Events

Happening today, 22nd June 2017

• Creative Wiltshire: Celebrating modern art and design from Swindon and Wiltshire

  • Date: 29th March 2017 - 1st July 2017
  • Every day
  • Location: Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road, Old Town, Swindon SN1 4BA
  • Time: 11:00 - 15:00
  • Cost: £0.00

  Since 2015, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery has worked with Wiltshire Council and museums across the county to acquire modern and contemporary work by artists from Wiltshire and Swindon.

• Modern Times: How the London School Changed British Art

  • Date: 22nd February 2017 - 1st July 2017
  • Every day
  • Location: Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road, Old Town, Swindon SN1 4BA
  • Time: 11:00 - 15:00
  • Cost: £0.00

  During the 1950s and 1960s, a group of painters transformed the British art world. With their connections to the capital, its art schools and galleries, this group were called the London School.

• The Bomford Gift

  • Date: 22nd February 2017 - 1st July 2017
  • Every day
  • Location: Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road, Old Town, Swindon SN1 4BA
  • Time: 11:00 - 15:00
  • Cost: £0.00

  Between 1943 and 1976, local art collector and landowner HJP (or ‘Jimmy’) Bomford gave 21 works of art to Swindon. These were instrumental in encouraging Swindon to establish a modern art collection.

• The Ron Sloman Collection: Contemporary Ceramics

  • Date: 22nd February 2017 - 1st July 2017
  • Every day
  • Location: Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, Bath Road, Old Town, Swindon SN1 4BA
  • Time: 11:00 - 15:00
  • Cost: £0.00

  Since 2015, Mark Golder and Brian Thompson have been donating contemporary ceramics to Swindon Museum and Art Gallery in memory of their friend, the art dealer Ron Sloman.

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