Bohemians in Exile Exhibition at the Armitt Museum

Event held: 18 Apr 2011 Date end: 01 Mar 2012 Time: 10am to 4:30pm (Mon–Sat - last admission 4.00pm) Organiser's website: Click to Visit Website Venue: Armitt Library and Museum Address: Rydal Road Town: Ambleside County: Cumbria Postcode: LA22 9BL Venue telephone: 015394 31212 Google map Click here

Description Bohemians in Exile: The RCA in Ambleside 1940-1945 Exhibition Your Guide 2 Events in Ambleside   The Armitt Library and Museum are hosting a special exhibition which details village life in Ambleside during the 1940s when 150 young artists were evacuated from London. The Royal College of Art students created a wartime scandal in the Lake District with their free and easy lifestyle, dress, beards and strange hairstyles. The exhibition, Bohemians in Exile: The Royal College of Art in Ambleside 1940-1945, includes works by the RCA students who were housed in Ambleside's Salutation and Queens Hotels. There will be oral history recordings and excerpts from propaganda, political and comedy broadcasts together with music and songs from the period. The subjects of the oil paintings in the exhibition demonstrate the students' keen involvement in local life. They joined the fire watch and manned the Home Guard with lecturers, tradesmen and farmers. One evacuee, Frederic Brill, was creator of the Ambleside Home Guard and went on to become head of the Chelsea College of Art and Design. The exhibition also reveals work from the archives of the Royal College, including architectural drawings of 'fantasy buildings for Ambleside', diaries, newspaper articles, letters and photographs.   Tel: 015394 31212    |   10am to 4:30pm  (Monday to Saturday, last admission 4:00pm)   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bohemians in Exile: The Royal College of Art in Ambleside 1940-1945 Exhibition - Your Events Guide for Ambleside