January 2023 Pictish Stones By Barbara Swann On the 25th January 2023, Friends committee member, Barbara Swann will talk to us about Pictish stones. The Pict people lived, for the most part, in eastern Scotland. Though they left no written…
Starting with the complete flyer and then a breakdown of all talks and trips, above the outer part of the flyer, and below the inside. Tickets for talks can be obtained at the museum during opening hours, and also from…
Before Christmas Sophie Cummings, former Curator at Swindon Museum and Art Gallery gave her last FREE Friday lunchtime talk on the exhibition in the small part of the gallery. As regulars to Sophie's talks will know, they are carefully thought out, very…
For our December talk, we were fortunate enough to have Isobel Dennis, Fair director of Collect coming to explain more about the International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design which is now in its 16th year. I have taken…
Our November talk featured Ken White in conversation with Andy Binks, with the same talk repeated for a second evening in order to be able to accommodate the large number of people who wanted to come. The talks coincided with the end…
We were very pleased to welcome Justine Hopkins, after our AGM and a sandwich break, to give a very personal, highly knowledgeable and fascinating insight into Michael Ayrton.This was a return after a 25 year break to Swindon Museum and Art…
Curator Sophie Cummings gave another really insightful lunchtime talk on Friday 18 October on this wonderful exhibition which reminds us how truly fabulous some of the paintings are in the collection!In 1959, the Swindon Collection of Modern British art began…
For our September talk, we were pleased to welcome Amanda Hart, director of the Corinium Museum. They are our nearest museum outside Swindon, and have recently been successful in their Heritage Lottery Fund application, so it was very interesting to hear more about…
This group exhibition brings together the artists of group 7, who have a strong commitment to the media of drawing, painting and printmaking.They share an interest in abstract and expressive painting with a strong use of colour. The exhibition showcases their…
The lunchtime talks which accompany exhibitions are usually given by curator Sophie Cummings and give a wonderful insight into the thinking behind the title, and the reason for bringing together these particular works and displaying them in a certain way.…