Our final exhibition as part of the Search & Learn project, Out of Time: Underground Mendip is now on display in the museum’s Exhibition Room and the Balch Room until Saturday 7 September. Curated by Josephine Lanyon, the exhibition features a series of black and white pen and ink drawings by the museum's founder Herbert E Balch, alongside works by his contemporaries John Hassall and Harry Savory, and contemporary artists Ben Rivers and Emma Stibbon.
We are delighted that both artists are available to take part in an illustrated panel discussion which will be held in the museum’s Lecture Hall on the evening of Wednesday 4 September (6.00-7.30pm). The panel will comprise the exhibition’s curator Josephine Lanyon , artists Ben Rivers and Emma Stibbon, and the museum’s Hon Curator David Walker. This is an opportunity to learn more about Rivers and Stibbon’s careers and the challenging environments and ideas that they explore in their film-making and drawing projects. The curators will give an insight into the way new Balch works came into the collection and how contemporary artists are commissioned to respond to place and history. Tickets are available from the museum’s front desk and cost £5.00.
Emma Stibbon will also be participating in an afternoon of conversation and cake in the Exhibition Room on Saturday 17 August (2.30 – 4.00pm). She will be joined by Robin Gray, a renowned contemporary painter of cave exploration and the museum’s Hon Curator David Walker. The conversation will explore the ways in which Stibbon’s new commissions for Out of Time have responded to Herbert Balch’s caving research and geological collections. Tickets are available from the museum’s front desk and cost £5.00.
If you are not local to Wells but would like to purchase a ticket for either or both events, please contact the Museum Manager Christine Fewer to discuss payment options: admin@wellsmuseum.org.uk
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