Events

Image of Christ Church on a Victorian postcard

“Wish you were here!”

The attraction of Christ Church in early photographic postcards.

Postcards are equally ephemeral as they are collectable. Recently they have been recognised as fruitful objects for academic research, be it as photographic images or records of social interaction and change. This display of over 70 postcards focuses on images of Christ Church – many of them mailed between 1899 and 1953.

Drawing, Federico Barocci, Head of a child, JBS 328

Drawing in Colour

21 October–22 January

Christ Church Picture Gallery

Exhibition

This exhibition brings together works from Christ Church’s permanent collection to explore how the masters of the Renaissance and the Baroque incorporated colour into the medium of drawing.

Lantern-led Festive Guided Tours

29 November–22 December

Christ Church

Explore Christ Church after dark on a festive-themed guided tour experience. As your friendly guide leads you by lantern light through the quadrangles, cloisters and Great Hall, you will learn about the college’s fascinating history and follow our Christmas tree trail around the college.

Duncan Grant, View to the barns, Charleston, 1930s

Special Interest Event: Bloomsbury and the Art of Being Modern

21–24 March

Christ Church

Conference

Was Virginia Woolf right when she proclaimed that ‘on or about December 1910, human character changed’? She and her fellow members of the Bloomsbury Group certainly did not lack ambition and a high sense of purpose.

This year’s conference will take Woolf and the cohort loosely grouped around her in Bloomsbury and beyond to explore the modernist creative explosion of the early twentieth century.