20I8 PROGRAMME
NEXT EVENT : FRIDAY 1st JUNE
THE FULL PROGRAMME
THE ART OF CONFUSION
Norman Wilkinson and his 'Dazzle' painting team |
Friday 1st June
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FRIDAY 1st June
Lymington Baptist Church (New Street, opposite St Barbe Museum) Doors Open 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm All Welcome - Non-members £5 |
Dr James Taylor, FRSA
Former curator at the National Maritime Museum, author, lecturer and exhibition organiser In 1917, on a patrol ship in the dangerous waters around Britain, the artist and illustrator Norman Wilkinson had a brainwave. As a Royal Navy volunteer he had become all too aware of the threat from Germany’s U-boats. Wilkinson decided he could use his artistic skills to protect Allied ships. He realised that it was impossible to paint a ship in camouflage that would hide it from the sights of a submarine commander. Instead, he proposed the extreme opposite. The ‘Art of Confusion’ was his answer. Discover the man behind the Dazzle, his artists and their wide-ranging work. St Barbe Gallery Exhibition from 16th June to 22nd September |
LOOKING BACK AND FORWARD AT THE A&T
The Curry family's involvement in local journalism |
Friday 13th July
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FRIDAY 13th July
Lymington Baptist Church (New Street, opposite St Barbe Museum) Doors Open 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm All Welcome - Non-members £5 |
Eddie Curry
Director, New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times Eddie Curry worked for many years in the Midlands as an engineering consultant until he took over running the New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times in 2012. His talk will review the Curry family’s involvement in journalism since 1883, the launch of the Lymington Times in 1930 and the challenges and opportunities for a local paper in the 21st century. The talk will include a range of old and new photos and video clips and an insight into a very unique local family business, whose paper continues to have a very loyal following but also needs to adapt and change to stay alive in a rapidly changing world. There is a need to keep a balance between providing a service to the community as well as a sound business that maintains over 35 local jobs More about
The A&T |
ALLEN SEABY: ART AND NATURE
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Friday 7th September
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FRIDAY 7th September
Lymington Baptist Church (New Street, opposite St Barbe Museum) Doors Open 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm All Welcome - Non-members £5 |
Martin Andrews
Lecturer in typography and graphic design, Reading University and now an artist and printmaker. Allen Seaby was an inspirational teacher and Professor of Fine Art at Reading University. He is best known as a leading exponent of woodcut printing in the Japanese style and as an artist and illustrator of wildlife who had a particular love of birds. He also became a prolific author of books about ponies – many of which featured the New Forest; an area he constantly visited on camping holidays and eventually had a holiday retreat. This talk will outline his career and explore his printing techniques. St Barbe Gallery Exhibition from 29th September to 24th November |
COLOUR WOODCUTS: EXHIBITION PREVIEW
Allen William Seaby and John Edgar Platt |
Thursday 27th September
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EAST CLIFF HALL: A VICTORIAN VILLA
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Friday 5th October
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FRIDAY 5th October
Lymington Baptist Church (New Street, opposite St Barbe Museum) Doors Open 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm All Welcome - Non-members £5 |
Sarah Newman
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Manager and former St Barbe Community and Exhibitions Officer Sarah Newman will give an illustrated talk about this unique Victorian villa. Built by hoteliers Sir Merton and Annie Russell-Cotes on the cliff top of Bournemouth in 1901, East Cliff Hall was both a lavishly decorated home and a showcase for their eclectic collection of fine and decorative arts and natural history and ethnography gathered on their travels around the world. |
BERTHON AND HIS BOATS Friday 2nd November
Revd E. L. Berthon and the folding boats that he designed
Revd E. L. Berthon and the folding boats that he designed
FRIDAY 2nd November
Lymington Baptist Church (New Street, opposite St Barbe Museum) Doors Open 7.00pm Talk 7.30pm All Welcome - Non-members £5 |
Phoebe Merrick
Chairman Romsey Local History Society When, on the 18 June 1850, the SS Orion was wrecked off Portpatrick, Revd Clark, a survivor, wrote to Revd Berthon: “Can not you think of a way in which boats, enough for all on board, be stowed on a passenger steamer without inconvenience?” This led to Berthon's development of the Berthon Collapsible Lifeboat. When the boat was demonstrated to Queen Victoria, the Prince Consort, the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, the latter commented that a cannonball would go through it easily. Berthon asked him what a cannonball would not go through, and the Queen was reported to have been greatly amused. |
ST BARBE CHRISTMAS RECEPTION
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Friday 7th December
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FRIDAY 7th December
St Barbe Museum (New Street, opposite St Barbe Museum) 6.00pm to 7.30pm |
Mulled wine and nibbles in the Gallery organised by FoSB
and an opportunity to catch up on St Barbe news. Museum Director, Mark Tomlinson, and John Ward, FoSB Chairman, will give an update on forthcoming museum and Friends events for 2019 FoSB Members, Volunteers and Trustees only
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St BARBE 2018 GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
ART of WORLD WAR ll
John Noott Collection Until 17th February John Noott was 7 years old when war broke out in 1939 and like many children of the time his formative years were lived against the backdrop of the war. Later in life as a successful art dealer he began to collect art made during the war that chimed with his memories of the time. As the collection grew the subject matter broadened until many critical aspects of the experience of war both at home and on the front line were represented. St Barbe is privileged to present the first major gallery showing of this remarkable collection of war art. |
SPRINGLINES
Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis and Clare Best 20th April - 10th June Springlines is a collaborative project between poet Clare Best and painter Mary Anne Aytoun-Ellis, exploring hidden and mysterious bodies of water across the south of England. For several years Clare and Mary Anne have been working from nature, from memory and imagination and in response to one another’s creativity. Together they have made a body of work that tells the story of the complex and fragile relationship between human life and groundwater. The exhibition features paintings by Mary Anne and poetry by Clare based on their explorations in Sussex, Kent and the New Forest as well as relevant items from the museum’s local collections. |
DAZZLE
Disguise and Disruption in War and Art 16th June - 23rd September In 1917 U-Boat attacks threatened to knock Britain out of the war. Artist Norman Wilkinson persuaded the Admiralty that the answer lay in patterns painted on the side of ships which would confuse U-Boat commanders as to the vessel’s direction and speed. A team of artists were recruited to create these ‘Dazzle’ designs and soon ships were sailing out looking like exhibits in an avant-garde art show.This unique exhibition looks at the development of Dazzle and features original ship models, Dazzle plans and artworks made to record and celebrate the scheme. The exhibition includes works by Norman Wilkinson, Edward Wadsworth, Montague Dawson, John Everett and many more on loan from the national, regional and private collections. This is the only exhibition on the topic being mounted during the First World War Centenary commemorations. |
COLOUR WOODCUTS
Allen William Seaby and John Edgar Platt 29th September - 25th November This is a unique exhibition of work from two of the greatest exponents of colour woodblocks, in partnership with the artists' estates. The exhibition will also look at the workings of the artistic gene in the paintings of Platt's son Michael and the prints of Seaby's grandson Robert Gilmor. COAST
1st December - 13th January 2019 The first of a series of invited artists exhibitions to be held in the new galleries, bringing together leading contemporary artists working in a range of media to explore their responses to a common theme. This first exhibition looks to the coast, its atmosphere, landscapes, wildlife, industries and inhabitants. A complementary local history exhibition in Gallery 3 also celebrates the history of the New Forest coast, focussing on some of the maps held in the St Barbe collection and supplemented with contemporary paintings, photographs and postcards. |