Event date: Thursday 30 April 2026
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How do we frame time? Join Hilary Hope Guise for a look at how this concept has been depicted in art. First, with symbolic images, like the hour-glass, or the nails in Van Gogh’s boots? Yet iconography must evolve as the industrial world speeds up. In the 19th century the Impressionists’ rapid and cheeky images convey the pace of city life as in Monet’s flag-waving Paris, and later his time-capture in colours around his corn stacks. Brushstrokes speed up and disappear, annihilating human gestures in the consumerist images of the 20th century. Finally, in the installations of Andy Goldsworthy, time in Nature herself, is the great destroyer.