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On Easter Sunday, ‘The Farmer’s Leg’, a sele

On Easter Sunday, ‘The Farmer’s Leg’, a selection of recent paintings by Ben Sadler will be opening in the Stable Bar.

Born in Birmingham in 1977, Ben Sadler studied at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford, and the Royal College of Art, London. He is one half of the artist duo Juneau Projects, alongside Philip Duckworth.

Many of the paintings are based on old family photographs of holidays and trips: to coasts, forests, hills, mountains and countrysides around the UK.

We’ll also have some copies of Ben’s new book ‘You and I’ published under Hurtwood Press’ Contemporary Artist Series. Plus we’ll be serving our popular Sunday roast open 12-5 as usual so plenty of reasons to stop by!

Next Wednesday 16th April, Sue Nicholls, Developme

Next Wednesday 16th April, Sue Nicholls, Development Manager at Rookhow Quaker Meeting House will be delivering our weekly soup talk!

Rookhow is a Grade II* listed site in the Rusland Valley, historically significant as an early Quaker Meeting House, with a 1725 spice cupboard, 12 acres of ancient woodland, plank and muntin panelling, stone floors, huge doorways and a key the size of a trowel. It was built for Quakers from surrounding local meetings to gather for business and worship.

Rookhow is a registered Quaker charity. As well as being a meeting place for Quakers over the last 300 years, its Bunkbarn (converted from the original stables) provides simple and affordable accommodation for groups which the charity helps to fund, alongside volunteering opportunities, conservation days, music events and more!

Talk will start at 6:30pm as usual. Booking via the farmers arms website is useful but not essential! £5 for the talk £5 for soup.

Our Soup Talker next Wednesday 9th April is Sean K

Our Soup Talker next Wednesday 9th April is Sean Ketteringham- Historian, curator, and post-doctoral researcher. He will be joined by Iris Amizlev, Curator of Special Projects at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Sean will talk about his curation of ‘Passing Strange: British Land Art Through Time’, an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (18 July – 2 November, 2025).

The display will highlight works by Tacita Dean, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, John Hilliard, and David Nash to consider how ideas of transition and ephemerality are used by these artists to defamiliarize landscape and natural forms.

Sean will share details of exhibition’s development and some of the limits and problems with the label ‘land art’. He will share a preview of the works to be displayed and how we might approach them in our contemporary moment of the Anthropocene and the climate crisis. The exhibition takes its title from Shakespeare’s Othello in which Desdemona describes Othello’s tales of adventure through extraordinary landscapes as ‘strange, passing strange’.

In her doctoral thesis, Iris focusses on the use of prehistoric references in Land art, noting formal and conceptual similarities with the Nazca lines, megalithic remains and the Hopewell and Adena mounds. Coinciding with the talk at Grizedale Arts and the presence of megalithic sites all over England, she will present examples of Land art associated with Stonehenge, Avebury, and other prehistoric sites, introducing the subject of archeoastronomy as well. Works by pioneering Land artists will be featured to reflect their common references to archaeological
sites

£5 to join the talk in person, £3 to join online!

Talk starts at 6:30pm so arrive earlier if you would like soup!

Booking via The Farmers Arms website!

Pizza Night will be on Friday this week (4 April)

Pizza Night will be on Friday this week (4 April) and every Friday from now on.

Order between 5pm and 6pm for an early bird deal of 1/2 price pizza!

Join us Wednesday 9 April for our weekly, deliciou

Join us Wednesday 9 April for our weekly, delicious community lunch - just £7 for two courses. This week it's Jacket Potato with Chilli Beef, followed by Pavlova – CANNOT WAIT!

First come, first serve… so come on over for 1pm sharp because, as the poster says, when it’s gone it is gone!

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