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Jan
9
Wed
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 9 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

La Fête des rois @ Highgate Society
Jan 9 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Soirée conviviale arrosée, galette (et fève!), chansons.

Jan
10
Thu
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 10 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
11
Fri
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 11 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
12
Sat
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 12 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
13
Sun
Travels in UGANDA @ Highgate Society
Jan 13 @ 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

Tessa and Ian Henghes and Karen and Mark Rogers will talk  about their travels in Uganda with slides and tea with cake!

Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
15
Tue
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 15 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
16
Wed
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 16 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
17
Thu
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
18
Fri
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 18 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
19
Sat
Does United Nations Association still matter? @ Highgate Society
Jan 19 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Dembitzer

Benny Dembitzer is a British economist who has specialized in the economics of developing countries, particularly on the continent of Africa. He was a member of the team that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

Benny is currently Managing Director of GRASSROOTSAFRICA, a not for profit organisation that is offering an on-line agricultural advisory service for farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim is to set up a service that, in the long run, will be accessible on mobile telephony as well as on the internet and in a variety of languages. The project is being trialled across Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda in 2015 and 2016. www.grassrootsafrica.org.

He is also the director the GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES which have been run in London since 2003. Over 750 staff of different voluntary organisations through the UK that work in the field of development (from OXFAM to Save the Children Fund, from ActionAid to WaterAid) have been trained via this highly professional short course, organised twice a year in central London.

 

Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 19 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
20
Sun
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 20 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
22
Tue
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 22 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
23
Wed
Highgate Society Whisky Tasting @ Highgate Society
Jan 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Wed 23 Highgate Society Whisky Tasting at 10a, 7 pm, featuring five outstanding drams from around the world, with Alice Lascelles, Financial Times Drinks Editor.
Tickets, only available in advance, cost £25 per person from:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whisky-tasting-tickets-53509450206?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

 

Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 23 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
24
Thu
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
25
Fri
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 25 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
26
Sat
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
27
Sun
Nice Work If You Can Get It @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Jan 27 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Music & Lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin
Book by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

Presented by arrangement with
TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC
560 Lexington Avenue, NY, 10022

Director: John Plews

Producer: Katie Plews for Ovation

Jan
28
Mon
Parking in Highgate @ Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre
Jan 28 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Jan
31
Thu
John Allan – Local Heroes – Modern Movement Architects in North London @ Highgate Society
Jan 31 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

John Allan will give a talk – Local Heroes – Modern Movement Architects in North London. He will present works by Wells Coates, Erno Goldfinger and Bertold Lubetkin, including conservation projects he has carried out on their key buildings such as Isokon Apartments, Willow Road and Highpoint. As a director of Avanti Architects, John is a foremost expert on the restoration of modern buildings, is founding chairman of DoCoMo-UK and chairman of the Isokon Gallery Trust

Please book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/local-heroes-modern-movement-architects-in-north-london-tickets-53861601500

 

Feb
3
Sun
Board Games Festival @ Highgate Society
Feb 3 @ 3:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Feb
4
Mon
Highgate Society Poetry Group @ Highgate Society
Feb 4 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Join the Society’s Poetry Group
Respond to the Group’s challenge to write a poem about a grandparent.

Contribute to the open mic event that follows.

Tea, coffee, biscuits thrown in.

 

Feb
6
Wed
Peut-on être trilingue dès la naissance? @ Highgate Society
Feb 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Présentation du professeur Jean-Marc Dewaele, University of London

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

     Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution members will display their work at the ninth Members’ Art Exhibition at Highgate Gallery from 8th to 21st February 2019.

Previous exhibitions, starting in 1996, have been indicative of Highgate’s vibrant artistic life.  Artists have shown oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels as well as prints and drawings.  In addition, photographs, wall hangings and embroideries have featured and we anticipate that the same high standard of work will be submitted for the forthcoming exhibition which will again demonstrate the many and varied talents of our members.

Throughout the exhibition, one of the artists will be on hand to welcome visitors to Highgate Gallery and will be pleased to discuss the pieces on view.  All works will be offered for sale.

The HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition is held every three years and is greatly anticipated by the artists and visitors to the Gallery.  The show is open to all HLSI members – talented amateurs and professionals alike – to submit pieces.

The final choice of works for display is decided by a selection panel.  The panel includes Rose Aidin, Chief Executive of Art History Link Up which facilitates the teaching of Art History on Saturdays at the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, and Theresa Pateman, artist-printmaker, tutor at Hampstead School of Art and member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Printmakers Council, and Printmakers Inc.

Exhibition continues until 21 February.  Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.

Feb
9
Sat
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution members will display their work at the ninth Members’ Art Exhibition at Highgate Gallery from 8th to 21st February 2019.

Previous exhibitions, starting in 1996, have been indicative of Highgate’s vibrant artistic life.  Artists have shown oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels as well as prints and drawings.  In addition, photographs, wall hangings and embroideries have featured and we anticipate that the same high standard of work will be submitted for the forthcoming exhibition which will again demonstrate the many and varied talents of our members.

Throughout the exhibition, one of the artists will be on hand to welcome visitors to Highgate Gallery and will be pleased to discuss the pieces on view.  All works will be offered for sale.

The HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition is held every three years and is greatly anticipated by the artists and visitors to the Gallery.  The show is open to all HLSI members – talented amateurs and professionals alike – to submit pieces.

The final choice of works for display is decided by a selection panel.  The panel includes Rose Aidin, Chief Executive of Art History Link Up which facilitates the teaching of Art History on Saturdays at the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, and Theresa Pateman, artist-printmaker, tutor at Hampstead School of Art and member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Printmakers Council, and Printmakers Inc.

Exhibition continues until 21 February.  Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.

 Bramleys; watercolour (R Craven)

The Biology of Local Trees: illustrated talk @ Highgate Society
Feb 9 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

A talk by Jeff Duckett on the biology of Local Trees. Those of you who have been on one of our walks will know that Jeff not only knows about our trees, but gives a fascinating insight on all the mosses lichens and other life forms that live off them.

Everyone welcome

Feb
10
Sun
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 10 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution members will display their work at the ninth Members’ Art Exhibition at Highgate Gallery from 8th to 21st February 2019.

Previous exhibitions, starting in 1996, have been indicative of Highgate’s vibrant artistic life.  Artists have shown oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels as well as prints and drawings.  In addition, photographs, wall hangings and embroideries have featured and we anticipate that the same high standard of work will be submitted for the forthcoming exhibition which will again demonstrate the many and varied talents of our members.

Throughout the exhibition, one of the artists will be on hand to welcome visitors to Highgate Gallery and will be pleased to discuss the pieces on view.  All works will be offered for sale.

The HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition is held every three years and is greatly anticipated by the artists and visitors to the Gallery.  The show is open to all HLSI members – talented amateurs and professionals alike – to submit pieces.

The final choice of works for display is decided by a selection panel.  The panel includes Rose Aidin, Chief Executive of Art History Link Up which facilitates the teaching of Art History on Saturdays at the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, and Theresa Pateman, artist-printmaker, tutor at Hampstead School of Art and member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Printmakers Council, and Printmakers Inc.

Exhibition continues until 21 February.  Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.

Bramleys – R Craven (watercolour)

Feb
16
Sat
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 16 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution members will display their work at the ninth Members’ Art Exhibition at Highgate Gallery from 8th to 21st February 2019.

Previous exhibitions, starting in 1996, have been indicative of Highgate’s vibrant artistic life.  Artists have shown oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels as well as prints and drawings.  In addition, photographs, wall hangings and embroideries have featured and we anticipate that the same high standard of work will be submitted for the forthcoming exhibition which will again demonstrate the many and varied talents of our members.

Throughout the exhibition, one of the artists will be on hand to welcome visitors to Highgate Gallery and will be pleased to discuss the pieces on view.  All works will be offered for sale.

The HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition is held every three years and is greatly anticipated by the artists and visitors to the Gallery.  The show is open to all HLSI members – talented amateurs and professionals alike – to submit pieces.

The final choice of works for display is decided by a selection panel.  The panel includes Rose Aidin, Chief Executive of Art History Link Up which facilitates the teaching of Art History on Saturdays at the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, and Theresa Pateman, artist-printmaker, tutor at Hampstead School of Art and member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Printmakers Council, and Printmakers Inc.

Exhibition continues until 21 February.  Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.

 Bramleys; watercolour (R Craven)

Feb
17
Sun
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 17 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution members will display their work at the ninth Members’ Art Exhibition at Highgate Gallery from 8th to 21st February 2019.

Previous exhibitions, starting in 1996, have been indicative of Highgate’s vibrant artistic life.  Artists have shown oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels as well as prints and drawings.  In addition, photographs, wall hangings and embroideries have featured and we anticipate that the same high standard of work will be submitted for the forthcoming exhibition which will again demonstrate the many and varied talents of our members.

Throughout the exhibition, one of the artists will be on hand to welcome visitors to Highgate Gallery and will be pleased to discuss the pieces on view.  All works will be offered for sale.

The HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition is held every three years and is greatly anticipated by the artists and visitors to the Gallery.  The show is open to all HLSI members – talented amateurs and professionals alike – to submit pieces.

The final choice of works for display is decided by a selection panel.  The panel includes Rose Aidin, Chief Executive of Art History Link Up which facilitates the teaching of Art History on Saturdays at the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, and Theresa Pateman, artist-printmaker, tutor at Hampstead School of Art and member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Printmakers Council, and Printmakers Inc.

Exhibition continues until 21 February.  Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.

Bramleys – R Craven (watercolour)

Feb
21
Thu
HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Feb 21 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

     Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution members will display their work at the ninth Members’ Art Exhibition at Highgate Gallery from 8th to 21st February 2019.

Previous exhibitions, starting in 1996, have been indicative of Highgate’s vibrant artistic life.  Artists have shown oils, acrylics, watercolours and pastels as well as prints and drawings.  In addition, photographs, wall hangings and embroideries have featured and we anticipate that the same high standard of work will be submitted for the forthcoming exhibition which will again demonstrate the many and varied talents of our members.

Throughout the exhibition, one of the artists will be on hand to welcome visitors to Highgate Gallery and will be pleased to discuss the pieces on view.  All works will be offered for sale.

The HLSI Members’ Art Exhibition is held every three years and is greatly anticipated by the artists and visitors to the Gallery.  The show is open to all HLSI members – talented amateurs and professionals alike – to submit pieces.

The final choice of works for display is decided by a selection panel.  The panel includes Rose Aidin, Chief Executive of Art History Link Up which facilitates the teaching of Art History on Saturdays at the Wallace Collection and the National Gallery, and Theresa Pateman, artist-printmaker, tutor at Hampstead School of Art and member of Southbank Printmakers Gallery, Printmakers Council, and Printmakers Inc.

Exhibition continues until 21 February.  Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.

Feb
24
Sun
The History of Chocolate @ Highgate Society
Feb 24 @ 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm
Mar
3
Sun
Village Raw Magazine Talk at the Highgate Society @ The Highgate Society
Mar 3 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

The team behind Village Raw, the new independent culture magazine for our area, will share their story of the magazine’s journey: From the initial idea; through the crowdfunding campaign; to the successful delivery of five issues.

The magazine is a positive celebration of our unique local culture, featuring the most exciting stories about the community’s makers & doers, writers & thinkers, art & culture, food & drink and health & wellbeing. Luciane and David have intimately explored the hidden gems of Crouch End, Highgate, Muswell Hill, East Finchley and surrounding areas and grown an impressive base of followers and enthusiasts. Their talk will take us through the motivation that started it, the challenges along the way, and the fascinating people they met on their journey in exploring our next door.

Join us at The Highgate Society on Sunday March 3rd, at 4pm.

Free event but please book your place on eventbrite.

Mar
4
Mon
Highgate Society Poetry Event @ United Reform Church Highgate
Mar 4 @ 6:30 am – 8:30 am

we are meeting at the United Reform Church on Pond Square, N6 6BA to open mic and respond to the Highgate Challenge.

The challenge this month is to take the opening line of a favourite song and to work from there.

Two poems each on the open mic, a third if you add in the challenge as a part of a set.

We are hoping to provide refreshments again

Mar
6
Wed
Les musiciens noirs de la première guerre mondiale @ Highgate Society
Mar 6 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Présentation illustrée de Ruth Hazeldine.

Mar
8
Fri
Simon Williams – art exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 8 @ 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm

  Image: Graffiti Theft No2 – spray paint transfer on cotton- 110x196cm. (c) SimonWilliams/Jakbox2018. All rights reserved

Archway-based artist Simon Williams’ work questions the relationship that we have with the world, inviting us to rediscover and appreciate beauty in our environment that might otherwise be overlooked.  The viewer is encouraged to explore and reappraise objects, textures and surfaces that Simon believes are powerful, “full of history and memories”.  He has a deep appreciation for the “accidental aesthetics” created by the city, the marks that industry, commerce and everyday life leave behind.

Whether their origins are in the local streets like the ‘Pavement’ series or in a domestic setting such as the ‘Marking Time’ series, Simon is fascinated with the impact of time on the objects around us.  He uses of a wide range of materials and media – including silicone, wood, metal and paper – which reveal the different forms that beauty can take, depending on the relationship the viewer shares with, or the feelings they project onto, those objects.  The materials can be industrial, like metal, then subjected to chemical erosion, or created by inks or graphite on paper, recreating natural marks made by time.  These works are shown alongside the “ready-mades” or found objects, and demand a response from the viewer.

Engaging with the viewer has always been an important element in Simon’s work.  Whilst studying architecture at Liverpool University Simon worked as a pavement artist, and was voted Time Out’s ‘Street Artist of the Year’ in 1987.  He also started designing theatre posters for the Liverpool Playhouse, which was the beginning of a successful career in the field, as he subsequently established his own studio which was rebranded as ‘Feast’ in 2005 and is based in Camden.  In 2018 the poster image for ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ was given the ‘Best Theatre Poster Award’ of all time by ‘What’s on Stage’.

During this time Simon has always had other artistic work going on, whether sculptures, photographic documentary work, a conceptual project called ‘Under the Hammer’ – a project of 17 weekly art auctions inspired by different famous artists – or collaborative work with the JakBox creative team in his Camden studio.  He created the ‘Points of View’ concept in 2009 which directs the public’s gaze from the pavement to unusual viewpoints or juxtapositions, turning the urban landscape itself into a work of art.  In 2015 JakBox was commissioned by Camden Council to create a ‘Points of View’ in Cobden Junction near Mornington Crescent.  Finding interest or beauty in what might otherwise be ignored or considered mundane is also a preoccupation in this highly original show at Highgate Gallery.

See also the website: JakBox.co.uk.  Simon has had two short pieces on London Live:

http://www.jakbox.co.uk/news/london-live-feature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqcEMWNeeao

Exhibition continues until 21 March.

Mar
9
Sat
Simon Williams – art exhibition @ Highgate Gallery
Mar 9 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

  Image: Graffiti Theft No2 – spray paint transfer on cotton- 110x196cm. (c) SimonWilliams/Jakbox2018. All rights reserved

Archway-based artist Simon Williams’ work questions the relationship that we have with the world, inviting us to rediscover and appreciate beauty in our environment that might otherwise be overlooked.  The viewer is encouraged to explore and reappraise objects, textures and surfaces that Simon believes are powerful, “full of history and memories”.  He has a deep appreciation for the “accidental aesthetics” created by the city, the marks that industry, commerce and everyday life leave behind.

Whether their origins are in the local streets like the ‘Pavement’ series or in a domestic setting such as the ‘Marking Time’ series, Simon is fascinated with the impact of time on the objects around us.  He uses of a wide range of materials and media – including silicone, wood, metal and paper – which reveal the different forms that beauty can take, depending on the relationship the viewer shares with, or the feelings they project onto, those objects.  The materials can be industrial, like metal, then subjected to chemical erosion, or created by inks or graphite on paper, recreating natural marks made by time.  These works are shown alongside the “ready-mades” or found objects, and demand a response from the viewer.

Engaging with the viewer has always been an important element in Simon’s work.  Whilst studying architecture at Liverpool University Simon worked as a pavement artist, and was voted Time Out’s ‘Street Artist of the Year’ in 1987.  He also started designing theatre posters for the Liverpool Playhouse, which was the beginning of a successful career in the field, as he subsequently established his own studio which was rebranded as ‘Feast’ in 2005 and is based in Camden.  In 2018 the poster image for ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ was given the ‘Best Theatre Poster Award’ of all time by ‘What’s on Stage’.

During this time Simon has always had other artistic work going on, whether sculptures, photographic documentary work, a conceptual project called ‘Under the Hammer’ – a project of 17 weekly art auctions inspired by different famous artists – or collaborative work with the JakBox creative team in his Camden studio.  He created the ‘Points of View’ concept in 2009 which directs the public’s gaze from the pavement to unusual viewpoints or juxtapositions, turning the urban landscape itself into a work of art.  In 2015 JakBox was commissioned by Camden Council to create a ‘Points of View’ in Cobden Junction near Mornington Crescent.  Finding interest or beauty in what might otherwise be ignored or considered mundane is also a preoccupation in this highly original show at Highgate Gallery.

See also the website: JakBox.co.uk.  Simon has had two short pieces on London Live:

http://www.jakbox.co.uk/news/london-live-feature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqcEMWNeeao

Exhibition continues until 21 March.