Pale The Wall Exhibition

Museum entrance fee applies to exhibitions. Talks are free, no booking required.

Pale The Wall
Vanessa Hodgkinson
Until 8 June
Insight: Talks by the artist Sundays 27 April & 25 May 15.00

Pale The Wall is an installation and exhibition by Vanessa Hodgkinson, artist in residence. Hodgkinson finds inspiration for her art in the traditional geometry of Islamic art and architecture.

The centrepiece of the exhibition is a wall, echoing the separation wall in the West Bank and covered in a twelve-point star pattern. When it is completed, pieces will be gradually cut out, which visitors can take away with them.

Also on display is a series of watercolour paintings which use the same twelve-point star pattern for their basic structure. Each one is made from a photograph abstracted into a series of colours in the pattern.

The exhibition space will be open at all times while the artist is at work. Visitors can witness the creation, interact with the artist and take part in the dismantling of the work.

SPECIAL EVENTS

A Victorian Magic Lantern Show at Linley Sambourne House, 18 Stafford Terrace
Thursday 26 June 18.30 – 20.00
Ticket: £20, includes a glass of wine Bookings on 020 7602 3316

A special evening performance in the Sambourne Drawing Room of a Victorian magic lantern show, in celebration of the Victorian Society’s 50th Anniversary. Costumed actors will re-enact a popular leisure activity that took place regularly at the house in the 1880s and 1890s. Not suitable for children


Afternoon Delight: Songs from 9th century Al-Andalus
Sunday 29 June 15.00 – 16.30
Leighton House Museum
Ticket: £6 Bookings on 020 7602 3316

By popular demand, Leighton House Museum is delighted to welcome back singer Houria Niati and guitarist Miguel Moreno who together constitute the musicial duo Habiboun. Drawing on the rich fusion of classical Arab-Spanish music of ninth century Granada, Cordoba and Seville, this is a sound not to be missed.


Artists’ Houses Weekend
Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June
Bookings on 020 7602 3316

A weekend of special tours around the unique group of artists’ studio-houses in Melbury Road and Holland Park Road built during the second half of the 19th century. Discover the artists who made up the 'Holland Park Circle' and their houses, commissioned from leading architects of the day. For this weekend only, tours include access to some private gardens not normally open to the public providing an exclusive perspective on these remarkable buildings.

Saturday 21 June
11.15 Artists’ Houses tour
14.00 Artists’ Houses tour
16.00 Special Curator's tour of Leighton House Museum

Sunday 22 June
14.00 Artists’ Houses tour
16.00 Special Curator's tour of Leighton House Museum

All tours start and finish at Leighton House.
Artists’ Houses tours are free of charge. No charge is made for the Curator’s tours at Leighton House Museum although participants will be required to pay standard entry to the museum (£3 adult, £1 concession). Limited places – advanced booking recommended.