In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk: On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
PETER AND THE WOLF Sat 11 Feb 11.30am | £8.50/£6.50 This exciting puppet show is set to Prokofiev’s famous score, and is a brilliant way to introduce children to orchestral music. It’s the story of a mischievous boy who goes off into the meadows to play with animals, in spite of his grandfather warning him about a wolf ! Stay after the performance for a puppet-making demonstration. J
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
SELF-GUIDED TOUR Sat 11/Sun 12 & Sat 18/Sun 19 Feb | Free Explore Lauderdale House and find out its history in a fun, family friendly way.
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed. All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
JOHN HEGLEY & OTIZ CANNELLONI: MUSICAL MELODIES Sun 12 Feb 11.30am | £8.50/£6.50 A fun-packed hour of marvellous music, songs, poems, magic, mayhem and loads of joining in. You won’t be able to stop laughing!
LAUDERDALE SUZUKI MUSIC: SING WITH PATTY Sun 12 Feb, 2.30–3pm | Free A free singing session for children under 5 years old. Patty will teach songs with hand movements, chime bars and percussion instruments. These classes provide an excellent foundation for learning an instrument.
QUARTET COCKTAILS with THE MOERAN QUARTET Sun 12 Feb, 6.45pm | £25.00 Sweet sophistication with a cocktail on arrival, glorious music from Bach and Mozart to Cole Porter and Irving Berlin and a cocktail to finish too!
LGBT PLAYREADINGS 7.30pm | £3.50/£5 on door
Philippe Barbour Mon 13 Feb REPELLENT ACTS asks what life will be like for gay men in the future, should the backlash against ‘liberalism gone mad’ worsen.
Tim McArthur Wed 15 Feb CONTROL explores a relationship that blooms, then darkens. Who has the final control of the situation?
Christian Durham Thu 16 Feb FINDING THE BURNETT tells the story of 16 year old Tyler who lives with his father and is just coming out as gay.
Philip Lawrence Mon 20 Feb A PINK TRIANGLE follows two men in a complacent, loveless civil partnership in post-Brexit London.
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
Tim McArthur Wed 15 Feb CONTROL explores a relationship that blooms, then darkens. Who has the final control of the situation?
Christian Durham Thu 16 Feb FINDING THE BURNETT tells the story of 16 year old Tyler who lives with his father and is just coming out as gay.
Philip Lawrence Mon 20 Feb A PINK TRIANGLE follows two men in a complacent, loveless civil partnership in post-Brexit London.
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
In the year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Highgate Gallery is delighted to host an exhibition of works by members of the Artists’ Union of St Petersburg 1950-1980.
Curator John Barkes has been working with artists in St Petersburg for more than twenty years. A chance meeting in 1993 with a painter with close links to the Repin Academy of Fine Arts resulted in nearly a hundred trips to the city, with visits to more than three hundred studios. The collapse of the Soviet system in 1989 left many elite professions without salaries or resources. Members of Artists’ Unions were no exception, but crucially they retained their studios and the paintings that represented their lives’ work.
To the artists’ surprise, and often severe irritation, John Barkes nearly always ignored their finished exhibited paintings, which tended to be rigid and formal, selecting in preference the vibrantly observant oil sketches and drawings that had no monetary value under the old system. It has thus been possible, by chance and the accidents of history, to exhibit and sell a great number of works by eminent artists and teachers at very accessible prices.
One wall will feature designs for major mosaic and mural projects from the 1960s and 1970s by Evgeni Kazmin. He is most proud of his scheme for the Sochi State Circus building, and is delighted that it survived the depredations associated with the recent Winter Olympics. The main theme of any Socialist Realist exhibition is life under the Soviet system – work, leisure and the family – paintings of a time that has passed into history, brilliantly observed.
All works are for sale, mostly priced from £400 to £4,000.
Gallery Talk:
On Sunday 5th February at 5.30pm. Dr Elizaveta Butakova, visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, will lecture on Socialist Realism. John Barkes will share the platform giving his insights into the Soviet art education system.
Admission £10 (HLSI members £5) on the door.
To reserve your place please eMail admin@hlsi.net or telephone 020 8340 3343.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Exhibition continues until 16 February and is free.
Christian Durham Thu 16 Feb FINDING THE BURNETT tells the story of 16 year old Tyler who lives with his father and is just coming out as gay.
Philip Lawrence Mon 20 Feb A PINK TRIANGLE follows two men in a complacent, loveless civil partnership in post-Brexit London.
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
The Opera Cabaret is delighted to present
Royal Divas – Doomed
An evening of thrilling scenes from grand opera, brought to you by stars of the Norwegian Opera House
Hege Hoisaeter – mezzo soprano
JohnLidal – piano
Witness the fates of Dido, Airceste, Jezebel, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Mary Stuart, Eboli, Lady Macbeth, Herodias, Cleopatra, and Helen of Troy! Share the drama of the troubled royals in a semi-staged performance of startling moments of beauty and passion!
Tickets £12.00
Concessions £10.00
- on line from www.operacabaret.org
- by phone 0771 729867
- by cheque to:
- The Opera Cabaret Company
- 59 Allerton Road N16 5UF
Time: 19.00
Website: www.operacabaret.org
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
SELF-GUIDED TOUR Sat 11/Sun 12 & Sat 18/Sun 19 Feb | Free Explore Lauderdale House and find out its history in a fun, family friendly way.
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
HIGHGATE HERITAGE FAIR Sat 18 Feb, 12-4pm | Free Meet local people and organisations interested in and passionate about Highgate history and heritage. There will be a range of experts and enthusiasts with stalls in the Lower Gallery of Lauderdale House, all of whom will be happy to answer your questions and even discuss your theories! W
This exhibition entitled Energy shows mixed media land and seascape originals, limited edition prints, and seven small oil paintings illustrating the landform project being created in Cornwall. Elspeth works on the cusp of abstraction and figuration. “I attempt to reveal energy, a vitality which, once engaged, never diminishes with time.” This has been the appeal.
Elspeth qualified as an architect from Liverpool University, practiced for years and was invited to teach soon after qualifying. She has no formal training in painting but as an architect was regularly asked to make substantial commissions in glass and paint, and to lecture abroad.
She designed three large stained windows in West London in 1981, 1989 and 1996, and in 1983 painted a huge political cartoon, a mural in a house in Westminster for an active politician. It was during these projects she realized the power of communication through composition. In 1999 Elspeth was shortlisted for Millennium artist for North Cornwall. Six interactive proposals were made, all local and doable, including a dark skies project down-directing street lighting – all seen as too ambitious.
This exhibition can be seen as a retrospective on 20 years of painting. Three years of blindness (2013-16) make this show a real celebration and a natural transition to any potential new work. Elspeth started painting landscapes in 1991 while teaching design workshops in Australia. In November last year she returned, with improved – but impaired – vision, to Australia to paint the extreme coastal points including Point Lookout in the west and Albany in the south-west, which may lead to an inevitably different style of future work, but for now a celebration of sight and works dated to 2013.
Initially Elspeth exhibited her paintings in themed shows, for example at Salisbury Playhouse in 1996, with 80 small works around the drum to highlight erosion and pollution (the Sea Empress oil spill off west Wales and the breakage of Spurn Point road in Lincolnshire), issues in the environment but always the aesthetics of light, heat and sound as space makers, interactions that make a whole. This interest, focusing on energy and environmental conditions, has been reflected in the choice of subject and titles of earlier exhibitions. She has held a total of 22 exhibitions in London and elsewhere since 1994 and reviews, including the Spectator in 2002, have recommended a wider audience. She has also been interviewed on radio: Woman’s Hour 1994, BBC Radio 4 2013 and Liverpool City Radio 2008. Her paintings are held in collections in the UK and overseas. The concerns reflected in her shows underpin the educational facility in Cornwall as it progresses.
Intensity is a quality that penetrates the images which range from the quietude of a scene on the Thames to a force 9 wave off Land’s End. The interrelationship of abstraction and figuration mentioned earlier remains the prime creative interest to the artist. A timeless zero.
The next few years may prove very different. Elspeth hopes you and your friends will share refreshments with her as this new journey commences. She will be in the gallery throughout the exhibition.
Image: Shadows near Bridge of Orchy © Elspeth Hamilton, 2016. All Rights Reserved
Tuesday-Friday 13:00-17:00; Saturday 11:00-16:00; Sunday 11:00-17:00. Closed Monday
10-23 March
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
SELF-GUIDED TOUR Sat 11/Sun 12 & Sat 18/Sun 19 Feb | Free Explore Lauderdale House and find out its history in a fun, family friendly way.
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
FAMILY WORKSHOP Sun 19 Feb, 2.30–4.30pm | £8.50 Children (along with their parents and carers) can have lots of fun making all kinds of things inspired by the House. Parade around the gallery in your own Tudor ruff, make a Good Luck Chicken inspired by the good luck charms found bricked into our chimney, and bring to life to our historic characters by making stick puppets of Nell Gwynn and King Charles – lots of fun for all!
CABARET AT TEA TIME: KIERAN BROWN supported by Francesca Benton-Stace Sun 19 Feb, 3.30pm | £28.50 – £14 In homage to our glorious past as a Victorian Tea Room, the new Cabaret at Tea Time series combines two of our favourite things: afternoon tea and cabaret! Today’s star is the magnificent Keiran Brown who has recently performed in The Phantom Of the Opera as well as Les Miserables and Wicked.
Philip Lawrence Mon 20 Feb A PINK TRIANGLE follows two men in a complacent, loveless civil partnership in post-Brexit London.
STEPHEN HOSE, PIANO Tue 21 Feb, 1.15pm | Free Stephen Hose trained at the Royal Academy of Music and enjoys an international career as a pianist, musical director and conductor. He’ll perform sonatas by Mozart and Liszt.
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
EXHIBITION: HERITAGE IN THE MAKING Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Documenting the Lauderdale Transformed building works by photographer in residence Polly Hancock and members of the Lauderdale Exposed project. See website for all exhibition times.
(Exhibitions are free to view. Usually our galleries are open Wednesday to Friday 11am to 4pm, Saturday 1.30 to 5pm (subject to private bookings) and Sunday 10am to 5pm.)
LGBT
ANTONIS SEDERAS: THE EXUBERANCE OF YOUTH Tue 7 – Sun 26 Feb, Free Winner of the Summer 2015 ‘Pride in the House’ competition, Sideras will present a selection of selfportrait silkscreen prints..
THE MOERAN QUARTET Thu 23 Feb, 7.30pm | £12/£10 With pieces by Beethoven, Bach, Elgar, Mascagni, Mozart, and Borodin, as well as 20th century works by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter.