{"id":1326,"date":"2025-08-29T18:52:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T17:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2025-08-29T22:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:11:05","slug":"autumn-show-the-big-hang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/admin\/autumn-show-the-big-hang\/","title":{"rendered":"Autumn Show \u2013 The Big Hang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dateline: Friday 29 Aug 2025 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exhibition elves were on tip-top form earlier today receiving, labelling and hanging some great work.\u00a0\u00a0Work which demonstrations the breadth and depth of Guild members&#8217; talents and excitingly varied approaches to making art. Elves included Ann March, Sally Turner, Joy Burden, \u00a0Anna Tappern, Tim Baynes and Alan Morgan. Jim Dowton joined us and was romping round the town persuading posters to be put up in important places.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doubtless lured by the idea of coffee and bacon sandwiches in the excellent caf\u00e9\u00a0\u00a0<em>Jackdaws Caf\u00e9<\/em>, a few steps from this wonderful John Bowen Gallery they soon had it sorted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AE4EFE52-94DB-4458-A16E-D74E7EF40A11_1_201_a-1024x677.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AE4EFE52-94DB-4458-A16E-D74E7EF40A11_1_201_a-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AE4EFE52-94DB-4458-A16E-D74E7EF40A11_1_201_a-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AE4EFE52-94DB-4458-A16E-D74E7EF40A11_1_201_a-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AE4EFE52-94DB-4458-A16E-D74E7EF40A11_1_201_a-1536x1016.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AE4EFE52-94DB-4458-A16E-D74E7EF40A11_1_201_a-2048x1354.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As the elves were working putting up the show, there was lots of footfall, the Gallery is <em>en route<\/em> to the toilets that serve both the caf\u00e9 and indeed the Tourist Information Centre so footfall for the show is more or less guaranteed.\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"807\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2B27579D-7A18-4515-9749-C21C68F9BE40_1_201_a-1024x807.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2B27579D-7A18-4515-9749-C21C68F9BE40_1_201_a-1024x807.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2B27579D-7A18-4515-9749-C21C68F9BE40_1_201_a-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2B27579D-7A18-4515-9749-C21C68F9BE40_1_201_a-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2B27579D-7A18-4515-9749-C21C68F9BE40_1_201_a-1536x1210.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2B27579D-7A18-4515-9749-C21C68F9BE40_1_201_a-2048x1613.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>We had the show hung just before noon, with Head Elf*, Ann March adding final touches to the hand. Show opens tomorrow 30<sup>th<\/sup> August!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Autumn Exhibition of Fine Art\u00a0By The Guild of Wiltshire Artists at:<br>The John Bowen Gallery<br>Town Hall, Cross Hayes,<br>Malmesbury, Wiltshire<br>SN16 9BZ<br><br>from 29th August to 11th September<br>Open daily 10am &#8211; 4pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">*common title for this role&#8230; denotes someone who leads other elves, often in a workshop setting \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7F3547F4-12DD-4F10-B510-35585281779A_1_201_a-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7F3547F4-12DD-4F10-B510-35585281779A_1_201_a-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7F3547F4-12DD-4F10-B510-35585281779A_1_201_a-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7F3547F4-12DD-4F10-B510-35585281779A_1_201_a-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7F3547F4-12DD-4F10-B510-35585281779A_1_201_a-1536x988.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7F3547F4-12DD-4F10-B510-35585281779A_1_201_a-2048x1317.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Finishing touches to the exhibition which showcases the breadth and depth of Guild members&#8217; talents and excitingly varied approaches to making art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dateline: Friday 29 Aug 2025 The exhibition elves were on tip-top form earlier today receiving, labelling and hanging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":1329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23],"tags":[36,45],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-admin","category-exhibitions","tag-exhibitions","tag-malmesbury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guildofwiltshireartists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}