This month we are delighted to show “Dreaming about when we can dance Again” a work by the artist Sandy Christie.
Find out moreThe Sir Denis Mahon Foundation was created by Sir Denis in his lifetime. It aims to continue Sir Denis’s philanthropic work, his art historical research and his passionate promotion of young scholars. It promotes his art collection and lifelong work and studies to the general public, organises exhibitions, supports museums, and also endows two annual prizes for young scholars and artists, the Sir Denis Mahon Essay Prize and The Mahon Award, a drawing prize at The Royal Drawing School.
Current Collaboration
The Sir Denis Mahon Foundation is delighted to collaborate with Flat Time House on the exhibition:
THE BARD: WILLIAM BLAKE AT FLAT TIME HOUSE
30 January–8 March 2020
http://flattimeho.org.uk/exhibitions/bard/
Watch the Photographs here of the Private View and watch the video here.
View photos from “Poets in response to Blake” on 19th February 2020 and performances by the artists and poets, Karen Sandhu, Chris McCabe, Niall McDevitt and Iain Sinclair. Watch the video here.
Artist in Virtual Residence
Past Events
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Lucretia Cantata at The Bowes Museum
13 November 2019
The Sir Denis Mahon Foundation was delighted to support The Bowes Museum on the occasion of their exhibition, The Power and the Virtue : Guido Reni’s Death of Lucretia (26 October 2019 – 20 January 2020), which highlights the theme of female beauty in Reni’s painting, particularly the depiction of devotional and legendary heroines such as Cleopatra, Saint Catherine, Saint Mary Magdalene, and specifically the suicide of Lucretia Romana, a noblewoman in ancient Rome, following her rape by Sextus Tarquinius, the son of the tyrannical Etruscan King of Rome, after she had rejected his advances.
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Visionaries and the Art of Performance
28 June 2019 - 14 July 2019
Through the work of several artists, the exhibition suggests that visionary qualities are not exclusive to one period or personality, but they are enduring characteristics of artistic creativity.
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Visions & Visionaries
11 December 2018 - 30 April 2019
They made the “visionary” into a poetic manifesto, the germ of an idea that is still relevant in the contemporary world with artists such as Geoffrey Fletcher, John Latham, Grayson Perry, or in art movements like Technomedioevo.
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Techno Medioevo Study Day
14 June 2018
The Sir Denis Mahon Foundation and Museum of the Order of St John hosted a study day to explore The Language and Meaning of Time in Art & Science.
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TECHNO MEDIOEVO: Age of Future Reloaded
1 March 2018 - 16 June 2018
What would the past have been like in the Middle Ages if the future had happened before?