Culture Shift Symposium 2025: What Does Sustainable Art Look Like?
Join us for an afternoon of workshops and discussions for arts industry professionals by arts...Friday 19th September
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Talk
Inspired By Nature: From Enid Blyton’s Nature Plates to the Badger Diaries
Discover more about how art and nature came together in the work of Eileen Soper....Saturday 20th September
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Greening the Bluecoat
The Bluecoat is the UK's oldest arts centre, with a century-long history presenting contemporary art....Thursday 18th September
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Online Talk: Heavenly Bodies: Edward Burne-Jones and Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass
Sheffield Museums - Join Dr. Suzanne Fagence Cooper for this online talk on Pre-Raphaelite stained...Monday 15th September
6:15 pm – 7:15 pm
Watts’ Choosing: online talk with Curator, Christina Bradstreet
Join Watts Gallery for this free online talk led by Christina Bradstreet, curator of the...Monday 15th September
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Living Stones: Learning from Ithell Colquhoun
Christie's Education - British Artist-Animist-Magician, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988) maintained that visual art is a powerful...Wednesday 17th September
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Art beyond the human: spirits, ecologies, and A.I.
This online lecture hosted by City Lit explores the role of the non-human in shaping...Monday 15th September
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Art & Environment: an introduction to earthworks
An introduction to the Earthworks movement, this lecture introduces its history through two key artworks...Wednesday 17th September
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Taming Nature – the flora and fauna of The Glasgow Style
‘Art is the Flower - Life is the Green Leaf. Let every artist strive to...Wednesday 17th September
12:00 pm – 12:45 pm
Audio Art: Utterly in the Picture
Join us in Room 45 of the National Gallery for a detailed audio description of...Tuesday 16th September
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Curator’s Introduction to the National Gallery’s exhibition ‘Millet: Life on the Land’
Sarah Herring, Associate Curator of Post-1800 Paintings, introduces the National Gallery's free exhibition Millet: Life...Friday 19th September
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Branch Out | Curator’s Talk and Collage Workshop Inspired by Cecil Beaton’s Garden Party
This workshop is a part of the Garden Museum's Branch Out Programme, a series of...Tuesday 16th September
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
‘Landscaping’ with Visual Cultures: Demarcations
This session considers landscape as a representational mode locked in tension with its own subject: the...Monday 15th September
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
‘Landscaping’ with Visual Cultures: Paradise Lost
This session explores art historical determinations of Paradise, its loss, and genealogies of geopower. Historical...Monday 15th September
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Ian Hamilton Finlay – Avant Gardener
Join the Scottish Society for Art History in celebrating the centenary of the internationally acclaimed...Tuesday 16th September
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Kerry Morrison: An Environment Artist’s Perspective
This event has been cancelled by National Galleries of Scotland. National Galleries of Scotland -...Tuesday 16th September
Magical Patterns: Nature & Textiles from William Morris to IKEA
The history of textile design highlights radical changes in our taste for pattern. As a...Saturday 20th September
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Tapestry & Nature
Explore how tapestry can capture the natural world with Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh. From traditional...Wednesday 17th September
1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Illuminated Histories: A Field Guide
How does the material we read connect us to the spaces we inhabit? What prompts,...Thursday 18th September
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
‘Playful Fantasies : Visions of Nature in Eighteenth-Century French Art’
Join Alexander Collins, Curator of Decorative Arts at the Wallace Collection, and Dr Barbara Lasic,...Tuesday 16th September
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Language, Media, and the Feminine Body in Ketty La Rocca’s multidisciplinary work
During her brief career, Ketty La Rocca (1938–1976) worked across a number of disciplines and...Thursday 18th September
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm