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'Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines
Gainsborough's House, Sudbury Wednesday 28th August 10.30-3.30 pm Gainsborough's House reopened in 2022 following an award winning redevelopment of the artist's childhood home, creating new spaces and temporary exhibition galleries. The house showcases the life and work of Thomas Gainsborough and our summer visit will give us plenty of time to explore these new galleries. Later in the day, we will follow in Gainsborough's footsteps as we take a walking tour around Sudbury. We will also visit the temporary exhibition 'Revealing Nature: The Art of Cedric Morris and Lett-Haines' whichcelebrates the colourful and unique art of Cedric Morris (1889–1982) and Arthur Lett-Haines (1894–1978), who lived, worked and taught in the local Suffolk countryside. The tours will be led by both Sarah Burles and a local guide. Cost: £60 including coffee on arrival, admission to Gainsborough's House and the 'Revealing Nature' exhibition, tours of both the permanent collection and the exhibition, a walking tour of Sudbury and lunch. Transport from Cambridge available on request. Cambridge Central Mosque
Monday 9th September 2.00-3.30 pm - FULLY BOOKED The Cambridge Central Mosque is Europe's first eco-friendly mosque and the first purpose-built mosque within the city of Cambridge. Its striking architecture and sustainable design is the work of Marks Barfield, creators of the London Eye, and, since it opened in 2019, the building has received much critical acclaim. In 2021 it was featured in a documentary on Sky Arts and the same year shortlisted for the Stirling Prize for Architecture. During our visit, we will be given a tour by one of the mosque's guides who will explain how the design and structure of the building and garden reflect and symbolise ideas found in Islam and how the different parts of the building are used. 'Paris 1924: Sport, Art and the Body'
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge CB2 IRB Thursday 3rd October - 2.00-4.00 pm One hundred years on from the first Paris Olympics, the Fitzwilliam Museum's new exhibition explores how the modernist culture of this vibrant city shaped the future of sport and the Olympic Games we know and love today. Through art, fashion, film, photography and more, the exhibition looks back on the pivotal moment when traditions and trailblazers collided, fusing the Olympics’ classical legacy with the European avant-garde spirit. It was a breakthrough that forever changed attitudes towards sporting achievement and celebrity, as well as body image and identity, nationalism and class, race and gender. Our visit will start with an illustrated introductory talk by Sarah Burles before we visit the exhibition together. Cost: £35 including refreshments and introductory talk |
 Cedric Morris, Still Life, Nasturtiums and Pears,1952
 Exterior view of Cambridge Central Mosque
 Robert Delaunay, The Runners, c.1924, oil on canvas, The National Museum of Serbia
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