Events

Sir Gabriele Finaldi will give a talk ‘The National Gallery: A Growing Collection’, followed by a conversation with Professor Charles Martindale, Chair of the Friends, about his career and role as Director of one of the greatest galleries in the world. The National Gallery has been much in the news recently. On May 10 2024 […]

*** Fully booked *** Friends' Exclusive Preview of the Exhibition 'Making Waves' The exhibition of Japanese prints, ‘Making Waves’, opens to the public in the Madsen Galleries on Friday 27 February. Before the public are admitted, there will be a special Friends-only preview from 10.00 –11.00am, with a tour led by the show’s lead curator, […]

Stillness and Strength: Cavallino’s Saint Agatha Our programme of Gallery Talks will resume on Wednesday 11 March at 11.30 with a talk on Cavallino’s Saint Agatha from Maisie McDonough, one of the Gallery’s Duty Managers. Join us for a closer look at Bernardo Cavallino’s Saint Agatha, a painting whose power comes from stillness rather than spectacle. […]

Engagement Ring Drawing (as long as it lasts), Cornelia Parker (2002) Cornelia Parker is probably best known for her large scale installations such as the exploded shed (Cold Dark Matter) and her crushed silver objects repurposed as Thirty Pieces of Silver. Her work is about destruction, resurrection and reconfiguration but not always on a grand […]

We will start our tour at 11am in the medieval Guildhall, with its fine 18th century courtroom, local history museum, and collection of paintings by the Beverley artists Fred and Mary Elwell. The Guildhall was remodelled in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Court Room has fine plasterwork by Guiseppe Cortese. Here we will […]

All members are welcome at this year's AGM. The meeting will be followed by a drinks reception to allow members to socialise. For further details and supporting documentation click here.

We will leave Memorial Gardens by coach at 9am to travel to Skipton. Here we will first visit the newly refurbished Craven Museum, which was shortlisted for the Art Fund Museum of the year in 2024. Here we will have coffee and a short talk by the Curator, before touring the collection, which includes a […]

Our next Friends’ Talk will be on Wednesday 13th May at our usual time - 11.30am. It will be in the Studio - the room at the far end of the Upper North gallery. Dorothy Williams, a long-time member of the Friends, will talk about her early interest in pots and how in the fifties […]

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 […]

Thorns GalleryLeaving 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 […]