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Cambridge Festival 2024

The Cambridge Festival returns for 2024.

Thu 10 January 2019 9:00AM - 6:00PM

No Matter How Close

A sculptural exhibition across five plinths by Rachel Wooller

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Solitudes and Seasons

This exhibition features five painters and one filmmaker whose work observes the eerie in the English landscape. Their work brings together different ideas of folklore, the unknown, the weird, science fiction or a sense of the supernatural.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Collecting and Giving: Highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor bequest

See highlights from the Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor bequest, through the Art Fund, on display for the first time. Works include drawings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, William Orpen, Walter Sickert and Gwen John.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Whistler & Nature

Whistler & Nature casts a new light on the work of the great late-Victorian master, James McNeill Whistler. Born in America, but living in the UK for most of his life, he was known as an artist with a bold personality and a revolutionary attitude towards the natural world.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Anthea Hamilton: Projects

Anthea Hamilton installs her work, and works by other artists, in the House following Kettle’s Yard’s collaboration with the artist at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2016/17.

12:00PM - 5:00PM

Highlight Stuart Pearson Wright: Halfboy

Stuart Pearson Wright (b. 1975) won the BP Portrait Award for Gallus Gallus with Still Life and Presidents and was awarded a commission to paint J. K. Rowling for the collection of NPG. Halfboy came about as a result of a chance encounter with a box of childhood photographs, a rare find as most such mementos were lost due to the peripatetic lifestyle imposed by the artist’s mother in the 1980s.

6:00PM - 7:15PM

What is a good death in the 21st century?

What does it mean to die well in the 21st century? A round table talk.