| 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 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. Exhibition: North & East Midlands Photographic Federation (NEMPF) exhibition, showcasing a variety of competition winners of photographic works
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 January 5th at the latest 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.
Tuesday 25th February, 2025
A different format this month. Several members when I first began the group asked for the first 2 sessions if there was ‘homework’ for the next session, based on their experience of the previous Art Appreciation group. Well, now there is. The discussion will be on your choice of American artwork, historic or contemporary, or you can even cite a particular artist with an example or a movement (eg pop art, abstract expressionism for example). You are invited to bring along a piece (or even two) you want to share with the group. This can be in any format: on an i-pad, photocopy, library or personal book, magazine, or even a print from home you have on your wall! For those feeling rather shy you don’t have to participate fully – it’s informal so no one has to go to the front to show their choice- a few words from your seat for others’ comments, information or discussion, as the piece is passed around, but sharing artists or works is the topic and format of the session.
Forthcoming events
28/01/2025
11:00
Meeting
Patchings Farm and Art Centre.
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 […]
Venue: Patchings Art Centre
25/02/2025
10:00
Meeting
A different format this month. Several members when I first began the group asked for the first 2 sessions if there was ‘homework’ for the next session, based on their […]
Venue: Mapperley Plains Social Club Games Room
Tuesday 25th March,2025
Artists and their mums
Back to the usual format of a presentation. As it’s Mothering Sunday the coming weekend we will be looking at this topic. Many thousands of mother and child works, including Mary and Jesus, exist, but we will be looking at individual artists from different periods and movements. You perhaps know many quite well, but some information and context to them. Let’s see how they portrayed their mothers but also touch on their relationship with them.