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‘Paul Nash: The Elements’ opens at Dulwich Picture Gallery

February 9, 2010 by ingrid

Kate Knowles, Head of Communications at Dulwich Picture Gallery, explains the reasons for putting on this exhibition and her marriage.

Paul Nash, Landscape from a Dream, 1936-8

In the 90s (or the Naughties as it seems to be called on television) a great friend of mine suggested that Dulwich Picture Gallery put on Modern British exhibitions.

His name was David Fraser Jenkins, and he suggested it because the Tate, where he was senior curator of Modern British art, had too many exhibitions and so weren’t doing any early 20th century British exhibitions. He said, the other reasons for doing it would be (a) because they are popular and (b) because they are cheap to put on, you don’t have to get them from abroad, they are all to be found in England. Continue Reading »

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Why is pink in fashion? Wine that is…

February 9, 2010 by grevillehavenhand

Approaching Valentine’s day merchants and writers try to push rosé wine , but,  perhaps surprisingly, pink is becoming fashionable, according to Greville Havenhand.

Did you know that more than 9% of the wine sold in this country is pink?  Yes I know we call it rosé but we don’t usually talk about “rouge” or “blanc” so I prefer to stick to pink.

Time was when pink wine was either like liquid bubblegum or was that sweet, slightly fizzy Portuguese product of the marketing man’s art. At least the bottles vied with Chianti flasks as lamp bases in student’s rooms. Admittedly a lot of the increase in pink sales here is accounted for by low-alcohol sweetish Californian wine – wine for people who don’t like wine.

There are now more serious pinks from all over the world, Continue Reading »

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PAUL NASH ART COMPETITION

February 9, 2010 by shapa begum

Dulwich Picture Gallery invites you to enter an online art competition based on the new exhibition, Paul Nash: The Elements opening on 10 February.

Paul Nash, Totes Meer

Paul Nash (1889-1946) was probably the greatest British artist of the 20th century and admired as one of the most significant landscape painters of his generation. He is best known for his work as an official war artist, producing memorable images of both the First and Second World Wars, but also as a Surrealist, juxtaposing object in an unexpected and dream-like way.

The exhibition includes landscapes, interiors, abstracts and still lifes.  There are paintings, drawings, photographs and photographic collages.

Using the Gallery and grounds as a starting point and inspired by the exhibition, create a work of art for the Nash Competition.

Your entry and a brief bio (if you like) will be published on Dulwich OnView and the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Flickr group Paul Nash competition.

You may also vote for your favourite entry.  Find out how. Continue Reading »

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‘The Group of Seven’ at Dulwich Picture Gallery

February 5, 2010 by ingrid

Ian Dejardin, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, talks about a group of 20th century Canadian artists – to DOV and in person on 10 Feb at DPG.

Tom Thomson 'Maple Saplings' The Thomson Collection © Art Gallery of Ontario

“I have just returned from Toronto. Why Canada? It was to finalise a show that is very dear to my heart.

Very few people in this country have heard of Tom Thomson. In Canada, he is legendary. Working in Toronto around 1910 as a commercial artist – nothing special, he tended to do rather slick illustrations in an arts and crafts / late Art Nouveau kind of a style – he encountered a group of like-minded artists who were interested in developing a ‘national’ landscape style. Continue Reading »

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Harris Boys’ Academy, East Dulwich

February 5, 2010 by shapa begum

‘My teachers are fantastic and have made learning fun and interactive.’ Junad aged 12.

The Harris Boys’ Academy East Dulwich is a brand new school which  opened for the first time in  September 2009 with 150 year 7 boys; currently, it is in a temporary location at Langbourne  Primary School. The reason being, because the school’s building is currently being constructed near Peckham Rye Park, and is not due to open until September 2010.

The building  was designed by award winning architects (GallifordTry, Mouchel and Cundall) to be a “pavilion in the park” (Peckham Rye Park); the building will also be environmentally smart and sustainable.

Staff at Harris Boys’ Academy strongly believe that children learn best when they feel stretched, nurtured and engaged. Thus Harris Boys’ Academy promotes hard work, integrity and good manners, whilst encouraging a spirit of fun and adventure. The school’s aim and expectation is for students to be equipped to reach their personal best and become responsible young citizens.

My younger brother Junad attends Harris Boys’ Academy; it is a joy for him Continue Reading »

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Dulwich OnView at The Social Web Conference

February 5, 2010 by Yang-May Ooi

Yang-May Ooi reports from The Social Web Conference that took place at Dulwich Picture Gallery last week

You may have caught The Virtual Revolution on BBC last Saturday night, which gave on overview of the way that social media has been changing our society and culture. According to the programme, 18 million people in the UK read blogs – that is about a third of the UK’s general population of 61 million. Blogs, social networks, Twitter and the like are now pretty much mainstream and and it’s not just businesses who need to adapt to these new ways of communicating. Museums, galleries, libraries and the heritage sector are more keen than ever to find out how to use these tools to engage with their visitors and users.

Which is where the Social Web Conference, organised by the UKOLN comes in. They are part of the University of Bath and are “A centre of excellence in digital information management, providing advice and services to the library, information and cultural heritage communities” and last Friday, they held a conference about Web 2.0 and social media for the heritage sector at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Marieke Guy, UKOLN’s research officer and organiser of this cutting edge conference invited our editorial team to give a presentation to the delegates about Dulwich OnView. It was a further opportunity to showcase our “online magazine” to the heritage sector as an example of how blogging is being used to raise the profile of the Gallery and build an online community around the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, the charitable group that raises money and supports the work of the Gallery.

I was first up and outlined Continue Reading »

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Andrea Soldi’s Portraits of Roubiliac – a mini display at DPG

February 2, 2010 by ingrid

Dulwich Picture Gallery does not only put on major exhibitions, there are often fascinating small displays in the main galleries that are easy to overlook.
Sarah Moulden, assistant curator, talks about one of these, comprising of only 2 paintings that opens today.

Soldi - Roubiliac sculpting David Garrick

“This display will focus on two portraits of sculptor, Louis Franςois Roubiliac (1702?-62), painted by the Florentine portraitist, Andrea Soldi (1703-71). Both paintings will be shown together for the first time, joining Dulwich Picture Gallery’s own with Soldi’s later one now at The Garrick Club, London.

Together, Soldi and Roubiliac provide fascinating subjects for study. Continue Reading »

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Prefabs –

February 2, 2010 by ingrid

Prefabs: slums from a bygone age or high-tech housing of the future?

Robert Elms enquired on his radio show where all the prefabs have gone. It prompted Steve Overbury to go out looking for some of the last remaining examples of early modular housing.

In January 1953 floods swept down the coast of Essex leaving many dead or homeless. The road home from the Colchester maternity hospital was washed away and I was inconsiderate enough to choose that moment to be born, an Aquarian into a watery world. My proud parents weren’t prepared to swim home, so were forced to take me back to my gran’s house. They didn’t want me to spend my first night on earth in a swamped prefab. It was to be one of the only nights I didn’t sleep under that felt and tin roof in the next idyllic ten years. Continue Reading »

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Old College Tennis Club enters 21st century

February 2, 2010 by sallyannjohnson

Old College Lawn Tennis Club, Dulwich

By Nigel Thorpe

No, we don’t have satellite controlled balls that will win the point every time, at least not yet. But we do have a state-of-the-art on line court booking system that has finally replaced an archaic paper one.

The system permits members to book a court slot away from club or at the clubhouse and to cancel a booking, if necessary, remotely. It also requires players to check in before play at the clubhouse touch screen, to record that they have used their booking, and then -finally – to play their match on booked courts. It also brings some welcome improvements in the control of bookings and will prevent any abuse of the pre-booking privilege. Continue Reading »

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Haiti “Table Top Sale” Appeal

January 29, 2010 by egreenlight

The horror of the Haiti Earthquake has left many of us wondering what we can do to help. Some local Dulwich residents have come up with an idea and need your donations.

Support Haiti dulwich appeal poster

Please mark February 7th in your diaries as it’s an appeal day for the victims of the Haiti earthquake disaster which is being held at the Christison Hall in Dulwich College. A clutch of local Dulwich people including Hillary Peachey and Bert and Emma Suer have managed to whip up a “table top sale” event to be held between 1 and 4pm that Sunday. There will be an entry fee of £1 (kids go free).

They urgently require donations of quality items such as unwanted Christmas gifts, toys, books, CDs, DVDs, nearly new items, tombola prizes, Continue Reading »

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