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Jan
1
Sat
A Christmas Circus Fairytale @ Jacksons Lane
Jan 1 @ 10:00 am – 11:10 am

 

Glass slippers, poisoned apples and magic lamps. The stuff of fables and legends. But over the centuries, through countless retellings, some of the important details have been forgotten.

This Christmas, Jacksons Lane invites you to gaze into the magic mirror and see the truth in this collection of tales. Did the princess really need rescuing? Was the witch all that wicked?

This is your chance to see Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and two very charming princes as you’ve never seen them before, stepping out of the storybook to dance in the air, fly across the stage and dazzle with their fantastical feats.

A Christmas Circus Fairytale is directed by associate artist and Nearly There Yet’s Kaveh Rahnama, who created the much-loved, sell-out shows, The Party and Pinocchio.

Suitable for all ages (recommended minimum age 3 years)

A Christmas Circus Fairytale @ Jacksons Lane
Jan 1 @ 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm

 

Glass slippers, poisoned apples and magic lamps. The stuff of fables and legends. But over the centuries, through countless retellings, some of the important details have been forgotten.

This Christmas, Jacksons Lane invites you to gaze into the magic mirror and see the truth in this collection of tales. Did the princess really need rescuing? Was the witch all that wicked?

This is your chance to see Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and two very charming princes as you’ve never seen them before, stepping out of the storybook to dance in the air, fly across the stage and dazzle with their fantastical feats.

A Christmas Circus Fairytale is directed by associate artist and Nearly There Yet’s Kaveh Rahnama, who created the much-loved, sell-out shows, The Party and Pinocchio.

Suitable for all ages (recommended minimum age 3 years)

Jan
2
Sun
A Christmas Circus Fairytale @ Jacksons Lane
Jan 2 @ 10:00 am – 11:10 am

 

Glass slippers, poisoned apples and magic lamps. The stuff of fables and legends. But over the centuries, through countless retellings, some of the important details have been forgotten.

This Christmas, Jacksons Lane invites you to gaze into the magic mirror and see the truth in this collection of tales. Did the princess really need rescuing? Was the witch all that wicked?

This is your chance to see Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and two very charming princes as you’ve never seen them before, stepping out of the storybook to dance in the air, fly across the stage and dazzle with their fantastical feats.

A Christmas Circus Fairytale is directed by associate artist and Nearly There Yet’s Kaveh Rahnama, who created the much-loved, sell-out shows, The Party and Pinocchio.

Suitable for all ages (recommended minimum age 3 years)

A Christmas Circus Fairytale @ Jacksons Lane
Jan 2 @ 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm

 

Glass slippers, poisoned apples and magic lamps. The stuff of fables and legends. But over the centuries, through countless retellings, some of the important details have been forgotten.

This Christmas, Jacksons Lane invites you to gaze into the magic mirror and see the truth in this collection of tales. Did the princess really need rescuing? Was the witch all that wicked?

This is your chance to see Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood and two very charming princes as you’ve never seen them before, stepping out of the storybook to dance in the air, fly across the stage and dazzle with their fantastical feats.

A Christmas Circus Fairytale is directed by associate artist and Nearly There Yet’s Kaveh Rahnama, who created the much-loved, sell-out shows, The Party and Pinocchio.

Suitable for all ages (recommended minimum age 3 years)

Feb
4
Fri
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 4 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
5
Sat
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 5 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
6
Sun
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 6 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
8
Tue
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 8 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
9
Wed
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 9 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
10
Thu
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 10 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
11
Fri
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 11 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
12
Sat
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 12 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
13
Sun
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 13 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
15
Tue
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 15 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
16
Wed
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Feb
17
Thu
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 17 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs.  The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.

All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs.  Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.

The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village.  One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.

Admission is free and all work will be for sale.     Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].

Mar
1
Tue
Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery @ HLSI
Mar 1 @ 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Mar
4
Fri
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 4 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
5
Sat
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 5 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
6
Sun
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 6 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.

www.instagram.com/beyondthelikeness

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.  Exhibition continues until 17 March.

Mar
8
Tue
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
9
Wed
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 9 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
10
Thu
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 10 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
11
Fri
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 11 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
12
Sat
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 12 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
13
Sun
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 13 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.

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To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.  Exhibition continues until 17 March.

Mar
15
Tue
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 15 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
16
Wed
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 16 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
17
Thu
Life after Life @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 17 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life.  4-17 March 2022

Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there.  In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.

The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes.  They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.

Those being featured include:  Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson;  Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre;  William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera;  David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone;  Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist;  Jane Arden, film director;  Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker;  Berenice Sydney, abstract artist;  Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer;  Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show;  Claudia Jones, journalist and activist;  Philip Harben, first celebrity chef;  Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.

With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.

The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course.  Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:

Norman Frost;  Corrie Georgala;  Alicia Griffiths;  Patricia Gutierrez;  Kate Linden;  Constance Regardsoe;  Jess Routley;  Minnie Scott;  Paul Starns;  Ruth Swain;  Susan Terrones;  Richa Vora;  Belinda Wrigley.

Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions.  All work in this exhibition is for sale.  Admission free.

To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.

Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.

Mar
25
Fri
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 25 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Mar
26
Sat
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 26 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Mar
27
Sun
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 27 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Mar
29
Tue
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Mar
30
Wed
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 30 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Mar
31
Thu
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 31 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Apr
1
Fri
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Apr 1 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Apr
2
Sat
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Apr 2 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Apr
3
Sun
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Apr 3 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Exhibition continues until 7 April.

Apr
5
Tue
Shropshire in Highgate: Paintings by Robert Cunning @ Highgate Gallery
Apr 5 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)

When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.

On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.

Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly.  There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.

Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing?  His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.

“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says.  “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here.  125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis.  These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”

Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire.  A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York.  His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).  Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

 £5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures

Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon.  Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.

A Shropshire Lad in Highgate @ Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Apr 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate.  Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016).

Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.

£5 (HLSI members free).  Sign up online by 13:00 on the day.  Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures