TASKL Lecture: 'Christmas with Giles: Grandma and the Family' This is a hybrid lecture so all are welcome

For a great many Arts Society members, the cartoonist Carl Giles was as much a part of the festive season as the Christmas tree, crackers and the Queen’s Speech. So popular were the Giles annuals as Christmas presents that they helped to make him Britain’s best loved, most successful and wealthiest cartoonist. The talk looks at Giles’s life and work with a particular emphasis on his seasonal cartoons, particularly those featuring Grandma and the Giles family. They include some of his funniest cartoons but, as the art historian William Feaver pointed out, they also demonstrate that he had few equals when it came to representing Britain in Winter.

Grandma Sculpture in Giles Circus, Ipswich by Miles Robinson

Picture Credit: Wikipedia

There will be a 24 hour protected recording of this lecture

Members Christmas Lunch after this lecture

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THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER

Mr Barry Venning

Barry Venning is an art historian whose interests and teaching range from the art of late medieval Europe to global contemporary art. He has published books, articles and exhibition catalogue essays on Turner, Constable and European landscape painting, but also has an ongoing research interest in postcolonial art and British visual satire. He works as a consultant and associate lecturer for the Open University. His media work includes two BBC TV documentaries, radio appearances for BBC local radio and abc Australia, and a DVD on Turner for the Tate.