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Sun 27 April 2014 8:00AM - 5:00PM

Sula Rubens- artist in residence

Sula Rubens is currently working as Artist in Residence at The Michaelhouse. You are welcome to talk to her about her work.

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Art exhibition

SURFACE – An exhibition of contemporary abstract prints by Patricia Grant and Susan Mealing

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Charlotte Hodes: the grammar of ornament

With an international reputation as an artist working through collage across different media, this new work by Charlotte Hodes has been informed by the influential 1856 book The Grammar of Ornament by architect Owen Jones, one of the most important design theorists of the 19th century.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Highlight Follow the Fellow: A Multimedia Art Project

The project ‘Follow the Fellow’ started in 2010. It is led by the Austrian writer and performance artist Elke Papp, the French photographer and art historian Genevieve Guetemme and the Finnish photographer and video artist Anna Maija Kesonen. All three are followers themselves and met in Cambridge.

11:00AM - 4:00PM

1989-2014 and counting: Lynne Strover Gallery celebrates 25 years

From 18 April to 5 May 2014 Lynne Strover Gallery in Fen Ditton will be celebrating twenty five years in the contemporary art scene in Cambridge with a special exhibition, featuring much-loved pieces collected during the gallery’s quarter century. Over the years Lynne has built strong relationships with artists, including several featured in Cambridge museum collections.

11:30AM - 5:00PM

Art & life

Art & Life: 1920-1931 Ben nicholson, Winifred nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray

12:00PM - 5:00PM

From root to tip: Botanical art in Britain

This exhibition brings together a selection of watercolours from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collection of botanical art. It draws on over 300 years of work by both professional and amateur artists, tracing a history of flower drawing in Britain.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

The Rampant Lions Press: A letterpress odyssey

This exhibition displays a beautiful selection of books produced by The Rampant Lions Press since their last retrospective exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1982.

12:15PM - 1:15PM

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin & Roderick Chadwick, piano

New Music concert at Kettle's Yard.

1:15PM - 2:00PM

Goldenberg duo

Susan Goldenberg (violin) and William Goldenberg (piano) perform pieces by Copland, Vaughan Williams and Schumann.

6:00PM - 6:25PM

Organ recital

To be peformed by Timothy Parsons (Organ Scholar, Selwyn College)