As part of the exhibition, ‘Hidden: Cold War Women’, artist Lee Karen Stow will be giving a talk in the Treasure House in Champney Road on Saturday, 12 March at 1.30pm.
The talk will be a chance to hear about Lee’s photographic travels that have revealed the unheard stories of women survivors of war and conflict from around the world, as well as close to home. This event marks this year’s International Women’s Day.
The team at the Treasure House in Beverley are reminding visitors that the current exhibition of photographs by artist Lee Karen Stow called ‘Hidden: Cold War Women’ has less than three weeks to run.
The exhibition runs until Saturday, 19 March, and has proved very popular. Visitors have been enjoying finding out about this often-overlooked period of history and the stories of the East Yorkshire women who lived through it.
The new exhibition at the Treasure House in Beverley, ‘Hidden: Cold War Women’, gives a glimpse into a lesser-known period of history, the Cold War.
The exhibition centres on photographic portraits of local women by artist Lee Karen Stow. Many of the women were members of the Royal Observer Corps or serving with the RAF. Some were involved with local authority Emergency Planning, whilst others were part of the peace moment.
A moving new exhibition that highlights the effects of war and conflict on women and girls around the world is set to open at Humber Street Gallery.
The installation, called Torn, will be on display from Monday 6 November until Sunday 31 December and features photographs of wild poppies that have been picked, dried and torn apart by Beverley-based photographer Lee Karen Stow.
East Riding of Yorkshire Council, on behalf of the East Riding Cultural Partnership, is operating a series of free workshops between April and October to encourage residents to enter the next round of the Capturing the East Riding Amateur Photography Competition.
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Photographer Lee Karen Stow’s exhibition as the Treasure House entitled Closer offers a unique look at Yorkshire through the lens of one of Beverley’s top photographers.
