T H E A R T S & C R A F T S M O V E M E N T

DISCOUNT FOR CLERGY & STUDENTS

with Adrian Sumner

Created as a reaction against the Industrial Revolution and the excesses of the Great Exhibition, the

Arts and Crafts Movement became the impulse linking one turbulent century to another, even more

radical, future. Absorbing elements of the Romantic Movement, the Gothic Revival, the

Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the Aesthetic Movement, Arts and Crafts Style became the

method by which the ideas of William Morris and his great contemporaries were carried to Europe,

the Americas and the World. A quiet, but total, revolution.

A graduate of Liverpool College of Art, Adrian Sumner has worked as an

Illustrator, Arts Development Officer and Lecturer in various academic and

public institutions including NADFAS. Latterly he was Arts Development

Officer for Cheshire West and Chester Council, with a particular interest in

Visual Arts. Currently he divides his time between organising study weekends

in Britain, cruise ship lectures, painting and exhibiting, and delivering study

days and single lectures in Britain and abroad.

£ 2 7 0 Fri 14th - Sun 16th

F E B£ 1 9 0RESIDENTIAL FROM NON-RESIDENTIAL

P R O G R A M M E

Fri 14th

F E B 6pm Welcome to Gladstone’s Library and introductions

7.45pm The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood How ‘the visionary vanities of half a dozen boys’ transformed art

and design in Britain, and eventually, the world. And the mystery

of how the homely genius of William Morris grew out of the

dreaming decadence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Sat 15th

F E B 9.30am John Ruskin and the Guilds

Looking at the Gothic Revival, the medieval world, and its ideas of

craftsmanship, truth to materials, and integrity of form. Plus a

glimpse at the workings of some of the most celebrated Victorian

examples; the Bromsgrove Guild, the Century Guild and more.

11am Coffee

11.30am The English Arts and Crafts Movement A study of the great names of this movement; William Morris,

Walter Crane, Arthur Heygate Macmurdo, Hugh Bailly-Scott,

Charles Robert Ashbee, Archibald Knox, Philip Webb and more.

2pm Arts and Crafts in Scotland, America, Scandinavia and Europe

Exploring the Glasgow Four, Shaker furniture, Frank Lloyd Wright,

the Vienna Secession, Emile Galle, Rene Lalique and other gems.

3.30pm Tea

4pm Free afternoon

7.45pm Film: The Shooting Party (dir. Alan Bridges, 1985, 98 mins)

Sun 16th

F E B 9.30am The Arts and Crafts House How the ideas of British designers were publicised and extended

by the likes of Oscar Wilde and translated into ‘Total Art Work’

(Gesamtkunstwerk) which became the model for Art Nouveau,

Purism and the Bauhaus.

11am Coffee

11.30am The Arts and Crafts Legacy How a national revival style inspired the Aesthetic Movement, the

Bloomsbury Group, and the Ruralists; became international; spread

through the 20th Century and survives to this very day.

D I N I N G :From 8 A M B R E A K F A S T | From 6 . 3 0 P M D I N N E R | 1 P M L U N C H

C H A P E L :8am each weekday morning. All welcome