ART SOCIETY NEWS and EVENTS

WINTER TALKS 2010 / 2011

Looking ahead to the next season of talks, the Dates for your Diary are Monday 27th September and Monday 25th October 2010.

Monday 27th September
We welcome Charles Nightingale back to start the season with an illustrated talk on "Art, Reality, Photography and the Human Mind”. Through a series of questions Charles will explore the advance of photographic ideas in the world of Painting and its relationship to the real world, art and the human mind.

With these ingredients we are bound for a lively, thought-provoking evening. Look forward to seeing you.

Monday 25th October
We welcome Dr Michael Baldry who is giving an illustrated talk on "Edvard Munch - Love, Anxiety and Death”.

As a Doctor of Philosophy, Michael Baldry is particularly interested in the social circumstances which influence artists and the production of their work. Here he centres on Edvard Munch... Family traumas, fraught love affairs, and alcoholism were some of Munch's main sources for his expressive art.

"We should no longer paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. We should paint living people who breathe, feel suffer and love."

These sentiments, together with the resultant art, make up the contents of this talk on the artist who some call 'The Father of Expressionism'.

All talks start at 7:30 pm. Venue : The Co-op Education Centre, 11 Fore Street, Ipswich IP4 1JW (click for map).
Parking is at the rear via Waterworks Street.

Free to Members and Friends, £2.50 to Guests

DISCUSSION EVENINGS

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FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Gill Thomas Paintings & Drawings 1950 – 2010

This exhibition charts Gill’s artistic progress over 60 years, from working in the studio of an advertising agency in the early 50’s to her ‘Suffolk Dozen’ Exhibition in Aldeburgh this April 2010. Gill has been an Executive Committee Member of Ipswich Art Society for the last 10 years and gained her B.A. Hons in Fine Art and Theory & History of Visual Art at UCS in 2008.

The exhibition runs at the Waterfront Gallery, Neptune Quay Ipswich from September 7th – September 24th 2010, daily 9 am – 8 pm.

The IPSWICH ART SOCIETY ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION 2010 was held this year in the Council Chamber, Town Hall Ipswich from May 17th – May 28th. Our new President Richard Scott is pictured below left with the Mayor and Mayoress, David and Sue Goldsmith, and the IAS Chair, Barbara Norman. The Mayor announced that the Mayor’s Award this year went to Nicky Heming for her ‘Portrait of ‘Bill’ Heming’.

ANNA AIRY AWARD EXHIBITION 2009
Organised by the IPSWICH ART SOCIETY

The Anna Airy Award

The Award Fund was set up in 1965 in memory of Anna Airy (1882 - 1964) a distinguished painter whose work is represented in many major national collections. She was President of Ipswich Art Club (as the Ipswich Art Society was then called) for nineteen years.
Anna Airy was also regarded as a brilliant and inspirational teacher by her students and, in the Art Club’s Annual Open Exhibitions, she always included a ‘student section’ to give young artists a chance to exhibit their work to the public in the setting of an art gallery.
Since 1993, Ipswich Art Society has mounted independent exhibitions of students’ work. It has recently extended them to include a section for mature students.

The Anna Airy Award Exhibition 2009 - this year at St. Joseph’s College, Belstead Road, Ipswich.

Congratulations to all the young artists and students whose lively and varied work (107 exhibits this year!) made this such a vibrant and exciting exhibition.

Special congratulations to the award winners:

The Anna Airy Award (£200) ... Velvet Stratford-Wright.
The Ipswich Art Society Most Promising Artist Award (aged 16-25) ... Amy Sage
The Ipswich Art Society Most Promising Mature Student Award (over 25) ... Sarah Castle