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WHAT'S ON
Wells & Mendip Museum has a busy calendar of events. From talks and workshops to art exhibitions and garden days, keep an eye on this page to see what's coming up.
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What's On - Summary
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30 Oct 2024
10:00 am
to
28 Feb 2025
4:00 pm
Time & Place: Collect, Care, Value
Creative responses to material in the museum's collections
1 Feb 2025
10:00 am
to
14 Mar 2025
4:00 pm
Tanys Transformations
Return to the Museum
18 Mar 2025
10:00 am
to
29 Mar 2025
4:00 pm
“Draw the Line”
an exhibition by Tony Martin & Christopher Binding
The Curator's Choice
A changing display which features items specially chosen by the curator.
It can be viewed on the mezzanine floor of the museum.
A set of portable balance scales with weights which belonged to Edgar Vowles, Dispensing Chemist, who owned a pharmacy at 44 High St, Wells from the late 1930s until the mid-1980s.
The weights use the Apothecaries’ system of weights and measures, where a dram (drachm) is 1/8th of an ounce, a scruple is 1/3rd of an dram, and there are 20 grains in a scruple!
Accession number 2024.23
Time & Place: Collect, Care, Value
Creative responses to material in the museum's collections
30 Oct 2024
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28 Feb 2025
10:00 am
4:00 pm
During July and August 2024 we welcomed artist Sara Dudman back to the museum to deliver a six week practical art course: Time & Place: Collect, Care, Value. Five participants took part, and - supported by our Hon Curator David Walker, learnt more about the approaches towards conservation, restoration and preservation of objects in our care.
Sara worked with the group to creatively interpret these ideas, using a variety of techniques, materials and processes. We are delighted that the groups creative responses will be on display within the museum for a while.
Museum admission charges apply
Tanys Transformations
Return to the Museum
1 Feb 2025
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14 Mar 2025
10:00 am
4:00 pm
An exhibition of upcycled wedding dresses brought to us by Tanys Kolizeras (the 649th Mayor of Wells) and her amazing transformers and models
“Draw the Line”
an exhibition by Tony Martin & Christopher Binding
18 Mar 2025
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29 Mar 2025
10:00 am
4:00 pm
Christopher Binding: Christopher’s work is concerned with the formal language of abstraction where flat fields of colour juxtapose contrasting surface textures. Each work is intentionally pared down to reveal the poetry of their making. Pastel, paint, ink on wood or paper reveal a delight in the physical properties of each medium. This intentional aesthetic serves the structure of each composition. Contrast and division, tension and balance, strength and fragility find their voice in the paradoxical complexity of a simple geometry.
Recent exhibitions include RWA Bristol Open, where the artist was awarded the St Cuthbert's Mill Work on Paper Prize.
Tony Martin: Much of Tony’s work involves paper, the fragility of cast off scraps or a humble surface retaining the history of creative process: lines drawn, partly removed and redrawn, spaces reworked into something new. His collages and drawings require a precision of construction wedding spontaneity and intention. Recent projects include collaborations with Guillemot Press and Irish poet John F. Deane, who writes: “When I see Tony Martin’s drawings I think of the undertow, scales, linear up-and-down, over-and-back, cosmic geometry of all music. As with a musical fugue you arrive after your journey where you began, knowing the clarity of line that can be resolved out of the blur of contemporary seeing”.
Free entry to exhibition