Exciting Update on The Drawing Board’s Year of Wonder Project

Every Monday afternoon in February and March from 1.30 to 3.00pm, there have been multi-media workshops happening at The Drawing Board. Small canvases have been decorated inspired by James Williams’ coverlet, the Wonder Quilt of Wrexham, and are to be pieced together to form one large canvased ‘patchwork’ to celebrate Wrexham’s Year of Wonder. 

The canvases have been collected in, with there being a fantastic turnout of around 60 handed in a couple days before the final collection, so don’t miss the unveiling of the collated end product soon — we’ll keep you updated on this website and on social media. The process of putting the canvases together will begin for The Drawing Board team around the 9th of April.

Drawing Board co-director Jacqui Blore said ‘We can’t wait to put the whole patchwork together and exhibit it around Wrexham.’

In the meantime, you can learn more about the Wonder Quilt of Wrexham and the Year of Wonder as a whole at a free talk on the 13th April at 1:30pm, where Dave McCall of Wrexham Carnival of Words will give a talk at The Drawing Board, 17 Lord Street, Wrexham, LL11 1LS.

Dave McCall writes historical fiction under the name David Ebsworth and is a mine of information about Wrexham and the Great Exhibition of 1876.
In July 1876, Wrexham hosted the fantastic and hugely historic Great Art Treasures Exhibition. The entrance to what once was the grand exhibition pavilion was the Argyle Arch which still stands on Hope Street, with its swirling designs inspiring our Year of Wonder logo!
More than 1,000 paintings were on display at the exhibition as well as antiquities galore. The Exhibition opened in mid-July and would run for four months. Estimates of attendance vary between 50,000 and 80,000. Among the works of art and antiquities was the rosary carried by Mary Queen of Scots to her execution as well as the Wrexham Tailor’s Quilt!
The above information was inspired by David Ebsworth’s article: https://www.davidebsworth.com/wrexhams-great-art…

 

Come along on Monday 13th April for fun chats and to learn more!

This event is FREE and there is no need to book.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

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