February 2020
The opal is Australia’s national gemstone. Opal (SiO2.nH2O) is a mineraloid that displays incredible variations in colour and lustre. This display of precious and common opals provides insights into how this mineraloid forms, and highlights the wide range of quality and the sources of the material, with Australia being arguably home to the world’s highest [...]
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Permanent Exhibition at Broadway Museum and Art Gallery Visitors to the museum can view over 25 micro sculptures by internationally renowned Willard Wigan MBE. A self-taught artist, he is renowned for sculpting the world’s smallest works of art and he features in the Guinness Book of World Records. Some of the sculptures are smaller than a [...]
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Celebrating a recent gift to the Ashmolean Museum Oxford of family paintings and watercolours by John Singer Sargent and his sister, Emily, as well as works by Augustus and Gwen John, and Philip Wilson Steer. Curator: Malcolm Rogers, with the support of Richard Ormond Paintings, watercolours and drawings
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Artists have long travelled the world, both as scientific recorders of newly explored landscapes, flora and fauna, and in search of fresh visual material to wow their fickle audiences. Before the Grand Tour was at its height in the C18, they were employed as topographical draughtsmen for surveying and military purposes. They increasingly travelled to [...]
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