Spotlight Tours: Living Area
Spotlight Tours include tea and cake in the Terrace Cafe, followed by a tailored tour of the Living Area.
Refreshments served from 10:30am, with tour starting at 11.15am
Total cost, including the tour and refreshments, is £6
Numbers are limited and booking essential
Wash away the winter blues by joining our Spring Spotlight Tours. A new year means you can catch up with eight tours you may have missed during our autumn season.
Spotlight Tours – Spring Season
Saturday 23 March
Only Connect
Exploring connections between works of art in the Collection
Description: In what ways might works by Isabel Rawsthorne, Giacometti, Francis Bacon and Frank Auberbach be connected? How might Auerbach’s painting speak to works by Sérgio de Camargo and Daniel Harvey, but contrast sharply with a vessel by Magdalene Odundo? Join me to discover connections across the Collection.
Guide: Diane Freeborn
Tuesday 26 March
Bucket Man – The Enigma
Exploring the work of artist John Davies
Description: Bucket Man steps towards us, ghostly, partially dressed and a bit threatening! What’s happening here? Why is he carrying empty buckets? Who are the strange ‘others’ hidden behind screens beside him? Join me to investigate the intriguing, enigmatic work of artist John Davies and his relationship to the Sainsbury Collection.
Guide: Bo Davis
Wednesday 3 April
A Whiter Shade of Pale
Why are white and light artworks so appealing
Description: A Whiter Shade of Pale, by Procol Harum is one of the anthems of the so-called Summer of Love of 1967, in an era of experimentation and discovery. Starting with artworks from that period, we will explore our responses, before looking forward and back in time.
Guide: Jenni Brace
Tuesday 9 April
Is a Fragment a Work of Art?
Beautiful but damaged, incomplete or decayed
Description: Many works in the Sainsbury Collection are no longer the same as their makers originally intended, so look different. Does this add to or diminish their meaning and beauty? Starting with the Khmer Female Torso we will explore our responses to a variety of works that have altered over time.
Guide: Linda Chapman