Sunday
January
Visit the exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision and using the coloured materials supplied in Playspace, create your own cool collage of geometric shapes.
Bring all your detective skills to the exhibitions on display, and find the details from the paintings, prints or sculptures on the activity sheet. There will be clues to help you. Young children will need to be accompanied by an adult. A special hand stamp for all participants. Free, bookings not required and suitable for all ages.
Visit the exhibition Gordon Walters: New Vision to get some ideas in order to finish our ‘starter’ Gordon Walters A4 sheet on the activities tables in Playspace. Enter the competition to win a great prize. Two age groups 7 years and under and 8 years +.
Using the sheet provided, colour the Kabuki character. Visit the downstairs exhibition World View: Mapping the DPAG Collection. Place your entry in the box and you could win a great prize. Two age groups 7 years and under and 8 years +.
British Painting 1700-1850 (DVD 50min G). This film shows how British painting developed through the eighteenth-century, responding to changes in society. It explores the work of Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough and the paintings of other artists involved in the formation of the Royal Academy of Arts.