{"id":225001,"date":"2026-01-09T12:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225001\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T12:56:09","slug":"work-by-acclaimed-artist-to-go-on-display-in-free-lichfield-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/225001\/","title":{"rendered":"Work by acclaimed artist to go on display in free Lichfield exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FREE exhibition of work from a talented artist is being staged in Lichfield.<\/p>\n<p>The Hub at St Mary\u2019s will host the Margaret Parker showcase until 31st January.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, who died in 2012, originally trained in Sutton Coldfield before becoming known for her later work produced in the Hull and East Ridings areas.<\/p>\n<p>During her lifetime, Margaret\u2019s work was exhibited at the Royal Academy, with many of her pieces held in public collections at the likes of the Beverly Art Gallery and University of York.<\/p>\n<p>The Hub\u2019s gallery curator Douglas Armour said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are indebted to Margaret\u2019s daughter Judith, a Hub volunteer, for the opportunity to not only display this fantastic body of work from a renowned artist, but to offer them for sale with proceeds going to support the charitable purpose of The Hub at St Mary\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a remarkably\u00a0generous gesture and myself and the other trustees at The Hub are immensely grateful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope art lovers in Lichfield will enjoy this opportunity to appreciate Margaret\u2019s work\u00a0and perhaps take the opportunity to own an original piece.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more details visit <a href=\"http:\/\/thehubstmarys.co.uk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thehubstmarys.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated articles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A FREE exhibition of work from a talented artist is being staged in Lichfield. The Hub at St&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1228,442,498,499,500,501,156,4296,373,134546,111,139,69,134547],"class_list":{"0":"post-225001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-exhibition","16":"tag-featured","17":"tag-featured-email","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-the-hub-at-st-marys"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}