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EXHIBITIONS
Open Studios 2024
23-26 August
This year Open Studios will open for four days during the Presteigne Festival. Over
the long weekend, you will be able to visit artists and makers either in their own
studios or in exhibition spaces in and around the town. Discover some fascinating and
innovative work tucked away in the most unusual places – photography, furnituremaking, painting, jewellery, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, mosaic and many other
media will be on display, and now there will be extra time in which to visit them all!
Various venues in Presteigne
Friday 23 August to Monday 26 August, 11am-5pm
Sidney Nolan Trust
Hogback Hills
22-26 August
The picturesque Hogback
Hills above Kington are preCambrian volcanoes and
the oldest rocks in Wales.
This exhibition presents
new drawings, paintings,
photography and sculpture
by over 20 artists to
reveal and illuminate the
extraordinary geological,
ecological and human
story of Hanter Hill, Worsell
Wood and Stanner Rocks.
Australian artist Sidney
Kathryn Moore Sunrise from Hergest Ridge
Nolan was closely involved
with the foundation of the Presteigne Festival. He was great friends with Benjamin
Britten and looked to Aldeburgh as a model for The Rodd. During his career he
collaborated on Kenneth MacMillan’s The Rite of Spring, with Jean Cocteau’s Orphée
and Serge Lifar’s Icare. Much of his work was created whilst listening to classical
music. During the Festival, archival material relating to Nolan’s work in theatre and
opera will be on display in Rodd Court.
Sidney Nolan Trust, The Rodd, Presteigne LD8 2LL
Open Thursday 22 August to Monday 26 August, 11am-4pm
www.sidneynolantrust.org
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