Events

Here you can find out about events involving Goldwork all over the country, and of course those directly connected with The Goldwork Guild. There are a number of venues where members of the Guild can arrange to meet and be made welcome. If anyone has suggestions for places, please let us know.

Planned Visits

Victoria & Albert Museum, London: Date: TBA., Details to follow at a later date.

The above visits are being organised by Janice Williams. Some venues may require the payment of an entrance fee. Please contact her at the following address if you would like to attend. As numbers may be limited, please get in contact as soon as possible to let her know of your interest:

Janice Williams, The Goldwork Guild, Sheldon Cottage, Epney, Gloucester GL2 7LN.

Meetings

Goldwork Guild Meeting - Whitminster Sunday 4th October 2009

The meeting will be held at Whitminster Hall, Gloucester.

The meeting will be in the same format as the last one, with the morning dedicated to a goldwork-related enjoyable activity, starting at 10:00; and the actual meeting will start at 2:00 pm and go through until 5:00 pm. Cost will be £12.00 for the whole day or £8.00 for the afternoon. Tea/Coffee and naughty cakes will be provided.

For those of you coming for the full day, you can either bring a packed lunch or visit one of the lunch venues nearby. For more information contact Janice or Miranda.

To read about what happened at previous meetings, please click on the links below:

Horncastle College 2005

Slimbridge May 2005

Liverpool Visit 2005

Slimbridge October 2005

Horncastle College March 2006

Slimbridge April 2006

Other Exhibitions

Our next main exhibition will be sometime in 2010 in Herefordshire. See the competition page for more information.

Future Visits

	We are visiting the workrooms of Hand & Lock on the afternoon of Wednesday 16th September 2009;
	A visit to the Freemason Museum is planned for the 7th October 2009.
	Janice is trying to arrange a private showing of the Medieval work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, again date to be arranged.
	Dates for the Guild visit to see Worcester Cathedral to see medieval and modern embroidery will be announced shortly, as at present some artefacts are away for restoration. It looks like this will now be arranged for sometime in the New Year 2010.

If you are interested in the above event, then please contact Janice or complete and post the Future Visits form.

Competitions

The Goldwork Guild would like to announce an exciting challenge to all goldwork enthusiasts. We will hold an exhibition sometime in 2010. Specific details will follow, but the theme has been loosely set around Good/Evil.

Medieval artisans used good and evil as their source for design in the majority of the decoration in Christian architecture, furnishings and artefacts. This has also happened in other countries, embracing many different religions.

There are many ways to interpret the subject of good/evil -- it is open to your imagination, but associated ideas could be Light/Dark, Beginning/End or Love/Hate. The exhibition held in the Forest of Dean was very successful, measured by the comments of people who visited, including those who had no idea of what goldwork is. Our next exhibition should be just as successful with your contributions, so get thinking!

Goldwork Guild Exhibition - Dean Heritage Centre

There was an excellent exhibition of Goldwork at the Dean Heritage Centre the first two weeks in September 2006, where a large number of the general public paid a visit.

All in all there were 54 exhibits, from Monmouth, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire, Bristol, Isle of Wight, Essex, Birmingham, Durham, Worcestershire and Dorset. Some of the exhibits that either photographed or scanned well have been included in issue 12 of the Partworks, and Janice has included a little write-up of the event.

Beware everyone..... Janice and Miranda are contemplating another competition and exhibition for 2009!!!!

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