Museum Exhibitions | January
What to see this month
Women: Makers & Muses will be on display at The Fitzwilliam Museum for a few more weeks, coming to an end on the 1st of February. Drawing from the museum’s rich collection of paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, and sculpture, the display includes works by women artists across the globe and contrasts the way they saw themselves through their art from the beginning of the twentieth century to today with their representation by male artists.
This exhibition was curated by Dr Rebecca Birrell, author of This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century – a study of the queer and feminist subtexts of still life paintings by artists such as Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington and Gwen John, which was elected as The Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021.
Where: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
When: Until 1 February 2023.
Tickets: Visit the Fitzwilliam Museum website to purchase your tickets.
Two monumental paintings by Turner have come to the UK for a special exhibition at The National Gallery.
Harbour of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile and Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet-Boat: Evening were painted at a time when Turner was experimenting with the representation of light and they offer a fascinating glimpse into his technique as well as the everyday life of major European ports of distinctly different regions. Almost a century later, the paintings left Britain for New York, when they were acquired in 1914 by the American industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and where they joined the Frick Collection.
This display at the National Gallery brings the pair to the UK for the first time in more than 100 years, together with other much-loved works by Turner.
Where: The National Gallery, London.
When: Until 19 February 2023.
Tickets: Free admission.
The Legend of King Arthur: A Pre-Raphaelite Love Story at William Morris Gallery explores the legend of King Arthur within the Victorian imagination. The story is presented as told in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and through the work of Pre-Raphaelite artists such as William Morris himself, leader of the Arts and Crafts movement, and lesser-known women Pre-Raphaelite artists Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and Elizabeth Siddal.
The William Morris Gallery is the exhibition’s first stop on a nationwide tour of locations associated with King Arthur. The tour will continue in Tullie House, Carlisle next month before finishing its run at Falmouth Art Gallery in Cornwall in June.
Where: William Morris Gallery, London.
When: Until 22 January 2023.
Tickets: Free admission.
