In 2023, ADFAS Shoalhaven will commence its 33rd year of offering members and visitors interesting lectures covering a range of subjects relating to creative art forms. We will host nine lectures with presenters from The Arts Society (U.K) and Australian lecturers.
The monthly meetings, held at the Berry Uniting Church Hall, are a wonderful and informal way to make friends and to get to know others in the community.
Visitors are always welcome.
$15 Students (up to university)
$25 Adults.
Information on the Society, 2023 Program, membership and lectures can be found at:
www.adfas.org.au/societies/shoalhaven/
or from Richard at richardcwiseman@hotmail.com.
March lecture
On Thursday 30 March, at 7.30pm, at Berry Uniting Church Hall, 71-77 Alfred Street, Berry, Alan Read will speak about the case of Whistler vs. Ruskin.
The trial in 1878 between artist and critic became one of the first great public debates in Britain about modern art. This lecture looks at the issues and personalities involved in this famous court-room drama, how their animosity divided the art world and the extent to which it can be argued that the outcome of the trial ruined both Whistler and Ruskin.
Alan Read holds a master’s and first class honours degree in History of Art from Birkbeck College, London. He is a gallery guide at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and for Frieze Masters and regularly lectures at the NPG, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Plymouth City Art Gallery and other galleries in the UK. He also works as a London Blue Badge Guide and a City of London Guide.
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Future lectures in 2023
4 May
I will lift mine eyes: The Cathedrals of Britain and their Norman connections
John Swainston
1 June
Gender and the Body: Kept behind curtains, the story of the nude
Leslie Primo
29 June
Silk Silver Opium
Michael Pembroke
27 July
Rococo: A masterpiece, a mystery and Madame de Pompadour
Jacqui Ansell
31 August
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: The golden age of Mexican painting
Chloë Saye
28 September
Edgar Degas:Painting the darker side of life
Kathy McLauchlan
2 November
Pompeii: Digging deeper with the muddy archaeologist
Gillian Hovell
Maebehe Garcia
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