Sue Roe and Cristina Schek Showing at 'Squares and Triangles' at The Fitzrovia Gallery, London (20 - 30 September 2022)
An exhibition inspired by the Bloomsbury Group and the artists, writers, poets and muscians of Fitzrovia.“They lived in squares and loved in triangles.”- Dorothy Parker
As many already know, Fitzrovia was the centre for London’s Bohemians in the 20s with artists such as Virginia Wolf, Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Vita Sackville West.... ”who lived in squares and loved in triangles”. Over the centuries Fitzrovia has been suffused with the avant-grade artists (Augustus John, John Constable, Nina Hamnet, Vanessa Bell, Whistler, Walter Sickert, Ford Maddox Brown, Euston Rd School of Artists, Wyndham Lewis), writers (Quintin Crisp, Dylan Thomas, George Orwell, Virginia Wolf, Pauln Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, George Bernard Shaw, Ian McEwan), political writers (Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke) musicians (Pink Floyd at the Ufo club, Bob Dylan made his London debut there, Jimi Hendrix played a gig there, Coldplay formed in Ramsay Hall).
20-30 SEPTEMBER 2022
PRIVATE VIEW: WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 6-8PM
OPENING TIMES: MONDAY TO SATURDAY 11AM-6PM SUNDAY 11AM-4PM ADDRESS: FITZROVIA GALLERY, 139 WHITFIELD STREET, LONDON W1T5EN
These gorgeous Cyanotype prints by Sue Roe - Artist/Printmaker are inspired by the short story, Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf and are part of the exhibition 'Squares and Triangles now showing' at Fitzrovia Gallery in London.
Cristina Schek is also exhibiting with 'The Magi of Fitzrovia' a work which takes as source material Fitzrovia itself.
First recorded when it was a wild wood back in 1000AD, Fitzrovia was the fertile forest floor from where the creations of many artists could grow tall and strong, reaching up to the sky.
Within this piece, we go back in time to that pure wild wood that will eventually be urbanised and populated by some of the greatest creative minds in history. Within the canopy of the forest, we can see projections of their future imaginations. One such imagination that inspired me in particular is Ian McEwan’s, aka ‘The Magus of Fitzrovia’.