Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
Convenor: | |
Convenor: |
Carolyn Luckhurst
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Group email: | Art Appreciation group |
When: | Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:00-12:00 |
Venue: | Mapperley Plains Social Club Games Room |
Cost: | £3 per person per session |
Please be aware no previous expertise needed, and there are no right or wrong opinions!
The aim: A sharing of our common interest; learning about unfamiliar areas of art and benefitting from observations and the comments of others
The sessions: A wide range of topics including themes, artists, movements, genres and materials, both from art history and contemporary. Visits to exhibitions when the opportunity arises. Discussion and sharing. The most common format will be a slide show presentation
Advice: Please be prompt to each session as there will be a lot to pack in, and if you could bring the right money that would be great! There will be a comfort break mid-way. Please bring your own refreshments to sip during the sessions and ‘munchies’ if you’re likely to feel peckish..
PLEASE : Remember to let me know if you CAN’T make the session in advance. We have a list of members patiently waiting for a place in the group who would appreciate sitting in for a session as a ‘taster’. Similarly if you decide the group is not really for you, for whatever reason, or you cannot make the commitment on a regular basis, also let me know for the same reason.
Tuesday 26th November, 2024
As we won’t be meeting in December (the 4th Tuesday being 24th, Christmas Eve), and because our November session will be very close to December and the build up proper to Christmas, November’s meeting will be lookingat Seasonal artworks – a wide range of art including different periods, movements and styles connected to this time of year.
Of interest information and events locally
- Paula Rega and Grayson Perry exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside 21st Sept- 5th Jan 2025 ( 15 members have tickets for a gallery tour of the Paula Rega section of the exhibition on December 5th at 1pm. I have two tickets now available. An email will go out to those participating nearer the date)
- Van Gogh Poets and Lovers Exhibition from the National Gallery, London on screen- National screenings. The Bonington currently have announced screenings, https://www.boningtontheatre.co.uk/whatson-event/exhibition-on-screen-van-gogh-poets-and-lovers/
- Broadway cinema have now announced showings of the Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers https://www.broadway.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition-screen-van-gogh-poets-lovers 11th November 15.00 and 17.30 (my thanks to Graham Sadler for alerting me to this inclusion to their programme)
- Nottingham Contempory Christmas Craft Fair: November 30th and also on December 1st (prints, textiles, ceramics, Christmas decorations, jewelry etc. – 40 stalls
Tuesday January 28th, 2025 Patchings Farm and Art Centre. 11am
For this session it would be nice to socialise whilst looking round the exhibition spaces, and for those wanting to- to enjoy a snack/brunch in the cafe at Patchings (only 10 minutes away from Mapperley) . There is a large car park, but car sharing would be practical and more sociable. Patchings exhibitions tbc
If you would like to eat and chat together (their cafe/restaurant producs a selection of home-made items such as soup, scones, sandwiches, quiches) please let me know by December 24th so I can book spots for us at 11am, meeting in the cafe. If the weather is kind and the ground unsoggy some may like to wander the artists’ path through to the Monet lake. There is also the gift shop and Tas’ studio to explore. Members would be free to leave at any time and perhaps those not eating might pop in for a coffee together at some point during the morning.
Forthcoming events
05/12/2024
13:00
Event
Paula Rego walk-through in the Rego/ Perry exhibition, Djanogly Gallery
Venue: Lakeside Arts
Cost: free
Booking Required