Heritage Experiences - down t'pit

Hello All,

I attended a meeting yesterday, as part of a new research project called 'Performing the Past: Exploring the Heritage of Working-Class Communities in Yorkshire' at the National Coal Mining Museum for England

Performing the Past is part of a White Rose University Consortium funded project...and more on that in future blog entries I'm sure!

National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield.

  Anyway, I had a really (no, really) fantastic heritage experience; a group of us went on the 'underground tour' of the redundant mine (redundant in the sense of producing coal, I mean...it's actually far from 'redundant' in many other ways!).....it has a kind of after-life...

The Underground Tour at NCMM 

The guide for our 'heritage' experience was an ex-miner, as all the guides for the underground tours are, and what a fabulous heritage experience guide he was!..The picture (left) is not us btw...we are much, much older...plus, we were not allowed to take any cameras (or anything with batteries etc) down the mine (so I don't know how this particular photo was taken?), but it's interesting that the health and safety working practices of the mine still continue.....

But, to the Tour - our guide took us underground (c.500 feet...to the height of the Blackpool Tower apparently) and through mining history, from late 18th century to the 1980s (when the mine was closed...See Orgreave if you're interested...which I see is back in the news again...significantly.)
It was a sublime experience, full of detail, pathos, humour and just the right amount of violence (call it anger) (if there can be 'just the right amount' of violence...maybe I'm thinking Zizek here?). The labyrinthine spaces of the mine were literally and brilliantly brought to life by our Ex-Miner...he was, in the immortal words of Bowie, 'Chameleon, Comedian, Corinthian and Caricature'!
(D.Bowie; The Bewlay Brothers, 1971)
Mark.

Preparing for London trip!

Twin Peaks

20th Anniversary

Tuesday 30 October - Saturday 3 November

Lower Gallery

This exhibition is a homage to David Lynch and Twin Peaks (1990-1991). Twin Peaks remains one of the most important television series ever made.  Its distinctive combination of humour, sadness and tension still reverberates throughout our culture, influencing fashion, music and photography, as well as film and television.  Europe's first ever official art exhibition inspired by Twin Peaks; thirteen artists from nine countries; new works.

Also available, commemorative official limited edition Twin Peaks merchandise, all approved by David Lynch.

Friday Lates until 8pm

suetminglau@yahoo.co.uk

Exhibitions

http://www.meniergallery.co.uk/Menier_Gallery/Exhibitions.html

here is a link from the Guardian 

The 'double jobbers' making a living while working in the arts | Culture | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jul/29/living-working-in-the-arts?intcmp=239

We will have an exiting trip in London for the British Museum ,V&A,National Gallery and so on, I do believe it wil be an amazing art trip!

 All results in London - Art Fund

http://www.artfund.org/search//in/13

National Art Pass - Art Fund

http://www.artfund.org/buynationalartpass/ 

I have used the National Art Pass  to many museums,I think 18.75 pounds  for 12 months is fine.

 2nd Nov is Friday,there are also a lot of museums open until 9.00 even 9.30 as the British Museum.

Courtauld Gallery - 

http://www.artfund.org/what-to-see/museums-and-galleries/courtauld-gallery 

OPENING HOURS
Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.30pm)

Late Night Openings

Thursdays: 25 October and 29 November 2012, until 9pm

Adults	£6
Concessions (over 60s, part-time and international students)	£4.50
Children under 18, full-time UK students, Friends of The Courtauld, registered unwaged	FREE
Visitors with disabilities can bring an escort free of charge

Free Mondays until 2pm

Admission is free on Mondays from 10am until 2pm  

 London is full of art and exhibitions,here is another link for Art tours in South London.

South London Art Map
http://www.southlondonartmap.com/

Perspectives on the Art Market

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PERSPECTIVES ON THE ART MARKET

Open Lecture Series No. VIII

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

University of Leeds

 ‘Picture-Hunting for the Nation: Sir Charles Eastlake and his concept of ‘eligibility’ and the mid-19th-century European Art-Market’

Dr Susanna Avery-Quash

Research Curator in the History of Collecting

The National Gallery, London

Clothworkers South, Lecture Theatre 3 (3.12)

On THURSDAY 22^nd November 2012

2.00pm -3.30pm

ALL WELCOME

For further information on this Lecture Series please email

Dr Mark Westgarth m.w.westgarth@leeds.ac.uk

Attitudes in the City - Works on Paper by the Camden Town Group

                                     

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                           The Factories/Canal Building, Leeds, by Harold Gilman

Voyeuristic Practices: Fresh Approach to Twentieth-Century Artwork in Display Curated by University Students

Attitudes in the City – Works on paper by the Camden Town Group

Special Display at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds

Monday 15^th October – Saturday 15^th December 2012

Free Entry

Suitable for all ages

Students on the MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies course from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds have been given the exciting opportunity to curate an exhibition. They take a fresh look at the University’s collection of works on paper by the Camden Town Group.  

The impressive assembly of works on paper held in the University’s Art Collection at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery form the basis of this special display, which focuses on the Camden Town Group. Pen, pencil, ink and chalk drawings, many of which have not been on display at the Gallery for some time, are drawn together by a group of postgraduate students in their first group curation project. Themes of the Edwardian metropolis and working class life are explored through the central concept, which presents the artist and viewers as voyeurs of both people and places. The exhibition includes two works portraying Edwardian Leeds, including a detailed drawing of the University buildings by artist Charles Ginner.

‘Attitudes in the City’ is an interesting re-visit to the University’s collection of Camden Town Group works, showcasing the metropolis of Edwardian Britain and the people who made their lives there.

For information about the exhibition and the venue visit: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/gallery/

Perspectives on the Art Market

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PERSPECTIVES ON THE ART MARKET

Open Lecture Series No. IX

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School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

University of Leeds

 Auctions, Exports, Exemptions – Art Market Case Studies

 Elizabeth Jamieson MA

Independent Furniture Historian and Assessor to the Reviewing Panel for the Export of Works of Art

Clothworkers South, Lecture Theatre 3 (3.12)

On MONDAY 19^th November 2012

2.00pm -3.30pm

ALL WELCOME