Ground - Horizon - Sky: Constable 250 Conference

Colchester and Ipswich Museums Services presents Ground Horizon Sky, delivered as part ofConstable 250 [https://ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/constable250/].

This conference positions Constables life and work as a lens through which to re examine historic and contemporary engagements with landscape and offers a timely platform to reconsider how landscapes have been seen, sensed, represented, contested, transformed and how they continue to shape artistic and ecological thinking today.Constable 250 [https://ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/constable250/] is made possible with The National Lottery Heritage Fund [https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/].

It is with thanks to National Lottery players that Ground Horizon Sky is delivered in collaboration with the University of Suffolk and in partnership with thePaul Mellon Centres [https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/]Generation Landscape research programme.Ticket price includes lunch.

Full programme will be posted here once available.Early bird tickets are available from 1st May - 1st June 2026.Limited Bursary places may be available, please contactarchives@suffolk.gov.uk for further information.The conference will be followed on the 17th July, by a participatory Challenge Lab.

This will take place within Constable's landscape, based at Flatford Mill.

This will include a walk in Constable Country in collaboration with National Trust Flatford.

Spaces for this second day are limited and will be selected via a ballot.

If you would like to be considered for the ballot please indicate so when prompted during booking.

Please note your place on the Challenge Lab is not confirmed until after the ballot has been drawn and you have been contacted separately to confirm arrangements.Image: John Constable, Golding Constable's Kitchen Garden, Summer 1815.

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