This exhibition presents Karen David’s PhD research at the University of Worcester titled Commune of the Viable Essence: Creating Myth in Artistic Studio Practice through Fictional Narrative and is presented as an archive of CoVE with written materials, maps and artworks including oil paintings, acrylic marbling and glazed ceramics.
Events
Art House Open Lectures: Season 11
Join us for Season 11 of the Art House Open Lecture series presented by Meadow Arts and the University of Worcester’s School of Arts.
The Worcester Lecture 2032: The NHS is Sick! What’s the Cure?
So how did the NHS get here? And what’s to be done? Lord Victor Adebowale CBE will grapple with these questions and argue that a radical shift in focus is required.
UCAS Manchester
Join our students and team at UCAS Manchester…
Watermark – Art and Climate Roundtable Event
On Tuesday 18th April the Art House will be hosting the Art and Climate Roundtable Event between 5 and 7 pm as part of Watermark, a contemporary art exhibition exploring water, flooding and the climate crisis in partnership with venues across Worcester.
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow – L5 Illustration students
L5 Illustration students invite you to their exhibition ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow’ opening at the Art House this week.
Artist Talk: Emma Critchley (Watermark)
Our second artist talk this term, organized in collaboration with Meadow Arts to coincide with their Watermark exhibition, will be by Emma Critchley.
Wilding – Performance as part of Out Saucy
Wilding is a darkly humorous and politically charged performance exploring radical protest and feminism. It has been created in collaboration with Emma Bourke (a graduate of University of Worcester and distant cousin of the militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison).
Light Night Worcester
A popular festival returns to the City lighting up the streets with some exciting new projections.
Worcester OPEN Climate Change Edition 2023
PITT Studio & The Art House, School of Arts, University of Worcester are pleased to present The Worcester OPEN 2023 supported by Meadow Arts on the occasion of Watermark, a multi-venue partnership-based project on water and flooding as environmental markers of climate change, which will take place from January to May 2023.
Arts and Health Roundtable Event
In collaboration of our 10th anniversary between Meadow Arts and BA Fine Art at the University of Worcester, we are hosting a special Arts and Health roundtable event
Artist talk: Joseph Walsh
Our tenth season of contemporary artists’ talks, presented via a partnership with the University of Worcester’s Fine Art department. The talks involve some of the most exciting contemporary artists currently making work in the UK, who talk about their artwork, ideas and the processes they use.
Barry Sykes – Artist Talk
Barry makes sculptures, performances and works on paper that examine the power of authenticity, pleasure, and human connection. Referencing different modes of display, design and presentation, his objects and events are experiments in how we negotiate value, significance and trust.
Artist Talk: Sam Metz
The talk will take place online between 17.00 and 18.30 in Tuesday 25th of October. It will also be simultaneously screened to a public audience at the Art House on Castle Street in Worcester. Please go here to book your place for the online session. For those who want to attend in person, please come to the Art House at 16.45.
Venice Touring
Working in collaboration with Worcester Museum and Art Gallery Venice Touring is a group show created from a five-day student experience of Venice. Reflecting upon the life and work of Canaletto. Students focused on the past and present. Venice then and Venice now.
Worcester Music Festival
The Worcester Music Festival is run by volunteers to promote the local music scene on one weekend a year. All money raised from fund raising during the Worcester Music Festival weekend goes to local charity.
University of Worcester MA Creative Media Exhibition
The Art House windows will be taken over by graduates from our MA in Creative Media for a public exhibition of their work.
Worcester Paint Festival
The 2022 Worcester Paint Festival happens at locations round the city with world renowned artists involved.
Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched
Join us for an afternoon of exploring the Folk Horror genre with the opportunity to have your questions answered after the showing with guests Mikel Koven and John Cussans.
Take 5 – Student Talk
Worcester Illustration hosts this year’s Take 5 talks of alumni. 5 ex arts students from across courses share their work, their expertise and advise to our current batch of students. Always inspiring.
Mela Festival Launch Event @The Art House
The Mela festival is designed to bring people together from all walks of life to celebrate ‘togetherness’.
Worcester Cathedral Exhibition – Undercroft
A spectacular display of creative work by students at the University of Worcester greets visitors to Worcester Cathedral’s Undercroft.
Isla Badenoch Artist Talk
Our next Art House Artist Talk will be by Isla Badenoch on Monday December 13th at 4.30 pm. The talk will take place online.
Leah Gordon: Art House talk
Leah Gordon – photographer, film-maker, curator and writer – talks modernism and architecture; the slave trade; industrialisation; and grassroots religious, class and folk histories.
Edie Jo Murray and…kruse Open Talk
We’re very excited to announce that Edie Jo Murray and…kruse will give the second Art House/Meadow Arts Open Talk on Wednesday October 20th at 16.30.
Arts and Health Symposium
The Government and a number of UK higher education institutions have recognised the powerful contribution the arts can make to health and wellbeing.
Through My Eyes – PhD students in Fine Art Haptics Exhibition
You are invited to a series of talks by current PhD students in Fine Art at the University of Worcester whose work is currently on display as part of the Haptics exhibition in the Art House on Castle Street.
Malvern Festival of Innovation
As part of the programme and the University’s continued links with local innovation we will be talking again at the yearly Malvern Festival. This time we return to not being virtual.
Art House Windows: Matías Serra Delmar
New Art West Midlands x Coventry Biennial alumnus Matías Serra Delmar is currently exhibiting his work No Particular Order in the windows of University of Worcester’s Art House building.
Fiction Machines – Part III
Dr John Cussans, from the School of Arts, will be presenting his work as part of an evening of new screenings, talks and performances taking place tomorrow. The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University presents ‘Fiction Machines – Part III’ at 6pm, with presentations from a number of artists, filmmakers and theorists.
Division of Labour
The exhibition is made up of three large format prints that fill the windows of the Art House, University of Worcester. The installation reflects the artist’s personal and ancestral histories, across three countries and continents, Gambia, Jamaica & Birmingham.
Botanical Treasures: Flowers and fruits on porcelain.
The Gloucestershire Society for Botanical Illustration (GSBI) have created artwork during lockdown for a new botanical art exhibition, in partnership with the Museum of Royal Worcester.
Chris Solarski Industry Talk
Chris Solarski started work in video games at Sony Computer Entertainment’s London Studio as a character and environment artist before making a career-defining detour into figurative oil painting.
Life as an Indie: Paul Barnett
We are delighted that we will be joined by one of Britain’s most experienced Television Producer & Directors, Gosh! TV’s Creative Director Paul Barnett.
In Conversation with Simon Heath
Ahead of ‘Line of Duty’ Series 6, join us for an exclusive event with World Productions CEO and Creative Director, Simon Heath
Artist talk by Andy Holden
Andy Holden is an artist and musician whose approach is characterised by a desire to connect to audiences while retaining his own idiosyncratic internal references and motivations.