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DDFAS FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER
29 January 2017
Dear Members
Welcome to your (almost) February newsletter.
Well, the Christmas cake and mince pies are long gone, a few sausage rolls are nestling in the freezer with the bread sauce, the sky is grey, it's raining and there is mud all around. Even Rob Titchener (Archers alert) has gone - for good? No, I don't think so either. All in all, February is a pretty dismal month. But amid all the gloom, we have a super lecture coming up next week.
Our February DDFAS talk will be on Wednesday February 8th in the Charter Hall, Okehampton, starting at 10.30 am . (Brownies will be served from 9.45 to 10.20, announcements at 10.25). Monica Bohm-Duchen talk is titled:-
Not so gentle? War & Conflict in the Art of Henry Moore
The critic Herbert Read once famously described the group of avant-garde artists centred around Henry Moore in Hampstead in the 1930s as “a nest of gentle artists”. When world events demanded, however, Moore was quick to put his art at the service of harsher realities. Prompted by the recent exhibition at Tate Britain, this lecture will trace an unfamiliar aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, from his response to the Spanish Civil War through his work as an official war artist during World War Two to his response to the Holocaust, the Cold War and the continued threat of atomic warfare in the 1960s.
Monica Bohm-Duchen (MA Courtauld Institute) is an independent writer, lecturer and exhibition organizer, who has lectured on a part-time basis at Birkbeck College since 2004. The other institutions for which she has worked include the Tate, the National Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, Sotheby's Institute of Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
The journals to which she has contributed include The Jewish Quarterly, RA Magazine, Art Monthly and Modern Painters. She has curated After Auschwitz, Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art (1995) and co-curated Art in Exile in Great Briton 1933 - 1945 (1986), Rubies and Rebels: Jewish Female Identity in Contemporary British Art (1996) and Life? or Theatre? The work of Charlotte Saloman (1998).
Her many publications include Understanding Modern Art (1991), The Nude (1992), Chagall (1998/2001), The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001) and The Art and Life of Josef Herman (2009). Her book on Art and the Second World War was published by Lund Humphries in October 2013 and was nominated for the William M B Berger Prize for Art History 2013/14 and the National Award for Arts Writing, USA.
If you would like to bring a guest to this lecture please contact our Membership Secretary Cindy Telfer-Smollett at cynthia.smollett@gmail.com or telephone 01837 871481. Please ensure that you get confirmation from Cindy as we have a limit of 10 for non-member attendance . Guests will be admitted on a first-come-first-serve basis and must be booked-in prior to the meeting. £10 voluntary contribution.
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NADFAS Matters
REBRANDING. As you may be aware, the Chief Executive and Trustees of NADFAS have been working, for the last six months, on this project which includes reviewing the image, name and logo of NADFAS. After much discussion and extensive consultation, the rebranding is being presented to members around the country and will be formally launched at the NADFAS AGM in May. At the start of the meeting, Tim Newcombe, who attended a briefing meeting at Taunton, will present a short film which launches the new identity, including name and logo and the thinking behind it.
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Dartmoor DFAS matters
Spring trip to Lukesland
Caroline Taylor, our Trips Secretary, has finalised plans for our Spring trip to Lakeland. She will be sending out details to all Members in the next couple of days.
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South West NADFAS matters
There are a number of Talks, Study Days and Trips in the South West that may be of interest. Full details are shown on the NADFAS South West Region website nadfasswarea.org.uk. Click on Special Interest Days and download a booking form.
Special Interest Days:-
- Tuesday March 7. John Risdon at the Thurlestone Hotel. Two lectures:-Dartington Estate of Art, Education and Historic Beauty and Memorable South Devon - colourful images in words and pictures. £27 details/booking Sue Wright at wrightsusan@gmx.com/01548 831349.
- Thursday March 23. Dick Bolton The Story of Kent at Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall. 3 lectures covering The Story of Kent, The Cinque Ports of Kent and Sussex and The Current restoration of Canterbury Cathedral. £30. Details/booking Jenny Butcher 01823 452 466.
- Thursday March 30. Diana Lloyd :The Development of English Porcelain at Buckfast Heritage Centre.
- Wednesday 19 April. Day visit to Rodmarton Manor & Fairford Booking closes 20 March.
- Wednesday 7 June. Prof Jeremy Black Georgian London at Passage House Hotel, Kingsteignton. Lunch and lecture 12.45 - 3.30. £35. Details & booking Augusta Kyle 01626 775 495
Spring Tours.
- Devon DFAS Tour to The Art Galleries and Historic Houses of West Kent/Sussex - a 3 day tour from 7 - 9 May. Includes visits to Watts Gallery & Chapel, Polesdon Lacy, All Saints Church, Tudely (windows decorated by Marc Chagall) Hever Castle, Pallac House Gallery. £372 (based on two sharing; single room supplement £40) Details/booking 01769 580723; paul.s.holmes@virgin.net.
- South West Area Tour to Sussex - visiting the glorious gardens and houses of Sussex. Sunday 11th June to Friday 16th June. Cost is £496 per person based on two people sharing (single room supplement £30 per night). More details and booking form from Mary Ginger (01823 490527)
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If you are interested in Cornish Art specifically the Newlyn School, this newly published book by new DFFAS member David Tovey sounds fascinating:-
David, a NADFAS lecturer on Cornish art, has just published his latest book, a biography of the author, artist, and adventurer, Crosbie Garstin (1887-1930), which is entitled 'The Witty Vagabond'. Crosbie, the eldest son of Newlyn School painter, Norman Garstin, led an extraordinarily adventurous life, which included working as a broncho-buster, lumberjack and miner in Canada and a bush ranger and cattle ranch manager in South Africa, before serving in a colonial cavalry regiment during the First War. He first made his name in literary circles as a poet, then as a comic writer for 'Punch', before producing his Penhale trilogy, a much-lauded adventure story set in eighteenth century Cornwall - the inspiration for 'Poldark'. His final book, the romantic adventure, 'China Seas', was made into a Hollywood blockbuster, starring Clarke Gable, Jean Harlow and Wallace Beery. On his premature death, by drowning at Salcombe, in 1930, Crosbie was hailed as "in every way a notable son of Cornwall". If you are interested in the book find out more from his website www.stivesart.info.
Broomhill Sculpture Park
National Sculpture Prize 2017. This is a fantastic opportunity for all sculptors to show their work in the beautiful Broomhill Sculpture Park with a a grant of £1000 towards their work. Entrants must be in by 3rd Feb. More details from info@broomhillart.co.uk.
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The weather may be gloomy but there are many local attractions during this month and next.....
The SW ACADEMY
Winter Exhibition to 25 February at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Dowelled Street, Honiton EX14 1LX. New paintings, photographs, prints and ceramics from Academy Artists inc David Brooke & Alan Cotton. Tues - Sat 10 - 5.
Bratton Clovelly Parish Hall EX20 4JT
BALAGAN CAFE BAND Friday 31 March 7.30pm. Doors and bar open 7pm; cafe-style seating. Combining world music, French & American jazz and classical in a fiery fusion - 'this is music for the ears, the heart and feet!'
Tickets £8 adults/£6 16 and under from 01837 871696 brattonclovellyfestival@gmail.com
EXETER CATHEDRAL
Verdi Requiem with Exeter Philharmonic Orchestra Saturday 18 March at 7.30. Tickets £12 - £22 from 01392 499211
RAMM, Exeter
Rathbones Spring Concert Series 2017.
Wednesday 22 March 7.30pm. Catrin Finch - Harp (former Royal Harpist to HRH Prince Charles) Programme includes Back, Debussy, Salzedo. Tickets £20 from RAMM.
Exeter Fine Art Collection to 31 May. Covering the Winter and Spring.
Hiroshige's Japan Exhibition to Sunday 16 April.
A selection of Japanese woodblock prints. Booking essential, timed entry. £4 (concessions £2)
Comforts for Soldiers to 17 May - a small exhibition in the Courtyard.
Queen Victoria in Paris to 23 April This exhibition shows 44 watercolours of Queen Victoria's remarkable historic 10-day visit to Paris in 1855.
Museum open 10am - 5pm Tuesday to Sunday; closed Mondays
EXETER CORN EXCHANGE
Banff Film Festival Friday 24/Saturday 25 February. 7.30pm. Experience an extraordinary collection of short films from the world's most prestigious mountain film festival.
£14.50 (concessions £13).
Vienna Festival Ballet; Cinderella Wednesday 22 March 7.30pm. £22.50.
exetercornexchange.co.uk.
NORTHCOTT Theatre, Exeter
Ruddigore - Exeter University Gilbert & Sullivan Society Wed 1 - Sat 4 Feb 7.30 (Sat matinee 2.30pm) Tickets £11 - £20 (Concessions £2 off)
Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures presented by New Adventures Thurs 9 - Sat 11 Feb 7.30 (Sat matinee 2.30pm) Tickets £18.50 - £32.50 (Concessions £2 off tickets between £18.50 - £28.50)
Leviathan - James Wilton Dance Mon 6 March 7.30pm. 'Inspired by Herman Melville's Moby Dick'
Tickets £14. (Concessions £2 off)
Richard Alston Dance Company.Tuesday 14th&Wednesday 15th March 7.30pm. Tickets £13 - £21 (concessions £2 off )
Neon Dance Empathy. Monday 27 March 7.30pm Movement, sound and innovative laser light show combine in this gripping & powerful dance performance. Tickets £12.50 - £16.50.
GREENHILL ARTS CENTRE, Moretonhampstead.
EN TRANCE Exhibition Sat Feb 4 - Sat March 18. Chernobyl exclusion zone and former psychiatric hospitals. Prepare to be moved, surprised and touched by some very fine work.
Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 4pm. Free admission.
Life Drawing Day Tuesday Feb 7 10am - 3pm. £25. Call Georgie on 01647 440775 for more details.
DEVON GUILD, Bovey Tracey
Exhibition: Get Fresh 2017 to Sun 5 March Work by 15 new or emerging designer-makers from the South-West.
Exhibition: Spotlight - Guild Associate Members. to Sun 26 Feb New work five Devon Guild Associate Members.
Daily 10am - 5.30pm. Free admission.
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And back at Okehampton………...
Showing at the Carlton Cinema Okehampton.
(From just £12.50 for pensioner members).
Theatre
Amadeus, Thursday February 2 (NT)
Saint Joan, Thursday February 16 (NT)
Hedda Gabler, Thursday March 9 (NT)
Twelve Night, Thursday April 6 (NT)
Julius Caesar, Wednesday April 26 (RSC)
Antony & Cleopatra, Wednesday May 24 (RSC)
Angels in America Part 1; Millenium Approaches Thursday July 20 (NT)
Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika Thursday July 27 (NT)
Titus Andronicus, Wednesday August 9 (RSC)
Opera
Il Trovatore, Tuesday January 31 (ROH)
Madam Butterfly, Thursday March 30 (ROH)
Otello, Wednesday June 28 (ROH)
Ballet
Swan Lake Sunday February 5 (Bolshoi)
Woolf Works, Wednesday February 8 (ROH)
The Sleeping Beauty Tuesday February 28 (Bolshoi)
A Contemporary Evening Sunday March 19 (Bolshoi)
A Hero of Our Time Sunday April 9 (Bolshoi)
Jewels, Tuesday April 11 (ROH)
Coppelia, Wednesday April 19 (The Australian Ballet)
The Dream/Symphonic Variations/Marguerite and Armand, Wed June 7 (ROH)
Exhibition on Screen
I, Claude Monet, Tuesday February 21st
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, Tuesday March 21
Michelangelo- Love & Death, Tuesday June 13
Dates correct at time of going to press. For full details or to book, pop into the New Carlton Cinema next door or ring 01837 658 586.
We hope that you find something of interest from this month's newsletter and do hope that you are able to join us on February 8th.
Best wishes
Jo Wymer - Chairman jowymer@icloud.com
John Milton - Secretary johnmilton@creaber.ecliipse.co.uk
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