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Join monthly tours covering different subjects in our exhibition Dreams and Stories: Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries. Enter a world of stories, dreams and the surreal.
Thursday 17 November | An introduction | Dr Laura MacCulloch
Join Dr Laura MacCulloch for an introductory tour of this exquisite exhibition which looks at the ways in which British artists explored the modern world by embracing the style of the mid-century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Thursday 15 December | Late Female Pre-Raphaelites | Dr Laura MacCulloch
Explore the lives and works of the women featured in Dreams and Stories including Evelyn De Morgan, Christiana Herringham and Margaret Gere. These women were some of the first to be able to attend art school at the end of the nineteenth-century and several were involved in the Suffrage Movement, fighting for a woman’s right to vote.
Thursday 19 January | Frederick Cayley Robinson | Dr Alice Eden
Join Dr Alice Eden to learn about the art of an important modern British artist who has been much neglected. Working from the 1870s well into the 20th century, Cayley Robinson’s innovative and striking paintings engage with gender and spirituality, betraying modern ambiguity and anxieties. Pre-Raphaelitism re-invented for the modern age.
Thursday 16 February | Spiritualism | Dr Alice Eden
Late nineteenth-century Britons were captivated by a significant turn to the occult and a persistent yearning for the spiritual in various guises. Explore how art reflected what was described as a ‘spiritual epoch’, understandings of the Universe which could not be provided by science or rational thinking formed a major response to the increasing changes of the modern age.