Summer Garden Party | Free | All Welcome | 1-5pm Please join us on Saturday 21 June for our annual Summer Garden Party. Bring your friends, enjoy a complimentary glass of prosecco and relax in our walled orchard garden while listening to live music performed by Kingston University Performing Arts students throughout the afternoon. Inside, […]
The Raw Origins of a Diaspora: Part Two | Angela Ford The Raw Origins of a Diaspora investigates raw materials from a decolonial perspective. Creating a series of artefacts that reflect the untold histories and migrations of the Jamaican diaspora through Angela Ford’s personal DNA, the work links Jamaican cultural practices to West African heritage. […]
Dorich House Museum & Stanley Picker Gallery: Museum & Gallery Assistant Programme Paid Opportunity for Kingston University Students Deadline for applications: Thursday 5 June 2025 at 5pm Dorich House Museum and our Kingston University partner venue Stanley Picker Gallery are recruiting new Museum & Gallery Assistants for the 2025/26 academic year. Our Museum & Gallery Assistants play […]
International Day for Biological Diversity Talk | 22 May 2025 2-3pm | £5 | All Welcome To celebrate International Day of Biological Diversity, Dorich House Museum will be hosting a special talk focusing on the connection between natural and cultural heritage. Join the Museum Curator Fiona Fisher, Kingston University’s Biodiversity and Landscape Manager Sivi Sivanesan, […]
01 May – 21 June 2025 | Free | Drop in For the second year in a row, Dorich House Museum will be exhibiting all seven finalists work for the REMET Art Prize. Between 1st May and 21st June the work will be on display across the second-floor apartment of Dorich House Museum. REMET hold […]
Join us at Dorich House Museum across three days in May while Dance Artist Rosalind Holgate-Smith in collaboration with the sculptor Katharina Krenkel, will exhibit the Pleasure Patchwork, an interactive soft sculpture made of worm-like, phallic and invaginated forms that can be turned inside out. Inspired by the skin, the crochet blanket invites touch and […]
Join us on Saturday 5 April at Dorich House Museum for Erika Tan’s Barang-Barang book launch. Book FREE tickets for the event here. From 11am Barang-Barang: Spectural Entanglements (23mins) film screening in the Museum’s Modelling Studio2-3pm Talk with Erika Tan, Rebecca Fortnum, Fiona Fisher and Lucy ReynoldsFrom 3pm Drinks reception As an extension to the intergenerational and transnational connections and conversations made within […]
BEHIND THE GLASS: DECONSTRUCTING THE HARE-GORDINE PRINT COLLECTION A workshop and symposium at Dorich House Museum This all-day symposium at Dorich House Museum will explore the museum’s collection of prints and situate them within the framework of Russian and global prints history. The day consists of a morning printmaking workshop, an afternoon symposium and an […]
In collaboration with Honey Birch, artists Leo Chapman and Pianka Pärna will perform a five hour durational piece set in ‘Double bed’ between 12:00-17:00 marking the end of the exhibition ‘Here, Somewhere’. With each hour exploring different aspects of queerness and alternative relationships, visitors are welcome to drop in at any point during the performance. […]
Queering Dorich House exhibition by artist Honey Birch Until 01 March 2025 Image credit: Ellie Laycock Here, Somewhere, a reinvention of Dorich House as a queer home, questioning its history and imagining a simultaneous queer future. A selection of archival materials, pointing to the supposed lavender marriage of Dora Gordine and Richard Hare – hinted […]
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