The Annual Exhibition gives The Royal Photographic Society the opportunity to showcase just a small selection of the work of London Region members. Images represent many genres and styles – from travel to contemporary, from portraiture to street – and much more.
The photographers themselves range from those new to the art and practice of photography to those who have attained an ‘FRPS’, the highest level of the Society’s Distinctions: some members work professionally or semi-professionally. Some images are taken on film, others with the latest digital camera. You can expect to see 70+ framed and mounted prints and a number of images displayed digitally.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
We are very excited to be bringing back our Free Lunchtime Concerts! Take a break on a Tuesday lunchtime and enjoy 45 minutes of gorgeous classical music performed live by our resident pianist Stephen Hose upstairs in the beautiful Long Gallery overlooking Waterlow Park.
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Many members of the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution are creatively talented with the membership including both professional artists and gifted amateurs. The Members’ Art Exhibition, held every three years at Highgate Gallery, celebrates and displays this breadth of talent.
All HLSI members can submit up to three pieces of two-dimensional work, be it oils, watercolours, acrylics, textiles, prints or photographs. Selection for exhibition is made by a panel consisting this year of Simon Turner, artist and teacher at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School; Mary Shurman, doyenne of Members’ Art shows for the past twenty years; and several members of the Highgate Gallery Committee. The aim is to show the range of expertise and the highest quality of work produced by members.
The event is always popular with exhibitors and Gallery visitors alike, and is a much anticipated date in the HLSI winter programme as well as the wider social life in Highgate village. One of the exhibiting artists will be in the Gallery each day throughout the show to welcome visitors, assist with queries and introduce the work on show.
Admission is free and all work will be for sale. Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
image: Barbara Herrmann, The Edge of the Sea (Sunset) [print].
Join local actor Sam Toocaram Toller as Sir Sydney Waterlow for a guided walk around the grounds that he gifted to the public as a ‘garden for the gardenless’.
Waterlow Park has been an escape for many people over the years; Quakers practicing religion safely away from the City of London and Church of England; Nell Gwynn nursing her newborn away from the stench of the City; victims of the Blitz finding solace away from the fire and bombs; and even the locked down Londoners of 2021 finding an idyllic spot to stretch their legs and safely see their friends and loved ones.
Actors will bring these dramatic stories to life in a forty minute guided walk around the park, which will remind us how important natural environments for the community are, especially in one of the busiest and best cities in the world. Come and discover your new favourite green spot in London, or some new nuggets of knowledge if you’re already familiar with this park that is held dear in the hearts of so many Londoners.
• 12.15 to 12.55pm – Walk this Way with Sir Sydney Waterlow £5
• 12.30 to 5pm – heritage Fair
• 1.30 to 2.10pm – Walk this Way with Sir Sydney Waterlow £5
• 2.15 to 3.15 – first talk
• 3.20pm to 4pm – Walk this Way with Sir Sydney Waterlow £5
• 4 to 5pm – second talk
We’ve adjusted the talks times by 15 minutes
Walk this Way with Sir Sydney Waterlow
£5 per person
18 maximum
Advance booking advisable!
Walks will go ahead even in bad weather so don’t forget your umbrella! Come through the front door of Lauderdale House when you arrive
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
A talk by Julian Halsby that will examine artists who influenced Kyffin Williams and also consider his opinions about modern art. Taught by Kyffin at Highgate in the 1960s, Julian went on to become a respected art historian and artist. He now lectures regularly for the Arts Society.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale.
www.instagram.com/beyondthelikeness
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 17 March.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale.
www.instagram.com/beyondthelikeness
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 17 March.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
A performance, a walk, an opportunity to experience the unique personality of this public space after dusk, when the gates are closed and we have exclusive access, safely locked in. Finding the pinnacle of gardenlessness, the trees after leaf fall, the aftermath of ash dieback, the humbled beech, the viewing mound, the shape of water at night, the echo of a playground without kids, and other surprises.
Soup will be served afterwards in the LUX conservatory.
Assisted by Ning Chou.
Limited to 20 people, booking essential.
You will be sent further instructions when you book but you should dress warmly with appropriate footwear as it might be muddy.
Richard Layzell is Creative Ecologist in residence at LUX. He has been a leading innovator in the fields of live art, video and installation since the 1980s. He has been commissioned by most major public galleries and museums across the UK and completed many international artist residencies. As a mentor and facilitator he’s devised an individual approach to sharing knowledge and supporting others. He has pioneered socially engaged practice and worked with many diverse communities nationally and internationally. His interactive installation Tap Ruffle and Shave was experienced by 100,000 people of all ages and abilities on its UK tour. He is the author of Live Art in Schools, Enhanced Performance (ed. Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed. Joshua Sofaer), an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art.
Beyond the Likeness Group: Life after Life. 4-17 March 2022
Highgate Cemetery is the inspiration for thirteen artists, all trained in portraiture, who bring their own personal interpretations to paintings of some of those who are buried there. In doing so they discover the richness and diversity of their worlds and examine their legacies.
The Group explore scenarios in which different centuries come together, presenting those with contradictory and complementary attitudes. They investigate attitudes to sexual mores, the environment, different cultures, the individual, and even the Cemetery itself.
Those being featured include: Eva and Walter Neurath, founders of Thames and Hudson; Shu Pao Lim, founder of the Chinese Community Centre; William Friese-Green, inventor of the motion picture camera; David Edward Hughes, inventor of the microphone; Bert Jansch, folk/jazz guitarist; Jane Arden, film director; Mehmet Aksoy, filmmaker; Berenice Sydney, abstract artist; Elizabeth Siddall, artist and muse; Malcolm McClaren, visual artist and performer; Charles Cruft, founder of the dog show; Claudia Jones, journalist and activist; Philip Harben, first celebrity chef; Ernestine Rose, suffragist, abolitionist and free thinker, and the Lost Girls of Highgate, ten residents of a home for ‘lost women’.
With a wealth of artistic talent drawn from around the world, all of whom have very different cultural approaches to death and commemoration, Life after Life is a unique look at mortality, the march of time and the inevitability of our demise, from a unique Highgate Cemetery perspective.
The Beyond the Likeness Group consists of former and current Art Academy London students who met while studying on the Contemporary Portraiture degree course. Members – who are from four continents and have nine languages between them – are:
Norman Frost; Corrie Georgala; Alicia Griffiths; Patricia Gutierrez; Kate Linden; Constance Regardsoe; Jess Routley; Minnie Scott; Paul Starns; Ruth Swain; Susan Terrones; Richa Vora; Belinda Wrigley.
Their work has appeared in various national competitions and galleries, ranging from the Royal Portrait Society, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, Ruth Borchard, Ashmoleum Musem, Holly Bush, London’s Newington Gallery, in the book ‘Portraits for NHS Heroes’ and in several online exhibitions. All work in this exhibition is for sale. Admission free.
To book a place for the related lecture on 1 March please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
1 March 2022 at 6pm: Life after life: death and commemoration at Highgate Cemetery with Ian Dungavell.
Ian Dungavell is chief executive of the Friends of Highgate Cemetery Trust, the charity which runs Highgate Cemetery. An architectural historian and conservationist he has lectured widely on nineteenth-century cemeteries and Highgate in particular.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 1.00pm on the day.
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
- Opening Event: Sun 20 March 2022, 2pm-5pm, no booking required
- Join us for a conversation with Adam Lewis Jacob, Muhammad Idrish, Claude Nouk and Jemma Desai at 3pm. Idrish (ইদ্রিস) will be on view from 2 to 5pm.
LUX is proud to present a new film by artist Adam Lewis Jacob from 26 March to 30 April 2022. Filmed in Bangladesh and Birmingham during 2020, Idrish (ইদ্রিস) is an urgent and timely reflection on the anti-deportation movement and anti-racist community action refracted through the story of veteran anti-deportation campaigner Muhammad Idrish.
Beginning with a reading of Bidrohi (The Rebel / “বিদ্রোহী”) a revolutionary Bengali poem written by Kazi Nazrul Islam in 1921 the film recounts Muhammad Idrish’s journey and fight to remain in the UK in the 1980s and the trade union led campaign that supported him. The campaign to stop Muhammad’s deportation received widespread support, including from his trade union NALGO (now UNISON). Documented by the Birmingham Trade Union Research Council’s video initiative, TURC Video, the fight was taken up nationally, creating a powerful moment of unity between the anti-racist and trade union movements.
Lewis Jacob and Idrish travelled to Bangladesh in 2020 to visit and film at locations significant to him, this is overlaid with his own testimony of a lifetime of campaigning. Addressing personal history and journey from Bangladesh to the UK in the broader consideration of rights and civil liberties, the film addresses the personal impact of policies which echo through time to the ‘hostile environment’ of present day Britain.
Developed through Lewis Jacob’s research into counter culture movements and drawing on the archives of the Birmingham Trade Union Resource Centre. The film weaves a complex tapestry of found materials from VHS to photographs and campaigning materials, deftly animating the aesthetics of historical resistance alongside Idrish’s personal narrative, and collapsing time and space to create an urgent montage of personal/political resistance. This is complemented by Claude Nouk’s sound design which mirrors the visual approach, looping and remixing archival sounds to add propulsive urgency to the film’s narrative.
The exhibition will also include a selection of ‘camera tapes’, unedited raw footage shot on U-matic tape and recently digitised by TURC video worker Marian Hall who along with Ranbir Bains, a student at the time, collaborated with Idrish to make the West Midlands Anti-deportation Campaign video. A series of contextual events will accompany the exhibition as well as a new essay by writer Jemma Desai.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Voxcetera chamber choir sings Gabriel Fauré’s much-loved, moving masterpiece, with soloists Ellie and Jamie Sperling, accompanied by violin, cello, harp and organ.
The concert will also feature Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine; a selection from Gustav Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, a collection of ancient Indian sacred texts; and Henry Balfour Gardiner’s dramatic Evening Hymn.
And you’ll hear beautiful music from contemporary composers: the hypnotic Northern Lights by Ola Gjeilo; and Paul Aryes’ sun-drenched love song Quanto sei bella.
Voxcetera is a north London-based chamber choir, directed by its founding conductor Jane Hopkins. Recent activity includes concerts at St Martin-in-the-fields, East Finchley Arts Festival, overseas tours and recording work.
Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Exhibition continues until 7 April.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Image: Spirit of the Valley (detail)
When A. E. Housman published ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896, he was living in Highgate village on the outskirts of London, where sheep grazed the hills around Hampstead Heath and Highgate, reminding him of his youth in rural Worcestershire.
On his walks around the family home high in the hills above Bromsgrove he would have seen the changes of the seasons and the now famous ‘blue remembered hills’ in the distance, the Clee Hills, Bredon and the Malverns.
Robert Cunning’s paintings portray the beauty of the change of seasons and the wildflowers in the hay meadows that Housman loved so dearly. There is still much to celebrate in the changing light of the high hills in spite of the climate crisis and the effects of industrialised farming.
Did Housman have a premonition that the world was rapidly changing? His poems only became well known 20 years later at the outbreak of The Great War, when enlisted men and their families looked back with nostalgia to the peaceful rural England of pre-industrial times.
“Superficially the countryside appears unchanged but beneath the surface there has been a catastrophic loss of wildlife and wild places,” Robert Cunning says. “The Shropshire landscape is still beautiful, the rivers have fish and invertebrates, there are insects and birds, but they have all sadly diminished in the 30 years that I have been living here. 125 years after the publication of ‘ A Shropshire Lad ‘ (1896), we are going through an ecological crisis. These landscape paintings are both a celebration of nature and a recognition of change.”
Robert Cunning lived and taught in London for 20 years but now lives and works in Shropshire. A common thread of his paintings is that they evoke a strong sense of place, whether it is the deep rural hills of South Shropshire and the Welsh Marches, or the inner cityscapes of London and New York. His paintings observe the changing architectural spaces of our cities and the seasonal changes of the countryside.
5 April 2022, 18:00: A Shropshire Lad in Highgate. Lecture by Peter Parker, author of Housman Country: Into the Heart of England (2016). Parker discusses why A Shropshire Lad became one of the most popular books of poetry ever published and how it has influenced English culture and notions of what “England” means both here and abroad.
£5 (HLSI members free). Sign up online by 13:00 on the day. Please visit https://hlsi.net/lectures
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00; closed Mon. Free Exhibition continues until 7 April.