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SUMMARY:Helaine Blumenfeld at Gainsborough's House: Public View
DESCRIPTION:Gainsborough’s House is delighted to welcome back acclaimed artist\, Helaine Blumenfeld (b. 1942) to unveil five new marble sculptures for this special weekend exhibition\, open to the public on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July.\nPlease note there will be a private viewing (by invitation only) from 2–4pm on Saturday 18 July during which time access will be restricted to ticket holders only. \nCome and experience the greatness of these newly carved monuments overlooking Blumenfeld’s current exhibition\, Tree of Life\, in Gainsborough’s Garden. \nImage credit:\nHelaine Blumenfeld (b. 1942)\nRENEWAL\n2026\nMarble\n© courtesy the Artist & Hignell Gallery
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/helaine-blumenfeld-at-gainsboroughs-house-public-view/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260729T122521Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Giles: Remember Tomorrow
DESCRIPTION:Suffolk-born and Norfolk residing artist Kate Giles (b. 1962) creates expressive work rooted in her native landscape\, specifically drawing on the legacy of John Constable. \nThis exhibition primarily showcases new paintings and drawings\, several of which explicitly refer to Constable’s six-footer of the Suffolk landscape\, The Leaping Horse\, which will be on display as part of the main exhibition during this season.  \nConstable described The Leaping Horse as\, ‘lively – & soothing – calm and exhilarating\, fresh – & blowing’\, and it is this dual energy\, that Giles has responded to fervently. \nAdmission tickets can be purchased at reception when you visit\, or online in advance.  \nThis exhibition continues across multiple spaces within the Historic House. \n \nExhibition images © Jackie Mellor Photography \n \n  \nImage credits:\nKate Giles (b. 1962)\nLeap (Noonday)\, 2025\nOil on linen\nPhoto: © courtesy the Artist \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/kate-giles-remember-tomorrow/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260514T104357Z
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SUMMARY:Land\, Sky\, Light: New Landscapes by David Dawson
DESCRIPTION:Land\, Sky\, Light features fifteen of David Dawson’s (b. 1960) recent large-scale paintings of his native countryside in Montgomeryshire\, Wales\, painted en plein air.\nPainted outdoors during each season of the year\, the artist then continues to work on them in his London studio before completing them back in the Welsh countryside\, taking several years for each one. \nHaving left Wales for London where he was a student at the Chelsea School of Art and later becoming a model and assistant to Lucian Freud\, these paintings represent an artist returning to their childhood home to explore the nature and solitude of its surroundings. \nAdmission tickets can be purchased at reception when you visit\, or online in advance.  \nExhibition image © Jackie Mellor Photography \n \nImage credits:\nDavid Dawson (b. 1960)\nIn the sunken lane a silence\, 2025\nOil on canvas\n© the Artist
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/land-sky-light-new-landscapes-by-david-dawson/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTSTAMP:20260729T123618Z
CREATED:20250826T123216Z
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough\, Turner & Constable: Inventing Landscape
DESCRIPTION:2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Suffolk-born artist John Constable (1776–1837).\nTo celebrate\, this exhibition explores the emergence of the tradition of landscape painting in Britain through three of its greatest exponents. \nKey works include Gainsborough’s idyllic scene\, Landscape with Cattle\, a Young Man Courting a Milkmaid (early 1770s)\, which has not been exhibited in the UK since 1952; Turner’s large-scale watercolour\, Abergavenny Bridge (1799) which has not been on public display since 1799 at the Royal Academy; and Constable’s dramatic oil sketch\, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (c. 1830s)\, a variant of his ‘great Salisbury’ painting thought to be a study for the mezzotint developed with David Lucas. The exhibition culminates in John Constable’s magnificent The Leaping Horse from the Royal Academy\, in Suffolk for the first time. \nGainsborough’s House will also present temporary exhibitions and new displays of David Dawson (b. 1960) and Kate Giles (b. 1962) inspired by the artwork of Constable and his contemporaries. \nAdmission tickets can be purchased at reception when you visit\, or online in advance.  \nExhibition image © Jackie Mellor Photography \n \nImage:\nJohn Constable (1776–1837)\nThe Leaping Horse\, 1825\nOil on canvas\, 142 x 187.3 cm (Royal Academy of Arts\, London)\n© Photo: Royal Academy of Arts\, London\nPhotographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsborough-turner-and-constable/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTSTAMP:20260320T134728Z
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SUMMARY:Pulling Prints Exhibition at Mill Tye Gallery\, Great Cornard
DESCRIPTION:A vibrant exhibition of original printmaking by artists aged 18–25\, developed through a free creative programme led by Gainsborough’s House and supported by Mill Tye Gallery.\n \nDiscover bold\, experimental work from participants who explored traditional and contemporary printmaking techniques in a series of artist-led workshops. This final exhibition brings together fresh ideas\, strong voices\, and Suffolk’s next generation of creative talent. \nSelected artists include: Eartha Jean\, Eleanor Mills\, Flo Cameron\, Lucy Perry\, Maddy McCloskey\, Mae Warner\, Rowan Collinson and Solo Nichol. \nThis diverse group is made up of local\, Norwich and London based makers. The participants will display a range of mediums from fashion\, photography\, installation to printmaking. \nSee full exhibition preview details and gallery opening times on Mill Tye Gallery’s website. Admission is free. \nThe Pulling Prints programme is supported by Suffolk County Council \n \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/pulling-prints-exhibition-at-mill-tye-gallery-great-cornard/
LOCATION:Mill Tye Gallery\, 3 Cornard Mills\, Mill Tye\, Great Cornard\, Sudbury\, CO10 0GW
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions,Print Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTSTAMP:20251119T103056Z
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SUMMARY:Hannah Brown: Song for Autumn
DESCRIPTION:Hannah Brown (b. 1977) is a contemporary artist based in east London whose work centres on the psychology of the English landscape.\nShe tends to focus on quiet\, overlooked corners of terrain that she knows intimately\, which are often either hemmed in by urban development or are about to be developed. An exhibition of her recent work will be on display in the historic house – displayed across two rooms. \n \n \nImage (detail):\nHannah Brown (b. 1977)\nDay for Dusk (Coast Path) 2\n2025
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/hannah-brown-song-for-autumn/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTSTAMP:20251119T101822Z
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SUMMARY:Humphrey Ocean: Home
DESCRIPTION:Humphrey Ocean (b. 1951)\, Home\, brings together paintings and drawings\, spanning three decades\, inspired by familiar but unassuming motifs that help define modern places.\nHe has long been concerned with the detail of design within his own lifetime: the horizontal window\, road signs\, cars\, concrete\, a bungalow\, all the human and haphazard incident that has happened and we have allowed to happen. The exhibition includes new work as he continues his engagement with the fabric of the built environment. \n  \n \nImage:\nHumphrey Ocean RA (b. 1951)\nBrockley\, Sunday\n2023\nOil on canvas\n© the Artist
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/humphrey-ocean-ra/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260330
DTSTAMP:20260226T101613Z
CREATED:20250423T090824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260226T101613Z
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SUMMARY:Love & Landscape: Stanley Spencer in Suffolk
DESCRIPTION:Gainsborough’s House is partnering with Stanley Spencer Gallery to present a major exhibition of the works of one of England’s greatest twentieth-century painters\, Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959).\nThe exhibition will include major loans from Tate\, Aberdeen Art Gallery\, Leeds Museums and Galleries\, and other public lenders\, as well as rarely-seen works from private collections. Stanley Spencer is one of the most important and original artists in twentieth-century British art. He lived for most of his life in his native village of Cookham\, which played a large part in the subject matter of his paintings. \nSpencer’s art was rooted in both his relationships and deep sense of place. Drawing on new research\, this exhibition will explore Spencer’s personal relationships and artistic development through his visits to Suffolk in the 1920s and 1930s. Spencer married fellow artist\, Hilda Carline\, in Wangford\, Suffolk. The couple were joined on their honeymoon by Stanley’s brother Gilbert\, who had introduced them. The previous year\, Hilda\, her brother–the artist Richard Carline–and Stanley had all stayed in Wangford\, where their artistic practice and personal relationships developed in tandem. \nThis major exhibition curated in collaboration with the Stanley Spencer Gallery will focus on the artist’s work in Suffolk\, where he married Hilda Carline in 1925\, and returned to a decade later.  \nPart of the exhibition will be on display at the Stanley Spencer Gallery\, Cookham\, Berkshire from 2 April – 1 November 2026. \n  \n \nImage (detail):\nStanley Spencer (1891–1959)\nSouthwold\, 1937\nOil on canvas\nAberdeen Art Gallery\n© Aberdeen City Council (Aberdeen Archives\, Gallery & Museums) \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/stanley-spencer/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251020
DTSTAMP:20250528T115918Z
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SUMMARY:Katherine Jones RA: Fine Ladies and Gentle Men
DESCRIPTION:Katherine Jones is a contemporary printmaker and painter who brings together complex narratives based on literary influences and natural forms.\nUsing a wide range of techniques\, her rich and layered surfaces often reflect ideas about safety and danger\, with archetypal motifs of domesticity and nature. Elected as an RA in 2022\, Jones is a widely respected lecturer in the UK and Europe. At Gainsborough’s House\, her work will be shown in the historic house offering a rich and challenging contrast to the eighteenth century collection. \nThe title Fine Ladies and Gentle Men alludes to flowers and the human conditions or characteristics associated with them (the face of a pansy or the throat of a lily\, for example). It is also a nod towards the sitters in Gainsborough’s many society portraits\, showing off – as plants do – with finery and accoutrements of status.  \nThe exhibition will showcase a combination of prints and small panel paintings with a particular focus on plant and flower forms and the embellishments employed to attract their pollinators. The 400-year-old black Mulberry Tree in the orchard garden is used as the focus of a large 4 panel print\, its branches entwined with references to Gainsborough’s House and paintings within its collection. Repeated overlapping leaf motifs are reminiscent of Sudbury’s fine decorative silk\, and the repeating renewals of nature.  \n \nImage credit (above): © Gainsborough’s House | Jackie Mellor Photography \n  \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/katherine-jones-ra/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251020
DTSTAMP:20250506T133444Z
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SUMMARY:Masterpieces from Kenwood: The Splendour of British & French Painting
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition represents a unique opportunity to see masterpieces from Kenwood House featuring six by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–88)\, including two of his most iconic paintings\, Mary\, Countess Howe (c. 1764) and Lady Brisco (c. 1776).\nThis exciting exhibition also includes work by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–92)\, George Romney (1734–1802)\, Angelica Kauffman (1741–1807)\, Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736) and François Boucher (1703–70). \nMasterpieces from Kenwood aims to promote greater engagement with historic British art and to place Thomas Gainsborough in the context of his contemporaries\, both in Britain and France. In an unprecedented collaboration with English Heritage\, Gainsborough’s House is delighted to present this exhibition of outstanding paintings on loan from the world class Iveagh Bequest\, Kenwood House\, London. \n \nImage credit: © Gainsborough’s House | Jackie Mellor Photography \n  \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/masterpieces-from-kenwood-the-splendour-of-british-french-painting/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTSTAMP:20241118T114920Z
CREATED:20240723T104742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T114920Z
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SUMMARY:The Image of the Artist: Portraits from the Royal Academy
DESCRIPTION:The exhibition considers the role of the artist by exploring images of Royal Academicians past and present which are going on display from the collection of the Royal Academy. The works show how artists have sought either to reveal or disguise their identities\, in both cases controlling how their image is presented. From the founding members of the Royal Academy such as Thomas Gainsborough RA and the huge group work by Henry Singleton\, 1795 of forty Academicians to portraits of Patrick Proctor RA\, Jean Cooke RA and David Hockney RA\, this rich and thought-provoking exhibition provides an insight into the lives and identities of Britain’s leading and celebrated artists. \n \nImage credit:\n(Detail)\nThomas Gainsborough\, R.A. (1727–88)\nSelf-portrait of Thomas Gainsborough\, R.A.\nc. 1787\nOil on canvas\n© Royal Academy of Arts\, London; photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited. \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/the-image-of-the-artist-portraits-from-the-royal-academy/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTSTAMP:20241118T115706Z
CREATED:20240719T091904Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T115706Z
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SUMMARY:Picture Perfect: A Century of Fashion Photography from the National Portrait Gallery
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition showcases the role that fashion plays in defining culture.\nThese portraits have been captured by some of the world’s most celebrated fashion photographers such as Cecil Beaton\, Irving Penn\, Norman Parkinson and Miles Aldridge. \nThe subjects are all style icons over the last hundred years including The Beatles\, Twiggy and Lily Cole. Fashion styles continually evolve and this survey charts how fashion photography itself contributes to contemporary culture. \nThe exhibition has been curated in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery and is part of the Inspiring People project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Art Fund. \n  \n \nImage credit:\n(Detail)\nOlivia Rose\nStormzy\n2016\nGelatin silver print
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/picture-perfect-a-century-of-fashion-photography-from-the-national-portrait-gallery/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTSTAMP:20241118T121214Z
CREATED:20240719T090252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T121214Z
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SUMMARY:John Macfarlane & The Art of Theatrical Design
DESCRIPTION:John Macfarlane\, graduate from Glasgow School of Art\, is an international stage and costume designer. He worked on designs for both operas and ballets. Among his most famous designs are the new Swan Lake for The Royal Ballet\, Frankenstein for The Joffrey Ballet in Chicago\, and Tosca for New York’s Metropolitan Opera. \nThe exhibition at Gainsborough’s House is the opportunity to showcase a selection of his designs for operas and ballets. \n  \n \nImage credit:\n(Detail)\nJohn Macfarlane (b. 1948)\nThe Attavanti Chapel. Sant’ Andrea Della Valle\, Rome\, preparatory drawing. Tosca Act 1. Metropolitan Opera\, NY.\nPencil\, crayon\, and pastel on parchment paper.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/john-macfarlane-the-art-of-theatrical-design/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTSTAMP:20241021T092607Z
CREATED:20240226T164424Z
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SUMMARY:The Iris Florilegium of Sir Cedric Morris
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the national Finnis Scott Foundation Botanical Art Award\nDr Siân Dawson inspired the idea and coordinated the illustrated catalogue of paintings called Sir Cedric Morris Florilegium. It is a book by leading botanical artists who painted the Florilegium of the unique award-winning irises bred by Sir Cedric Morris (1889–1982)\, artist and gardener who lived at Benton End\, Hadleigh\, Suffolk. Morris propagated the Benton End bearded irises between 1933 and 1960\, now held in the National Plant Collection cultivated by Sarah Cook\, horticultural expert and former head gardener at Sissinghurst\, Kent. \nThe Florilegium comprises 27 botanical watercolour paintings\, meticulously observed and accurately recorded of known cultivated varieties of bearded iris growing today. Many of the artists are Gold Medal winners for Botanical Art from the Royal Horticultural Society. Each artist explains their work in the accompanying caption. The Finnis Scott Foundation Botanical Art Award is the most valuable award of its kind. Dr Dawson was delighted to receive\, on behalf of all the artists\, such a prestigious award. \nThis exhibition is the first time the Sir Cedric Morris Florilegium collection has been displayed in full. It will be available with Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines at Gainsborough’s House from 6 July – 3 November 2024.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/sir-cedric-morris-florilegium/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240706
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTSTAMP:20241021T091438Z
CREATED:20240216T113257Z
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SUMMARY:Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis exhibition is the first to chart the phenomenal artistic careers of Cedric Morris (1889–1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894–1978)\, who were partners in love and art for sixty years.  \nWith over eighty loans from Tate\, the National Portrait Gallery and a wealth of private collections\, the range of their art becomes apparent. Morris is celebrated not only for his flower paintings and still lives but also for portraits and landscapes\, and Lett-Haines is revealed as an important figure in developing Surrealist art in Britain. They famously met on Armistice Night in 1918 and spent the 1920s absorbing European Modernism in France\, Italy and Germany\, meeting a huge range of artists and writers. Their paintings\, drawings and sculptures are highly distinctive and have a unique place in the history of twentieth-century art. \nBased in Suffolk for most of their lives\, primarily at Benton End\, they established the East Anglian School for Painting and Drawing in 1937 which taught a generation of artists including Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling. \nThe exhibition will be accompanied by a publication\, The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines featuring essays by Richard Morphet\, Sean Burns\, Emma Boyd and exhibition curator\, Dr Patricia Hardy\, with an interview between Calvin Winner and Maggi Hambling\, priced at £22.50 published by Gainsborough’s House and printed by Blackmore Ltd. \nThe exhibition is sponsored by The Cedric Morris Foundation and Philip Mould & Company. \nThis exhibition tours to Charleston in Firle\, West Sussex\, from 16 November 2024 – 23 February 2025 as ‘Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines: a radical art school’. Find out more at charleston.org.uk \n \n \n \nImage credits\n– Unknown\, Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines and Rubio the parrot\, c. 1929–36\, the estate of Cedric Morris\, Photo: Tate\n– Cedric Morris\, Flowers in a Portuguese Landscape\, 1968\, Philip Mould & Company\, London\n– Arthur Lett-Haines\, The Escape\, 1931\, private collection \n 
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/revealing-nature-the-art-of-cedric-morris-and-lett-haines/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTSTAMP:20240605T154649Z
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SUMMARY:Henry Driver: Water Portals
DESCRIPTION:  \nWater Portals is a digital artwork exploring the microscopic world of water. Discover the beautiful microbes that live in our rivers\, lakes and seas\, and understand the crucial roles they play in creating a healthy world. Explore how these important microbes are at risk from climate change\, and what simple things we can do to make a difference. Water Portals was commissioned by Level Centre and funded by Arts Council England. \nWater Portals is a project by Henry Driver who was born in Suffolk and his studio is based here too. Henry Driver is a digital artist and game developer. He creates projects that connect us to our environment and presents achievable responses to climate change. He has shown work across the world across the world in Australia\, Canada\, the Czech Republic\, Denmark\, Estonia\, Germany\, India\, Japan\, Portugal\, South Korea\, the USA\, Turkey and Taiwan. His videos have been broadcast on TV in over 40 countries. While in the UK\, Driver has shown at galleries such as Tate Liverpool\, Tate Britain\, Whitechapel & Barbican\, as well as receiving commissions from BBC Arts\, Red Bull\, and the EU Social Fund.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/henry-driver-water-portals/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTSTAMP:20240605T154559Z
CREATED:20231003T105605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T154559Z
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SUMMARY:Hubert-François Gravelot: Designing the Georgian Book
DESCRIPTION:  \nHubert-François Gravelot (1699–1773) was a student of François Boucher and Jean Restout\, invited to London to collaborate on the illustrations of a religious encyclopaedia in 1733. Bringing Rococo taste to England\, Gravelot had a broad practice\, being a draughtsman\, painter\, engraver\, and designer. \nDuring his twelve-year stay in England\, Gravelot joined William Hogarth at St. Martin’s Lane Academy. He collaborated on several designs for Vauxhall Gardens with his former pupil Francis Hayman. Both Gravelot and Hayman were Gainsborough’s masters during his training in London in the early 1740s. \nGravelot’s output has long been overlooked by art historians because he was principally a supplier of designs for commercial enterprises\, especially book illustrations\, often considered a minor genre of art. Yet\, his bravura in creating elegant scenes full of details in the small space of a page made his work famous. Well-known authors of the time such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau\, Voltaire\, or Henry Fielding\, specifically asked for him to illustrate their works to ensure they became best-sellers. Overall\, Gravelot designed the illustrations for more than fifty books both in France and in Britain. \nGainsborough’s House is fortunate to hold one of the largest collections of drawings and prints by Gravelot in the UK\, second only to the British Museum’s collection. The exhibition will present a selection of books and preliminary studies highlighting Gravelot’s talent as an illustrator.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/hubert-francois-gravelot/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240624
DTSTAMP:20240605T154332Z
CREATED:20231003T104854Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T154332Z
UID:10004225-1711152000-1719187199@gainsborough.org
SUMMARY:Philip de László: Master of Elegance
DESCRIPTION:  \nA special exhibition curated by the De Laszlo Archive Trust. \nDe László was already one of the most famous portrait painters in Europe when he decided to settle in England in 1907. His relentless energy\, charisma and pursuit of perfection in his art saw his circle of patronage widen from Budapest\, the city of his birth\, via the princely houses of Europe. London attracted him as a city immersed in a golden age and the work he produced there during the next thirty years was bursting with vitality and virtuosity. The period is brought to life through portraiture and landscapes and features a section on his experiences during the First World War.  \nThe exhibition will feature rarely-seen loans from private collections as well as important works from the Royal Collection\, including a childhood portrait of Queen Elizabeth II when Princess of York.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/philip-de-laszlo-1869-1937-master-of-elegance/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240311
DTSTAMP:20231115T132328Z
CREATED:20231115T132328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T132328Z
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SUMMARY:In View: Rebecca Salter at Gainsborough's House – David Pike Drawing Gallery
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe first solo museum show in the UK dedicated to the work of the British abstract artist Rebecca Salter\, President of the Royal Academy of Arts\, London\, and by association\, President of Gainsborough’s House. \nHaving formally studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing in Kyoto for six years\, Rebecca Salter\, the first woman President of the Royal Academy\, is renowned as a painter whose work combines Western and Eastern traditions. \nIn the historic building at Gainsborough’s House\, Rebecca Salter couples her ink drawings and watercolours\, as well as one sculpture\, with twelve works from the museum’s collection\, by Gainsborough\, Cedric Morris and Rembrandt\, among others. Each pairing generates fresh insight into the historical work while opening up perspectives on Salter’s own experimental processes.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/in-view-rebecca-salter-at-gainsboroughs-house-david-pike-drawing-gallery/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240311
DTSTAMP:20231115T121550Z
CREATED:20230913T140014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T121550Z
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SUMMARY:In View: Rebecca Salter at Gainsborough's House – Sudbury Gallery
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe first solo museum show in the UK dedicated to the work of the British abstract artist Rebecca Salter\, President of the Royal Academy of Arts\, London\, and by association\, President of Gainsborough’s House. \nHaving formally studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing in Kyoto for six years\, Rebecca Salter\, the first woman President of the Royal Academy\, is renowned as a painter whose work combines Western and Eastern traditions. \nThe exhibition\, organised in collaboration with the writer and art critic Thomas Marks\, presents her practice in a curated selection of large-scale paintings on display in the Sudbury Gallery at Gainsborough’s House. Rooted in Japanese modes of thought and art making\, the exhibition’s themes of Drawing to Painting\, Repetition and Attention\, Surface and Depth provide entry points into Salter’s careful\, meditative mode of abstraction.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/in-view-rebecca-salter-at-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240311
DTSTAMP:20231110T120625Z
CREATED:20230913T135815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231110T120625Z
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SUMMARY:James Gillray: Characters in Caricature
DESCRIPTION:James Gillray (1756–1815) was Georgian Britain’s funniest\, most inventive and most celebrated graphic satirist. His work transcends his own time and has continued to influence his successors of the modern age\, from David Low to Martin Rowson. \nTim Clayton\, author of 2022’s definitive biography of James Gillray\, brings the master satirist to life in an astonishing\, colourful and at times salacious exhibition\, James Gillray: Characters in Caricature.\n \nThis lively and daring exhibition examines how Gillray exposed the most notorious scandals of his time by focusing on the artist’s principal characters – household names to which he returned to again and again\, from Emma Hamilton to the Emperor Napoleon.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/james-gillray-characters-in-caricature/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030
DTSTAMP:20231004T145743Z
CREATED:20230411T155212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T145743Z
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SUMMARY:‘Whimsical\, perverse\, and idle’\, The Art of Henry William Bunbury (1750–1811)
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition is drawn from the large collection at Gainsborough’s House of over 200 paintings\, prints\, drawings and manuscripts by Suffolk-born Henry William Bunbury\, one of the most popular amateur artists of the late-eighteenth century\, best known for his lively satires and caricatures of Georgian society.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/henry-william-bunbury/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030
DTSTAMP:20231004T133603Z
CREATED:20230411T153059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T133603Z
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SUMMARY:Suzanne Cooper: Paintings and Wood Engravings\, 1935–39
DESCRIPTION:Educated at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art\, Cooper achieved early success in the art world. In 1935\, 19-year-old Cooper was exhibiting her work in West End galleries and being singled out by critics as an ‘outstanding’ young artist. \nHer career was interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War\, followed by marriage and motherhood\, Cooper laid aside her artistic ambitions and was subsequently forgotten. Reminiscent of the work of Cooper’s contemporaries Christopher Wood and Eric Ravilious\, her pieces are charming and surreal\, distinguished by the striking originality of her vision. \nThis exhibition will consist of a varied collection of her print work as well as paintings from 1935–39.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/suzanne-cooper-paintings-and-wood-engravings-1935-39/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231030
DTSTAMP:20231004T133519Z
CREATED:20230406T153153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T133519Z
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SUMMARY:Maggi Hambling origins
DESCRIPTION:ORIGINS spans six decades of Hambling’s work\, bearing witness to the artist’s deep connection with Suffolk and inviting a meditation on the universal relationships between self and environment\, people and place. \nComprised of around 30 works\, the paintings and drawings in ORIGINS express a combination of exterior reality and interior life. Portrayals of people and places carry a sense of longer time: the unfolding of life\, the workings of memory\, the evolution of love\, and the inescapable proximity of life to death – a theme that recurs throughout Hambling’s art. Suffolk links the artist’s early and present lives – she was born in Sudbury in 1945\, she grew up in Hadleigh and has lived in rural Suffolk since the late 1990s.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/maggi-hambling-origins/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTSTAMP:20230609T090806Z
CREATED:20230211T105824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T090806Z
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SUMMARY:Anna Hennings: Artist in Residence
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe 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 the spaces we inhabit and demonstrates her versatility across an array of media. \nIf you are interested in any of the artworks displayed or are seeking information on selected commissions\, please contact Anna Hennings directly. \nThe Sudbury Gallery
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/anna-hennings-artist-in-residence/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTSTAMP:20230609T091047Z
CREATED:20230211T105354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T091047Z
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SUMMARY:Striking Editions: Lithographs from 1970 – 2000
DESCRIPTION:Colourful lithographs by artists including Dia al-Azzawi\, David Bowie\, Uzo Egonu\, Tracey Emin\, Terry Frost\, Alexis Hunter and Paula Rego. \nStriking 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 with prints that explore the exciting possibilities of the medium. From the bold allegorical images of Paula Rego to the rich storytelling of Uzo Egonu\, these images brilliantly display the versatility of lithography. \nThe prints on display were all made in collaboration with the master printer Alan Cox (1941–2021)\, who specialised in lithography. Based in East London\, he printed the work of major artists for over forty years. He referred to lithography as the “social art” in which “you always work together”. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is included with an admission to the House & Galleries. \n\n\n\nThe David Pike Drawings Gallery in the old House
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/striking-editions-lithographs-from-1970-2000/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230612
DTSTAMP:20230609T090903Z
CREATED:20230211T103713Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230609T090903Z
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SUMMARY:Gainsborough and the Legacy of Landscape: Masterpieces from Woburn Abbey
DESCRIPTION: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. \n“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 Dukes of Bedford in the eighteenth century. It is aided by the inclusion of comparable drawings in Gainsborough’s hand from the collection of Gainsborough’s House. The exhibition also examines the development of English landscape art after Gainsborough as seen in the Woburn Abbey Collection\, and in particular the inspirational role played by the 6th Duke of Bedford in supporting and encouraging all forms of art through his own patronage in the first half of the nineteenth century. \n\n\n\nThe opportunity to explore these subjects and bring together familiar masterpieces with a new lens\, is made possible by the temporary closure of Woburn Abbey to enable a generational investment in its fabric and infrastructure and the subsequent redisplay of the collections.” \n— Matthew Hirst\nCurator\, Woburn Abbey \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Timothy & Mary Clode Gallery
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/gainsborough-and-the-legacy-of-landscape-masterpieces-from-woburn-abbey/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230227
DTSTAMP:20221208T153704Z
CREATED:20221117T125729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221208T153704Z
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SUMMARY:Ignatius Sancho: A Portrait
DESCRIPTION:Unknown Artist after Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788). Ignatius Sancho\, c. 1802-20. Gainsborough’s House and National Portrait Gallery. \nEntrance is included in price of House admission. \nIn 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 eighteenth-century Europe shown not as an enslaved person\, servant or caricature\, but as a gentleman. After Sancho’s death\, the portrait was engraved and used to illustrate a publication of his letters\, which played a significant role in the abolitionist movement. On display at the centre of this exhibition is a rare copy of the portrait in miniature\, which was jointly acquired by Gainsborough’s House with the National Portrait Gallery in 2019. \nSancho lived a remarkable life. Born to enslaved parents in the West Indies\, he became famous for his correspondence with the author Laurence Sterne and for the grocers that he ran in Westminster. He was the first black man to receive an obituary in the British press.  The temporary exhibition Ignatius Sancho: A Portrait\, aims to shed light on just a few of the interesting and varied aspects of Sancho’s life using his published letters as inspiration. It is supported by loans from the National Portrait Gallery and The Laurence Sterne Trust. \nThe exhibition has been created in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery as part of their transformational Inspiring People project that includes an extensive programme of nationwide activities\, funded by The National Heritage Lottery Fund and Art Fund.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/ignatius-sancho-a-portrait/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230227
DTSTAMP:20221125T161354Z
CREATED:20221101T175218Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221125T161354Z
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SUMMARY:Painting Flanders: Flemish Art 1880-1914
DESCRIPTION: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 heralding the Industrial Revolution – and the overcrowded towns\, the stink and the noise it brings with it. \nIt’s said that in sixteenth-century Flanders the painter Pieter Bruegel would often make field trips into the Flemish countryside\, dressed as a peasant. Back in his studio he paints his famous peasant scenes\, full of wry observations. A century later\, David Teniers captures that same rural character in his charming pictures of fairs and tavern interiors. And in between those two\, Peter Paul Rubens paints the landscape of Flanders as only he can: lush and lyrical. \nIn eighteenth-century Suffolk\, the countryside is Thomas Gainsborough’s preferred subject too. A little later\, John Constable follows in his footsteps. Compared to the growing forest of smoking factory chimneys\, the countryside offers a reassuring timelessness. \nThe same changes are taking place in Flanders. An enterprising Fleming – a contemporary of Gainsborough and Constable\, called Lieven Bauwens – steals the secrets of spinning technology and smuggles that knowledge back to Ghent\, his home town and a flourishing artistic centre. Ghent becomes the ‘Manchester of the Continent’. By the mid-nineteenth century it’s one of the most heavily industrialized cities in Europe. There is\, of course\, a price to be paid for that technological progress. Poverty and filth\, endemic diseases\, squalid slums. And so Flemish painters do what English artists did before them: they move to the countryside. \nImage © The Phoebus Foundation\, Antwerp \nEmile Claus\nPeasant Girls beside the Leie\, c.1893
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/painting-flanders/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190907T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191027T170000
DTSTAMP:20230411T155725Z
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SUMMARY:Vivienne Westwood at Gainsborough’s House
DESCRIPTION:  \nTo 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. \nVivienne first became known in the 1970s for her avant-garde designs that defined punk culture. In the 1980s she started using traditional tailoring techniques and British fabrics and turned to seventeenth and eighteenth-century art for inspiration. It was also the decade that she met her husband and long-time design partner\, Andreas Kronthaler. In the early 2000s\, Vivienne was appointed Dame of the British Empire and awarded ‘Outstanding Achievement in Fashion’ at the British Fashion Awards. \nVivienne Westwood is one of the last independent global fashion companies in the world. It strives to not only capture the imagination but also to raise awareness of environmental and human rights issues. \nWe are very grateful to Dame Vivienne Westwood for lending these ensembles.
URL:https://gainsborough.org/event/vivienne-westwood-at-gainsboroughs-house/
LOCATION:Gainsborough’s House\, 46 Gainsborough Street\, Sudbury\, CO10 2EU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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