Join us online for a conversation between ceramic artist Magdalene Odundo DBE and organising Curator, Helen Ritchie, who will discuss Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge.
As we take in the splendour and beauty of the gold artefacts from the Great Steppe, we can’t help but wonder about their prehistoric makers and users: Where did they obtain the precious metal? What tools and techniques did they employ to turn it into the elaborate artefacts we admire today? How did they learn their skills? Were these objects used in life, or made for the dead? Scientific analyses provide some answers but also raise new questions.
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Join Rebecca Roberts, Curator of Gold of the Great Steppe, for an online talk introducing the exhibition, its themes and highlight objects.
Soon after the Greek Revolution, the Acropolis was cleared of its Medieval buildings. Byzantine icons too were shunned, even in University Museum collections. This lecture touches on icons in the Fitzwilliam but focuses on the fate of one icon in the Yale University Art Museum, acquired in 1871, but hidden in its storeroom until now.
Three artists using clay, Jayne Ivimey, Elspeth Owen and Mella Shaw, talk about their upcoming group exhibition Breaking Point: fragility in clay and nature which is on show at the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Works from the Katrin Bellinger Collection within The Human Touch exhibition
An online lunchtime talk with Anita Viola Sganzerla from the Katrin Bellinger Collection
Book onto a wildlife walk or drop-in (during normal Garden opening hours on Sat 24 July) to discover, identify and record the wonderful wild animals and plants of the Garden.
Breckland lies at the meeting of Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire and is unique in Britain in its combination of climate, soil and history. It has the closest approximation we have to a truly Continental climate and wind-blown sands of varying depths over chalk, providing inland habitats for coastal plants and a remarkable flora with species whose main distribution is in central and eastern Europe. The land bears the marks of glaciation, some of the most extensive Neolithic sites in Britain, a history of cultivation and abandonment, rare types of farming such as rabbit warren
Using the ‘Reduction Process’ we’ll create a layered image using two sets of autumnal colour palettes.
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