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SUMMARY:Hovingham Hall Visit
DESCRIPTION:*** Fully booked ***Join us for a private tour of Hovingham Hall\, a beautiful family home\, 17 miles north of York. It was designed and built by Thomas Worsley c1770 and was the childhood home of the late Duchess of Kent. The house has an important collection of furniture and pictures and includes a magnificent domed ceiling\, a bust of Oliver Cromwell\, (an ancestor of the Worsleys)\, an enormous riding school\, a seventeenth century dovecot and the oldest continuously played on cricket ground in England. The attractive gardens and the adjacent parish church\, with Worsley memorials are well worth a visit after the house tour. Meet outside the entrance at 2pm. There is ample parking in the roads near the Hall and the Church.Cost: £28.50 to include tea/coffee and biscuits. Booking is essential. If paying by cheque\, please contact the organiser. \n			\n				Join waiting list
URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/hovingham-hall-visit/
LOCATION:Hovingham Hall\, Hovingham\, YO62 4LX
ORGANIZER;CN="Cynthia Barbor":MAILTO:cynthia.barbor@hotmail.co.uk
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SUMMARY:Friends Preview - highlights of the Fine Art Degree Show YSJ University
DESCRIPTION:*** Fully booked *** This event is a special Friends’ preview of the exhibition featuring highlights from the Fine Art Degree Show\, York St John University. Refreshments will be provided. Please note that this event is FREE to all Friends but places are limited; it should be a fascinating opportunity to discover the best of the current student work from York St John.
URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/friends-preview-highlights-of-the-fine-art-degree-show-ysj-university/
LOCATION:Sliding Water Gallery\, 64 Marygate\, York\, YO30 7BH\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="David Lamb":MAILTO:datlamb@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Trip to Thorns Art Gallery at Semerwater
DESCRIPTION:Leaving Memorial Gardens at 9 am we will travel by minibus to Thorns Gallery\, arriving at about 11 am in time for tea/coffee and biscuits. This is a rare opportunity to visit this contemporary art gallery opened in 2025 in a beautifully converted cattle shed overlooking Semerwater\, near Leyburn\, where Jake Attree is holding an exciting solo exhibition. Friends may know Jake through visits to his studio in Dean Clough and his paintings of the Minster in York Art Gallery. In an exhibition catalogue for Messum’s in Cork Street\, London\, his work was described as ‘somewhere between the epic and the folkloric: the high impasto surfaces of his panoramic studies centred on York Minster and his earlier homage to Breughel show an eye for the infinite\, enduring details of his ancient city’ and\, I would add\, elsewhere. The gallery owners\, Graeme Black and Jonathan Reed will join with Jake to meet us to discuss their project and Jake’s new exhibition. There will then be time to wander through the gallery and\, depending on the weather\, enjoy a little of the peaceful countryside. Please bring a packed lunch as there are facilities for eating both inside and outdoors. We aim to be back in York for 5pm. Owing to narrow roads around Semerwater\, we are limited to a minibus and hence spaces\, so early booking is advised. \nCost: £40. To include minibus transport\, coffee and exhibition.If paying by cheque\, please contact the organiser.  \n			\n				Book tickets
URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/trip-to-thorns-art-gallery-at-semerwater/
LOCATION:Thorns Gallery Semerwater\, Marsett Lane\, Raydale\, DL8 3DE
ORGANIZER;CN="Dorothy Nott":MAILTO:wattnott24@icloud.com
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SUMMARY:Highlights of the Fine Art Degree Show York St John University
DESCRIPTION:Friends of York Art Gallery present curated highlights of the Fine Art Degree Shows at York St John University. The Friends of York Art Gallery (FYAG) are delighted to stage an exhibition of four selected young artists from York St John University at Sliding Water Gallery. The exhibition will open on Weds 17 June 2026 and close on Saturday 20 June. Hours of opening are 11am to 4pm. \nDr Nathan Walker\, Head of Fine Art\, describes the 2026 degree show; \n“Our annual Degree Show is made up is made up of many small parts\, bits and pieces\, stuff and things. The materials of contemporary artistic practice are everywhere and made more complex by the very processes of discovering what it means to make work at this point in the 21st Century. These fragments are scattered across times and so\, from the moment students arrive to study with us all the way up to this moment\, just before they leave\, the Degree Show is forming slowly and with quiet determination. \nAs art tutors we have the privilege of witnessing this. We often see the first fleeting glimpses of something we know will be profound during the first year of study; we get to watch it develop. These students’ work is full of these moments\, fully realised.” \nThe four artists at Sliding Water were chosen by Livia Turnbull\, Curator of Contemporary Art at York Art Gallery. They are; \nBronte BentleyChloe HazlehurstCole PallettandTom Hardwick. \nLivia comments; \n“All of these artists’ work has a quality of imagination I would be happy to see in the Gallery.” \nAn inaugural FYAG prize was awarded to Tom Hardwick whose intriguing practice snares mysterious objects within delicate woven lattices.
URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/highlights-of-the-fine-art-degree-show-york-st-john-unviversity/
LOCATION:Sliding Water Gallery\, 64 Marygate\, York\, YO30 7BH\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="David Lamb":MAILTO:datlamb@yahoo.com
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SUMMARY:Artwork of the Month: 'Augustus and the Sybil'
DESCRIPTION:The next Gallery talk will be on Wednesday 10 June at 11.30 am. The subject will be the sixteenth-century Venetian painting Augustus and the Sibyl.This presentation examines an enigmatic sixteenth-century Venetian oil painting\, currently held in storage\, by an unidentified artist. Though the work features a characteristic Venetian landscape\, the foreground figures depict a surprising encounter between the first-century Roman Emperor Augustus and a Sibyl\, an ancient prophetess. Moving beyond questions of attribution\, this talk investigates why this specific iconography was transposed into a Renaissance setting. Jessica Richardson\, art historian and Friends’ committee member\, will explore the painting’s technical execution and the broader popularity of this prophetic theme in sixteenth-century Italy to uncover the work’s potential layers of meaning. \nOur Artwork of the Month talks are free and booking is not required\, but members are reminded to show their membership card for free admittance to the Gallery.
URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/artwork-of-the-month-augustus-and-the-sybil/
LOCATION:York Art Gallery\, Exhibition Square\, York\, YO1 7EW\, United Kingdom
ORGANIZER;CN="Ronald Clayton":MAILTO:ronaldwclayton@icloud.com
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SUMMARY:Tour of Birdsall House\, Malton
DESCRIPTION:Leaving Memorial Gardens at 1pm\, we will travel by coach to Birdsall House\, near Malton for a 2-hour guided tour by a member of the Willoughby family. Set in beautiful parkland\, the original Tudor house was enlarged in the mid eighteenth century and later extended by the architect Anthony Salvin in 1870\, who added the large dining room and a third storey to the central block. The house contains a remarkable collection of fine family portraits by among others\, Mary Beale\, Pompeo Batoni\, and Winterhalter. Our tour will end with tea and biscuits in the Dining Room. \nCost £54: to include coach hire\, fees\, and refreshments\n			\n				Click here to book
URL:https://www.friendsofyorkartgallery.co.uk/event/tour-of-birdsall-house-malton/
ORGANIZER;CN="Moira Fulton":MAILTO:mfulton58@gmail.com
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