Event Name: Lunchtime talk: Family in British Art
Date and Time: Thursday, 8 March, 2012. 1:00pm – 1:45pm
Venue:Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield.
Description: Join Curator Louisa Briggs for a guided tour around the exhibition and a more in-depth look at the themes and works on display.
Admission: Free, no need to book.
For more information, please visit Museums Sheffield’s Website.
Event name: Family Art Day
Date and time: Saturday, 18 February, 2012. 11:00am – 3:00pm
Venue: Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield.
Description: A day of creativity inspired by The Family in British Art exhibition. Be crafty and make your own special leaf to add to our Sheffield Family Tree sculpture. Design and create a family crest and dress up in costumes for your own historical family portrait photo to take home.
Admission: Free, no need to book, just drop in.
For more information, please visit Museums Sheffield’s Website.
Event name: Fun with Family Portraits
Date and time: Thursday, 16 February 2012 11:00am – 3:00pm
Venue: Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield.
Description: Using Polaroid photographs of individual family members taken at the beginning of the session, design and create a background for your family portrait using collage techniques. Then decorate a special frame to display it in. Inspired by the exhibition, The Family in British Art.
Admission: £2 per child, adult carers free.
Contact: 0114 278 2655 or email learning@museums-sheffield.org.uk
For more information, please visit Museums Sheffield’s Website.
Event name: The Blk Art Group Symposium
Date and time: Wednesday, 22 February, 12.00pm
Venue: Millennium Gallery, Museums Sheffield.
Description: Coinciding with the exhibition The Blk Art Group at Museums Sheffield, Graves Gallery, the Blk Art Group Symposium 2012 brings together artists and curators associated with the group in order to reappraise the cultural and artistic legacy of their work from the early 1980’s and explore its relevance for 2012.
Admission: Free but booking essential.
Contact: 0114 278 2655 or learning@museums-sheffield.org.uk
For more information, please visit Museums Sheffield’s Website.
The Family in British Art charts the depiction of the family over 400 years of British Art. What is a family and what is the idea of family? How have notions of the family changed over time?
John Martin knew the power of a good story. His paintings are crowded with dynamic movement and complex detail. It is no wonder that his audiences loved his work – they’re the blockbuster films of the day, stuffed with explosions, wailing maidens, collapsing buildings, callous destruction and heroic triumph.
When it came to assembling an anthology inspired by John Martin, we wanted to capture both his ambition and his contemporary relevance. The contributors to Pandemonium: Stories of the Apocalypse come from a wide variety of literary backgrounds – horror to science fiction; lit-fic to young adult; novelists to screenwriters. And they were all up for the challenge.
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