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Hounslow Visual Arts Programme – What Do You Not See
This exhibition from the Creative People and Places Hounslow Visual Arts Programme brings together the work of seven UK-based contemporary visual artists illuminating what it’s like to live with a hidden disability. The exhibition has been curated in collaboration with members of the local community who devised the idea, and have selected the artists and works for the exhibition. The members of the group were inspired to create this exhibition by their own experiences of hidden disability, for example, as a disabled person, or…
Hounslow Visual Arts Programme – HOME
Documenting everyday life lived almost exclusively in domestic spaces, these works respond creatively to sudden and increased restrictions and limitations. As home increasingly became a space where we worked, socialised and learned during lockdown, it also inspired new creative outputs. From using family as subjects of portraits, to recording the moments of connection using digital tools, these beautiful and often poignant images capture experiences that many of us will recognise. HOME is an exhibition of work by ten students on…
Hounslow Visual Arts Programme – Animal Stories
From the rare species of snails found in Isleworth Ait, to the thousands of animals entering the UK through Heathrow Airport’s Animal Reception Centre from across the world, this intriguing story is told through the recollections of local people and research of historical records and archives. Travel through time from the Chiswick House Menagerie of the 19th century to the present day to see how our relationship to animals has shaped Hounslow and the communities that live and work here.…
Chiswick House: Bring Into Being art exhibition
Bring Into Being is an experimental programme of art commissions, events and workshops marking a new chapter for Chiswick House and Gardens. Presenting three site-specific artworks by Peter Adjaye, Jaimini Patel and Turner Prize winning Mark Wallinger, alongside workshops and events, Bring Into Being 'responds to the many incarnations of Chiswick House and tests the future possibilities of our Grade 1 listed site'. Chiswick House Trust is looking to widen the scope and the appeal of the House and Gradens, to attract more visitors, and to encourage existing visitors to use the park…
Hounslow Visual Arts Programme – Vibrant Landings
This new exhibition by artist Noelle Genevier from CPP Hounslow's Visual Arts Programme explores colour and nature through contemporary collage. Noelle Genevier’s work starts with colour and material; folded paper and photographs that combine in her collages to create new worlds of ideas. These collages take two forms; the digitally created, flat patterns, and the more organic handmade three-dimensional assemblages. These forms echo Noelle’s interest in the environment, both urban and natural, coming together at a threshold of shifts and…
Ealing Art Group’s Summer Exhibition
Ealing Art Group have announced that their second summer exhibition will take place in July at Gunnersbury Park Museum. Founded in 1910, The Art Group is following in the footsteps of Madeline Green, one of Gunnersbury Park's founder members whose work was recently exhibited there. This exhibition reflects the eclectic mix of artists and makers living and working within the borough and the variety of mediums used to create their art. The work on show will include paintings in various…
Special exhibition: Paula Rego at Hogarth’s House
Image above: 'After Hogarth IV' (2000) Paula Rego. This July, Hogarth’s House will host a selection of 42 works by Paula Rego including Prints, lithographs etchings and more. An artist of remarkable imagination, her work has forever changed the representation of women in figurative art. This exhibition will display works from throughout the artist's career and explore how her admiration for William Hogarth has inspired elements of her work. Dame Paula Rego was born in Portugal in 1935 and now…
Watermans Summer Holiday Programme
This Summer the Watermans is hosting a range of activities aimed around 'having fun and being together'. From graffiti to photography, animation to printing, mask-making to drumming. You name it, they've probably got it going on during their three-week Summertime Holiday Festival 28 July – 12 August. Brimming with inspiring workshops, activities, events and free fun drop-in activities, there’s something for everyone aged 2 to 12+, kicking off with a family friendly concert by Mellow Baku. Creative Chinese Caligraphy -…
Exhibitions at Watermans – Connected Nature
Image above: Daria Jelonek "Technological Nature" The exhibition outlines the diversity of the current environmental landscape by exploring both major and marginal phenomena, their qualification often depending on point of view and context. Reinterpreted by the artists, the different aspects of the reflection on ecology form a whole - a whole recomposed, in movement, allowing everyone to constitute their own toolkits and standards regarding these questions which are urgent but never sufficiently immediate; both systemic and individual; very contemporary but…
Children’s Summer Fete
The William Morris Society will be taking part in the annual Children’s Summer Fete, with special guests from the world of heritage including Benjamin Franklin House, the Museum of Methodism & John Wesley’s House, Newington Green Meeting House and of course Arts & Crafts Hammersmith (a collaboration between the Emery Walker Trust and the William Morris Society), with each organisation offering a range of fun craft activities for families! This year, children will have the opportunity to make their own…
Hogarth’s House kids’ camp
Enjoy outdoor (weather depending) and craft activities in Hogarth's House's Mulberry Garden and Learning Studio with a different theme every week! This event will run every Tuesday in August 9.00 – 12.00 pm. Children aged 8-12 Themes: August 3 Animals & Pets August 10 18th century London August 17 Nature’s Colours August 24 Hogarth’s Home August 31 Plants & Texture Please note this is a drop-off activity for children 8+. Hogarth’s House will be closed to the public during this time and…
Chiswick Antique, Retro and Collectable Fair
The Chiswick Antiques & Collectables Fair has returned, and is taking place on the first Saturday of each month. Whether you’re looking for home interior pieces, individual fashion statements or rare and unusual collectables, this is your one stop event to shop for what you want! For the moment, Covid secure practises are in place for your safety which include limiting the number of shoppers allowed in the venue at one time, use of hand sanitiser and facemasks as well…
Museum on the Streets – Ealing: Queen of the Suburbs
Join Gunnersbury Park and Museum for a walk delivered by Ealing and West London Tour Guides. Beginning at Ealing Broadway station, the group will explore central Ealing, long known as the Queen of the Suburbs. You’ll hear about Ealing Studios and its famous film industry connections and about one of Ealing's gems, Pitzhanger Manor, Sir John Soane's elegant country home. You’ll also discover a tiny club that changed the face of rock and roll and locations which featured television's most…
Emery Walker, Arts & Crafts and the Cotswolds
Emery Walker was born and bred a Londoner, but he maintained close links with the countryside, ranging from the houses his wife, Mary Grace, would stay at for her health, his travels abroad, and, especially, the Cotswolds It was through his friendships with William Morris, Philip Webb, and with younger members of the Arts and Crafts Movement, such as Ernest Gimson and Sidney Barnsley, who had moved to Sapperton, near Cirencester in the 1890s. In 1922 Walker took the lease…
Emery Walker and the Private Press Movement
Emery Walker’s House is to open its first exhibition on 12 August, displaying examples of the most beautiful private press books ever published, illustrating Walker’s revolutionary book printing techniques and legacy in his former home in Hammersmith. The new exhibition space in the small drawing room of the most authentic Arts & Crafts home in Britain charts Walker’s career as a typographer and printer at a time when huge advances were being introduced in the production of books to keep up with…
Workshop: Wood Engraving With Peter Lawrence
Come and explore the art of wood engraving with Peter Lawrence, a long term member of the Society of Wood Engravers and William Morris enthusiast. Organised by the William Morris Society. Learn about the history of wood engraving and how Arts & Crafts polymath Morris made use of it for the illustrations in the books he created through the Kelmscott Press. Examine Morris’s books and proof prints, then watch Peter demonstrate how to engrave a block before trying out the…
Chiswick Auctions – Interiors, Homes & Antiques
This sale offers a range of modern, mid-century and antique furniture and furnishings for the home and garden and provides the perfect alternative to high street shopping, especially for those looking for interior design inspiration or simply that unique piece for your home. The sale features a wide range of lifestyle categories including jewellery and watches, ceramics, glass, British and European works of art, sculpture, rugs and other collectables, all with accessible estimates. Prospective clients may bid in person (subject…
Museum on the streets – Hidden Chiswick
Join Gunnersbury Park and Museum for a walking tour delivered by Ealing and West London Tour Guides. Starting at Turnham Green you will hear about the history of Chiswick, learn about one of the “Healthiest Place in the World” to live, discover a famous Civil War Battle, the creator of Sanderson Wallpaper and meet one of England’s most famous 18th century artists. On our way you will see a music venue once known as the Cave, one of George Gilbert Scott’s…
Brentford Art Trail
The Brentford Art Trail is an artist-led celebration of Brentford’s creativity and hidden spaces taking place 3–5 September 2021. At just under a mile long, running from the Water and Steam Museum down to Johnson's Island it takes in cultural sites like the Muscial Museum and Watermans, as well as artist studios and temporary exhibition spaces around the Duke of London and at Watermans Park. If you’re an artist living, working, or studying in the borough of Hounslow, whether you have a studio on…
Watermans Exhibition – We Are Watching
'We Are Watching' is a monumental eye, made up of thousands of portraits contributed from 190 countries. It flies high above cities on a flag the size of a 10-storey building, and on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 September, it will be in Lampton Park flying high above Hounslow. Raised at key climate events to hold leaders accountable as they decide the future of our planet, its message is crystal-clear: the eyes of the world are upon you. Artivist Dan…
Thames Tidefest 2021
TideFest is a fast growing new river Thames event which took place for the first time in 2014 on World Rivers Day to highlight and celebrate the recreational importance of the Thames Tideway to Londoners. In the years since they have built on this success and the festival has firmly established itself as a key date in the London diary. Tidefest includes a wide variety of river based events in Chiswick, Kew, Brentford, Barnes, and elsewhere along the tidal Thames. Guests…
The Arts Society Chiswick – contemporary sculpture and the public space lecture
Fresh Encounters: contemporary sculpture and the public space - Anna Moszynska The role of sculpture has changed substantially in recent times. Anna Moszynska looks at how the concept of monument and memorial, familiar since classical antiquity, has shifted towards other concerns. Sculpture now plays a vitally important role in terms of site in the city. The idea of the sculpture park came into being in Britain in the mid-20th century, thanks to the efforts of Sir Henry Moore, and has…
Artists at Home 2021
Image above by Jill Revie After a year of virtual events during the pandemic, Artists at Home, West London’s favourite open studios event, is back stronger than ever and is thrilled to be opening to the public again from 17-19 September 2021. There are 93 artists taking part in this year’s Artists at Home, eight of whom are new to this year’s event. Artists at Home normally opens in the third week of June but this year has chosen an…
Chiswick House Photography Workshop: ‘Want to be more comfortable with your camera?’
Join Jasprit Singh for a 90-minute professional photography walk and scavenger hunt around the grounds of Chiswick House. Bring your own DSLR camera and experiment with taking professional photographs of nature and architecture during the evening light in late summer. This workshop is suitable for participants with a moderate level of experience of digital cameras. The three best pictures will go on Chiswick House’s Instagram page. Session duration: 90 minutes. (5.30 – 7.00 pm) 15 participants Tickets: £10 Book tickets:…
The Arts Society Chiswick – Cleopatra lecture
Cleopatra - images of a dream woman - Lucy Hughes-Hallett Cleopatra, the woman for whose love’s sake Antony is imagined to have given up the chance to rule the Roman world, has been inspiring painters, poets and (more recently) film-makers for over two millennia. Their gorgeously voluptuous depictions of her offer insights into changing concepts of beauty, and into the racial and sexual assumptions underlying them. Showing images ranging from Roman portrait busts, through medieval illuminations, the glorious works of…
The Arts Society Chiswick – Grayson Perry lecture
Pots & Frocks – the world of Grayson Perry from Essex Punk Potter to Superstar National Treasure - Ian Swankie Widely known for his outlandish appearances dressed as his feminine alter ego, Claire, Grayson Perry is now a core part of the art establishment, a Turner Prize winner, Royal Academician, popular broadcaster and colourful character. He’s possibly one of the world’s best-known contemporary artists. His works of ceramics, textiles, tapestries and prints are highly sought after. Often controversial, he tackles…
