Daytime Events
Meet The Artist: Tracy Levine
FREE Coffee Shop event, Friday 6 August, 2.30 - 4.00pm
Come and join us for a brief talk and Q & A session with South Lakes artist Tracy Levine, whose monoprints are currently on display in the Abbot Hall Coffee Shop. Find out more about the artist’s inspirations and techniques and spend some time viewing the current show.
Mintfest
Saturday 4 & Sunday 5 September, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Westmorland Shopping Centre, Kendal
As part of the weekend long event, Abbot Hall will be participating in Mintfest, an arts festival run by Kendal Arts International. Join us with an artist in the Westmorland Shopping Centre as visitors to the festival create and shape their own 3-D Lowry landscape of Kendal.
Evening Lectures
“You don’t need brains to be a painter, just feelings” L.S. Lowry 1887-1976
Lecture by Michael Simpson
Thursday 12 August SOLD OUT
Michael Simpson is Head of Visual Art and Engagement at the The Lowry. He has worked at The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, The Whitworth Art Gallery and Imperial War Museum North in Manchester, and the National Media Museum, Bradford. He has curated many exhibitions over the years, including shows by L.S. Lowry, Chris Ofili and Maggi Hambling. L.S. Lowry was a complex man, an innovative painter and a student of human life. This illustrated talk looks at Lowry’s paintings and drawings and highlights visual parallels with the work of other major British and European artists of the 20th century.
Booking - phone 01539 722464
A National Gallery for the Midlands: An Introduction to the Barber Institute’s Collections
Lecture by Ann Sumner
Thursday 14 October
Professor Ann Sumner, the Director of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, will place the exhibition of Old Master drawings and Expressionist prints in the context of the Barber’s magnificent collections. She began her career at the National Portrait Gallery, London and has held a number of curatorial positions including the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, where she was Head of Fine Art for seven years prior to her appointment at the Barber Institute.
Purchase online now via golakes or phone 01539 722464 ('Friends' concession only available direct)
Sheila Fell: Cumbrian Painter
Lecture by Cate Haste
Thursday 28 October
Author of ‘Sheila Fell: A Passion for Paint’, Haste is a writer and television documentary director/producer, working mainly on biography and historical subjects. Her books include a biography of Prime Minister’s spouses, ‘The Goldfish Bowl’ (with Cherie Blair); ‘Clarissa Eden: A Memoir’ (editor), books on First World War propaganda and a history of sexual mores. She was a director/producer on television series including ‘Cold War’, ‘The Churchills’ and ‘End of Empire’. In this lecture, Haste examines the life and work of expressionist landscape painter Sheila Fell (1931-1979). Fell drew her inspiration from the Cumbrian landscape of her childhood. Her poetic vision focused not on the picturesque, but on the interdependence of land, people and work and the struggle for survival against the fierce unpredictability of nature.
Purchase online now via golakes or phone 01539 722464 ('Friends' concession only available direct)
Evening Lectures start at 6.30pm, wine is served from 6.00pm
‘Friends’ £5.75, Adults £8.00, Young People £5.75 (Includes a glass of wine or juice)
