Animation imagination

Drop–in sessions every Tuesday from 10–12pm or 1–3pm Let your imagination go wild. Inspired by our temporary exhibition on Henry William Bunbury, have a go at creating your own caricatures and cartoons. Standard admission applies. No need to book! Please email learning@gainsborough.org or call 01787 372958 for more information.

All about the face

Drop–in sessions every Tuesday from 10–12pm or 1–3pm Step into the 18th century and become a portrait artist just like Gainsborough. Draw your own portrait, create a mask, and have a go at dressing up in 18th century costume. Standard admission applies. No need to book! Please email learning@gainsborough.org or call 01787 372958 for more...

Camera obscura

Drop–in sessions every Tuesday from 10–12pm or 1–3pm Discover the wonders of the camera obscura. Explore the 360-degree view of Gainsborough’s hometown of Sudbury and the landscapes which inspired him. Create a postcard inspired by the landscape and make your own box camera obscura to take away. Standard admission applies. No need to book! Please...

Maggi Hambling origins & Suzanne Cooper Breakfast Tour — 13 September

  This event is now fully booked. From 9am — 10am, 13 September 2023. It's time for another round of Breakfast Tours! Join Emma Boyd, Keeper of Art & Place at Gainsborough's House, to discover behind-the-scenes of Maggi Hambling origins as well as Suzanne Cooper: Paintings and Wood Engravings, 1935–39. Please arrive for a 9am start...

Evening meal & pianist — Friday 22 September

Join us on Friday 22 September at The Watering Place café for an evening meal accompanied by a pianist. Experience fine–dining like never before overlooking the tranquil walled–gardens at Gainsborough's House! £40 per person, reservation and pre–order required. Please see here to book your table between 6–8:30pm. You can browse the evening menu here. Why...

Evening meal & pianist — Saturday 23 September

Join us on Saturday 23 September at The Watering Place café for an evening meal accompanied by a pianist. Experience fine–dining like never before overlooking the tranquil walled–gardens at Gainsborough's House! £40 per person, reservation and pre–order required. Please see here to book your table between 6–8:30pm. You can browse the evening menu here. Why...

Open Event for Teachers

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

An evening for local teachers and education providers to find out more about everything we have on offer for schools and children at Gainsborough's House! Come and see our fantastic new galleries, exhibitions and historic house and experience our amazing Camera Obscura. Join us to find out about our innovative learning programmes and chat with...

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 Camera Obscura and different ways of seeing. (10am–1pm, drop in, no need to book! Standard admission rates apply)  The Big Draw The Big Draw is...

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. Working on existing plates is encouraged along with working on new plates and taking these plates through to the finished print on paper. Intermediate course...

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 lithographic plate and printed on an etching press. These plates can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, photocopied images, photographs and text....

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 age, from David Low to Martin Rowson. Tim Clayton, author of 2022’s definitive biography of James Gillray, brings the master satirist to life in an...

In View: Rebecca Salter at Gainsborough’s House – Sudbury Gallery

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

  The 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. Having formally studied traditional Japanese woodblock printing in Kyoto for six years, Rebecca Salter, the first woman President of the...

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