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MARIA MCKINNEY: SIRE.

February 5, 2019 - October 27, 2019
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom + Google Map
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Photograph of large bull with a colourful sculpture on its back from Sire an exhibition by Maria McKinney

Sire. by Maria McKinney is an innovative exploration of the themes of selective breeding and genetics in contemporary cattle farming, directly informed by The MERL’s collections of livestock portraiture and straw craft. The exhibition consists of nine largescale photographic portraits, taken at an Irish stud farm, that depict bulls wearing eccentric, multi-coloured sculptures mounted on […]

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10:30 am

FOLK SONGS FOR FAMILIES

February 22, 2019 @ 10:30 am - 11:15 am
The Museum of English Rural Life, The Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road
Reading, Berkshire RG1 5EX United Kingdom + Google Map
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Jackie Oates sitting in front of a piano holding her violin. Her baby is asleep in pushchair in foreground.

English folk songs can teach us a great deal about the lives of children and adults living in rural places in days gone by; their jobs, their lives and the things that they thought about. Jackie will teach a range of songs connected to objects in the museum, together with beautiful harmonies and arrangements. No […]

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