Watts Gallery Trust today announces the appointment of two new Trustees: Michaela Macintyre is the Vice President of Brand & Consumer Marketing at IMG, a global leader in sports, fashion, live experiences, and media. In her role, she is focused on the development and commercialisation of IMG’s diverse and growing portfolio of global brands…
The West Horsley Place Trust is delighted to announce that Ilona Harris has been appointed as the charity’s new Director and will take up her appointment on 1 November 2022. Ilona Harris was previously Head of Commercial at Weald & Downland Living Museum, West Sussex, supporting the charity’s growth to financial stability and leading…
The Stratford upon Avon Literary Festival continues to celebrate its 15th anniversary with a superb line-up of leading writers and thinkers for its Winter Weekend of events. The Festival, which runs from 11th to 13th November, will take place once again at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Bridgefoot, with a small but perfectly formed programme…
The South West’s leading literary festival announces its line-up for this autumn’s festival which runs from 14th to 18th September. Covering a wide variety of topics, including current affairs, best-selling authors and leading debut novelists, as well as events for families, it promises to be a highlight of the cultural calendar. Headlining the packed…
Today, organisers of Guildford Book Festival announce the line-up for the 2022 event, which returns to venues across the town between 2 and 16 October. Now in its 33rd year, highlights of this year’s Festival include: much-loved actor Eileen Atkins, sharing stories from her extraordinary life and career; star of Downton Abbey and Paddington…
Tickets are now on sale for a startlingly new production of Julius Caesar by Shakespeare’s Globe that will be performed at West Horsley Place on 26 and 27 August. Significantly, it will be the first time that the nationwide Globe on Tour series has come to Surrey. Using Shakespeare’s great political play as a lens…
At a special event organised by HasleWorks, Haslemere-based artist and photographer, Heather Chuter, shared insight into the inspiration she finds in the town. From charismatic portraits of local shopkeepers, business owners and community members to evocative landscapes, Haslemere has become a focus of Heather’s recent practice. Heather presented images of her portraiture and…
The Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival is delighted to announce that the acclaimed writer Maggie O’Farrell is to become its Patron. O’Farrell is the author of nine best-selling books, including The Hand that First Held Mine and I Am, I Am, I Am. She has agreed to be Patron after working with the Festival on establishing…
CREATIVE SPACES: Artists in the early decades of the 20th century 5 May – 19 June Watts Contemporary Gallery Opening at Watts Contemporary Gallery on 5 May (until 19 June), Creative Spaces explores how artists working during the early decades of the 20th century were inspired by the spaces which they inhabited.…
IMPORTANT PAINTING BY G.F. WATTS HAS BEEN ACQUIRED FOR THE NATION AND ALLOCATED TO WATTS GALLERY A significant painting by George Frederic Watts OM RA (1817-1904) has been allocated to Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village via HM Government’s Acceptance in Lieu scheme, run by the Arts Council. Commissioned in 1848, the large-scale painting…