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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
‘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 […]
We had a wonderful Russian Winter Weekend 2021 at Dorich House Museum. We were thrilled to be able to host some in-person events this year, and we had a great turnout at our talks and our afternoon self-guided visits. We had such an enthusiastic response to our snowflake papercutting activity on Saturday afternoon that we […]
In advance of her show at our partner venue Stanley Picker Gallery in Spring 2022, Stanley Picker Fellow Erika Tan is currently presenting elements of her fellowship project in Taiwan. Tan’s Stanley Picker fellowship project ‘Barang-Barang’ speculatively imagines a meeting between four female artists: Dora Gordine, Georgetta Chen, Kim Lim and the artist’s mother Fay Tan, and reflects upon […]
We are pleased to introduce a new film by London-based Swedish-British filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist Annaleena Piel Linnå. Titled Dorich, the creative documentary tells the story of how Dora Gordine met Richard Hare and the subsequent inception of Dorich House. This is not the first occasion on which Annaleena has explored the topic. In 2018 […]
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