To coincide with Earth Month, we will be looking at artists who have been inspired by Nature when creating their sculptures, installations and paintings, but also those who have incorporated elements of the world around them, physically in their art works.
Using texts and sources spanning across literature, drama and contemporary politics, in this talk we explore the importance of Astrology to the Renaissance World View and what implications it may have for our own renewed interest in astrology.
In this session Art Historian, Bojana Popovic, will discuss some of the most important paintings of the 20th century and try to offer an insight into works of art that can, at times, seem inaccessible or daunting.
Spanning his entire 50-year career, we will explore how Francis Bacon developed his unique approach to the human form.
In this talk we explore the ways in which Utopia and Utopian ideals have been presented in performance and ask what the impact and effect of such performances has had upon us.Â
Our particular focus will be on the aftermath of World War II and how some contemporary artists still find themselves working in a ‘post-war’ era.
Join cult film expert and trash movie aficionado Gavin Baddeley, as he beckons us to venture past the tinsel of Tinseltown, to investigate the dark underbelly of Hollywood's obsession with Christmas, unwrapping the forgotten films that put the X-Rated into Xmas and the ho ho ho into horror
In this session we will primarily focus on the careers of two major artists who made a huge impact on art in the second half of the 20th century – Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol.
The focus of this session will be to look at artists who draw inspiration from their roots and ancestry whether it be their own personal histories relating to Africa, or their observation of the appropriation of African culture by the Western societies they are a part of today.
Though this lecture does not negate the conversations on and around decolonisation, it mainly focuses on the residual positive effects of colonialism on the art and culture of South Asia-mainly on the Indian subcontinent.
