Appointments
Strawberry Hill House has announced that Zoë Colbeck will succeed Derek Purnell as Executive Director of the South West London attraction. Colbeck brings experience as Director of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Ops, Commercial Operations Director at The Mary Rose, and General Manager at Chartwell, a National Trust country house in Kent.
The Museum of Homelessness has expanded its board of trustees after it carried out a skills audit. Its current board of six will be joined by” Landscape photographer and finance director Alan Ribunal; computer scientist turned Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programme manager Amara Sharif;marketer Eva Datta; Science Museum gallery project manager Hetty Tapper, University of Leicester Professor and co-director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries Richard Sandell, and curator and researcher Siobhán Forshaw.
Openings and closures
Planning consent has been secured for a project at Chiswick House and Gardens which will see the creation of new community, creative and learning facilities.
Green light for ‘creative and community campus’ at Chiswick House and Gardens
Exhibitions
Created in partnership with Newcastle University, a new exhibition at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum will showcase green technologies from North East businesses alongside science and engineering objects from the museums’ historic collections. ‘Steam to Green’ will explore the story of energy including research taking place in North East England, and will include a section about environmentally sustainable transport. Runs 20 July 2024 – 6 September 2026.
Liverpool Cathedral will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2024 with an exhibition by British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor. Titled ‘Monadic Singularity’, the exhibition marks Kapoor’s first solo show in a UK cathedral and his major solo exhibition in Liverpool since his 1983 exhibit at the Walker Art Gallery. It will feature works spanning the past 25 years, including architecturally scaled works never before seen in the UK.
Also in Liverpool, ‘Beyond the Beat’ is a new exhibition that will showcase photos of unknown local bands and international artists performing in 1960s Liverpool.16 never-before-seen images will go on display for the first time in Museum of Liverpool’s Skylight Gallery. 29 June until Sunday 3 November 2024
The relationship between art, money and society will be explored in an exhibition coming later this year at Ashmolean. ‘Money Talks: Art, Society & Power’ will feature more than 100 objects including coins and banknotes, and artworks by Andy Warhol, Guerilla Girls, Grayson Perry and Banksy. The exhibition will explore “our complicated feelings about money – from disgust to desire – and reveal the art hiding in notes and coins that we rarely consider.” Visitors will also see one of the most reproduced artworks in the world – the plaster bust of Elizabeth II by Arnold Machin made in 1966 which appeared on billions of postage stamps as well as money. Runs 9 August 2024 – 5 January 2025.
A touring exhibition by Museumand, ‘70 Objeks & Tings’ opens at York Castle Museum later this month. Museumand was founded by mother and daughter team Catherine Ross and Lynda Burrel who created the exhibition as a way to share more about the Windrush Generation and their descendants. This exhibition, which celebrates the 75th anniversary of Windrush, is a chance to explore their experiences and lives through cooking and household goods, food packaging and beauty supplies, funeral items, music, games, books, newspapers and more. Runs 19 June – 1 November 2024.
A new exhibition at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield celebrates the “marvel of metal”. Showcasing over 100 objects drawn from Sheffield’s Designated Metalwork Collection and a host of significant loans from across the UK, ‘Show Your Metal’ will also feature several metallic artworks (one set for the exhibition pictured above). Opens today, 13 June, until 29 September 2024.