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LOVERS OF APADANA
BITA GUEZELAYAGH
6 OCTOBER - 5 DECEMBER
2018
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Artist Bita Guezelayagh uses traditional
textiles to explore universal themes of love and war. Her work is
influenced by traditional Iranian arts, especially feltmaking,
which she believes is lost in contemporary Iran and one that
through her practice, she aims to preserve. The ingredients
of Ghezelayagh’s work may be Middle Eastern, but the flavours are
universal and understandable to all. Bita's international
appeal is demonstrated by the breadth of institutions that hold her
work in their permanent collections, including the British Museum,
the Jameel Foundation in Saudi Arabia, the Farjam Foundation in
Dubai, the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi and the Lajeverdi
Foundation in Tehran.
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ALMA-TADEMA: AT HOME IN
ANTIQUITY
7 JULY - 29 OCTOBER
2017
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Alma-Tadema: At Home in Antiquity (7 July – 29
October 2017), was the largest exhibition devoted to the
celebrated Victorian artist held in London since 1913, and
explored Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fascination with the representation
of domestic life in antiquity and how this interest related to his
own domestic circumstances expressed through the two remarkable
studio-houses that he created in St John’s Wood together with his
wife Laura and daughters.
Read more Alma-Tadema: At Home in
Antiquity
Watch the exhibition
film
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FLAMING JUNE: THE MAKING OF AN
ICON
4 NOVEMBER 2016 - 2 APRIL 2017
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Depicting a sensual, sun-drenched, sleeping female figure
wrapped in orange draperies against a Mediterranean backdrop, the
exhibition explored the extraordinary story of this picture, from
its creation in Leighton’s studio, its first critical reception at
the Royal Academy, through its ‘disappearance’ in the middle of the
twentieth century, its acquisition by Luis A. Ferré, Governor of
Puerto Rico for the Museo de Arte de Ponce in 1963 and subsequent
rise to international fame as one of the most memorable and
reproduced images in the whole of British art.
Read more about Flaming June
Watch the
short film
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SEVEN HALTS ON THE
SOMME
HUGHIE O'DONOGHUE
RA
29 JULY - 2 OCTOBER 2016
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Coinciding with the centenary of the Battle of the
Somme, this exhibition showcased the progress endured by
British soldiers between July and November 1916 along the seven
halts on The Somme, exploring and revealing the ways in which
remembrance and consciousness evolve. Hughie O’Donoghue’s awareness
of the Battle of the Somme began as a child, but his most intense
engagement occurred during a residency in the Drawing Schools at
Eton College (2013 – 2014) where he researched the seven halts
further in the College’s First World War archive.
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about Seven Halts on the Somme
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PRE-RAPHAELITES ON
PAPER
12 FEBRUARY - 29 MAY
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A remarkable collection of over 100 works
by the most prominent Victorian and Pre- Raphaelites
artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, John Everett Millais,
William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Poynter and
Frederic Leighton himself. From preparatory sketches to highly
finished drawings intended as works of art
themselves, the exhibition presented diverse ways in
which Victorian artists used drawing to further their artistic
practice, creating images of great beauty and accomplishment.
Read more about Pre-Raphaelites on
Paper
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short video
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THE GUARDIANS
(OF THE PROPHET'S MOSQUE). Works by Adel
Quraishi
21 OCTOBER - 29
NOVEMBER 2015
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Saudi photographer Adel Quraishi is the only man to have been
permitted to photograph the eight remaining ‘Guardians’ of the
Prophet’s Mosque (Al-Masjid al-Nabawī). Once numbered in the
hundreds, the Guardians date back to the 11th Century and are the
keepers of the keys to the Prophet Muhammad’s burial
chamber. Rendered on a large scale, it is impossible not to be
moved by the connection between viewer and subject when confronted
with the works.
As part of the Nour Festival of
Arts, celebrating contemporary arts and culture from the Middle
East and North Africa.
Read more about The
Guardians
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THE CRAFT OF DRAWING
AND PAINTING. CELEBRATING TRADITION
TODAY
1 SEPTEMBER - 4 OCTOBER
2015
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Leighton House Museum celebrated the craft of
drawing and painting in an exhibition that showcases the methods
used by a long line of Masters, including Lord Leighton, as they
are applied by a new generation of figurative artists. The
collection included delicate sketches and studies; life-size, oil
portraits; colourful landscapes and exquisite nudes. The artists
featured in the exhibition work within the age-old atelier
tradition; preserving classical techniques while at the same time
bringing individuality to their discipline.
Read more about The Craft of
Drawing and Painting
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KISSING AMNESIA by Raed
Yassin
13
JULY - 2 AUGUST 2015
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Kissing Amnesia presented a series of beautiful
porcelain vases depicting battles from the Lebanese war alongside
colourful and ornamental embroideries that stitch together his
childhood memories. The opening of the
exhibition coincided with Raed's concert, a special electronic
and turntabling set, remixing popular Arabic music. The exhibition
was organised in partnership with Shubbak Festival.
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about Kissing Amnesia
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A VICTORIAN OBSESSION. THE
PÈREZ SIMÓN COLLECTION
14 NOVEMBER 2014 - 6 APRIL
2015
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A Victorian Obsession. The Pérez Simón collection at
Leighton House Museum presents over
fifty exceptional and rarely exhibited paintings by leading
Victorian artists. The pictures all belong to the Mexican collector
Juan Antonio Pérez Simón and form the largest private collection of
Victorian art outside the UK. Six important pictures
by Leighton himself have returned to the house in which they were
first painted. The collection's highlight is Lawrence
Alma-Tadema’s magnificent The
Roses of Heliogabalus, one of the most iconic images of Victorian
art which is now exhibited in London for the first time since 1913.
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