Come and look @ a painting for 2 hours

Date: Saturday 1 February

Time: 10:00–13:00

Outside the main entrance of Tate Britain at 10:00am (bottom of the stairs on the right)

Rather than moving quickly through the gallery, we’ll choose a single work and give it our full attention, noticing details, shifts in feeling, questions that arise, and how the painting unfolds over time.

1. Meet outside Tate Britain at 10:00am
2. Enter the gallery together and settle into the Fear and Freedom exhibition
3. Spend around 2 hours quietly looking at one painting
4. Finish with a 30-minute group conversation sharing reflections (optional to speak)

You’re welcome to draw, write, or simply look, there’s no expectation to produce anything.

The gallery has kindly said they can provide a small number of stools for the group. You may choose to stand instead and shift position as needed.

Fear and Freedom explores British art made during and after the Second World War (1940–1965), a period shaped by conflict, recovery, and social change. The works reflect questions of fear, resilience, identity, and freedom, themes that often reveal more the longer you sit with them.

You can read more about the exhibition here: https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/modern-and-contemporary-british-art/19401965

• Anyone interested in art, looking, or attention
• No art knowledge or experience needed
• A calm, reflective space, this is not a tour or a lecture

• Please arrive on time so we can enter together
• The session will involve long periods of stillness and quiet
• Photography rules follow Tate Britain’s standard gallery guidelines
• Tate Britain has a cloakroom available to securely put away any jackets and belongings
• Please note: Due to limited capacity, this session is only open to participants with a free ticket booking

If you have any questions ahead of time, feel free to get in touch via the event email: [email protected]

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