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10
Fri
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 10 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 10 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
11
Sat
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 11 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
12
Sun
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 12 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
14
Tue
Christina Eberhart – Do you hear the flowers sing? @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

1-14 July 2022

The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist.  Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.

 ‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers

 The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.

The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life.  Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art.  She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.

Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them.  Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.

For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences.  She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.

The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water.  She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.

Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show.  In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances.  Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.

Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.

Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.

Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 14 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 14 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
15
Wed
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 15 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 15 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
16
Thu
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 16 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 16 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
17
Fri
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 17 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 17 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
18
Sat
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 18 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
19
Sun
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 19 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
21
Tue
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 21 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 21 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
22
Wed
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 22 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 22 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
23
Thu
Tina Leslie – London Dreams @ Highgate Gallery
Jun 23 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Tina Leslie – London Dreams – 10-23 June 2022

These oil and mixed-media paintings from London-based artist Tina Leslie speak to each other in their contrasts, both in theme, between city and countryside, and in style, between representative and abstract.  The cityscapes capture atmospheric light and show familiar landmarks from unexpected vantage points, while the paintings in the Nature’s Threads series have a viewpoint that is up close, in the tangle of nature itself.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 23 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
24
Fri
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 24 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
25
Sat
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 25 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
26
Sun
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 26 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
28
Tue
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 28 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
29
Wed
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 29 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jun
30
Thu
The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jun 30 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jul
1
Fri
Christina Eberhart – Do you hear the flowers sing? @ Highgate Gallery
Jul 1 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

1-14 July 2022

The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist.  Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.

 ‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers

 The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.

The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life.  Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art.  She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.

Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them.  Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.

For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences.  She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.

The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water.  She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.

Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show.  In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances.  Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.

Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.

Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jul 1 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jul
2
Sat
Christina Eberhart – Do you hear the flowers sing? @ Highgate Gallery
Jul 2 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

1-14 July 2022

The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist.  Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.

 ‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers

 The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.

The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life.  Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art.  She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.

Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them.  Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.

For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences.  She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.

The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water.  She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.

Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show.  In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances.  Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.

Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.

Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.

 

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jul 2 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jul
3
Sun
Christina Eberhart – Do you hear the flowers sing? @ Highgate Gallery
Jul 3 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

1-14 July 2022

The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist.  Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.

 ‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers

 The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.

The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life.  Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art.  She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.

Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them.  Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.

For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences.  She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.

The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water.  She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.

Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show.  In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances.  Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.

Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.

Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.

The Girl on the Train @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jul 3 @ 7:30 pm – 10:15 pm

THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN returns to London this summer in a newly revised production starring Katie Ray (The MousetrapJoseph and the Amazing Technicolour DreamcoatThe Sound of Music) as Rachel Watson.

Based on the bestselling novel by Paula Hawkins and blockbuster DreamWorks film, this new stage adaption by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel tells the story of Rachel Watson, who longs for a different life, her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window everyday, happy and in love, or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

 

 

Directed by Joseph Hodges,  with set design by Richard Cooper, lighting design by Seb Blaber, casting by Jay Gardner and produced by Gardner Hodges Entertainment.

You can find The Girl on the Train on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @GirlonTrainUK

On Tuesday 14th June there will be a special post show Q&A with the cast and members of the creative team as part of the Highgate Festival

Jul
9
Sat
Christina Eberhart – Do you hear the flowers sing? @ Highgate Gallery
Jul 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

1-14 July 2022

The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist.  Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.

 ‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers

 The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.

The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life.  Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art.  She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.

Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them.  Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.

For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences.  She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.

The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water.  She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.

Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show.  In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances.  Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.

Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.

Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.

 

Jul
10
Sun
Christina Eberhart – Do you hear the flowers sing? @ Highgate Gallery
Jul 10 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?

1-14 July 2022

The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist.  Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.

 ‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers

 The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.

The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life.  Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art.  She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.

Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them.  Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.

For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences.  She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.

The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water.  She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.

Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show.  In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances.  Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.

Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.

Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.

Sep
17
Sat
Anne McNeill Pulati – Allegories and Metaphors @ Highgate Gallery
Sep 17 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Anne McNeill Pulati

Allegories and Metaphors

16-29 September 2022

Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.

Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul.  For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.

Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.

Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows.  The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey.  The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”

Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed.  In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”

She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others.  The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us.  She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.

For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com

View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683

To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8

Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk

Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00

Sep
18
Sun
Anne McNeill Pulati – Allegories and Metaphors @ Highgate Gallery
Sep 18 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Anne McNeill Pulati

Allegories and Metaphors

16-29 September 2022

Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.

Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul.  For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.

Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.

Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows.  The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey.  The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”

Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed.  In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”

She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others.  The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us.  She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.

For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com

View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683

To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8

Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk

Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00

Sep
24
Sat
Anne McNeill Pulati – Allegories and Metaphors @ Highgate Gallery
Sep 24 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Anne McNeill Pulati

Allegories and Metaphors

16-29 September 2022

Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.

Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul.  For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.

Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.

Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows.  The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey.  The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”

Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed.  In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”

She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others.  The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us.  She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.

For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com

View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683

To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8

Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk

Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00

Sep
25
Sun
Anne McNeill Pulati – Allegories and Metaphors @ Highgate Gallery
Sep 25 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Anne McNeill Pulati

Allegories and Metaphors

16-29 September 2022

Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.

Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul.  For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.

Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.

Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows.  The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey.  The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”

Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed.  In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”

She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others.  The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us.  She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.

For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com

View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683

To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8

Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk

Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00

Sep
26
Mon
Snapshot Photography and Highgate School’s Collection @ Virtual Zoom Event
Sep 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Snapshot Photography and Highgate School’s Collection

Elaine Woodbridge has been a volunteer archivist at Highgate School for the last two years working on the school’s photographic slide collection and other projects.  Elaine has been fascinated with mid-century slide photographs since she began collecting them more than twenty years ago in South Africa.  In her journey with old slides, she has digitised and creatively edited them, shared them on social media, made art and given public talks about them.

Found photographs have an enthusiastic following in  popular culture where people do everything from collecting, blogging and making art with them, to trying to reunite them with their original owners.  The snapshots of yesterday have also influenced mainstream photography and given rise to new aesthetic traditions.  They have great creative potential and have been used by artists in a myriad of ways.  But they also contain an intimate and important record of people’s lives and society in past decades, as well as the worlds of work and education.  Elaine has read widely on this subject which finds itself at the meeting place of technology, history, popular culture, fine art and archives.

Elaine is completing a Masters degree in Archives and Records Management at the University of Dundee and previously studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Cape Town.  She is not averse to scratching around in flea markets and dusty drawers for lost photographs.  Elaine was delighted to be given the task of working with Highgate’s slide collections, showing school life in the 1960s and 1980s, which she says is a treasure trove of surprising images that open a window on decades past, and is a valuable component of the school’s archive holdings.  She asks what we can learn from them and how to understand the collection against the backdrop of British vernacular photography.

Elaine will discuss concepts of snapshot photography and offer behind-the-scenes insights into caring for and archiving a slide collection, covering storage and preservation, copyright and digitisation.  Her talk will be illustrated with stunning images from her South African collection, as well as those of Highgate School.  She will comment on the value of the collection for bringing to light the school’s changing education technology, built environment and way of life.  The 1960s to 1980s was a period on the brink of great technological and digital change.  It is a world still cherished in the living memories of many parents and alumni.

Join Elaine Woodbridge online on September 26 to hear more about this intriguing topic and see a glimpse of life at the school back in the day.