To coincide with this exhibition, we are hosting a series of Art Talks focusing on artists with works that feature in our Collection.
Join us from 6.30pm – 8pm, £5 per ticket. Refreshments served from 6pm
Seeing Ways
Artist Chris Orr in conversation with Richard DaveyThursday 14 May
Sketchbooks offer a fascinating insight into an artist’s working practice. More than a finished work, they can reveal the disparate ways an artist translates what they see or imagine into a visual language where a grammar of marks and colours stand for movement, time, space and physical presence.Join the writer Dr Richard Davey and the artist Chris Orr RA, in a conversation that will explore this visual language and discuss how Chris’s use of it in his drawings and prints brings insights and meanings that expand and contribute to his distinctive narratives.Dr Richard Davey is a Senior Research Fellow in Historical and Critical studies at Nottingham School of Art and Design. He is an internationally published author on art, having contributed to catalogues on Anselm Kiefer and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and written books on Tess Jaray RA, Anthony Whishaw RA and Leonard McComb RA.
To book, please visit: http://ragm.co.uk/unveiled-the-rugby-collection
Art Talk – Alexander Adams
To coincide with 𝐔𝐍𝐕𝐄𝐈𝐋𝐄𝐃, we are hosting a series of Art Talks focusing on artists with works that feature in our Collection.
Meet the artist 1.30pmTalk 2-3pm
Tickets £5
Artist Alexander Adams Saturday 23 May
Alexander Adams talks about his two pictures in RAGM’s collection, giving insight into his working process and career. Adams has been an artist for 30 years after studying at Goldsmiths, College, London. He has lived in London and Berlin and has works in museums around the world.
To book, please visit: http://ragm.co.uk/unveiled-the-rugby-collection
Art Talk – Hettie Inness in Conversation with Jo Baring
To coincide with this exhibition, we are hosting a series of Art Talks focusing on artists with works that feature in our Collection.
Join us from 6.30pm – 8pm, £5 per ticket. Refreshments served from 6pm
Hettie Inness
In conversation with Jo BaringThursday 4 June
To book, please visit: http://ragm.co.uk/unveiled-the-rugby-collection
100 Years of Rugby Radio
100 Years of Rugby Radio celebrates the centenary of the station and featuring a treasure trove of items from the museum’s social history collection.
Rugby Radio Station became operational on 1 January 1926, with its GBR transmitter – then the most powerful radio transmitter in the world – sending news broadcasts and telegrams across the globe.
A year later, the station started transmitting the iconic time signal ‘pips’ from the Royal Greenwich Observatory and launched the world’s first transatlantic telephone service – with calls costing £15 for the first three minutes (the equivalent of more than £600 today).
During the Second World War, Rugby Radio Station operatives supported the RAF during bombing missions in Germany before the post-war telecommunications boom saw the radio station expand in the 1950s, with its total of 57 transmitters making it the biggest station in the world.
Technological advances led to the station’s GBR transmitter being decommissioned in 2003 and four years later all transmissions from the station came to an end.
Now home to Houlton – named after the town in Maine, USA, which received the first transatlantic telephone call – the developers incorporated Rugby Radio Station’s grade II listed ‘C’ building into Houlton School.
100 Years of Rugby Radio opens at Rugby Art Gallery and Museum’s local history gallery on Wednesday 15 April, featuring apparatus, models and images from the station dating back to 1926.