Art Appreciation Group

Art Appreciation Group

Group Leader: Margaret Joscelyne

Tel: 01565 655668

Email: info@knutsfordu3a.co.uk

We are continuing our project on Art in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. Members of the group will make presentations about the Artists.

Meeting place: Room 5 Methodist Church Hall (usually 4^th Wednesdays)

Time: from 10 am coffee, 10.30 start.

Please note that the February 2025 meeting is on 19^th, the third Wednesday

VISIT TO THE HEPWORTH GALLERY, WAKEFIELD

Wednesday, 2^nd April 2025
Departing from Knutsford bus station at  9.15 am

Cost:  £31 including transport, entrance fees, gallery tours and coffee on arrival,
OR  £28 if you have a National Art Pass.   (N.B. This is not a National Trust card!)

The Hepworth Gallery is an award -winning art gallery, opened in  2011, overlooking the River Calder in Wakefield.  Named after Barbara Hepworth, who was born and brought up in Wakefield, the gallery has an impressive collection of work by Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, L.S Lowry, and Henry Moore amongst many other significant contemporary artists.

The Gallery also hosts important temporary exhibitions.  Currently, this is ‘Forbidden Territories’ covering 100 years since the origin of Surrealism, one of the most influential artistic movements of the twentieth century.

Following coffee on arrival, our visit will include an introductory tour, after which you will have plenty of time to make your own tour of the galleries and to purchase your own lunch in  the restaurant.

We would expect to leave about 3.30 pm for a return to Knutsford at about 5.00 pm.

Bookings for this outing can be made on-line (see below) or by sending your cheque, made out to Knutsford u3a, together with a completed booking form, to Margaret Hinde, 1 Warford Hall Drive, Alderley Edge, SK9 7TR.   Tel. 01565 872643.