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Dorich House Museum’s Winter Weekend | 1st-3rd December 2022

We are excited to announce the programme for Dorich House Museum’s Winter Weekend 2022. Join us for one of our talks or activities or simply stop by the museum to browse our pop-up shop, have cake and coffee in our Studio Café, and enjoy the Christmas tree in our Modelling Studio. Highlights will include: Pop-Up […]

Dorich House Museum on Bloomberg Connects | Free Mobile App

We are excited to announce that Dorich House Museum is now part of the Bloomberg Connects free mobile app, which features over 100 museums and galleries from around the world. The Bloomberg Connects app provides an exciting new way to discover Dorich House Museum and includes detailed room guides, additional information about many of the […]

Nadia Hebson, Studio Sympathique | Opening and Public Talk

Saturday 24 September, 2pm Free event. All welcome.  Please join us at Dorich House Museum on Saturday 24 September at 2pm for the opening of Studio Sympathique and a public talk by artist Nadia Hebson. Studio Sympathique concludes Nadia’s Dorich House Museum Studio Residency. Begun in February 2020 pre-pandemic, an initial six-month residency grew into a […]

Dorich House Museum Summer Garden Party | 18 June 2022

Summer Garden PartySaturday 18 June 2022 4 – 8pmAll Welcome | Free Entry Please join us for refreshments and live music to celebrate our Studio Residency with artist Nadia Hebson and Kingston Artists Open Studios weekend, thank the fantastic staff, volunteers and participants in our recent ‘Squatter Years’ project, and pay tribute to artist Elaine Wilson, […]

Sound Installation | Solstice ’93 by Laura Grace Ford

We are delighted to present a new site-specific sound installation by artist Laura Grace Ford. Solstice ’93 responds to the events of summer 1993, when Dorich House was occupied by squatters and used for raves. Interweaving music, memory and imagined events, it represents the experience of the rave scene of the early 1990s and immerses listeners in […]

Free Online Event | Artists’ Homes in Kingston: Gordine and Muybridge

We are excited to announce a free online event taking place on Friday 10 June at 6:30pm. This event, which is the final event of a three part series on the theme of HOME, will feature members of Kingston University’s Visual and Material Culture Research Centre in conversation with guest speakers exploring the various homes […]

Free Music Performance | Dorich House Museum

Dorich House Museum will host a free concert performed by students from Kingston University’s Music Department at 1pm on Friday 29 April in the museum’s modelling studio. The concert is inspired by the students’ responses to Dorich House and its former owners, Dora Gordine and Richard Hare, and features a line up of recorder, flute, […]

Installation | Stanley Picker Fellow Erika Tan’s ‘Barang-Barang’

‘Barang-Barang’, a multi-faceted installation by Stanley Picker Fellow Erika Tan, opened last week at our partner site Stanley Picker Gallery. The project focuses on the legacies of four female artists: Dora Gordine, Georgette Chen, Kim Lim, and Fay Tan. The centrepiece of the installation is a film exploring a speculative encounter between these four women, which […]

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