TalksThe world-class Ondaatje Theatre at the RGS enables the Works on Paper Fair to present a stimulating programme of talks by leading names, to add further interest to your visit to the fair.
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The Art of GardensJames Alexander-Sinclair,Bunny Guinness,
Tom Stuart-Smith, Joe Swift, Cleve West Wednesday 31 January - 6.30pm
Works on Paper Fair, RGS Ondaatje Theatre A "Question Time" style discussion featuring leading garden designers and presenters James Alexander-Sinclair, Bunny Guinness, Tom Stuart-Smith, Joe Swift and Cleve West. The panel will be chaired by Rachel de Thame, well-known garden designer, gardening columnist and television presenter. The event is held in aid of the fair's 2018 Charity Partner, Horatio's Garden.
Horatio’s Garden is a national charity that creates and cares for, beautiful gardens in NHS spinal injury centres. Leading garden designers develop the stunning sanctuaries which all include an architect designed garden room, for patients facing life changing injuries and long stays in hospital. The charity’s volunteer team, led by a head gardener, keep the garden looking beautiful, help run activities for patients including artists in residence and art therapy. |
Horatio's Garden Salisbury
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Grayson PerryThursday 1 February - 6.30pm
Works on Paper Fair, RGS Ondaatje Theatre Turner-Prize winning artist Grayson Perry is one of Britain’s best-known contemporary artists. His works touch upon a range of social issues including class and politics, sex and religion, as well as current concerns such as Brexit.
With Art Fund support, tapestries, pots and etchings by Grayson Perry have entered UK museum collections from Bath to Brighton and beyond. Art Fund director Stephen Deuchar introduces the event. Grayson Perry's talk is in support of Art Fund |
Grayson Perry, 2016. © Richard Ansett
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Augustus John: Drawn from LifeDavid Boyd Haycock
Friday 2 February - 2.30pm
Works on Paper Fair, RGS Ondaatje Theatre In this lecture Dr Haycock, who is currently curating a new Augustus John exhibition to be held at Poole Museum in the summer of 2018, and whose book on the subject is to be published in May 2018, will explore John’s early career and the talented friends and rivals who surrounded him.
In the first three decades of the 20th century Augustus John (1878-1961) was widely considered one of the greatest living British artists, famous almost as much for his extraordinary Bohemian lifestyle as for his outstanding portraits, etchings and drawings. John was born in Wales in 1878 and educated at the Slade School of Art in London in the 1890s, where the onus of teaching was on the daily life class and a close study of the Old Masters. He soon emerged as a wonderfully gifted draughtsman. Dividing his life between England, Wales and France, and reaching his prime in the years immediately before the outbreak of the Great War, by 1910 John would be likened to a British Gauguin, a Welsh Post-Impressionist using bold colours and a willfully naive and primitive style. |
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Edward Lear: Art and NonsenseJenny Uglow
Saturday 3 February - 11.30am
Works on Paper Fair, RGS Ondaatje Theatre Edward Lear (1812-1888) carried a sketchbook with him all his adult life, leaving thousands of drawings, sketches, watercolours and lithographs. Jenny Uglow explores his exuberant genius – as a natural history artist, a landscapist and a creator of unforgettable nonsense. Lovable and lonely, Lear’s ‘works of paper’ from the Owl and the Pussycat, and the Dog with a luminous nose, to botanical specimens like ‘Manypeeplia Upsidownia’ and the defiant, eccentric limericks, belong to their time and still delight us today.
Jenny Uglow is is an author, critic, historian, editor and consultant. Mr Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense is her most recent book, published in October 2017. She is particularly interested in the relation of text, idea and image. Her books in this field include award-winning biographies of William Hogarth and Thomas William Bewick, as well as a study of Sarah Losh, a surprising Victorian architect and visionary, and the short Words and Pictures: A Peculiarly British Tradition. |
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Yoshijiro Urushibara and Frank Brangwyn
(with supporting cast including Chadelm Clausen, Cotman, Isaac & Markino)Libby Horner
When: Saturday 3 February - 2.30pm
Works on Paper Fair, RGS Ondaatje Theatre Libby Horner is a freelance art historian, curator, film producer, lecturer, writer, compulsive cataloguer and lover of all things Japanese. She is also the world's leading authority on the multi-talented artist Frank Brangwyn and is currently compiling the catalogue raisonne of all his work - both fine and decorative art - estimated to be in excess of 12,000 items! Brangwyn was greatly influenced by Japanese art and crafts.
Given these predilections it is hardly surprising that she co-authored (with Hilary Chapman) Yoshijiro Urushibara: A Japanese printmaker in London (published by Hotei, 2017). Urushibara was not only a hugely talented printmaker and artist in his own right but also collaborated with contemporary artists in France and England, most notably with the inevitable Brangwyn, to produce exquisite colour woodcuts. |
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Who? When? Where? - The Story of
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Bernard Cheese, A Fisherman's Story, Lithograph, 1956
Barnett Freedman, The Darts Champion. Lithograph, 1956
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