UK museum chief makes a splash
By The Art Newspaper. From In The Frame
Published online: 02 September 2010
The Isle of Wight, across the Solent
A UK museum director has decided to don her bathing costume, pop on the goggles and swim across the Solent to raise funds for her gallery. A team from the Watts Gallery in Guildford will valiantly attempt to swim across the 2.65-mile strait separating the Isle of Wight from mainland England this weekend. The intrepid squad comprises Perdita Hunt, director of Watts Gallery, Sarah Giles from Project Five, an IT company which supports the museum, and Leo Hacking, Perdita's nephew. "The swim strengthens Watts Gallery's historic link with the Isle of Wight where G.F. Watts had a house in Freshwater to join his friends Alfred Lord Tennyson and Julia Margaret Cameron," points out a gallery spokeswoman. To sponsor Perdita's Olympian efforts and help raise funds for the Watts Gallery Hope Emergency Fund, go to: www.wattsgallery.org.uk/
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