Plan your visit to Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery this festive season!
Enjoy late openings with exhibitions, tours, shopping discounts, live music, and festive activities on Thursdays 28 November, 5 & 12 December 2024 (open until 8pm).
Please note there will be partial closures of some rooms in the manor for private events on the following dates: 14, 20, 21, 28, and 30 November, and 14, 20, and 21 December. General admission remains open as usual during these times.
For more details, visit our opening hours page.
We look forward to welcoming you this holiday season!
Join us for a special late-night reception for A Fine Line: Modern Makers at Pitzhanger as part of London Craft Week 2024. Curator Joanna Bird will be in conversation with artists Joseph Harrington and Gregory Warren Wilson. Together, they will explore the intricate interplay between the disciplines of ceramics, glass and architecture and offer us a rare glimpse into the creative process behind new works inspired by Sir John Soane’s aesthetic and architectural legacy.
Guests will have the opportunity to explore A Fine Line: Modern Makers at Pitzhanger displayed throughout the manor house before the talk begins.
Time | Programme |
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5–6.30pm | Exhibition Preview |
6.45–7.45pm | Artist Talk |
Thursday 16 May 2024
5–7.45pm
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ
£12 Standard
£9 Members
Joanna Bird originally trained as a potter for three years with Michael Cardew and practiced in her own right, before setting up a contemporary ceramics gallery in 1994. Over the last thirty years she has built an international reputation in ceramics and sought out fine works which have been acquired by museums and collectors worldwide. As a leading ceramics expert, Joanna specialises also in commissions on all scales, especially installations.
Joanna represents a broad stable of ceramic and glass artists, showing their work in the company of important historic collectors’ pieces at selected London and international galleries and art fairs at her own gallery.
Joseph Harrington is a sculptor working in cast glass. He graduated with an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art in 2006. He recently won ‘Best in Show’ at the 2017 British Glass Biennale, a gold medal at the Bavarian State Prize 2018 and has recently had he work acquired by the V&A Museum, London. Joseph has exhibited both nationally and internationally including a 2013 solo exhibition ‘Landscape Portraits’ at Bullseye gallery, Portland USA and has recently exhibited at ‘Collect’ art fair at the Saatchi Gallery, London.
Gregory Warren Wilson, is an artist and prize-winning poet. He was selected for the British Glass Biennale in 2022, is exhibited at ‘Collect’ also in Australia and USA. Using multiple layers of hand-cut glass or tesserae, he plays with light’s spatial interaction. Sometimes inspired by poetry fragments, his glass designs can allude to their literary origins – while others stand independently – for example ‘Venice by Night’ a series of 25 works.
London Craft Week is a city-wide festival celebrating exceptional craftsmanship, across multiple sectors and disciplines, from around the world. Through our curated programme of events, we shine a light on the creative talent behind some of the world’s most beautiful objects, telling stories of their inspiration, process and materials.
2024 will be the tenth anniversary edition of London Craft Week. Since its inception in 2015, the festival has grown significantly in scale and prominence with nearly quarter of a million visitors enjoying the work of more than 700 makers at events put on by over 200 partners from 40 countries in 2023.
The festival encourages those who attend to discover hidden workshops, independent makers, heritage craftsmen and jewel-like shops alongside great luxury houses, famous artists and designers, leading department stores, national museums and contemporary galleries. Visitors can embrace the sheer reach, diversity and serendipity that London offers as the world’s great creative capital.
Please contact pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk for more information.
PITZHANGER MANOR & GALLERY
Ealing Green, London
W5 5EQ
Reception: 020 3985 8888
Venue Hire: 020 3994 0966
Office: 020 3994 0967
pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk
Wednesday - Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00
First Thursday of the month: 10:00 - 20:00
Monday - Tuesday: Closed
Bank Holidays: 10:00 - 17:00
Last admissions one hour before closing