Events

*** This event is fully booked *** Brockfield Hall was built for Benjamin Agar by Peter Atkinson, a junior partner of John Carr. It is owned by Charlie and Hatta Wood, who have recently undertaken a major restoration with the aim of bringing the house back to its original 1804 design, but at the same […]

A talk by Amina Wright, curator of historic art collections, exhibitions, and interiors formerly for English Heritage, and the Holburne Museum in Bath. She is now Senior Curator of the Faith Museum in Bishop Auckland. She has published a special study of Sir Thomas Lawrence, and will share with us some of the findings of […]

This month's Gallery talk will be given by Amelie Castellant, a postgraduate student at the Department of History of Art, University of York, on Wednesday 8 May at 1pm. The title, which sounds intriguing, is 'Seeing Scuptures and Touching Pictures'. Why do we enjoy touching sculptures, such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Portrait Bust of Alfred Wolmark and […]

A coach visit to Kettle's Yard and the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, leaving Memorial Gardens at 08:00 and aiming to return to York at 20:00. There will be no group booking for lunch; there is a small café at Kettle’s Yard and a major one in the Fitzwilliam. In the late 1950s, Jim Ede, one-time curator […]

The Friends of York Art Gallery have the exciting opportunity of visiting the Garsington Opera Festival during a short 3 day trip from 31st May to 2 June 2024.The Festival is held in the beautiful grounds of Womersley Park, the home of the Getty family. The operas are staged in a specially designed Opera Pavilion […]

*** This event is fully booked *** Opened in1837, York Cemetery Chapel is a grand neo-classical building. The Chapel and the entire cemetery layout were designed by the York architect, JP Pritchett. It is one of the finest cemetery chapels in the country. We meet under the Chapel Portico at 10 30am.We are fortunate that […]

*** Fully booked *** A coach trip visiting Ushaw College, historic house, chapel and gardens, which was founded in 1808 as a seminary to train Roman Catholic priests. The huge complex of buildings contains some magnificent examples of Victorian architecture, with a Chapel designed by A W Pugin and a Refectory by E W Pugin. […]

*** This event is fully booked with a waiting list *** David Lamb,a FYAG committee member and Trustee of YMT has kindly invited members to a soirée at his Grade 2* house in St Saviourgate. We will have the opportunity to explore the recently restored house, see an exhibition in the dining room, and visit […]

*** This event is fully booked with a waiting list*** The morning will consist of two seminars led by Lizzie Darbyshire, who developed her interest in Manet when she was at the Courtauld Institute of Art. After coffee on arrival, the first seminar will look at the early years of Manet’s career when he struggled […]

Gorton Monastery, known as Manchester’s Taj Mahal, was designed by Augustus Welby Pugin for the Franciscan order, and is a Grade II* listed building. Following the closure of the monastery in 1989, it fell into disrepair until it was saved by a local couple, Paul and Elaine Griffiths, who set up a charitable trust in […]

Seminar by Helena Cox in the Bedingfield Room in the Bar Convent. In the first session Helena will introduce us to Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, which were first shown to the west in the Japanese Pavilion in Paris at the Exposition Universelle in 1867. In the second session, Helena will explore with us the dramatic impact […]

Dr Stuart Calder, who will conduct this evening’s event, is founding member and the wine buyer for the York Medical Society Wine Club. He has been importing wine from France, Italy, and Spain for over forty years for this enthusiastic group of wine amateurs. Our event will be an interactive tutored tasting, highlighting some of […]