| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Coordinator: |
Pia Rainey
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| Group email: | Art in London group |
| When: | At least one visit per month to exhibitions, galleries, salesrooms and exhibition related talks |
| Venue: | Anywhere in Greater London |
Art in London is a lively Islington u3a visual arts group with around 130 members. We visit a wide range of exhibitions, museums and galleries across Greater London, with trips generally organised by our Group Coordinator, Pia Rainey. Each visit typically attracts about six to twelve members — a friendly number for exploring and discussing artworks together. We also meet for a chat before entering exhibitions, supporting the Group’s strong social side. Visits are published in an illustrated monthly e-newsletter, sent to all registered members of the Group. Here you will find details of exhibition entry times and meet up points. Members book their own tickets, and suggestions or offers to host events are warmly welcomed. Please see below for upcoming outings, and contact Pia by clicking the email link above if you are interested in joining our Group.
Events programme
SUMMER OUTING TO LEWES AND CHARLESTON
Date: Thursday 16 July
Visit Sickert exhibition at Charleston in Lewes and choice of Charleston Farmhouse in Firle (Home of members of the Bloomsbury group) or stay in Lewes, have lunch, visit Anne of Cleves House, walk in the historical city etc.
Places: Lewes and Firle, East Sussex
QUENTIN BLAKE CENTRE FOR ILLUSTRATION
Date: Wednesday 29 July
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is the world’s largest dedicated space and the UK's only permanent public arts space solely for illustration. Founded by the beloved British illustrator Sir Quentin Blake, it celebrates all forms of visual storytelling—from picture books and comics to scientific drawings and animation. There are three exhibitions in ticketed galleries we can visit: Queer as comics, Quentin Blake: Performance and Murugiah: Ever Feel Like…
Place: Myddelton Passage, Clerkenwell
MARYLIN MONROE: A PORTRAIT
Date: Thursday 13 August
In celebration of the Hollywood star’s 100th birthday Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait explores the life, career and legacy of actress and model through portraits created by some of the greatest photographers and artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. This show brings together works by Andy Warhol, Pauline Boty, Marlene Dumas, James Gill, Rosalyn Drexler and Audrey Flack, alongside over 20 era-defining photographers, including Cecil Beaton and many others.
Place: National Portrait Gallery
HEPWORTH IN COLOUR
Date: Thursday 20 August
Barbara Hepworth (1903 –1975) is best known for her abstract sculptural forms inspired by nature and the rugged seaside landscapes of Cornwall, where she lived and worked. This ambitious exhibition explores the artist’s lifelong fascination with colour and unites for the first time her early innovative sculptures with colour of the 1940s, displayed alongside the most important drawings from that decade.
Place: The Courtauld Gallery
ANISH KAPOOR
Date: Tuesday 8 September
The exhibition features works from many of Kapoor’s most iconic series: flawless steel mirror sculptures that warp, distort and disorient; mysterious objects coated in Vantablack – the blackest known substance in the world – that mystify us with their extraordinary light-absorbing properties; and seemingly depthless voids opening within the gallery, drawing us in with a thrilling sense of vertigo.
Place: Hayward Gallery