What’s on
Vacancy for Treasurer
The Sidney Nolan Trust currently has a vacancy for a Treasurer (unpaid). For details please go to the Join Us page.
Professor Emeritus Jake Harvey
Sculpture Programme Talks
Thursday 2nd February 2012
19.00
Part of our series of talks and conversations. Venue: Presteigne Assembly Rooms.
The former Head of Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art talks about this extraordinary project involving a large number of leading international sculptors, including Atsuo Okamoto who spent Spring 2011 here at The Rodd.
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Tickets: £5 (students £3). To book please send an email or phone 01544 260149.
Small Artists' Books
A Book Arts workshop
Thursday 23 February & Thursday 8 March 2012
10.00-16.00
Tutor: Lin Charlston; venue: SNT Farmhouse.
A day of making the most of 'small'. We will make small book structures, explore some very small things and pose questions about smallness. The workshop on 23 February is now FULL - new date added.
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Cost: £30 (SNT Printmaking / Book Arts Members: £25). Please contact us to book.
Introduction to Fine Art Printmaking
A series of Fine Art Printmaking workshops
Sun 26 Feb, Sat 3 Mar, Sat 24 Mar, Sun 1 Apr 2012
10.00-16.00
Tutor: Mike Clements; venue: SNT Farmhouse.
Using a portable etching press, these workshops are aimed at adults and at GCSE and A-Level students. They are suitable for artists and non-artists alike. Participants do not need any previous printmaking or art experience. The workshops also appeal to those who would like to refresh a rusty knowledge of intaglio printmaking. Read more...
Peter Randall-Page
Sculpture Programme Talks
Thursday 15 March 2012
19.00
Internationally renowned for his sculpture, drawings and prints, Randall-Page’s practice is inspired by the study of organic form and its subjective impact on our emotions: “geometry is the theme on which nature plays her infinite variations, fundamental mathematical principle becomes a kind of pattern book from which nature constructs the most complex and sophisticated structures”. Read more...
Tickets: £5 (students £3). To book please send an email or phone 01544 260149.
Photo: Mike Smallcombe
Art, Imagination & the Natural World
Weekend Workshop
Friday 4 - Sunday 6 May 2012
Course leaders: Sarah Deco, Art Therapist & Group Analyst; Almuth Tebbenhoff, Sculptor.
A residential weekend of drawing, painting and making work in the landscape, using both conventional art materials and what we find around us. We will work in groups sharing experiences and there will also be time to work individually. Read more...
Kenneth Hamilton
Piano Recital
Saturday 19 May 2012
19.30
'An outstanding virtuoso - one of the finest players of his generation'
Programme:
Mozart/Alkan: Piano Concerto in D minor, K.466:
John Ireland: Chelsea Reach,
Amberley Wild Brooks
Frederic Chopin: Barcarolle,
Two Etudes from op.25,
Polonaise in Ab major, op.53
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Booking details to follow.