Art-Inspired Set Design: Talk by Grant Montgomery

Saturday, 17 March 2012, 2-3pm

The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery welcome production designer, Grant Montgomery, to talk about finding inspiration through art when working on films and series for television.

Grant’s research for a number of high-profile BBC and ITV projects has taken him into many galleries and museums. Drawing from the distinctive colours and features of period paintings, Grant will share a behind-the-scenes insight into designing historical sets and using art to create the contemporary look and feel of a particular period.

Grant Montgomery's credits include: ‘Unforgiven’ (ITV), ‘Worried about the Boy’ (BBC), The Crimson Petal and the White (BBC), ‘Birdsong’ (BBC) and ‘Dancing on the Edge’ (BBC) (forthcoming).

Free event, all welcome. No booking necessary but limited seating so please arrive early.

Lunchtime Talk with Artist Matt Smith

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
1.30-2.15pm

Come along to the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery this Tuesday to hear Matt Smith, the artist responsible for the new exhibition, ‘Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection', deliver a lunchtime talk the day after the opening, in association with LGBT History Month.

Smith will be talking more about the artistic process and the research undertaken as part of this exciting project.

Free event, all welcome. No booking necessary. We look forward to welcoming you!

Click here for more information on our upcoming events in March.

Merchants of Modernism talk by Mark

Hope those of you involved in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery displays have recovered from all the relentless hard work? Congratulations again on your achievement!

Coming soon, a free talk that might interest students of Museum Studies...by one of your favourite lecturers!


'Merchants of Modernism: Dealers, Exhibitions and the promotion of the avant-garde, 1900-1939' - Talk by Dr. Mark Westgarth
Saturday, 12 November 2011, 3pm

The rise in the interest in the avant-garde is a story that mirrors the evolving conditions of modernity in the early 20th century. New kinds of dealers and new commercial art galleries disseminated avant-garde artworks to a metropolitan public through innovative exhibition strategies, new marketing techniques and the professional practices of the modern art dealer. Focusing on some of the most significant art dealers in the period, including Paul Durand-Ruel and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and some high profile exhibitions at galleries such as Grafton Galleries, Reid & Lefevre, Leicester Galleries, this introductory talk maps the evolution of the modern art market at a critical moment in its development.

Free event, all welcome. No booking necessary.

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Curator Mel Gooding to speak at SAB Gallery

Next week, on Thurs 28 Jan 2010 at 6pm, eminent art writer and critic Mel Gooding will speak at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery about curating our current exhibition 'A Discipline of the Mind.' The event is free and open to all, so it's a great opportunity to hear this experienced curator discuss his concept and methodology.

Mel is a fascinating individual, with plenty of stories about figures in the art world he's met in the course of his work - in particular, the many audio interviews he's conducted with major British artist in the past decades for the National Life Stories: Artists' Lives project. Well worth dropping by to meet him!

Image: Glacier Knot, by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, 1978,mixed media, ink on card (BGT 76) (c) The Barns Graham Charitable Trust