Exhibitions

The Clarence Bicknell Association has provided assistance in putting on exhibitions in the Museo Bicknell Bordighera, the Anglicana Bordighera, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, the Wren Library Trinity College Cambridge, the Musée des Merveilles in Tende, in Nice and in Genoa. 
 
Here are some photographs of the exhibition curated by Susie Bicknell in the Anglicana, Bordighera, 8-22 October 2017. The 2017 Parmurelu d’Oru prize was awarded by the Jury of the Descu Rundu to Marcus Bicknell for his support of the Museo Bicknell, for promoting the town of Bordighera in the international media and the scientific community and for promoting world wide in four language versions the documentary film The Marvels of Clarence Bicknell. This exhibition celebrates the award.
       

Clarence Bicknell is best known for his meticulous recording of the thousands of prehistoric engravings in the Mont Bégo area. Clarence’s great-grand-nephew Marcus (born 1948) and his wife Susie chose to focus this exhibition on a less well-known side of Clarence: his artistic and design talents, and his greatest passion… flowers and plants.  The inspiration they gave him is revealed in the hand-painted pages of the vellum-bound albums he made for family and friends, seven of which are in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England. Illustrations from these albums were shown for the first time in the 2018 exhibition there.

The Anglicana exhibition then moved on the the Museo Bicknell in Bordighera and ran from 24th October to 30 November 2017. Exhibitions with a smaller selection of Clarence’s work ran in 2018 at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England, at the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, England, at the Musée des Merveilles in Tende, France, and at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de Nice.

       The Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London will host such an exhibition when funding can be secured.
On the right is one of the 12 panels in three languages from the Bordighera exhibition of October 2017.
Below left are images of the 2018 exhibition at the at the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge. Marcus Bicknell (beard), chairman of the Clarence Bicknell Association is with Nicolas Bell, director of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge. Below, some of the original vellum-bound albums by Clarence Bicknell were shown alongside art reproductions with explanatory texts.