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Drypoint Printmaking Up Close with Akua Inks

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A wonderful, calm and quiet museum if you need to references for figures and heads or just want to hone your observation skills.

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Accessibility Information

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A visual story: Museum of Classical Archaeology
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Please note: our lift is currently out of order. Please call us on 01223 330402 for updates.

Step free access to the Museum is via a lift, accessed by a separate door at the other end of the Faculty of Classics building. Please contact the Faculty's Reception staff at the main entrance. They will call up to the Museum for a Museum staff member to escort you to the lift.

The Museum's flooring is level and there is access to all areas of the collection. There is seating throughout for visitors' use. Staff are available to help.

All staircases have continuous hand rails.

Visibility impairments
The Museum is very well lit. Large print labels are available in each bay.

Hearing impairments
Acoustics
The Museum is carpeted and generally very quiet.

Assistance dogs
are very welcome.

Disabled parking
There are three disabled parking bays on the Sidgwick Site. Two are behind the Museum in the main car park, allowing easy access to the Museum. To find the third, follow the road through the car park as it turns right and then left.

Changing Places Toilet
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Fantastic place all year round for gathering primary source material on themes of nature and growth.

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden | University of Cambridge Museums

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Independent study guide for Art and Design A-Level

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CamSF Curriculum Overview Art and Design

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Titan of satire and protest art, Peter Kennard, has a retrospective exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Spanning 40 years, Kennard always manages to feel fresh and relevant in his choice of imagery and subject matter.

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Peter Kennard, Thatcher Unmasked, 1986, Photomontage - Gelatin silver prints with ink on card, A/POLITICAL collection, Courtesy the artist

23 Jul - 19 Jan 2025

Galleries 5, 6 & 7

Exhibition
Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent

Peter Kennard (b. 1949, UK) is a London-based artist and activist, and Emeritus Professor of Political Art at the Royal College of Art.

Archive of Dissent marks one of the most extensive displays of Kennard's work to date and has been specially conceived for Whitechapel Gallery. Taking over three galleries within the former Whitechapel Library space, the exhibition brings together work from across the artist's prolific and influential five-decade career, offering an important repository of social and political history while illuminating an artistic practice that has continuously countered and protested the status quo.

Since the 1970s, Kennard has produced some of our most iconic and influential images of resistance and dissent. From the Vietnam War, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and Stop the War Coalition campaigns in the 2000s, through to the present wars in Ukraine and Gaza and his ongoing commitment to environmental activism, Kennard has developed a unique visual practice that bridges art and politics for a broad range of audiences.

Reflecting the history of the spaces' former library function, Kennard's proposition for the exhibition takes the form of an active and constantly evolving archive, much of which will be presented as printed material displayed on walls, placards, in vitrines or on lecterns. These include the newspapers where his images were first published, as well as the posters and books through which they continue to circulate.

The exhibition delves into the artist's process of making, beginning with a selection of the distinctive photomontages he has been making since the 1970s. Inspired by the work of John Heartfield (1891-1968), who pioneered montage as a political tool in the 1930s, Kennard's montages deconstruct familiar and ubiquitous images and re-imagines them through different formats and scales of publication. The works not only serve to expose the relationship between power, capital, war and the destruction of planet Earth but also 'to show new possibilities emerging from the cracks and splinters of the old reality'.

Archive of Dissent also includes two of Kennard's most recent and ambitious installations Boardroom (2023) and  Double Exposure (2023) which use light, glass and projection to deconstruct the medium of photomontage, as well as a new work, The People's University of the East End (2024). Taking its title from the colloquial name for the former Library space, the work draws attention to its original purpose as a democratic local resource, while continuing to harness and evoke the iconography and forms of protest.

"My art erupts from outrage at the fact that the search for financial profit rules every nook and cranny of our society. Profit masks poverty, racism, war, climate catastrophe and on and on...Archive of Dissent brings together fifty years of work that all attempt to express that anger by ripping through the mask by cutting, tearing, montaging and juxtaposing imagery that we are all bombarded with daily. It shows what lies behind the mask: the victims, the resistance, the human communality saying 'no' to corporate and state power. It rails at the waste of lives caused by the trillions spent on manufacturing weapons and the vast profits made by arms companies." - Peter Kennard

Generously supported by:

A/POLITICAL
Richard Saltoun Gallery

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Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent - Whitechapel Gallery

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Archive of Dissent brings together work from Peter Kennard's prolific career, offering a repository of social and political history.

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Engaging, challenging and confrontational exhibition currently on at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge. Free entry, really worth a visit.

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20 September 2024 - 2 March 2025
Experience the work of American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in our landmark exhibition bringing together works by the artist alongside his unique interventions in our galleries.

Widely regarded as one of the most important artists working today, Ligon is best known for his text-based paintings which include the words of writers such as James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein and Zora Neale Hurston. Through these artworks, he explores the social, cultural and political constructions of race.

Alongside 15 of Ligon's original paintings, sculptures and prints, All Over The Place presents a series of site-specific interventions curated by the artist throughout the Museum aimed at peeling back the layers of history and meaning to reveal a new perspective on our collection.

From the installation of his large-scale neon Waiting for the Barbarians (2021) in our portico entrance to the artist's commentary of select artworks and objects from our collection, Ligon describes the exhibition as a ' thread that winds its way through the Fitzwilliam, loose in some places, taut in others, which the visitor can choose to follow or encounter serendipitously.'

The Fitzwilliam and its exhibitions are free, but visitors can choose to make a donation.
Funded by De Ying Foundation. With additional support from The Ampersand Foundation.
Image: Detail of Untitled (I Feel Most Colored When I Am Thrown Against a Sharp White Background), 1990. Oil stick on canvas. 76.2 x 50.8 cm © Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of De Ying Foundation.

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