SLWA VISIT TO THE NEW HALL COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART – CAMBRIDGE

Next social event: SLWA VISIT TO THE NEW HALL COLLECTION OF WOMEN’S ART – CAMBRIDGE
Sunday 25 July

350 contemporary works by women artists
The most significant collection of its kind in Europe
Works by Maggi Hambling, Barbara Hepworth, Paula Rego and Rebecca Fortnum
Given or donated to New Hall, Cambridge, still a women only college.
Works displayed throughout this modernist 1960s building.
http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/
SLWA visit includes a 90 minute guided tour by the curator Amanda Rigler, who visited our Bankside exhibition.
SLWA Katherine Jones’ prints on display as the temporary exhibition.

Option to visit Kettle’s Yard house and Gallery in the afternoon
Exhibition – The Long Dark – Medievalism in contemporary art
By 9 emerging British and German artists.
http://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/

Or visit Cambridge – colleges, river, nice pubs …………

Timing:
Kings Cross station 10.04
Meet at 9.50, usually platform 9.
Arrive Cambridge 11.12. Taxis to New Hall

Curator’s tour 11.30-13.00.

Lunch – local pub

Afternoon – your choice

Train 17.04 arrives Kings Cross 18.19 or choose your own departure time.

Cost:
Book ahead at fixed times with Rail Easy – £20 return
Shared taxis to New Hall- £2 (buses a pain)
New Hall tour by curator -£3, includes tea and coffee.

Optional:
Kettle’s Yard, House free, exhibition £3.

PLEASE CONFIRM IF YOUR ARE COMING SO THAT WE CAN NOTIFY NEW HALL

BOOK YOUR OWN TRAIN TICKET.

Email:jennysweeney@sweeneycourt.co.uk