Taking inspiration from the Artist: Unknown exhibition, conservator Rupert Featherstone, Director of the Hamilton Kerr Institute, will give a short talk in the Ede Room.
Analysis can provide the key to understanding the creative process, context, and even the identity of an artist. Join us to learn about the ways modern analysis can uncover hidden secrets in artworks.
FREE, booking recommended
Join us for a talk by Jennifer Lee, followed by a conversation with Jennifer Lee, Helen Ritchie (Associate Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum) and independent curator Sarah Griffin. Chaired by Andrew Nairne, Director, Kettle’s Yard.
£5 (free for concessions), booking recommended
This in-focus exhibition is centred on a new acquisition: Jan Adam Kruseman’s posthumous portrait of the celebrated adventurer, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, known as ‘The Great Belzoni’. Painted in 1824, and presented to the Museum in 2018 through the Arts Council’s Cultural Gift Scheme (in honour of ex‐Director, Tim Knox), the portrait will be displayed alongside paintings and watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s wider collections, which reflect the allure of Egypt and Egyptian antiquities to British artists of the 19th century.
This small display brings together objects from the Fitzwilliam’s collection that particularly resonate with the award-winning artist and potter, Jennifer Lee. Her choice includes modern studio ceramics, ancient Chinese bronzes and antiquities from Greece and Rome, with each object accompanied by an explanation of the affinity she feels with it. This display accompanies the larger exhibition of Jennifer’s own work, Jennifer Lee: the potter’s space on display at Kettle’s Yard (9 July-22 September).
Image: Earthenware Bactrian Camel, Chinese, c. 618-907
FREE, come along
FREE, come along
FREE, come along
FREE, come along
FREE, collect a token at the Fitzwilliam Museum information desk (first come first served)
This display highlights some of the outstanding pieces of decorative art on loan to the Museum from the Keatley Trust. John Keatley founded the Trust in 1968 in order to purchase the best-designed and most finely-crafted ceramics, glass, metalwork, woodwork, furniture and book bindings and subsequently lend these to museums around the UK for the benefit and enjoyment of the public. The collection focusses predominantly on the 20th century which, as John says, represents the period of greatest transformation of the lives of most people, in the history of Britain.
