Events
March - April 2025
ARTscapades is delighted to bring you this unique and exciting programme of art through talks by expert speakers. We continue to be grateful for your support which enables profits from our ticket sales to help UK museums and arts-based organisations.
Join our two-part Short Course Four Sienese Artists with Richard Stemp on the National Gallery’s unmissable new exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350.
Wendy Hitchmough, author of the new biography of Vanessa Bell explores the radical Bloomsbury artist’s images of women. Nicola Moorby discusses her latest book uncovering the parallel lives and works of Turner and Constable.
Discover Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious at Dulwich Picture Gallery with curator James Russell, and the Wallace Collection’s remarkable Venetian views by Canaletto and Guardi in our Study Afternoon with Clare Ford Wille.
All events take place via Zoom Webinar and can be watched live including Q&A. Ticket holders will be emailed a link to join 24 hours in advance. In case you can’t make it on the day, ticket holders will also receive a link to view a recording of the talk, which will be available for one month.
Ticket proceeds go to help support UK museums, galleries and other arts-based organisations.
If you missed booking a ticket to a recent online event you can purchase a link by visiting our on-demand Recordings page.
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Forthcoming events
Tuesday 1 April 2025, 5-7.30pm. £20
The exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting will be at the National Gallery this March, setting out to show how many innovations which we associate with the 15th-century Florentine Renaissance have their origins in Siena a century before. Join Dr Richard Stemp for this ARTscapades short course to investigate more closely; looking at the four key protagonists and their influence, especially on the work of their contemporaries.
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Thursday 10 April 2025, 6-7pm. £10
To coincide with the 250th anniversary of Turner’s birth and in anticipation of Constable’s in 2026, Nicola Moorby offers a fresh perspective on these two extraordinary artists in our ARTscapades talk, uncovering the layers of fiction that have embellished and disguised their parallel lives and works.
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Wednesday 23 April 2025, 6-7pm. £10
This ARTscapades talk on Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition on Tirzah Garwood by curator James Russell, reveals her as a multi-talented painter, printmaker and author whose work is characterised by wit, clarity and an extraordinary imagination.
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Past events
Recording Links
If you missed booking a ticket to a recent online event by expert curators and speakers, you can purchase a link to the on-demand recording by visiting our Recordings page.
Tuesday 29 April 2025, 2.30-5pm. £20
Celebrate the outstanding collection of twenty-seven Venetian vedute, view paintings by Canaletto, Guardi and their followers owned by the Wallace Collection, which glow once again from the gallery walls, after a major cleaning project over the last decade.
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