Curated by Dr Jacqueline Riding, Basic Instincts explores Georgian attitudes to love, desire and female respectability through the radical paintings of Joseph Highmore. A highly successful artist and Governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) is best known as a portrait painter of the Georgian middle class.
The Foundling Museum displays a series of five previously unseen sculptures by acclaimed artist Rachel Kneebone, providing a resonant counterpoint to their exhibition Basic Instincts. Rachel Kneebone is a British artist whose intricate works address and question the human condition.
During the German occupation of the Channel Islands 1940-1945, many thousands of people were persecuted, including slave labourers, political prisoners and Jews. Their story has been largely omitted from a British narrative of ‘standing alone’ against Nazism and celebrations of British victory over Germany.
Design for Peace is a series of international knowledge intensive events, that explore how innovation, technology and entrepreneurship, can create socially impactful solutions that succeed in addressing global humanitarian and environmental challenges.
Meet the team behind BBC TV's hit series 'Quacks' over mince pies and mulled wine to discover how they brought the gruesome realities of Victorian medicine to the screen. From dead moles to modesty dolls, ether and mesmerism, Quacks is a romp through nineteenth century London’s medical world.