We are delighted to announce that artist Julian Perry will give a gallery talk of his exhibition Julian Perry: County of Elms on Sunday 28 May at 2.00pm. Join us for a fascinating tour of his work; hear about what inspires him as an artist, his creative practice and his exciting plans for the future....
Original Fine Art prints, created by our talented Gainsborough's House printmakers, will be on sale at St Peter's, Market Hill, Sudbury. Come along to see the amazing range of work produced by our members and to purchase your own original piece of art. Opening Reception Saturday 3 June 12-2pm
Join exhibition curator Louisa Brouwer, Keeper of Art and Place at Gainsborough's House, for a behind-the-scenes breakfast tour of the groundbreaking exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June - 8 October 2017), exploring the production of woven silk textiles in England from historic Spitalfields to present-day Sudbury. Tours are available on two dates and...
Join us for ‘300 Years of Silk,’ an exclusive Silk Study Day at Gainsborough’s House, hosted by textile specialists Mary Schoeser and Kate Wigley of the School of Textiles, Coggeshall. Featuring informative lectures, handling sessions and a gallery tour of the exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June – 8 October 2017) with curator...
Join exhibition curator Louisa Brouwer, Keeper of Art and Place at Gainsborough's House, for a behind-the-scenes breakfast tour of the groundbreaking exhibition Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury (17 June - 8 October 2017), exploring the production of woven silk textiles in England from historic Spitalfields to present-day Sudbury. Tours are available on two dates and...
Thursday 12 April 2018 To celebrate the generous gift of a large collection of works by Cedric Morris, we are delighted to welcome Maggi Hambling in conversation with Mark Bills, Director of Gainsborough’s House. Maggi will be sharing her memories of Cedric Morris, of life at Benton End, Hadleigh, and talking about works currently on...
Buy A Brick For Our New Galleries and Crinkle-Crankle Wall Gainsborough’s House is undertaking a major capital project to establish a national centre for Gainsborough so more people can enjoy the special setting of the artist’s childhood home and garden. The project will double the size of the museum and refurbish and re-display the historic...
Learn the art of wood engraving from a recognised expert in the field. As well as fine line engraving on end-grain boxwood, Anne will show hand burnishing on Japanese papers, printing with a press and the creative possibilities of collage using wood engraved prints and unusual printed papers. Anne Desmet RA studied at the Ruskin...
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...
16, 23, 30 November and 7 December 2018, 10.30am–12.30pm This series of talks by art historian and former Tate curator Richard Humphreys looks in detail at eight masterpieces from the great age of Romantic and Victorian art. As in his previous series looking at works by artists from Sickert to Bacon, Richard will also consider...
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....
An opportunity to see inside the newly completed Gainsborough’s House before the installations of our exhibitions and displays, 15th - 18th September 10am - 5pm. Come and visit the brand new Galleries and restored historical House and look out from the Landscape Studio to see the landscape that Gainsborough saw nearly 300 years ago. There...
