Leicester Decorative and Fine Arts Society
A member of the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies
Meetings
Meetings are on Wednesday evenings starting at 7.45pm.
Our future programme covers a wide range of interests and tastes. A well balanced and informative line up of speakers on subjects well known, which will be firm favourites, plus some new subjects which may open up new horizons and intrigue.
I am sure you appreciate the excellent programme, superb lectures and pleasant company enjoyed as a LDFAS member.
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22 February 2012 -
Aboriginal Art
Rebecca Hossack
Rebecca Hossack was born in Melbourne
in 1955. She came to England in the early Eighties
to study for the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, but abandoned the law for a career in Art.
Having studied at Christies and worked at the Guggenheim in Venice, she set up her
own gallery – in Windmill Street, Fitzrovia – in March 1988
The gallery thrived. It has gained a reputation both for championing Aboriginal and Non Western Art, and for exhibiting contemporary ‘Western’ artists of rare individual vision. The gallery’s on going success is a vindication of Hossack’s boldness, eye, energy and commitment.
For Rebecca Hossack Gallery website and further information about the aboriginal artists click here
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28 March 2012
All Nature is a Garden: William Kent and the Birth of the English Landscape Movement
James Bolton
The eighteenth century revolution in English garden design was a gradual development. Politics, painting, poetry and the Grand Tour contributed to the creation of the English Landscape Movement whose chief proponents were professional designers including William Kent.
There will be an exhibition in 2012 at the V&A on William Kent, further details later.
Below: The Tem
ple of British Worthies, Stowe
Above: Chiswick House Gardens
Click here for more information on British Landscape Gardens
Click here to read more about William Kent
Click here for information on William Kent gardens.
Our future programme covers a wide range of interests and tastes. A well balanced and informative line up of speakers on subjects well known, which will be firm favourites, plus some new subjects which may open up new horizons and intrigue.
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