Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more. This term, we will also be looking at some Christmas songs.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£54 for a 6 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Half term dates are Thursday 2nd November – Thursday 7th December.
A one-woman interactive puppet show for the whole family. A fun and interactive adaptation of Dicken’s famous story suitable for the whole family. Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t like to share will he be able to change his ways after three ghosts come to visit him late at night? Join us for this much-loved Christmas adventure with song and puppetry.
Suitable for ages 3+
Performances at 11am & 2:30pm
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
In a mesmerising spectacle, violin virtuoso Sonja Schebeck performs the brand-new sonata by Australian composer Chloé Charody alongside acrobat Josh Frazer. Circus and classical music combine in this captivating world premiere.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
In a mesmerising spectacle, violin virtuoso Sonja Schebeck performs the brand-new sonata by Australian composer Chloé Charody alongside acrobat Josh Frazer. Circus and classical music combine in this captivating world premiere.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
Jacksons Lane’s newest Associate Artist, Zaki Musa, curates a dazzling evening of queer cabaret. Join us to catch a glittering array of LGBTQ+ circus talent, including Zaki himself, as they light up the stage with electric performances. Line up to be announced soon.
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
Come and join our Musical Theatre Choir! A fun, low pressured choir focusing on songs from musicals, and older pop songs. We rehearse on Thursday evenings, 8-9.30pm at Jackson’s Lane, opposite Highgate tube station.
Throughout the year, we will cover repertoire from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, to Les Mis, to Sondheim, to West Side Story, to Wicked, and everything in between. Older pop songs will include songs by the Carpenters, the Beatles, and many more.
Any standard welcome, and no need to read music as the songs will be taught line by line. The choir is run by Rachel Dussek, a singer, singing teacher, and choir leader who trained in classical singing and then in musical theatre at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Please get in touch by email or phone to book a taster session.
racheldussek@aol.com
£45 for a 5 week half term, working out as £9 per session. Dates for the full 10 week term are 11th Jan – 21st March (no session on Feb 15th due to half term).
The spirit of rebellion lives on in the anarchic figurative and abstract oil on canvas works of Philip Diggle. In his own words ‘art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed and does something other than sit and entertain in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with every day and comes out on top’.
Philip Diggle: Bringing It All Back Home
9-22 February 2024
Exhibition times:
Wed – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Bringing It All Back Home references Bob Dylan and the voice of poetry, protest and politics that
characterised a period of artistic blossoming in New York and elsewhere in the 1960’s, including Diggle’s
own home town of Manchester where he was involved in the punk scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in this anarchic show of figurative and abstract work. Diggle is, in his own
words, “…for an art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed – and does something other than sit and entertain
…in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday and comes out on top”.
Diggle references Sartre, Baudelaire and Wittgenstein: “…climbing Wittgenstein’s metaphorical ladder
of knowledge…I needed to jump from the it’s last rung – without a net or anything like argument – so
that the world could be correctly understood – painted and given some form of impression of penetrating
the essence of things.”
He cites the recent Soutine/Kossoff show at Hastings Contemporary as one which excited him. Many of his
own oil paintings have heavily encrusted and worked-on surfaces, “enlivened by a constant play of
oppositions, each an abstract drama of visual events, a material metaphor for the invisible dynamics of the
world it reflects” (Mel Gooding, art critic). Jackson Pollock is also a key influence, especially the large
New York canvases. Pollock’s phrase “I am nature” resonates in this show.
Philip Diggle has lived in Highgate for over 30 years and this is his 8th show at Highgate Gallery. He is a
regular contributor to the Royal Academy annual exhibition and has also exhibited in Berlin, Paris,
Barcelona and New York. His work is held in collections at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller
Center in New York, at Caius College Cambridge and in many boardrooms and private collections.
There will be works on paper for sale as well as canvases.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in the anarchic figurative and abstract oil on canvas works of Philip Diggle. In his own words ‘art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed and does something other than sit and entertain in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with every day and comes out on top’.
Philip Diggle: Bringing It All Back Home
9-22 February 2024
Exhibition times:
Wed – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Bringing It All Back Home references Bob Dylan and the voice of poetry, protest and politics that
characterised a period of artistic blossoming in New York and elsewhere in the 1960’s, including Diggle’s
own home town of Manchester where he was involved in the punk scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in this anarchic show of figurative and abstract work. Diggle is, in his own
words, “…for an art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed – and does something other than sit and entertain
…in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday and comes out on top”.
Diggle references Sartre, Baudelaire and Wittgenstein: “…climbing Wittgenstein’s metaphorical ladder
of knowledge…I needed to jump from the it’s last rung – without a net or anything like argument – so
that the world could be correctly understood – painted and given some form of impression of penetrating
the essence of things.”
He cites the recent Soutine/Kossoff show at Hastings Contemporary as one which excited him. Many of his
own oil paintings have heavily encrusted and worked-on surfaces, “enlivened by a constant play of
oppositions, each an abstract drama of visual events, a material metaphor for the invisible dynamics of the
world it reflects” (Mel Gooding, art critic). Jackson Pollock is also a key influence, especially the large
New York canvases. Pollock’s phrase “I am nature” resonates in this show.
Philip Diggle has lived in Highgate for over 30 years and this is his 8th show at Highgate Gallery. He is a
regular contributor to the Royal Academy annual exhibition and has also exhibited in Berlin, Paris,
Barcelona and New York. His work is held in collections at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller
Center in New York, at Caius College Cambridge and in many boardrooms and private collections.
There will be works on paper for sale as well as canvases.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in the anarchic figurative and abstract oil on canvas works of Philip Diggle. In his own words ‘art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed and does something other than sit and entertain in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with every day and comes out on top’.
Philip Diggle: Bringing It All Back Home
9-22 February 2024
Exhibition times:
Wed – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Bringing It All Back Home references Bob Dylan and the voice of poetry, protest and politics that
characterised a period of artistic blossoming in New York and elsewhere in the 1960’s, including Diggle’s
own home town of Manchester where he was involved in the punk scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in this anarchic show of figurative and abstract work. Diggle is, in his own
words, “…for an art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed – and does something other than sit and entertain
…in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday and comes out on top”.
Diggle references Sartre, Baudelaire and Wittgenstein: “…climbing Wittgenstein’s metaphorical ladder
of knowledge…I needed to jump from the it’s last rung – without a net or anything like argument – so
that the world could be correctly understood – painted and given some form of impression of penetrating
the essence of things.”
He cites the recent Soutine/Kossoff show at Hastings Contemporary as one which excited him. Many of his
own oil paintings have heavily encrusted and worked-on surfaces, “enlivened by a constant play of
oppositions, each an abstract drama of visual events, a material metaphor for the invisible dynamics of the
world it reflects” (Mel Gooding, art critic). Jackson Pollock is also a key influence, especially the large
New York canvases. Pollock’s phrase “I am nature” resonates in this show.
Philip Diggle has lived in Highgate for over 30 years and this is his 8th show at Highgate Gallery. He is a
regular contributor to the Royal Academy annual exhibition and has also exhibited in Berlin, Paris,
Barcelona and New York. His work is held in collections at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller
Center in New York, at Caius College Cambridge and in many boardrooms and private collections.
There will be works on paper for sale as well as canvases.
Deep in the forest live Mammy, Daddy and Baby Bear. Each day the three bears head into the woods to collect interesting things to re-use in their home. Soon their cosy house is turned upside down by a colourful whirlwind that threatens to sit in their chairs, eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. It’s Goldilocks!
Bring your bears for an adventure in the woods, with original music, puppets and a tale you thought you knew.
Suitable for ages 6 and under
With support from Northern Stage, ARC and Stockton
Deep in the forest live Mammy, Daddy and Baby Bear. Each day the three bears head into the woods to collect interesting things to re-use in their home. Soon their cosy house is turned upside down by a colourful whirlwind that threatens to sit in their chairs, eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. It’s Goldilocks!
Bring your bears for an adventure in the woods, with original music, puppets and a tale you thought you knew.
Suitable for ages 6 and under
With support from Northern Stage, ARC and Stockton
The spirit of rebellion lives on in the anarchic figurative and abstract oil on canvas works of Philip Diggle. In his own words ‘art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed and does something other than sit and entertain in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with every day and comes out on top’.
Philip Diggle: Bringing It All Back Home
9-22 February 2024
Exhibition times:
Wed – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Bringing It All Back Home references Bob Dylan and the voice of poetry, protest and politics that
characterised a period of artistic blossoming in New York and elsewhere in the 1960’s, including Diggle’s
own home town of Manchester where he was involved in the punk scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in this anarchic show of figurative and abstract work. Diggle is, in his own
words, “…for an art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed – and does something other than sit and entertain
…in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday and comes out on top”.
Diggle references Sartre, Baudelaire and Wittgenstein: “…climbing Wittgenstein’s metaphorical ladder
of knowledge…I needed to jump from the it’s last rung – without a net or anything like argument – so
that the world could be correctly understood – painted and given some form of impression of penetrating
the essence of things.”
He cites the recent Soutine/Kossoff show at Hastings Contemporary as one which excited him. Many of his
own oil paintings have heavily encrusted and worked-on surfaces, “enlivened by a constant play of
oppositions, each an abstract drama of visual events, a material metaphor for the invisible dynamics of the
world it reflects” (Mel Gooding, art critic). Jackson Pollock is also a key influence, especially the large
New York canvases. Pollock’s phrase “I am nature” resonates in this show.
Philip Diggle has lived in Highgate for over 30 years and this is his 8th show at Highgate Gallery. He is a
regular contributor to the Royal Academy annual exhibition and has also exhibited in Berlin, Paris,
Barcelona and New York. His work is held in collections at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller
Center in New York, at Caius College Cambridge and in many boardrooms and private collections.
There will be works on paper for sale as well as canvases.
Deep in the forest live Mammy, Daddy and Baby Bear. Each day the three bears head into the woods to collect interesting things to re-use in their home. Soon their cosy house is turned upside down by a colourful whirlwind that threatens to sit in their chairs, eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. It’s Goldilocks!
Bring your bears for an adventure in the woods, with original music, puppets and a tale you thought you knew.
Suitable for ages 6 and under
With support from Northern Stage, ARC and Stockton
The spirit of rebellion lives on in the anarchic figurative and abstract oil on canvas works of Philip Diggle. In his own words ‘art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed and does something other than sit and entertain in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with every day and comes out on top’.
Philip Diggle: Bringing It All Back Home
9-22 February 2024
Exhibition times:
Wed – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Bringing It All Back Home references Bob Dylan and the voice of poetry, protest and politics that
characterised a period of artistic blossoming in New York and elsewhere in the 1960’s, including Diggle’s
own home town of Manchester where he was involved in the punk scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in this anarchic show of figurative and abstract work. Diggle is, in his own
words, “…for an art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed – and does something other than sit and entertain
…in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday and comes out on top”.
Diggle references Sartre, Baudelaire and Wittgenstein: “…climbing Wittgenstein’s metaphorical ladder
of knowledge…I needed to jump from the it’s last rung – without a net or anything like argument – so
that the world could be correctly understood – painted and given some form of impression of penetrating
the essence of things.”
He cites the recent Soutine/Kossoff show at Hastings Contemporary as one which excited him. Many of his
own oil paintings have heavily encrusted and worked-on surfaces, “enlivened by a constant play of
oppositions, each an abstract drama of visual events, a material metaphor for the invisible dynamics of the
world it reflects” (Mel Gooding, art critic). Jackson Pollock is also a key influence, especially the large
New York canvases. Pollock’s phrase “I am nature” resonates in this show.
Philip Diggle has lived in Highgate for over 30 years and this is his 8th show at Highgate Gallery. He is a
regular contributor to the Royal Academy annual exhibition and has also exhibited in Berlin, Paris,
Barcelona and New York. His work is held in collections at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller
Center in New York, at Caius College Cambridge and in many boardrooms and private collections.
There will be works on paper for sale as well as canvases.
Deep in the forest live Mammy, Daddy and Baby Bear. Each day the three bears head into the woods to collect interesting things to re-use in their home. Soon their cosy house is turned upside down by a colourful whirlwind that threatens to sit in their chairs, eat their porridge and sleep in their beds. It’s Goldilocks!
Bring your bears for an adventure in the woods, with original music, puppets and a tale you thought you knew.
Suitable for ages 6 and under
With support from Northern Stage, ARC and Stockton
The spirit of rebellion lives on in the anarchic figurative and abstract oil on canvas works of Philip Diggle. In his own words ‘art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed and does something other than sit and entertain in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with every day and comes out on top’.
Philip Diggle: Bringing It All Back Home
9-22 February 2024
Exhibition times:
Wed – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Bringing It All Back Home references Bob Dylan and the voice of poetry, protest and politics that
characterised a period of artistic blossoming in New York and elsewhere in the 1960’s, including Diggle’s
own home town of Manchester where he was involved in the punk scene of the 1970’s and 1980’s.
The spirit of rebellion lives on in this anarchic show of figurative and abstract work. Diggle is, in his own
words, “…for an art that is political, erotic, abstract, exposed – and does something other than sit and entertain
…in a museum. I am for an art that embroils itself with everyday and comes out on top”.
Diggle references Sartre, Baudelaire and Wittgenstein: “…climbing Wittgenstein’s metaphorical ladder
of knowledge…I needed to jump from the it’s last rung – without a net or anything like argument – so
that the world could be correctly understood – painted and given some form of impression of penetrating
the essence of things.”
He cites the recent Soutine/Kossoff show at Hastings Contemporary as one which excited him. Many of his
own oil paintings have heavily encrusted and worked-on surfaces, “enlivened by a constant play of
oppositions, each an abstract drama of visual events, a material metaphor for the invisible dynamics of the
world it reflects” (Mel Gooding, art critic). Jackson Pollock is also a key influence, especially the large
New York canvases. Pollock’s phrase “I am nature” resonates in this show.
Philip Diggle has lived in Highgate for over 30 years and this is his 8th show at Highgate Gallery. He is a
regular contributor to the Royal Academy annual exhibition and has also exhibited in Berlin, Paris,
Barcelona and New York. His work is held in collections at Chase Manhattan Bank and the Rockefeller
Center in New York, at Caius College Cambridge and in many boardrooms and private collections.
There will be works on paper for sale as well as canvases.