LECTURES

The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust sponsors an annual lecture given in Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s name.

The 2011 Barns-Graham Charitable Trust lecture will be presented by Roger Bristow on Monday 7 November. The lecture venue is The Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London,W1J 8DU tel:020 7042 5730. The talk will centre on ‘The Two Roberts - Colquhoun and MacBryde’.

Thursday 9 December 2010, 12.45-1.45pm. Hawthornden Lecture Theatre. National Gallery Complex

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust Lecture: Francis Bacon's Painting (1946): The Making of a Masterpiece

This prestigious annual lecture focuses on Francis Bacon, a close contemporary of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham but a very different sort of artist. Martin Hammer, Reader in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, will consider the various impulses that went into the creation of one of his most important early pictures, including its enigmatic references to 1930s Nazi propaganda imagery in the aftermath of the Second World War.

The 2009 lecture was given by Mel Gooding at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds, to coincide with the exhibition ‘A Discipline of the Mind: The Drawings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’.

The second lecture in December 2008 was hosted by the National Galleries of Scotland and presented by Mel Gooding.

The inaugural lecture in October 2007 was hosted by University College Falmouth and presented by Nedira Yakir.