Tag: fine art
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Belonging and Not Belonging: Émigré Artists in Britain after 1933: Lecture by Monica Bohm-Duchen
An illustrated talk by Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, will focus on the experiences of the émigré artists who found refuge in this country in the wake of Hitler’s accession to power in 1933
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Maurice Blik: Exhibition & Artist’s Talk
After decades of making sculpture, in the last two years, Maurice Blik has identified a unique and personal way of working to externalise his thoughts and feelings. Now his sculptures leap, dance, stride, walk, hurry, peer, to express what it feels like to be alive.
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Maurice Blik Plasters: The Artist at Eighty
Born in Amsterdam, Holland in 1939 and having survived Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a child, Maurice Blik arrived in the UK aged seven. The ability to come to terms with this and to confront the face of humanity that he had witnessed, stayed silent in him for some forty years until it found a voice…
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20:20 vision
20:20 vision is a dynamic arts and community legacy project from not-for-profits Salusbury WORLD Refugee Centre and FotoDocument, which celebrates the contribution of refugees to the UK. The project focuses on 20 children from diverse backgrounds who arrived in the UK circa 1999 and casts a long lens over their lives and achievements fast forwarding…
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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20:20 Stories of Moving Lineage
20:20 is a multimedia, touring arts and heritage project that casts a long lens over the personal memories of refugee families who arrived in the UK from 1999 onwards from Kosovo and other major global conflicts.
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‘Jankel Adler: A “Degenerate” Artist in Britain, 1940-49’
“Adler died last summer in exile without a passport; driftwood cast upon a foreign shore by the European hurricane”.
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Fifth Biennial Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize Exhibition
Celebrating contemporary British and Irish self-portraiture, the Ruth Borchard prize offers a unique opportunity for new and established artists to compete for £10,000 and an opportunity for their work to be purchased for the Ruth Borchard Next Generation Collection.
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Friedrich Nagler: A Personal Mythology
Exhibition celebrating the extraordinary work of self-taught Jewish artist Friedrich Nagler, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.
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The Life and Work of Friedrich Nagler: A Conversation
Join Friedrich Nagler’s sons, Mervyn and Martin, in a conversation about this extraordinary artist to discuss their father’s life, experience and work.
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Dissent and Displacement: A Modern Story – Monica Petzal and Margarete Klopfleisch
An exhibition in two parts: wall-mounted prints by Monica Petzal; and sculptures and works on paper by Margarete Klopfleisch
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Dissent and Displacement Public Seminar Series
Lived and Imagined Histories : Some Thoughts on the Work of First and Second Generation (Jewish) Visual Artists Monica Bohm-Duchen, initiator and Creative Director of the Insiders/Outsiders Festival, presents the series’ opening seminar, in honour of the new exhibition at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester.