Principal Curator, William Morris Gallery, London, UK (views expressed are my own)
London
Joined January 2012
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📢 Announcing 'Art Without Heroes: Mingei' opening at the Gallery on 23 March 2024. The largest ever exhibition in the UK dedicated to Mingei, the influential Japanese folk-craft movement.
Supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation @GBSasakawa
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New job opportunities! 📢 🎉
This is a really exciting time for the museum, and we're currently hiring two new roles:
Museum Director - closing 5th Nov
Marketing & Communications Coordinator - closing 30th Oct
Visit our website to apply: buff.ly/3Qf323Z
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Radical Landscapes features in @TheArtNewspaper piece 'Natural causes: artists address climate crisis in inventive ways' with comments from our Principal Curator @rowanbain.
#RadicalLandscapes opens 21 October. FREE entry. Tues to Sun, 10-5.
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One of my favourite places in the Gallery
Tucked into a corner of a public park in north-east London, you can find a museum that bears his name: William Morris Gallery.
Read our latest Vitsœ Voice story: vitsoe.com/voice/morris
Words: @janeaudas
Photography: @Vitsoe @WMGallery
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Our friends at the @furniturehistorysociety have issued a call for papers for their March 2024 Symposium on the Arts & Crafts Movement. If you’re interested in participating please send an abstract of 250-300 words to [email protected] by Friday November 3rd.
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📢 Pioneers: John Ruskin, William Morris
and the Bauhaus. Our Bauhaus exhibition opens on 19 Oct at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield. An expanded show curated by Roisin Inglesby & Dr Ilaria Puri Purini. With @SheffMuseums
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Image: Original exhibition, 2019
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📢 We're looking for volunteers with community language skills to support our Radical Landscapes events programme (21 Oct-18 Feb). If you're interested in volunteering and can speak Romanian, Urdu, Bulgarian, Polish or Turkish, please get in touch.
Info: bit.ly/3r81DlC
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#ArtHistoryFestival2023 #ThankYou
@Dorcasstories presented magnificently on #AltheaMcNish saying ‘she broke boundaries’ with her innate use of colour. Inspiring not only high-end design but also the households of Britain with her innovative, imaginative and instinctive work ✨
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#ArtHistoryFestival2023
Althea McNish: World of Colour
🗓️ Thu 21 Sep
🕠 17:30 - 18:30
free online
Textile historian & curator @Dorcasstories looks at McNish's use of colour in her designs & artwork, through the lens of the Colour is Mine exhibition.
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📢 Calling artists based in Turkey! Applications are now open for a residency at Delfina in early 2024. Thanks as ever to our partner @SAHA_Istanbul: delfinafoundation.com/open-c…
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📢Art workshops at Leytonsone Toy Library. Starting this evening! @_hervisions_ digital art platform are inviting you to be part of a collaborative artwork for the upcoming #RadicalLandscapes exhibition. For children, young people & families.
Info:
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Free space for community groups in Waltham Forest….
Launching the William Morris Community Residency Programme 🎉
Are you a community group, collective or organisation in Waltham Forest looking for resources or activity and meeting space to support your work? We want to hear from you.
Read more: bit.ly/43ZN4ix
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📢 We're looking for volunteers to support our work with schools & families at the Gallery. If you have an approachable manner & commitment and enthusiasm for cultural learning & the arts, then this might be the role for you!
Apply by 7 July 2023
Info:
bit.ly/3r81DlC
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📣 Due to popular demand, we're releasing more in-person tickets for our 'In Conversation' event on Wednesday 14 June. With designer Ashish Gupta and fashion and culture writer Avani Thakkar.
Please 'pay what you can' – our
suggested donation is £7.50.
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📢 Open for booking! Join us for an 'In Conversation' with Ashish and Avani Thakkar on 14 June. Together they’ll be taking a deep dive into Ashish’s expansive career.
📍 Hybrid event - Gallery & online
🎟️ Pay what you can
Info & tickets: bit.ly/439mfb1
#Fashion #Talk
Not 1 but 3 new jobs at my work- amazing collection and great team.
We're hiring!
1️⃣ Operations Manager: closing 9 May
2️⃣ Commercial Manager: closing 15 May
3️⃣ Fundraising Manager: closing 8 May
There are a variety of roles available across our cultural sites in Waltham Forest. Explore them here: bit.ly/44eti3s
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Althea McNish Colour is Mine ‘In Conversation’ Tickets, Thu 20 Apr 2023 at 17:00 @WhitworthArt with #WinstonBranch and #Dominique Heyse-Moore. eventbrite.co.uk/e/althea-mc…
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Our pattern this year, Melsetter, was designed by May Morris, embroidered alongside Theodosia Middlemore on linen with wool thread.
The cake is a carrot cake with cream cheese icing, the birds and flowers rendered in royal icing.
#WMSCCakes #Melsetter #ArtsAndCrafts
ALT A pomegranate tree with leaves, small flowers, and four birds is rendered in cake and frosting, based on the Melsetter pattern by May Morris.
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Jeanne Derion (front row, 3rd from right) was a French socialist, activist for women's rights and the first woman in France to stand in a national election. She joined the Socialist League, founded by William Morris, in the 1880s.
#WomensHistoryMonth
