Counterculture in Fitzrovia – Past and Present Barry Miles and Hannah Watson in conversation at the chapel Wednesday 25 October, 18:30 to 20:30; tickets only £6 Since the Bohemians settled in the area in the 1920s and named it after their favourite pub ‘The Fitzroy Tavern’, Fitzrovia has long held a burgeoning history of counterculture through its resident writers,...
Category: Art
The past is beautiful
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.” ―Virginia Woolf, Fitzrovia Resident As artistic director of an important heritage site, I often feel like a time traveller. In...
Claudi Casanovas: Quart Minvant (11-23 July)
Claudi Casanovas’s third solo exhibition with Erskine, Hall & Coe will open in July within the Fitzrovia Chapel. This exhibition will present the final instalment, Quart Minvant, of a body of work that began with Lluna Nova in 2013 and included Quart Creixent in 2014. Quart Minvant (Waning Crescent) explores the notion of emptiness. “The...
Icons of Time
HORIUCHI FOUNDATION is proud to present a series of photographs by Tomohiro Muda in an exhibition Icons of Time: Memories of the Tsunami that Struck Japan. The Japanese photographer’s first UK exhibition commemorates six years...