Festival Exhibitions
The festival presented snexcellent quality and varied exhibition in 2011. In an intimate display of passion Pre-Raphaelites & Friends included rarely seen and never hitherto exhibited original works by members of the Brotherhood and their followers, on loan from public institutions and private collections across the country.
The Auden Theatre foyer was illuminated by Richard Denyer's stunning photography. His evocative still lives and powerful figurative works are balanced by his peaceful exploration of the Norfolk wetlands.
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's musical talents are legendary and a major theme throughout the festival. In recent years he has found a new creative love in his beautifully crafted collages which were exhibited at The Festival Club.
Once again the galleries in the town presented special Art Trail exhibitions in a variety of media and periods, ranging from the must see selection of 18th century Italian paintings at Anthony Fell Antiques through to contemporary paintings and sculpture in bronze and glass via Terry Frost and Sandra Blow.
Pre-Raphaelites & Friends
Art & Antiques Appraisals
Supported by
Ecclesiastical Insurance and K Pak
A loan exhibition of pictures from Northampton Museum & Art Gallery and other institutional and private lenders, including original works by among others Burne-Jones, Holman-Hunt, Rossetti, Inchbold, Gotch and Norfolk's Pre-Raphaelite Frederick Sandys.
See the lecture series below
Detail © Northampton Museums Service
Film Ink & Memory
Photographs by Richard Denyer
Auden Foyer
A series of intimate images of wrestlers titled The Image of Passion juxtaposed with works from Denyer's current project Waterside, which explores water and land, the wild and the man-made, in the wetlands of Norfolk, Suffolk and the Netherlands. Also, classical still-life images reconstructed from memories of childhood visits to Victorian galleries.
See the lecture series below
Detail © Richard Denyer
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
Exhibition of Collages
Festival Club
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett is internationally known as a composer for the concert
hall and of film scores, and as a performer of jazz cabaret songs. He has recently
revealed that he also has a private passion for making collages.
Detail © Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
