How Can a Face Tell of Its Life: A Colloquium on Portraiture
Thursday 22 March 2012
7pm - 8.30pm
£8 (£7 for Friends) to include a glass of wine or
book 3 talks for £18 (£15 for Friends)
Join a panel discussion on the nature of portraiture which will take its lead from the exhibition ‘G.F. Watts: Hall of Fame – Portraits of his famous contemporaries’. The panel will include Mark Bills, Curator of Watts Gallery, the painter Peter Monkman (winner of the BP Portrait Award and Director of Art at Charterhouse), Richard and Leonée Ormond (Curators of the Hall of Fame exhibition) and Sandy Nairne (Director of the National Portrait Gallery) who will chair the event.
The panel will consider the concept of the Hall of Fame, hero worship and role models, why icons and images of heroes/heroines are so important, who would be in a contemporary Hall of Fame, how is greatness expressed in portraiture, how can a face tell of its life and how does an artist reveal this and the soul and the image. This is sure to be a fascinating and engaging evening.
Forthcoming Talks:
Exhibition Talk: G.F. Watts: Hall of Fame
Richard Ormond CBE & Professor Leonée Ormond
Thursday 19 April 2012
7pm - 8.30pm
The Changing Faces of Fame
Professor Rob Dickins CBE
Thursday 24 May 2012, 7pm - 8.30pm
