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Saturday 20 April 2024, 11am - 12noon | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum A talk by Claire Cochrane, Professor Emeritus of Theatre Studies at the University of Worcester, focusing on Laura Knight’s fascination with the theatre as an environment for creativity in action, giving us an invaluable glimpse of the theatre world backstage. Her close friendship with the Birmingham Rep founder and theatre impresario, Barry Jackson, gave her privileged access [...]

Saturday 4 May 2024, 11am - 12noon | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Philip Serrell is an auctioneer, antiques expert, and television personality who appears regularly on BBC TV antiques programmes such as Bargain Hunt and Flog It! Join Philip for a fun and fascinating insight into his life as an auctioneer in Worcestershire and his love of antiques and porcelain, with a special look at his connection with Dame [...]

Saturday 8 June 2024, 11am - 12noon | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Dame Laura Knight: Objects that Tell, is a unique opportunity to hear about and handle selected items from the Dame Laura Knight Archive, giving you the opportunity to gain a rare insight into the life of one of the most successful and popular women artists in Britain. Becoming a Dame in 1929, Knight became the first woman elected [...]

Saturday 18 May 2024, 11am - 12noon | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Vardo Project Curatorial Officer, Georgie Stevens, focuses upon Dame Laura Knight’s relationship with Travelling communities and how her interactions with them informed the depictions within her Romany artworks. The talk will explore how these depictions differ to those by earlier artists and the long-standing impact, through representation, that they have had, and continue to have, on Travelling [...]

Friday 20 October, 6 - 8.30pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Get your friends together and enjoy the Art Gallery and Museum on a Friday night… Get yourself a themed cocktail, check out Paint the Streets after hours, and have a dance to music courtesy of Zee-Rock. Zee-Rock has been DJing since 1991, originally inspired by the DMC dj battles, 6 minute showcase sets and people like Dj Cheese, Cash [...]

Saturday 9 November 2024 to January 2025 | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum The members of Worcester Society of Artists share a passion for appreciating and creating art in an exciting array of different styles. The annual exhibition celebrates and supports local artists and illustrates the wealth of creative talent in Worcestershire. This exhibition is free to visit; no booking is needed. Plan your visit to the Art Gallery and Museum. [...]

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 2 - 2.30pm | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Be introduced to the autumn exhibition, Atchin Tan - Travelling Through Art, by the Vardo Project Curator. The exhibition is a visual journey through time of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller (GRT) communities, co-curated with members of the communities. Works by Turner, Munnings and Gainsborough will hang alongside newly commissioned artworks by Romani artists, some of which demonstrate skills from [...]

Saturday 23 March to Sunday 7 April 2024 (closed Mondays and bank holidays) | Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum Have a WILD visit to the Art Gallery and Museum this spring! The popular activity bags are back for the holidays - and this time you can create three amazing animals. Make a prickly hedgehog, flapping butterfly and spiral snake, and enjoy colouring and puzzles too. Each activity bag has multiple [...]