Frink saviour comes to Worthing Museum

21st November 2011

Frink saviour comes to Worthing Museum
Public talk on Thursday 24 November from 6.30pm, tickets £3

Professor Fran Lloyd an expert in 20th century sculpture will be coming to Worthing Museum and Art Gallery to give a fascinating talk about women sculptors including Elisabeth Frink and Dora Gordine. This is part of the events for the Dora Gordine sculpture exhibition being held at Worthing Museum.

Prof Lloyd helped the campaign to save the giant Frink sculptures the Desert Quartet in Montague Street in Worthing in 2007. She has published widely on sculpture in Britain, contemporary visual culture and feminist art practice. She is currently Professor of Art History at Kingston University.

Lunchtime tour on Sat 3 December from 12.30pm, tickets £2

As part of the Gordine events Worthing Museum curator Hamish MacGillivray will give a short gallery tour of the Dora Gordine exhibition and show the links to Worthing Museum collection. Visitors will be able to peek at 1920s Vogue magazines and letters sent between Gordine and Worthing Museum in 1979.

Discover more about Gordine and her link to Worthing Museum

These events are sponsored by Thomas Eggar a leading law firm in the south and Toovey’s Antique and Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers.