable, Turner and Lawrence....
Join us for an exhibition of original prints by members of Gainsborough’s House Print Workshop. The Pond Gallery, Snape Maltings, Snape. Works on display include framed and unframed prints demonstrating printmaking process including etching, mono print , silkscreen, engraving, collograph and lithography will be available for sale. NB Wednesday 21st August 10.00am - 4.00pm
To celebrate the inaugural Sudbury Silk Festival (7 September 2019), Gainsborough’s House is proud to display four ensembles by the iconic British fashion designer and activist Vivienne Westwood. Ranging from the last two decades, they show how Vivienne has repeatedly taken inspiration from historic dress, particularly that of the eighteenth century. Vivienne first became known...
Suffolk and Flanders are not far apart as the crow flies. There have been connections between them for centuries, ever since Flemish merchants came to Suffolk to buy the coveted wool of Suffolk sheep for Flemish weavers to turn into high-quality cloth. By Gainsborough’s day, in both England and Flanders, new manufacturing processes are already...
Unknown Artist after Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Ignatius Sancho, c. 1802-20. Gainsborough’s House and National Portrait Gallery. Entrance is included in price of House admission. In 1768 Thomas Gainsborough painted the portrait of Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780), who was then valet to the Duke of Montagu. The portrait of Sancho is a rare depiction of a black man in...
Masterpieces on loan from the Woburn Abbey Collection by artists including Thomas Gainsborough, Claude Lorrain, Aelbert Cuyp, David Teniers the Younger, Sir Edwin Landseer and Richard Parkes Bonington. "This exhibition explores the origins of Gainsborough’s landscape art through the examples of Dutch and Flemish seventeenth century paintings in the Woburn Abbey collection collected by the...
Colourful lithographs by artists including Dia al-Azzawi, David Bowie, Uzo Egonu, Tracey Emin, Terry Frost, Alexis Hunter and Paula Rego. Striking Editions celebrates the art of lithography through a diverse body of artists working in the second half of the twentieth century. Both figurative and abstract, these striking images reflect a vibrant period of experimentation...
Paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture and mixed media pieces produced over the course of the redevelopment project, Reviving an Artist’s Birthplace, by Artist in Residence, Anna Hennings. The art she exhibits carefully intertwines the story of the House's renovations with her numerous arts projects from across the region. It expresses an awareness of our relationship to...
