A Village in Heaven – Stanley Spencer's Cookham
Dr Amy Lin to give this month's lecture from The Arts Society Ealing
A painting of Cookham by Stanley Spencer
May 21, 2024
May’s lecture from The Arts Society Ealing will be a talk on the subject ‘A Village in Heaven – Stanley Spencer’s Cookham’ by Dr Amy Lim.
It is taking place on Monday 27 May, 7.30 pm at St Barnabas Church Hall, Pitshanger Lane, Ealing W5 1QG.
Few artists are as rooted in a place as Stanley Spencer and his beloved home village of Cookham. This Thames-side village was not only his birthplace, his home for most of his life, and even his nickname, but it dominated his imagination and was the inspiration and location for many of his greatest paintings. This lecture will look at Cookham’s place in Spencer’s art, and how it was central to his unique vision of English domestic and spiritual life.
Dr Amy Lim is an art historian and curator, specialising in British fine and decorative arts from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. She is curator of the Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, and of the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham. She is also an exhibition researcher at Tate, contributing to British Baroque: Power and Illusion (2020) and the forthcoming Women Artists in Britain. She runs an online art dealership, and has published articles and essays on a variety of art-related topics from gothic garden monuments to female patronage.
Visitors are welcome to attend at £8 per lecture (reduced to £3 for students); payment can be made by cash on the evening or in advance by contacting: spsecretarytase@gmail.com
The Arts Society Ealing belongs to the large umbrella organisation, The Arts Society, previously known as the National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS), which was founded in 1968. The local Society, which has a membership of around 140, is now one of the 388 member societies of The Arts Society that have been formed throughout the United Kingdom, in parts of Europe and in Australia and New Zealand.
The Arts Society Ealing holds 10 lectures a year and more information can be found by visiting its web site.
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