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RELATIVE TIES
Women's Art Collection, Cambridge Thursday 7th May 10.00-12.00 Join us for a tour of the new exhibition at the Women's Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge. Relative Ties celebrates over a century of artistic innovation and inheritance, tracing the work of four women from the celebrated Nicholson family — Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson and Louisa Creed. The exhibition explores how creativity is woven together through three generations of women artists. Spanning a period of 100 years, Relative Ties brings together artworks, interior designs, paper ephemera, wallpapers, fabrics, and stencils and other tools to offer a unique insight into the working lives of these artists. Our tour will be led by Harriet Loffler, the exhibition's curator and Director of the Women's Art Collection. Cost: £40 including tea and coffee on arrival in the Fellows' Suite. GAINSBOROUGH, TURNER & CONSTABLE: INVENTING LANDSCAPE Gainsborough's House, Sudbury Thursday 28th May 10.30-3.30 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Suffolk-born artist John Constable (1776–1837). To celebrate, a new exhibition at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury explores the emergence of the tradition of landscape painting in Britain through three of its greatest exponents: Thomas Gainsborough, JMW Turner and John Constable. Key works include Gainsborough’s idyllic scene, Landscape with Cattle, a Young Man Courting a Milkmaid, which has not been exhibited in the UK since 1952; Turner’s large-scale watercolour, Abergavenny Bridge, not seen on public display since it was shown at the Royal Academy in 1799; and Constable’s dramatic oil sketch, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, a variant of his ‘great Salisbury’ painting shown above. Our day at Gainsborough's House will include a curator led tour of the exhibition, coffee and tea on arrival, a light lunch and time to explore the historic home of Thomas Gainsborough and other smaller exhibitions. Cost: £65 including admission to Gainsborough's House, a curator led tour of the exhibition, tea and coffee on arrival and a light lunch. |
 EQ Nicholson (1908-1992), Still life with quinces and mushrooms, c.1943. © Estate of EQ Nicholson
 John Constable (1776–1837) The Leaping Horse, 1825, Royal Academy of Arts
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