Join Dr James Lin, curator of our 'An Enamel Revolution: China and the World' display, to learn how Chinese workshops revolutionised enamel techniques through experimentation with materials and colours in the 1600s. Discover the stories of the striking and beautiful enamelled objects featured in the display, including those on loan from our partners at the Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Find out how the new techniques developed by Chinese craftspeople travelled through trade to meet growing demand in Europe.
Get to know Debbie Yeboah - artist, researcher and educator - in this Meet the Artist talk. Yeboah's dynamic practice explores identity, the body and historical silences, and this event draws on her exhibition 'Renaturation: Fractured Identities, Future Selves'. Expect insights into Ghanaian cultural resistance, healing, and art’s possibilities to reimagine the self.
Join Senior Paper Conservators Harry Metcalf and Rachael Smith and Senior Curator Elenor Ling as they reveal the science, skill and innovation shaping a remarkable conservation project aiming to transform the understanding of John Constable's works on paper. Step behind the scenes to discover how cutting-edge research and imaging are helping us learn more about the British landscape artist's works.
Looking for a cosy space to be creative, unwind and meet new people? Join us at the Fitz for our monthly Crafternoon, your chance to slow down, get creative and draw inspiration from our collection.
In September we'll be going back to basics and experimenting with sketching and mark making, inspired by Dutch art from the 1500s - 1700s and our gallery 15. Get your creative juices flowing and try your hand at different techniques using pencil and charcoal.
Facilitated by experienced artist Cläre Basel - explore connections between artworks and objects from our collection and discover new-found connections between one another.
Creative Connections is for adults aged 65 and over.
Examine the phrase 'Mind the Gap' – that familiar message heard at stations advising you to be careful of the space between the train and platform. This Lunchtime Lecture uses the phrase as a means to think about gaps in representation and belonging in today’s museums, and gaps as spaces of potential for transforming cultural institutions into ones we would like to see.
Antarctic Panoramas
Our current special exhibition, Polar Panoramas, features the art of John Kelly, an artist who has undertaken extensive fieldwork in the polar regions. Combining drawing, painting, photomontage and audiovisual work with observation and historical research, Polar Panoramas offers a compelling comparison between the Arctic and Antarctic as places of both human endeavour and environmental encounter.
The conversation will draw on Gupta’s remarkable photography practice, works in the exhibition and his collaborative work with Singh.
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now will be open from 6pm for you to explore before the in conversation event.
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now will be open from 6pm for you to explore before the in conversation event.
About the Speakers
Exactly 120 years ago, Hertha Ayrton was awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Hughes Medal, the first and only woman in the entire twentieth century to receive this honour.
A close friend of Marie Curie, Ayrton was an electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, as well as an active suffrage campaigner. While a student at Cambridge’s Girton College, she also founded the College’s own Fire Brigade.
