Preview of the Elisabeth Frink exhibition 'Man is an Animal' in the barn gallery at Messums Wiltshire on Sunday 26 September.
Man is an Animal is the most extensive collection of large-scale sculptures by Dame Elisabeth Frink to be shown in this country.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Make a Halloween Pumpkin
Date: Saturday 2 October
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00
Tutor: Finn Bush
Hand form the bold shapes of pumpkins in clay, then incise, cut and engrave the truly creative faces, words, spirits and sprites of Halloween. Back lit with a candle, this is a chance to revel in the riotous creativity of festival time.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Make a Halloween Pumpkin
Date: Saturday 2 October
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00
Tutor: Finn Bush
Hand form the bold shapes of pumpkins in clay, then incise, cut and engrave the truly creative faces, words, spirits and sprites of Halloween. Back lit with a candle, this is a chance to revel in the riotous creativity of festival time.
Halloween Pumpkins – Pre-School Kids (accompanied by adult)
Date: Wednesday 6 October
Times: 11am-12pm
£20 for child and £5 for an accompanying adult
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
This fun session is suitable for children as young as four to come and work together with their adults. In this short session you can come and make a Halloween pumpkin to hang on the wall during Halloween week.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Making and Glazing
Date: Saturday 9 October
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00
Tutor: Finn Bush
In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your pots with interesting legs and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make one.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Making and Glazing
Date: Saturday 9 October
Times: Book either a morning or afternoon session
10.00 – 12.30 or
13.30 – 16.00
Tutor: Finn Bush
In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your pots with interesting legs and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make one.
Join Dr Helen Pheby and Jo Baring for a discussion on the importance of Elisabeth Frink's sculpture and it's relevance in the 21st century. Chaired by curator Catherine Milner.
Dr Helen Pheby is an international curator and Head of Curatorial Programming at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Jo Baring is director of the Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, she writes and speaks regularly on the life and work of Elisabeth Frink.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Glaze and Paint your Pumpkins
Date: Saturday 16 October
Tutor: Finn Bush
In these sessions you will be invited to glaze and decorate your pumpkins and if you have missed out this will be your chance to make one.
Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest – a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact life size.
Join us for an online talk with documentary photographer Sophie Green as ‘Showtime’ her first solo show opens in our Wiltshire gallery.
Sophie Green will be interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon.
Green’s photographs celebrate the joy, uniqueness and eccentricities of under-represented subcultures in Britain, often in playful and humorous ways.
