Dorich House Museum will be taking part in Open Garden Squares Weekend this year alongside other Kingston University campuses. Saturday 17 June come and explore the Museum and our heritage orchard. Contact the Museum if you’d like to complete your visit with a space on our guided tour at 11.30am. See Open Garden Squares Weekend’s […]
SATURDAY 22 APRIL, RUSSIAN COLLECTION TOUR WITH DR LOUISE HARDIMAN 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 […]
HILARY LLOYD DORICH HOUSE FELLOWSHIP COMMISSION & DORA VOLUME 1, DIALOGUES ON WOMEN’S CREATIVE PRACTICE AND THINKING Launch Event Wed 8 March 6-8.30pm Dorich House Museum presents a major new commission by inaugural Dorich House Fellow Hilary Lloyd and, to commemorate International Women’s Day 2017, publishes the first instalment of Dora: Dialogues on Women’s Creative […]
MASLENITSA AND RUSSIAN NESTING DOLLS WORKSHOP Saturday 11 March, 2-4pm Maslenitsa, the Russian Sun Festival, celebrates the end of winter and the start of springtime fun. Celebrate Maslenitsa at Dorich House Museum by decorating your own Russian nesting dolls, 2pm-4pm. You will be given a plain set of 5 nesting dolls to design and paint […]
SPECIAL TOUR – DORA’S SITTERS On this special tour, find out more about some of the fascinating characters who sat for portraits at Dorich House. Including Dorothy Tutin, Edith Evans, Kenneth Clark and more. Dora Gordine pictured above with model April Brunner, 1956. Date: Friday 17 February 2017, 11.30am Booking is essential so please contact […]
AN EVENING WITH TRADER FAULKNER Saturday 28 January 2017 Actor Trader Faulkner will share memories of his friendship with Dora Gordine, his experience modelling for her at Dorich House in the 1950s, and their shared love of dance – hers for ballet and his for flamenco, to which he introduced her. Trader, who spent his […]
NEW ACQUISITION DORA GORDINE, SEATED BABY (1937-8) Thanks to the generosity of private patrons, Dorich House Museum recently acquired one of Gordine’s early public sculptures, Seated Baby (1937-8), which is now on display in the Modelling Studio. Commissioned in autumn 1937, by H.S.E. Vanderpant, the Mayor of Westminster, Seated Baby was Gordine’s second public commission […]
80TH ANNIVERSARY HOUSE-WARMING CELEBRATIONS WITH HILARY LLOYD Following their marriage at Chelsea Registry Office on 6 November 1936, Dora Gordine and her husband Richard Hare moved into Dorich House, the modern studio-home she had designed for them a ‘deer’s leap’ from Richmond Park. It was to be their home and shared workplace for the rest […]
RUSSIAN WINTER WEEKEND, 15-17 DECEMBER THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER Museum Open: 11am-5pm, last entry at 4.30pm RUSSIAN WINTER WEEKEND CONCERT Doors 6.30pm, start 7.30pm An evening of Russian music and poetry featuring Alena Lugovkina (flute), Anne Denholm (harp) and Susan Porrett (narrator). Tickets £20 (including glass of prosecco and admission to the museum) Booking is essential […]
ARTIST’S STUDIO MUSEUM NETWORK A glimpse into the artist’s studio ‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, wrote the Wakefield-born Barbara Hepworth of her Cornwall studio. ‘Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space’. Hepworth’s studio is now open to the public as the Barbara […]
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