WHAT'S ON 2023

Exhibition | Outdoors
Earth Photo 2023
13 July - 30 September

Earth Photo explores images and short films that focus on the pressing issues affecting our planet to stimulate conversations about our environment and the impact of climate change. The shortlisted entries and prize-winners are presented at large-scale outdoors.

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Exhibition | Gallery
Plant Communitas
Curated by Patricia Brien
3 August – 30 September

The Plant Communitas exhibition features a community of artists from diverse practices and places. The artists work locally, nationally, and internationally and are united by their interests in human-plant relations.

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Exhibition | Rodd Court
Sidney Nolan Revealed
22 June - 30 September

Sidney Nolan’s former home, 17th Century Rodd Court, will be used to present new and evolving interpretations of the artist’s life and work. A series of new displays reveal the concept of Process as central to Nolan’s artwork and expose new artworks and artefacts from the Trust’s collection and archive.

Exhibition | Rodd Court
Rick Greswell
Silent Spring
22 June - 29 July 2023

Inspired by the seminal environmental work of Rachel Carson in 1962, the artwork highlights the rapid decline and threat to British breeding birds by reference to their songs, which are rapidly disappearing from our countryside.

Installation | Outdoors
Jony Easterby
Dead Standing
30 March - 30 September 2023

As fire passes through landscape, we witness loss and destruction and the remains of a sublime beauty inherent in its force. Dead Standing is a new dry garden installation drawing on Australian bushfire narratives, drought resistant planting and the processes of regeneration. (The Sidney Nolan Trust recognises that wildfires are causing immense damage to people, animals and property around the world.)

Sculpture | Outdoors
Rick Greswell
The Buzzer
30 March - 30 September 2023

The Buzzer references the nickname of a Russian military radio station, call-sign UVB-76 that has continuously broadcast the same tone and enigmatic coded messages for many years. It speaks from, and reminds us of the era of the Cold War when the threat of nuclear Armageddon and the projection of military power beyond borders was regarded as an ever-present danger. Two months after this work was completed, Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

Sculpture | Outdoors
Kate Harvey
Inside Out
30 March - 30 September 2023

Inside Out embraces both exterior and interior landscapes and seeks to honour the natural, feminine and domestic. Responding to the environment at The Rodd, Harvey’s sculptures focus on the emptiness of the Granary, reflecting on manual labour, the dependence on the land and the harvest and storage of fodder.

Learning | Events
Plant, Folklore & Witchcrafting
Dr Sigrid Holmwood & Dr Alice Tarbuck
Thursday 21 September, 6-7pm, Online

Holmwood is a researcher and artist looking at traditional knowledge held by women throughout Western Europe and the impacts of the Burning Times on this expertise. Tarbuck is an author and academic who researches and practices 'intersectional, accessible' witchcraft. The conversation will focus on two plants: madder and nettle, and what they symbolise to the two practitioners

FREE

Learning | Printmaking
Drypoint printmaking - Seedheads and silhouettes
Saturday 23 September, 1.30-5pm, The Rodd

Join Welsh marches artist Helen Arthur for a half day creating your own etched print. We will use a non-chemical method called drypoint. You will work using a sharp tool and transparent etching plate over a photograph or your own drawing. Our theme will be seasonal, taking inspiration from early autumn structures like seedheads, grasses and falling leaves.

£40 per person inculding refreshments

Learning | Workshops
Quipu Story Workshop
Ingrid Pumayalla
Saturday 30 September, 11am-1pm, The Rodd

Ingrid Pumayalla is a Peruvian artist whose practice spans photography, moving image, Installation and ritual performance. This workshop introduces the Quipu (quechua language tradition) based on a system of knots and the use of yarn and dyeing techniques to create an object of storytelling. Based on inter-exchange in an oral story tradition, the workshop asks participants to share personal memories in relation with nature and the landscape that surrounds them.

£25 per person including refreshments

Learning | Workshops for young people
MAKE is a weekly arts and creative club for young people aged 10 - 14. Mondays (Term-time) 3.30 pm - 5 pm, Youth Centre, Presteigne

MAKE resumes on Monday 11 September 2023

Dates for the Autumn term:
Monday 11 Sept - Monday 23 Oct
(break for halfterm)
Monday 6 Nov - Monday 11 December
Arrive from 3.30 pm (drinks and snacks available)
Make from 4.00 to 5.00 pm

Learning | Workshops for young people
Cultivate
Cultivate is our creative programme for 15 - 25 year olds.

Forthcoming Cultivate dates
Saturday 23 September, 10am - 2pm - Sidney Nolan Trust
Saturday 21 October, 10am - 2pm - Sidney Nolan Trust
Saturday 18 November, 10am - 2pm - Sidney Nolan Trust
Saturday 9 December, 10am - 2pm - Sidney Nolan Trust

Learning | Workshops for adults
Abet
Saturday 14 October, 10am - 2pm, The Rodd
Sliding scale of £20+ including refreshments and materials

Abet is a new art group for adults. Inspired by the success of our Cultivate programme, Abet is a new contemporary art group for creative beginners through to practicing artists and creatives 25+. Abet offers a space for those with an interest in the arts, to come together with others to develop their creative thinking and making skills through discussion, research, and experimentation.

Exhibition | Gallery
Dean Cross
SOMETIMES I MISS THE APPLAUSE
25 May – 29 July

SOMETIMES I MISS THE APPLAUSE positions a new Nolan for the 21st century. Informed by his work for the Royal Ballet and originally commissioned by the Heide Museum, Nolan's spiritual home, this exhibition looks at art and life in a post-Nolan Australia.

Exhibition | Rodd Court
Jony Easterby & Pippa Taylor
In Praise of Shadows
30 March - 17 June

In culmination of their year with the Trust, 2022 Resident Artists present an exhibition exploring patterns of shadows, light and the darkness formed by the interplay of plants and light, drawing on the influence of Sidney Nolan’s epic Paradise Garden artworks.

Selling Exhibition | Gallery
Philip Hughes: Thirty Years of Landscape
30 March - 20 May 2023
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Mappa Marches
6 October - 29 October 2022
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Ngawiya.Ngubadi (To Give With Love)
21 July – 1 October 2022
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Fiona McIntyre: Dreaming The Land
26 May - 1 October 2022
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Residency |
Konstantina (Kate Constantine)
18 July - 14 August 2022
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Exhibition |
Sidney Nolan: The Celtic Image
26 May - 16 July 2022
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Sculpture |
Jim Carter: Of Black Shires
31 March - 29 October 2022
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Selling Exhibition |
Daniel MacCarthy: The Peace Of Wild Things
31 March - 21 May 2022
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Sidney Nolan: Polaroids
31 March - 14 May 2022
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Exhibition |
Cultivate Exhibition
Saturday 11 March

Exhibition |
Sidney Nolan: The Colour of the Sky - Auschwitz Paintings
12 August - 26 September 2021
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Exhibition |
Sidney Nolan: Polaroids
17 June - 31 July 2021, Informality Gallery, Henley on Thames
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Exhibition |
Nolan à l’Atelier 17
21 May - 8 August 2021
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Exhibition |
Simon Dorrell: Jackdaws for Company
21 May - 26 September 2021