WHAT'S ON 2023

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

Autumn term dates:
Monday 6 Nov - Monday 11 December

Spring term dates:
Monday 15 January - Monday 5 February
Half Term
Monday 19 February - Monday 18 March

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 9 December, 10am - 2pm - Sidney Nolan Trust

Learning | Workshops for adults
Abet
Dates for the New Year coming soon
£25 including lunch 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.

Residency |
Ingrid Pumayalla
21 - 30 September 2023

Ingrid's practice approaches identity and loss as subjects to reflect on migration as a global phenomenon. Ingrid's residency is in tandem with the exhibition Plant Communitas.

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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 | 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 | 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.

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
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
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.

Installation | Outdoors
Jony Easterby
Dead Standing

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.

Selling Exhibition | Gallery
Philip Hughes: Thirty Years of Landscape
30 March - 20 May 2023
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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.

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.

Selling Exhibition |
Mappa Marches
6 October - 29 October 2022
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Selling Exhibition |
Ngawiya.Ngubadi (To Give With Love)
21 July – 1 October 2022
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Selling Exhibition |
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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Exhibition |
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