Event Details
This talk explores what portraits tell us about the sitter. How shy or powerful they are, and whereabouts and why the portraits was made in the first place. Alice talks about how portraits have changed over the centuries and structures her talk around the themes of family, friendship, power, status and costume as a way of exploring and understanding portraiture.
Alice has lectured at Oxford University, the Ashmolean Museum and the Oxfordshire Museum. Alice organises themed study days and has led study holidays with Learn Italy Ltd to Italy and other European countries. Alice runs History of Art study weeks specialising in Scottish artists on the Isle of Iona. Alice is also the past President of Northleach Arts Society and the current President of Banbury Fine Arts Society.
See https://www.dfasnz.org.nz/hawkes-bay/ for more details and/ or to book a place or email us hbdfas@gmail.com.
We are a membership society but if you’d like to come to a talk and see if the society interests you, please consider attending as a guest. Guests can attend a maximum of 2 talks a year. There is a fee of $25 / $10 for students which includes wine, tea or coffee, sandwiches and something sweet, all served afterwards and enjoyed whilst talking to Chris and others.
Please arrive at the Magdalinos Room, Havelock North Function Centre, 30 Te Mata Road, Havelock North to be seated by 6:50pm as we start promptly at 7pm.
