Looking for a cosy space to be creative, unwind and meet new people? Join us at the Fitz for our monthly Crafternoon, your chance to slow down, get creative and draw inspiration from our collection.
In September we'll be going back to basics and experimenting with sketching and mark making, inspired by Dutch art from the 1500s - 1700s and our gallery 15. Get your creative juices flowing and try your hand at different techniques using pencil and charcoal.
Facilitated by experienced artist Cläre Basel - explore connections between artworks and objects from our collection and discover new-found connections between one another.
Creative Connections is for adults aged 65 and over.
Examine the phrase 'Mind the Gap' – that familiar message heard at stations advising you to be careful of the space between the train and platform. This Lunchtime Lecture uses the phrase as a means to think about gaps in representation and belonging in today’s museums, and gaps as spaces of potential for transforming cultural institutions into ones we would like to see.
Antarctic Panoramas
Our current special exhibition, Polar Panoramas, features the art of John Kelly, an artist who has undertaken extensive fieldwork in the polar regions. Combining drawing, painting, photomontage and audiovisual work with observation and historical research, Polar Panoramas offers a compelling comparison between the Arctic and Antarctic as places of both human endeavour and environmental encounter.
The conversation will draw on Gupta’s remarkable photography practice, works in the exhibition and his collaborative work with Singh.
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now will be open from 6pm for you to explore before the in conversation event.
Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now will be open from 6pm for you to explore before the in conversation event.
About the Speakers
Exactly 120 years ago, Hertha Ayrton was awarded the Royal Society’s prestigious Hughes Medal, the first and only woman in the entire twentieth century to receive this honour.
A close friend of Marie Curie, Ayrton was an electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor, as well as an active suffrage campaigner. While a student at Cambridge’s Girton College, she also founded the College’s own Fire Brigade.
Garden Highlight Tours are daily at 11.30am
- Explore the seasonal stars on a 60 minute tour with an expert Guide
- Places are allocated on a first-come basis and numbers are limited to 12 people per Guide
- Not recommended for children under 12 years
Bite-Sized Plant Talks at 1.30pm
The Unicorn of Remote Sensing: Reconstructing Antarctic Glaciers using Historic Aerial Photographs
Eva Rowe is a PhD candidate at the Scott Polar Research Institute and British Antarctic Survey after completing her MPhil at SPRI in 2024. Her work involves identifying and digitising archived aerial photographs to build Digital Elevation Models and calculate the change in surface elevation, extent and area of Antarctic glaciers.
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