Organisers of the Awesome Book Awards have announced the shortlist for the 2021 prize, which recognises the very best works of fiction for young readers aged between 7 and 10. On the shortlist are: Malamander by Thomas Taylor (Walker Books) The Garden of Lost Secrets by A. M. Howell (Usborne Publishing) The Girl Who Stole…
Watts Contemporary Gallery’s annual In Print exhibition opens on 5 November, this year featuring work by more artists than ever before to support contemporary practitioners in what has been an extraordinarily challenging year. In Print: 20/20 Vision brings together over 100 original prints by twenty leading artists to celebrate the diversity of printmaking today. From…
Watts Gallery Trust has been awarded £421,980 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced today. Watts Gallery Trust is one of 1,385 cultural and creative organisations across the country…
The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and the Salariya Book Company have opened their 2021 Children’s Picture Book Prize for submissions. The competition, which launched in 2017 and celebrates its 5th year in 2021, is open to unpublished and unrepresented writers and illustrators, with a prize value of £1000. The winner will receive career advice from a…
A poignant, elegant and richly detailed fictional account of 19th century photographer, Julia Margaret Cameron, and her quest to find and share her own creative voice. The Glass House brings an exceptional photographer to life. What is a life without Art and Beauty? Not one that Julia chooses to live. And so she searches the…
Can art change the future? In the mid- to late-nineteenth century, Victorian artists, viewers and critics increasingly believed it could. Opening at Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village on 17 November, Art & Action: Making Change in Victorian Britain will be the first exhibition to focus on the Victorian roots of art activism. From the 1840s,…
Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is celebrating major success, having won a prestigious Charity Times award which was open to national and regional charities and not-for-profit organisations from across the UK. The life-saving charity has been crowned Charity of the Year (income over £10 million) in recognition of consistently delivering an outstanding and pioneering…
Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village is delighted to announce that it will start to re-open from the 6 July following the latest Government guidelines for the reopening of UK museums. The reopening will be in four phases, enabling the introduction of Government-recommended measures across the site to ensure the safety of visitors, volunteers and staff. The four…
For immediate release: ART FOR ALL SEASON AT WATTS GALLERY – ARTISTS’ VILLAGE Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village (WGAV) has launched a series of activities to celebrate its Art for All Community learning programme. Inspired by the charity’s founders – the great Victorian artist George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) and his wife, the artist…
As the nation marked the 75th anniversary of VE Day, a significant discovery was made at West Horsley Place. Whilst sorting through old papers, a member of the West Horsley Place team came across an envelope containing 18 thank you letters from children evacuated to the manor house in 1939, thanking Lord and Lady Crewe…