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Head to Head Exhibition, Holt Festival July 2018

Dora Gordine Black Orchid (1956) Bronze Photography: Ellie Laycock

HEAD TO HEAD Holt Festival 21 – 29 July 2018 Now in its tenth year, the Holt Festival in Norfolk will again play host this July to a rich and diverse programme of arts events and performance from the fields of theatre, music, comedy, literature, politics and fine art. A particularly exciting feature of this […]

Dorich House Museum Summer Garden Party, 2 June 2018

SATURDAY 2 JUNE 2018, 4-7pm ALL WELCOME Please join us in the grounds of Dorich House Museum for refreshments and live music by Kingston University music students, celebrating the Kingston School of Art 2018 Degree Shows, with a Yatai created by Unit 5 students from the School of Architecture, and launching our inaugural Studio Residency […]

Surbiton Yatai: Postgraduate Architecture Project

SURBITION YATAI: BUILDING COMMUNITY IDENTITY Department of Architecture and Landscape, Kingston University London Summer 2018 Unit 5, a postgraduate architecture unit led by the tutors Takeshi Hayatsu and Jim Reed at Kingston University, have been working with the local group Community Brain in Surbiton, to create a large mobile wooden structure, which will provide an identifiable […]

Women’s Art Practice and Thinking: A Staged Event

WOMEN’S ART PRACTICE AND THINKING: A STAGED EVENT WEDNESDAY 2 MAY 2018 Hosted in collaboration with Kingston University’s Contemporary Art Research Centre, Dorich House Museum welcomes you to Women’s Art Practice and Thinking: A Staged Event. Women’s Art Practice and Thinking: A Staged Event re-imagines the structure of symposium as a live event – a […]

Dora Gordine Ars Gratia Artis. A special screening

Dora Gordine Ars Gratia Artis a film by Annaleena Piel Linna We are delighted to be celebrating International Woman’s Day with a special screening of a new documentary “Dora Gordine Ars Gratia Artis” by director Annaleena Piel Linna. The film traces Gordine’s remarkable life and career, from her early years in Latvia and Estonia, to Paris and […]

Jamie Hawkesworth for British Vogue at Dorich House Museum

British Vogue at Dorich House Museum

On a snowy day in December we welcomed Edward Enninful, the Editor in Chief of British Vogue along with photographer Jamie Hawkesworth and the team from Vogue who were using our Museum as the location for an editorial shoot showcasing Prada for the March 2018 edition of British Vogue. A series of beautiful photos of […]

Job Vacancy: Dorich House Museum Coordinator

Dorich House Museum Exterior

JOB VACANCY Dorich House Museum Coordinator The Museum is looking for a Museum Coordinator on a full-time, permanent basis working Tuesday-Saturday.  This is an exciting and wide-ranging role at the heart of our operations. You will be an excellent administrator with strong communications skills who is able to interact with university staff, students, and members […]

Russian Collection Tour with Dr Louise Hardiman, 3 February 2018

picture for SATURDAY 22 APRIL, RUSSIAN COLLECTION TOUR WITH DR LOUISE HARDIMAN

RUSSIAN COLLECTION TOUR WITH DR LOUISE HARDIMAN SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY Dorich House Museum will be holding a specialist tour focusing on the Russian collection acquired by the Hon. Richard Hare and Dora Gordine which is currently on display at the Museum. Leading the tour is Dr Louise Hardiman MA (Lond) PhD (Cantab) who is an […]

Roaring 1920’s in Russia. Coming in March 2018

ROARING 1920’s IN RUSSIA: ART, DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE. COMING IN March 2018 Dorich House Museum is collaborating with GRAD to host a series of three fascinating lectures on Soviet Film, Fashion and Architecture in the 1920’s. The era of the New Economic Policy (NEP), from the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921 to the […]

West London Wonders: How many will you visit?

West London Wonders

West London Wonders: How many will you visit? Dorich House Museum is pleased to be part of West London Wonders, a group of eleven museums, galleries and heritage sites in west London (Headstone Manor & Museum, Gunnersbury Park & Museum, London Museum of Water & Steam, Fulham Palace, Kingston Museum, the Hearsum Collection at Pembroke […]

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