New summer exhibition at the Box in Plymouth entitled Forbidden Territories: 100 years of Surreal Landscapes. 

The exhibition explores landscapes as defined by artists in the surrealist movement which had its origins in the 1920's and continues to influence today's artists. This exhbition runs until the 7th September 2025. 

For more details see theboxplymouth.com

PRESIDENT: LADY SHUTTLEWORTH

Please note that our June lecture will take place on 17th June, as scheduled.

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE ARTS SOCIETY LUNESDALE

Notice is hereby given to members of the Arts Society Lunesdale that the Annual General Meeting will take place on at 2.15pm on 24 June 2025, at Borwick and Priest Hutton War Memorial Hall.

AGENDA

1 Welcome by John Houghton, Chairman, and apologies for absence.

PRESIDENT: LADY SHUTTLEWORTH

The Arts Society Lunesdale

Minutes of Annual General Meeting, Tuesday 25th June 2024

at 2.15 p.m. in Borwick and Priest Hutton War Memorial Hall

1 The Chairman, Dr John Houghton, welcomed everyone.

Apologies were received from: Pauline Aldous, Caroline Baker, Kaye Bibby, Lesley Boyer,

Veronica Butler, Gil Caley, Graham Caley, Rose Clarke, Huston Clements, Janet Clements,

Catherine Davenport, John Davenport, Cathy Dayton, Sally Ewens, Gwyneth Fry, Richard

Contemporary art expert Colin Pink, presented the Horsham Arts Society’s May lecture at the Brighton Road Baptist Church. The subject, Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc: Art and Apocalypse, revealed the skilful art of these two innovators, inspired in their paintings by music, theosophy, and abstract symbolism.

Between 1911 and 1914 Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc (two of the founding members of The Blue Rider artists’ group in Munich) believed that they were working together to create a new art for a new spiritual era that was about to dawn.

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