Join Jeannie in this beginners introduction to plaster carving. You will be guided in how to create a bas-relief. This means the piece you create has a flat back and a 3-D image that you have carved out, at the front.
You will be given a demonstration of how to use your tools and there will be examples of plaster work to inspire you.
You will draw your design onto the plaster in pencil before carving out your design.
A cabaret night celebrating primary school life in the 90s and 00s.
Step back in time to a simpler time when Freddos cost 10p, we cha-cha slid everywhere and were traumatised by road safety adverts.
Join the Henry Moore Institute for a guided tour of their current exhibition, Hany Armanious: Stone Soup.
Led by Laurence Sillars, Head of the Henry Moore Institute and curator of the exhibition, the tour will examine Armanious’ ways of working, his influences and philosophies, and the pieces made for this exhibition.
Using lino cutting and hand printing techniques you will be invited to dive into the symbolism of the mermaid in British folklore.
Join us in an exploration of the ancient story of the Mermaid of Zennor, a traditional folktale from a coastal village in Cornwall.
We will be taking inspiration from the beautifully engraved Mermaid of Zennor Bench, which was carved in the 1500s to commemorate the story.
This workshop is open to all and welcomes beginners and intermediate printers alike.
Please note - participants must be 18+
A curator led talk about the Power of Persuasion exhibition including the chance to explore the exhibition and ask questions plus the opportunity get up close with some historic advertising collections not on display.
Refreshments included.
Our upcoming exhibition Is This What We Have Left? featuring never shown and new works by artists Kate O’Neill, Marta Dyczkowska and James Thompson. Show opens 19/09/2024 at our home Hyde Park Book Club, and focused on the current dialogues we are having as creatives around space.
Hyde Park Art Club is excited to announce our upcoming exhibition, Is This What We Have Left? featuring never shown and new works by artists Kate O’Neill, Marta Dyczkowska and James Thompson.
Show opens 19 September 2024 at our home in Hyde Park Book Club and focused on the current dialogues we are having as creatives around space.
Shifting from art film to documentary, Spell Reel re-animates the historic colonial archive to construct considered “cine-kinships” between past and present.
This event is a screening of two films, reflecting the work of Luta Ca Caba Inda (The Struggle is not Over Yet), an ongoing, experimental arts project, embarked on by a cine-collective involving artist Filipa César, and filmmakers, Sana na N’Hada and Flora Gomes, that seeks to digitise and re-animate the nearly destroyed archive of anti-colonial cinema shot in Guinea-Bissau during 1970s.
An evening celebrating women in surrealist silent film, performed with live music and discussion by Hoolan Ensemble
Hoolan Ensemble is a recently formed collective of musicians and composers dedicated to performing innovative and unusual contemporary music, and to collaborating with other art forms. Join them for an electrifying evening of live music and film inspired by the forgotten artistic achievements of women in early cinema.
This smash road trip from Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men, Gravity) is a pivotal title in contemporary Mexican cinema.
Featuring Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna in what is arguably their breakout roles, Y tu mamá también follows a pair of horny teenagers from Mexico City from different classes who, after their girlfriends jet off to Italy for the summer, are bewitched by a gorgeous older Spanish woman (Maribel Verdú) they meet at a wedding.