Art visit: Tudor Contemporary at the Heong Gallery, Downing College

Join Ros to view this unique exhibition that focuses on the legacies of Tudor history and art in contemporary artistic practice.

The free-to-enter exhibition features works by eleven contemporary artists working across painting, digital media, video and photography, animatronics, ceramics, jewellery and silversmithing, set alongside rarely seen objects from historical collections in Cambridge. The exhibition will present the contemporary artworks alongside loans of historical works from the Old Schools and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge, creating conversations across time and media.

The centrepiece of the exhibition will be Mat Collishaw’s Mask of Youth, an animatronic re-imagining of Elizabeth I’s ‘real’ features, seen here for only the third time in the UK since it was commissioned for an exhibition at the Queen’s House, Greenwich in 2018.

Meeting point: We will meet at 12.30pm at the entrance to Downing College, Regent Street, Cambridge CB2 1DQ.
Those who wish to may also go for a coffee and chat after visiting the gallery.