Art History
Talks & Events
Northlight Arts Centre and Leeds Art History Group bring you the North's best voices in historical art. Our Art History Talks are your opportunity to join professors, art historians, artists and academics for two hours of engaging talks and lectures with discussions and Q&A.
TICKETS COST £10 for each evening
Doors open 6.30pm to buy refreshments. Talk starts at 7pm.
Licensed Bar serving beers and wines.
Coffee and soft refreshments also available.
Free visitors’ car park
Well serviced bus routes to and from Harrogate and Leeds
Wheelchair access
Beatriz González
A talk by Matthew Merrick
21ST OCTOBER
A Discussion on the Work of the Colombian Artist.
20th Century British Figurative Painting
From Sickert to Freud
A talk by Rachael Gorton
4TH NOVEMBER
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The Anglo-Saxons and the
Silk Roads
A talk by Professor Joyce Hill
18TH NOVEMBER
Explore how the Anglo-Saxons benefitted from ideas and objects travelling along the Silk Roads - garnets from India and Sri Lanka, artistic styles from Byzantium, flagons from Syria, even Chinese silk - and see how the East influenced the farthest West.
Johannes Vermeer
The Sphinx of Delft
A talk by Simon Marginson
9TH DECEMBER
Vermeer is the greatest painter of the Dutch Golden Age. He perfected a descriptive art, an everyday realism that broke with the classical tradition of the Italian Renaissance. This talk unpicks some of his most famous works: The Geographer, The Art of Painting, and The Girl with a Pearl Earring.