ART HISTORY

TALKS & EVENTS

Northlight Arts Centre and Leeds Art History Group bring you the North's best voices in historical art. Our Art History Talks are your opportunity to join professors, art historians, artists and academics for two hours of engaging talks and lectures with discussions and Q&A.

TICKETS COST £10 for each evening

Doors open 6.30pm to buy refreshments. Talk starts at 7pm.

Licensed Bar serving beers and wines.
Coffee and soft refreshments also available.
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Well serviced bus routes to and from Harrogate and Leeds
Wheelchair access

NOV 19TH

Echoes In Stone

British Art and the Long Durations of the Anthropocene

A Talk with Christin Neubauer
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

The urgency of the climate crisis, driven by anthropocentric exploitation, prompts a re-evaluation of its historical roots. This paper explores how 19th-century British Art, particularly in the Victorian period, engaged with emerging ecological consciousness and notions of deep time, anticipating visual responses to what we now term the Anthropocene.

John Ruskin, Ice Clouds over Coniston Old Man (c.1880).

DEC 3RD

Georgian Avant-garde

A Talk with Matthew Merrick
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

A talk on avant-garde art and artists from Georgia, including Niko Pirosmani, Lado Gudiashvili, Elene Akhvlediani, and others.

JAN 14TH

Ravenna’s World Heritage Mosaic:

Imperial splendour in turbulent times

A Talk with Prof Joyce Hill
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

Ravenna's extraordinary mosaics, with their 4th - 6th century buildings,represent the pinnacle of the mosaicist’s art. We will enjoy their beauty and also explrore how they give us insight into the political and religious turbulence of the time.

JAN 28TH

German Expressionism

Gabriele Munter and Wasilly Kadinsky

A Talk with Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

ln 1902, the pioneering painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky invited artist Gabriele Munter to attend his summer school in the Alps. The encounter was transformative for them both, altering not only the course of their lives and work but the history of art.

FEB 11TH

Alan Davie and the Goblet of Fire

Abstract Expressionist to Magical Symbolist in seven easy moves.

A Talk with Christopher Wood
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

Artist Christopher P Wood got to know and develop a friendship with acclaimed Scottish artist Alan Davie in the mid 1990s and had the opportunity to discuss his art and career at first hand. With personai insight and first-hand experience in his working method this talk will explore Davie's life and career offering a broad insight into his many interests which included jazz, mysticism, alchemy and esoteric thought. Starting with his important time as a Gregory Fellow at Leeds University in the 1950s and tracing a successful creative life and career that spanned over 70 years.

MAR 4TH

VELAZQUEZ

A Talk with Simon Marginson
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) was the reading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Court painter to Philip IV, Verazquez is famed for his cunning compositions and bravura paint handling. A painter’s painter, Velazquez was a decisive influence on modern art revered by everyone from Edouard Manet to Francis Bacon

MAR 18TH

Women Artists In Renaissance ltaly

A Talk with Rachael Gorton
Doors: 6.30pm
Talk: 7pm - 9pm

How many Renaissance women artists do you know? What is the Renaissance anyway? Discover why so few women artists from this illustrious period appear in art history textbooks today - what women were up to, how they started to get into art and what role they played in the development of this pivotal art movement.

APR 1ST

The Museum and Collection of Isabella Stewert Gardner