Dulwich Picture Gallery

The Gallery’s summer exhibition (12 June – 22 Sept) will bring together the best and most innovative works by these six young artists for the first time.

This major exhibition will examine the evolution of the infl uential group
who became some of the most well-known and distinctive British artists of the early 20th century.

Students together at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and David Bomberg were known for their rebellious, often controversial, behaviour in London and the show will also bring to life the complex dramas of the group, including a fractious love triangle, a murder and multiple suicides.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

Normal admission applies.

Website

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions/coming_soon/a_crisis_of_brilliance.aspx

C.R.W. Nevinson, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington,David Bomberg and Paul Nash became some of the most well-known and distinctive British artists of the twentieth century. Students together at the Slade School of Art in London between 1908 and 1912, they formed part of what their esteemed drawing teacher Henry Tonks described as the school’s last ‘crisis of brilliance’. As their talents evolved they became Futurists, Vorticists and ‘Bloomsberries’, and befriended the leading writers and intellectuals of their day.

This exhibition will feature over 70 original works by the group and explore the artists’ development culminating with a selection of their paintings made during and after the Great War of 1914-18 generating some of the most provoking visual records of that epochal event.

Suitable for

Admission

Adult £ 11.00
Senior (over 60) £ 10.00
Concession £ 6.00
Audiovisual Guide £ 3.00

Master the basic techniques required to depict 3D buildings in pencil, ink, graphite and colour. This course will include tutorials on the vanishing point, aerial and linear perspective as well as positive and negative space
With artist Peter Astwood

Suitable for

Admission

£75 (Concessions and Friends £70)

Be inspired by the Gallery’s architecture and explore colour, line and geometric shape through drawing, collage and craft. Learn how to draw with a variety of unusual objects and make realistic and abstract drawings
With artist Deborah Andrews

Suitable for

Admission

£55

An after school introduction to the art of tapestry and jacquard weaving
this fun course offers an opportunity to learn from an experienced weaver and create your own designs on graph paper before transforming them into beautiful woven pieces

Suitable for

Admission

£60

Visit the Pop Up Factory in the Gallery grounds and become a guardian angel for the day.  Create angel wings to wear and delicate angel feathers to take home in this art installation With contemporary artist Davina Drummond

Suitable for

• Family friendly

When

2-4pm

Admission

£3 per child

Use a different medium each week to explore a variety of horticultural forms. Experiment with graphite and charcoal to consider different ways of expressing form and tone before venturing out into the local area to draw and paint from life (weather permitting). Use watercolour and oil pastel to depict the changing colours of the seasons from winter to spring
With artist Liz Charsley-Jory

Suitable for

Admission

£55 (Concessions and Friends £50)

Exploring the relationship between drawing and printing create a range of observational drawings of natural forms and translate them into a range of relief prints including polyblock, collage and lino
With artist Erica Parrett

Suitable for

Admission

£55

Explore mark making free from the constraints of drawing pictures and learn about surface patterns and texture in this fun and experimental course. Make cyantope photographic images and heat transfer prints
With artist Jo Veevers

Suitable for

Admission

£60

Sunday 9 and 16 June
10.30am – 4pm
Explore the properties of this extraordinary medium in a completely new way. Master techniques such as scumbling and wet on wet to create abstract pieces inspired by landscape. Experiment with the natural translucence and fluidity using pipettes, bamboo sticks, fingers and no brushes!
With watercolour painter Jo Lewis

Suitable for

Admission

£70 (Concessions and Friends £65)

Take inspiration from artists in our current exhibition A Crisis of Brilliance, and work in a variety of media, styles and subject matter. Create your own landscapes, self-portraits or interiors in different media, to strengthen and extend your skills
With artist Liz Charsley-Jory

Suitable for

Admission

£55 (Concessions and Friends £50)

This course is perfect for beginners, those wishing to brush up on old skills and master the basics of figurative drawing. Learn how to draw individual facial features and self-portraits before moving on to drawing the full figure from life models. Experiment with different media and gain confidence in your ability to represent the human form
With artist Peter Astwood

Suitable for

Admission

£90 (Concessions and Friends £85)

Topics to be explored will include self-portraiture, mark-making and the identification of the artist’s hand within a work.

With art historian Aliki Braine

When

10:30am-1pm

Admission

£16 (Concessions and Friends £15)

Website

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

Landscapes were used as metaphors, place settings, imaginary locations and as a means for showcasing an artists’ skill. This talk places landscape painting in its western art historical context.

With art historian Ben Street.

Suitable for

• Any age

When

10:30am-1pm

Admission

£16 (Concessions and Friends £15)

Website

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

The talk explores the relationship between these paintings, the artist’s own family life, his diplomatic ole and the broader context of the Thirty Years’ War
With Dr Margit Thofner, Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia

Suitable for

• Not suitable for children

When

10:30am-1pm

Admission

£16 (Concessions and Friends £15)

Website

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/

Dulwich Picture Gallery will explore some of the most significant ideas that have changed the world in the Contextual Lecture Series 2013. Inspired by Professor A. C. Grayling’s book Ideas That Matter, the 2013 lecture series, convened by Dr Kenneth Wolfe, will review ideas from Plato to Multiculturalism; Psychoanalysis to European Law and more.

The range of fascinating topics will be presented by eminent authorities, including Baroness Mary Warnock on Plato, Sir Francis Jacobs on European Law and British Sovereignty and Jonathan Wolff on Communism: Theory and Practise.

Professor A. C. Grayling will open the series on the 15 January 2013 and bring it to a close on 13 December 2013 with his own profound analyses.

Date and times of event and related activities:
The series will begin with an evening drinks reception in the Sackler Studio at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

All other lectures will be from 10.30 – 11.30am on Tuesdays throughout the year, in the Linbury Room.

Suitable for

• Any age

Admission

£200 for the full series, £180 Friends (includes the opening launch and final lecture receptions).

A limited amount of tickets will be available on the door for each event on a first come, first served basis for £10 (£9 for Friends).

Website

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/exhibitions.aspx