Tom’s Tuesdays – Drawing with Senses

  Join us during the October half–term for some arty fun! Inspired by The Big Draw, come and explore the way we experience our senses and get creative. Discover our...

Etching

with Jason Hicklin This event has one space left. This course is a hands-on experience, working with the three major etching, intaglio processes of hard ground, soft ground and aquatint....

Introduction to Photo Plate Lithography

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

with Karina Savage This event is now fully booked. An alternative to stone lithography, this process enables hand-drawn, photographic or digital film positives to be transferred onto a light-sensitive aluminium...

James Gillray: Characters in Caricature

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

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...

An Evening with the Curator – The Age of Gillray

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

with Tim Clayton The Curator of our James Gillray exhibition explains some of the key themes behind the show and explores the fascinating and murky world of the late Georgian...

Printing with Lino

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

with Dale Devereux Barker This event is now fully booked. Students will be encouraged to work with lino blocks initially on a small scale to produce exquisite jewel-like works. Students...

Gillray and I – The Age of Gillray

Gainsborough's House 46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, United Kingdom

with Martin Rowson Gainsborough, Gillray and Me: Martin Rowson on the Various Vistas of Satirical Landscapes. The celebrated, award-winning Guardian and Mirror cartoonist tells us why Gillray has been such...

George IV’s Patronage – The Age of Gillray

with Dr Steven Parissien The museum’s Director demonstrates the wide range of George IV’s cultural; patronage – and the legacy he left us. Book now.  About the lecture series This...

Elves Workshop

  A bit of festive, family weekend fun in the lead-up to Christmas! Become an elf in our festive workshop and make and decorate your own St. Nicholas shoes. Listen...

Georgian Charity – The Age of Gillray

with Emma Boyd The museum’s Keeper of Art explores the rise of charitable enterprise in Georgian England, focusing on three charities that both Gainsborough and Gillray would have been familiar...

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