PREVIOUS EVENTS

2008 - 2007 - 2006

Wednesday June 25th 2008 – 11:00am

Private View and Artist’s Talk

Anne Françoise Couloumy

The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
At Gallery 27
27 Cork Street
London W1S

Please join us for this very special morning. Cynthia Corbett will introduce the artist and her work. Anne Françoise Couloumy is a highly-acclaimed French painter who has been called La Hopper Française by the French Press. Couloumy was born in 1961 in Paris, and completed her studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. Her work has captured the imagination of the cultural and intellectual community in France and hangs in collections world-wide. In January 2007 Couloumy was appointed to the rank of Chevalier by l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, République Française. The exhibition continues from June 23rd – July 5th 2008, with a Private View on June 24th. For the Private View please RSVP to info@thecynthiacorbettgallery.com
Refreshments will be served. A self-treat lunch will follow at The Arts Club, Dover Street. To reserve your place, please send your cheque, made out to Friends of the NMWA, UK, £10.00 for Subscribers, and £15.00 all others, to: B de Gaudemar, Friends of the NMWA, UK, 51 Thurloe Square, London SW7 2SX. Please indicate if you would like to stay for the luncheon. nmwa.uk@gmail.com

Two works by Anne Françoise Couloumy.

Left: La Chaise d'Enfance II, Oil on Canvas, 70x70 cm, Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery
Right: Le Dernier Mot, Oil on Canvas, 81x100 cm, Courtesy The Cynthia Corbett Gallery

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Until June 15th 2008

Elisa Sighicelli
Women To Watch

National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005
USA

Women To Watch is a biennial exhibition program developed by the National Museum of Women in the Arts specifically for national and international outreach committees. The 2008 inaugural exhibition, which will feature photographic works, is designed to increase the visibility of, and the critical response to, promising women artists who are deserving of national and international attention.
We are delighted that London based photographer Elisa Sighicelli, proposed by Friends of the NMWA, UK in late 2006, has been selected by NMWA Head Curator Susan Fisher Sterling for exhibition in the Women To Watch show at the museum. Sighicelli’s work is featured on the NMWA website for the exhibition: www.nmwa.org 
Elisa Sighicelli, born in Turin in 1968, received her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she lives and works today. Sighicelli explores ordinary scenes and objects through video and photography, drawing special attention to light in both its literal and depicted forms. The two photographs selected for Women To Watch, Untitled (White) and Untitled (Blue), are from a series she produced in Shanghai of advertising billboards. The products ordinarily promoted on these enormous screens have been edited out, leaving an abstract pattern of neon light in a gridded rectangular frame.
Friends of the NMWA, UK are excited to be participating in this groundbreaking exhibition program, and have provided funding for the two Sighicelli works to travel to Washington, D.C. for exhibition. Friends of the NMWA, UK would like to thank the Gagosian Gallery, London and Sighicelli collectors for their generous support of the this exhibition project. www.gagosian.com Visit us online to view the Sighicelli works: www.nmwa-uk.org

Two photographs by Elisa Sighicelli.

Left: Untitled (Blue), 2006 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox,
35.4 x 48.4 x 2 in. (90 x 123 x 5 cm) SIGHI 2006.0002.

Right: Untitled (White), 2006 Partially backlit C-print on lightbox,
48 x 48 x 2.4 in. (122 x 122 x 6 cm) SIGHI 2006.0001

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Subscriber’s Event

Thursday May 15th 2008 – 6:30-8:30pm

You are invited to
A private reception to view

Twenty One Twenty First Century Women
Alice Instone

Ernst & Young
1 More London Place
London SE1 2AF

“Alice Instone was galvanized to create this series of portraits of 21 women after a visit to the National Portrait Gallery, where she realized that the early galleries only had male portraits. Twenty One Twenty First Century Women depicts women who now occupy positions of power in fields once exclusively dominated by males, and who are shaping British Society.” Sitters including Cherie Booth, QC, Jilly Cooper, Nicole Farhi, Val Gooding CBE, Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield, Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC, and Annie Lennox were painted sitting in an iconic red chair. www.aliceinstone.com Sponsored by Ernst & Young. Closest Tube: London Bridge or Tower Hill.
There is no charge, but you must have a ticket to gain admission to this private exhibition. Current NMWA, UK Subscribers can obtain tickets by contacting us at nmwa.uk@gmail.com, or Friends of the NMWA, UK, 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ, by May 7th. Tickets will be dispatched by May 7th.

 

Alice Instone, Annie Lennox, 2007, oil on canvas, 100 x 75cm


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Wednesday May 14th 2008 – 6:00-8:00pm

In conjunction with The Alumni Club
A Private Evening Tour and Lecture

Amazing Rare Things – The Art of Natural History in the age of Discovery

And

Treasures from the Royal Collection

The Queen’s Gallery
Buckingham Palace
London

Join us for this unique opportunity - a Private View of this exciting and well reviewed new exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery. Amazing Rare Things has been selected from the collections in the Royal Library by the distinguished naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. This extraordinary exhibition brings together the works of four artists and a collector who have shaped our knowledge of the world around us. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Cassiano Dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Alexander Marshal, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) and Mark Catesby are diverse figures who shared a passion for enquiry, and a fascination with the beautiful and bizarre in nature. All lived at a time when new species were being discovered around the world in ever increasing numbers. Many of the plants and animals represented in the exhibition were then barely known in Europe. Today some are commonplace, while others are extinct.
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) earned her living as a flower painter, teacher and a dealer in paints and pigments in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. Her lifelong fascination with flies, spiders and caterpillars began when she was thirteen. In 1699, at the age of 52, she traveled with her daughter to the Dutch colony of Surinam in South America to study and chronicle the life cycles of moths and butterflies. The resulting publication Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705) is one of the most important works of natural history of its era and the first scientific work to be devoted to the area. From notes, sketches and specimens, Merian produced vibrant watercolours of butterflies and moths in her characteristic style of exuberant curves and spirals.
Treasures from the Royal Collection brings together works from the royal residences across the UK, and includes paintings by Artemisia Gentileschi, and Angelica Kauffman, as well as furniture, sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, silver and gold. www.royalcollection.org.uk

Tickets are limited and cost £30.00 per person, which includes wine after the lecture and 20% discount on items in the Gallery Shop. To reserve your place, please send your cheque, made payable to Friends of the NMWA, UK along with a S.A.E. to: Janice M Sacher, The Royal Collection, York House, St. James’s Palace, London, SW1A 1BQ. If you have any queries contact Janice.sacher@royalcollection.org.uk

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Tuesday Mayth 2008 – 11:00am

An Artist’s Talk and Private View

Jennifer Lee

Galerie Besson
15 Royal Arcade
28 Old Bond Street
London W1S 4SP

Leading British ceramicist Jennifer Lee will speak to us about her work, ‘refined and elegant handbuilt vessels’, at her solo show. Lee’s work is included in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and is highly sought after by private collectors. “Lee’s pots feel both modern and timeless. They have a strong sculptural presence.” Karen Livingstone, Victoria & Albert Museum. www.galeriebesson.co.uk Self-treat lunch to follow at Nicole’s, 158 New Bond Street.
Friends of the NMWA, UK Subscribers £10.00, all others £15.00. To reserve your place, please mail your cheque, made out to Friends of the NMWA, UK, to 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ. Please indicate if you would like to join us for lunch afterwards. Limited to 12.

Jennifer Lee, Pale, haloed granite traces, bronze specks, 2007
handbuilt coloured stoneware
27.5 x 19.3 cm

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Subscribers’ Event

Friday May 9th 2008 – 10:00-12:00am

A talk on the work of

Elisa Sighicelli

At the home of a Collector
London

We are delighted that Women To Watch photographer Elisa Sighicelli will join us for this talk, in addition to Hannah Freedberg of the Gagosian Gallery, London.
Elisa Sighicelli was born in Turin in 1968 and received her MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where she lives and works today. Sighicelli explores ordinary scenes and objects through video and photography, drawing special attention to light in both its literal and depicted forms. Sighicelli’s work has been selected for exhibition in the NMWA’s inaugural Women To Watch exhibition now on show in Washington, D.C. www.gagosian.com
Details on how to book have been forwarded to current NMWA, UK Subscribers. Contact us at nmwa.uk@gmail.com

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Tuesday April 29th 2008

Curator led tour and lunch with the Director

Laura Ford: New Work
Georgie Hopton: The Three Cornered Hat

NewArtCentre
Roche Court
East Winsterslow
Salisbury
Wiltshire SP5 1BG

Join us for a very special day trip to the New Art Centre at Roche Court. Founded by Madeleine Bessborough in Sloane Street in 1958, the New Art Centre relocated to Roche Court, a nineteenth century manor house in parkland, in 1994. The Centre displays sculpture, including works from the estate of Barbara Hepworth, in the spectacular Wiltshire countryside.
Laura Ford’s first solo show in the award winning gallery at the New Art Centre features three fairy tale like espaliered trees cast in bronze, with surreal elements typical of Ford’s work, ‘a mixture of humour, melancholy and darkness…built up in layers of material, found objects and cultural reference applied around a core object, usually a figure.’ Laura Ford was included in the British Art Show 5, 2000, and represented Wales in the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. Her work was featured most recently in Turner Contemporary, touring to the Economist Plaza in 2007 She has pieces in the Government Art Collection and the Tate Gallery.
Georgie Hopton’s exhibition is on show in the gorgeous Artists’ House at Roche Court. Georgie Hopton is known for her paintings and sculpture influenced by Morandi and Picasso. Her new work is inspired by flowers she has grown herself. She photographs, paints and sculpts each image. “I’ve always oscillated between 3D and 2D: I graduated from college with sculptures when I’d taken a painting degree – the paintings literally moved from the wall to the floor…’, Georgie Hopton in conversation with Louisa Buck, Laughed – I Could Have Cried, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2003. Georgie Hopton graduated from St Martins School of Art in 1989. Georgie Hopton was nominated for the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2007.www.sculpture.uk.com
A curator led tour of the gallery, the Artists’ House and the sculpture gardens will be followed by lunch with the Founder, Lady Bessborough, and both artists - in the garden if the weather permits. Depending upon numbers we will travel by ‘luxury coach’ or by train. Transportation, lunch and coffee are included in the cost of your ticket.
NMWA, UK Subscribers £30.00, all others £35.00. To reserve your place please send your cheque, made out to Friends of the NMWA, UK, to 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ. nmwa.uk@gmail.com

Left: Georgie Hopton, Installation view in the Artists' House, 2008
Right: Laura Ford, Espaliered Woman I, 2007

 

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Thursday April 10th 2008

Opening & Private View

Dark Star
Sadie Murdoch

The Agency Gallery
15A Cremer Street
London E2 8HD

You are invited to the opening night of Murdoch’s exhibition of recent photographs, which revisit Modernist themes, and feature early stars of the Modernist movement: architect Lily Reich, a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, and furniture designer Charlotte Perriand, who made significant contributions to chairs designed in partnership with Le Corbusier. www.theagencygallery.co.uk
There is no charge to attend this opening but you must RSVP to nmwa.uk@gmail.com

Left: Sadie Murdoch, Electric Fairy, 2008, watercolour on paper, 42x60 cm  £ 1550 (framesize 62x80 cm).

Right. Top: Sadie Murdoch, Red, Black, Orange, Yellow and Violet,  2008, C- print , 40 x 30.5 cm, Ed 3, £1300 ( framesize 55 x 45.5 cm); Bottom: Sadie Murdoch, Red, Yellow, Orange, Silver and Gol, 2007, C- print, 40 x 30.5 cm, Ed 3, £1300 ( framesize 55 x 45.5 cm)

 

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Tuesday March 18th 2008 – 8:30 – 10:00am

Breakfast and Curator’s Private Tour of
Brilliant Women: 18th Century Bluestockings

National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Place
London WC2H 0HE

“The ‘bluestockings’ forged new links between learning and virtue in the public imagination of Enlightenment Britain. This exhibition tells the story of the women of the original bluestocking circle, their followers and the men who supported their endeavors. Including Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Carter, Catharine Macaulay, Hannah More and Angelica Kauffman, these creative women formed an important network of artists, writers and intellectuals who were involved in a diverse range of cultural activities, from writing novels and poetry to Shakespearean criticism and portrait painting. With the exception of their wealthy patron and hostess Elizabeth Montagu, ‘Queen of the Bluestockings’, each made a living from her work.
“Despite the fact that the ‘bluestockings’ made a substantial contribution to the creation and definition of national culture their intellectual participation and artistic interventions have been largely forgotten.” www.npg.org.uk
Join us for a Private Tour during the opening days of the show, under the expert guidance of Dr. Lucy Peltz, 18th Century Curator at the National Portrait Gallery, and co-curator of this exhibition. Breakfast will be served in the Gallery’s fabulous Portrait Restaurant, overlooking the rooftops of London, and is included in the price of your ticket. Copies of the exhibition catalogue will also be available for purchase at cost.
To reserve your place for this special viewing, please send your cheque for £10.00, made out to Friends of the NMWA, UK, to 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ. Please include a phone number or email so that we can confirm your place. nmwa.uk@gmail.com

Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo
(The Nine Living Muses of Great Britain)
by Richard Samuel, 1778
© National Portrait Gallery, London

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Thursday, March 13th 2008 – 6:00 pm

The Directors of Marlborough Fine Art and Friends of the NMWA, UK
Cordially invite You To

Paula Rego and Marco Livingstone in Conversation

Marlborough Fine Art
6 Albemarle Street
London W1S 4BY

Artist Paula Rego and curator Marco Livingstone will join us for a unique evening in the gallery. Recent Paula Rego works, which feature in an upcoming exhibition at Marlborough Fine Art in New York City, will be on display in Albemarle Street, and a selection of Rego’s prints will be available for purchase. Copies of the Paula Rego retrospective exhibition catalogue will also be on sale in the gallery.
This evening is timed to coincide with a major retrospective of the artist’s work now on display at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. The NMWA will showcasethe exhibition Paula Rego from February 1st – May 25th 2008, representing the first retrospective of this important artist’s work to be exhibited in the United States. The exhibition includes major pieces spanning Rego’s 50-year career. www.nmwa.org The London-based art historian and independent curator Marco Livingstone is curator of the exhibition. www.marlboroughfineart.com
Champagne will be served. Tickets are £10.00. Places are limited so please respond as soon as possible. To reserve your place send your cheque, made out to Friends of the NMWA, UK to 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ. Please include a phone number or email so we can confirm your place. nmwa.uk@gmail.com

Paula Rego, Looking Out 1997,
Pastel on papper on aluminium, 71x51 in.,
Private Collection

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Thursday March 6th 2008 – 11:00am

A Private Visit to

ARTfutures

Contemporary Art Society
Bloomberg SPACE
50 Finsbury Square
London EC2A 1HD

ARTfutures is the Contemporary Art Society’s annual selling exhibition with 1,000 art works individually selected by Contemporary Art Society curators. The exhibition includes 100 artists, ranging from recent graduates to more established artists, and covers all media, from drawings, paintings, prints to three dimensional work, video work and sound works. The exhibition is positioned to encourage new buyers of contemporary art, with prices ranging from £500-£5000, but it also appeals to seasoned collectors who are looking for new artists. The exhibition is co-curated by British artist, Nicky Hirst, alongside independent curator Jeni Walwin. Nicky is an established artist with her work in many private, public and corporate collections including the Saatchi collection, Clifford Chance Collection, BUPA Collection, and Arthur Anderson Collection. www.artfutures.org.uk
We will start with a welcome coffee and an introduction from the curator. We will then be given a Private Tour of the exhibition, and smaller NMWA, UK groups will be allowed ‘behind the scenes’ of the exhibition, to view additional art works secured in the storeroom of Bloomberg SPACE. Guests will receive a double invitation to attend the CAS Chairman’s champagne reception, hosted by Alison Myners, on Monday evening 10th March, from 5:00-7:00pm in the gallery.
Places are limited and all RSVP’s must be received by Friday 29th February. Guests’ names must be on the list at the door in order to be admitted to Bloomberg SPACE. Details on how to access Bloomberg SPACE will be sent to attendees closer to the date.

To reserve you place, please send you cheque, made out to Friends of the NMWA, UK to 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ. Current NMWA, UK Subscribers £10.00, all others £15.00. Please provide a phone number or email address so that we can confirm your place. Contact us at nmwa.uk@gmail.com

Left: Dogeaters Discourse (2). 2007. 18x25x2.5 cm. Ink on paper mounted on MDF, lacquer and self adesive vinyl. © Pio Abad 2007

Right: Glitter Desert 1. Photograph 135 cmx100 cm edition of 3. © Beagles and Ramsay 2007

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January 30th 2008 - 2:00 to 4:00 pm

NMWA, UK Subscribers' Event

You are invited to
a Private Tour of
The Rothschild Archive
London

Melanie Aspey, Director of The Rothschild Archive, will give a talk and a tour of this unique facility. The Rothschild Archive was established in 1978 to preserve and arrange the record of a family widely recognized for the major contribution it has made to the economic, political and social history of many countries around the world.
The Rothschild Archive also holds collections of papers recording the family's longstanding involvement with the the arts, including the creation of significant art collections. As discussed in the recent NMWA, UK event A Symposium: British Women Collectors, the Rothschild women have made notable contributions as artists, collectors and patrons of the arts through several generations of the family.
Tea will be offered at The Rothschild Archive. Numbers for this event are strictly limited to 20 and places are offered to current NMWA,UK Subscribers on a first come, first served basis After January 10th, space permitting, NMWA, UK Subscribers will also be able to book one place for a guest. To reserve your place, please send your cheque for £15.00, made out to: Friends of the NMWA, UK, to 72 Portland Road, London W11 4LQ.
Address details will be confirmed to attendees in advance of the date of the visit. www.rothschildarchive.org

 

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