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SUMMARY:REUNION 79:21 - Revisiting Black Queer London Clubland
DESCRIPTION:For a short run of five days\, queer club culture returns to Soho with an archival exhibition exploring over four decades of Black queer nightlife and community in London. \n  \nWhereas focus is often placed on the white gay scene\, this exhibition showcases the history of Black queer club culture from the late 1970s to the present by documenting lived experience\, collective memory and self-representation through previously unpublished images and memorabilia sourced from public and private archives. \n  \nIn the 1980s\, Black queer and trans people in the UK began to attend underground parties as sanctuaries from discrimination\, creating community through music and dance. Inspired by the queer collectives in Chicago and Detroit\, the London nightlife scene combined US musical forms with home grown genres. \n  \nBrothers Steve and Dave Swindell were at the heart of London clubland\, Steve running successful nights like ‘The Lift’ and ‘Jungle’ with Dave documenting the emergence of Black queer visibility. His intimate imagery is shown alongside Jason Manning’s photographs taken in the bolder years that followed. \n  \nREUNION 79:21 is complemented by a programme of films and talks that expand on themes of kinship and shared belonging\, HIV and early LGBTQ activism\, and the fight for individual sovereignty at a critical time in the UK.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/reunion-7921-revisiting-black-queer-london-clubland/2026-01-25/
LOCATION:Great Pulteney Street Gallery\, 36 Great Pulteney Street\, London\, W1F 9NS
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Free Events,Photography,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:Connecting Threads
DESCRIPTION:Great Pulteney Street Gallery rings in 2026 with a group exhibition that explores the links between marginalised materials and cultural hierarchies. For Connecting Threads Paul Carey-Kent and Christina Niederberger selected eleven artists whose works broaden the scope of textile art. \nHaving long been dismissed as inferior to painting and sculpture\, stitched\, woven and threaded works are increasingly receiving attention and recognition\, yet are still widely considered as separate from traditional fine art disciplines. Just as aspects of identity relating to race\, sexuality or gender are becoming more fluid\, so are artists redefining their practice in terms of medium\, material or methodology. \nThe participants in Connecting Threads incorporate physical and conceptual elements of textile art into painting\, photography and sculpture in response to societal and political shifts. Sam Owen Hull comments on an increasingly polarised world with the material contradictions of spontaneous painterly marks and considered hand embroidery\, while Christine Niederberger interweaves unconscious readings of Abstract Expressionism as a male domain with textile elements widely perceived as female. Michael Raedecker and Tamar Mason both explore the impact of humanity on the natural world\, from an urban and rural perspective\, respectively. \nWith the majority of works in the show leaning towards more abstract and conceptual approaches\, Caroline Achaintre’s and Debbie Lawson’s tapestries bear the closest resemblance to traditional textile art. The former creates hybrid characters by blending materials and cultural references; the latter hides imaginary creatures in patterned carpets. \nJulie Cockburn and Berend Strik both use textile techniques to add new meaning to found photographs\, while Hannah Knox mirrors the meditative slowness of knitting when meticulously painting items of clothing. Kate Terry uses thread to draw physical lines into space while John Walter digitally re-engineers popular textile patterns to draw attention to the intersection of art\, science and architecture. \nThe location itself provides a link to Soho’s rag trade legacy that has evolved from fabric traders and garment showrooms to flagship boutiques and a fashion destination.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/connecting-threads/2026-01-17/
LOCATION:Great Pulteney Street Gallery\, 36 Great Pulteney Street\, London\, W1F 9NS
CATEGORIES:Arts,Crafts,Exhibitions,Free Events,Photography,Sculpture,Visual Arts
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SUMMARY:UPCYCLE - from packaging to art
DESCRIPTION:Upcycle is an exhibition that explores the value assigned to materials in contemporary society. Eight artists show work of\, from and with the layers of packaging usually discarded once they have disgorged their content. \nIn Sam Hodge’s and Marisa Culatto’s work\, packaging becomes the medium\, while Susan Collis and Russell Herron make throwaway materials their lead subject; Gavin Turk and Leo Fitzmaurice turn spent vessels into artefacts. Shane Bradford’s paintings bear titles inspired by overpromising sales slogans\, whereas Sarah Pettitt’s abstract constructions are reminders of what is missing. \nPresented together they become a playful response to mass production and consumerism\, evidence of which abounds at the exhibition’s location in Central London.
URL:https://eventsforlondon.co.uk/event/upcylce/
LOCATION:Great Pulteney Street Gallery\, 36 Great Pulteney Street\, London\, W1F 9NS
CATEGORIES:Environment,Exhibitions,Visual Arts
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