A talk by Dr Melanie Stephenson with lunch
Saturday 28 November 2026, 12.00 – 3.00pm – £20 for Friends.. You can also buy tickets for Dr Stephenson’s talk from our WeGotTickets page.
Please note, there is a £12 charge for this talk which includes lunch afterwards (£17 for non-members).
This talk complements Dr Stephenson’s research three essays in our bulletins this year and highlights some of the women in Newcastle Art School during George Hatton’s time there.
“During my research into the life and achievements of Richard Hatton and the history of the Newcastle Art School in the period covering the 1880s to the 1920s, women were a constant and common presence. Their names appeared in newspaper reports of prizewinning students, handwritten in the front of art school textbooks, in the lists of scholars achieving Fine Art degrees, as teachers in the Art School curriculum, in exhibition reviews and inscribed on beautiful objects.
Their physical presence in similar numbers to their male counterparts is evident in art class photographs.
This talk will focus on some of those names, for example, women such as Elizabeth Davies, who made their mark on the artistic life of this region in the early decades of the 20th century.”
If you are interested in attending this talk, contact josephinecousin@googlemail.com or buy a ticket online:
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