2024 Schedule
23 March - 2 November 2024
Saturday 23 March – Season opens with the opening of our first exhibition: Nina Royle: And so, the magpies multiply (23 March – 9 June)
Easter Bank Holiday Monday 1 April – Gallery and gardens open
Saturday 6 April – Flax crop presentation – Note that sowing of the flax seeds has been postponed until the week of 15 April.
Saturday 20 April – Kestle Barton Local Look Group
Saturday 27 April – Orchard Blossom Day
Weekend 4-5 May – Soundcamp Reveil with Bram Arnold for International Dawn Chorus Day
Bank Holiday Monday 6 May – Gallery and gardens open
Tuesday 7 May – Volunteer Garden Day
22-23 May – Annual Festival of Children’s Literature (closed event)
Bank Holiday Monday 27 May – Gallery and gardens open
Saturday 1 June – Nina Royle: Making a traditional gesso wood panel workshop
Wednesday 5 June – Annual National Garden scheme period starts. Entry donations go to NGS every Wednesday through 25 September
11 – 14 June – Hanging week in the gallery – gardens are open but viewing is compromised in the gallery during this period
Saturday 15 June – Second exhibition opening of the season: Colin Robins & Oliver Udy: Anthology of Rural Life (ARL) – Farmers of The Lizard (15 June – 1 September)
Saturday 6 July – National Meadows Day
Weekend 20-21 July – Rural Representations symposium and pop-up food produce shop
Wednesday 24 July – Harvesting, rippling and retting the flax crop with Alice Fox
Saturday 27 July – Colin Robins and Oliver Udy: Large-format portrait photography workshop
Saturday 10 August – Friends of Kestle Barton bonfire meal (with option to camp)
Saturday 17 August – Nina Royle: Botanical inks and dyes workshop
Bank Holiday Monday 26 August– Gallery and gardens open
3-6 September – Hanging week in the gallery – gardens are open but viewing is compromised in the gallery during this period
Saturday 7 September – Opening of our season’s third exhibition – a solo show with Naomi Frears: New Work – paintings and works on paper (7 September – 2 November)
Weekend 21-22 September – Alice Fox: Flax processing workshop
Saturday 12 October – William Arnold & James Fergusson: Some Interesting Apples annual taste trials
Saturday 2 November – last day of the 2024 season
