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PhotoClub host various lectures, events and trips throughout the year for members to capture exciting new images and hone their skills. Past events have included trips to stately homes, walks in London, talks on various photographic subjects and even trips to different English cities. Details of upcoming lectures are available below and on the Art Group noticeboard.

 

Cecil Beaton: Malice in Wonderland

 

A PhotoClub Lecture with Hugo Vickers

 

Tuesday 27th January 7.30pm

 

Cecil Beaton was a total self-creation. Through photography he rose to become one of the great observers of the age and his portraits of the Royal Family and of stars of stage and screen are legendary. As a designer of costumes and sets for stage, screen, opera and ballet, an artist, a wicked diarist and an arbiter of taste he was a man who moved easily in many varied worlds.

 

See his work at the National Portrait Gallery’s current exhibition ‘Cecil Beaton’s Bright Fashionable World’

 

Hugo Vickers is a renowned biographer, commentator and lecturer. As Beaton’s chosen biographer and literary executor, his insights into how Cecil turned himself into this extraordinary figure are unique. We meet the world of the Bright Young Things, Hollywood, the Royal Family, the war, Gigi, My Fair Lady and the Peacock Revolution of the 1960s.

 

FREE FOR ART GROUP MEMBERS. PLEASE BOOK YOUR PLACE AT RECEPTION.

Art Group members: Free.
Guests: £10 (one per member). Paid at Reception.
Club Members attending should also be members of the Art Group, which can be joined at Reception. The annual subscription for 2026 is £15 and it will include all Art and Photography lectures.
For any queries contact Hilary Holmes, PhotoClub lecture Coordinator (hil.holmes@gmail.com)