MAIN GALLERY CLOSURE & JULY FILMING UPDATE

The main gallery is currently closed for exhibition changeover. Pitzhanger Manor and Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker remain open, with discounted admission available.

On 8–19 July, further closures will be in place due to filming activity. During this period, the main gallery, café, shop, Monk’s Dining Room and Wonder Room will be closed. Discounted admission will remain available for access to the open areas of Pitzhanger Manor, including Marthe Armitage: Pattern Maker.

Visitors requiring step-free access to the Manor on 8–19 July will need to enter and exit via the Eating Room door from the Front Garden. The accessible toilet in the main gallery will not be available; the nearest accessible toilet is at the Rickyard in Walpole Park, near the playground.

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2024

24 January – 7 July 2024

Soft Colours: A Display of Student Artwork

2024

24 January – 7 July 2024

Soft Colours: A Display of Student Artwork

Overview

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery is proud to present Soft Colours, a display of artwork created by Year 5 students at Christ the Saviour Primary School in Ealing Broadway and Year 6 students at Tudor Primary School in Southall. These students worked collaboratively within their classes over the Autumn 2023 term with two of Pitzhanger’s artist practitioners, Emily Hopkins and Lucia Ferguson. The project responded to Idris Khan & Annie Morris: When Loss Makes Melodies, an exhibition exploring the themes of emotion, time, and memory which ran from 4 October 2023 to 7 January 2024.

The practitioners planned a series of three workshops for each class to develop the work. In the first workshop, the students explored themes including culture, identity, collaboration, and inclusion, writing manifestos on the question: “How can we collaborate in an inclusive way?” They then created visual symbols to represent their key ideas and words from the manifestos, using these to explore the materials and processes used by the artists, Idris Khan and Annie Morris, including text-layering exercises inspired by Khan and fabric decoration exercises inspired by Morris.

In the final stage, the participating classes visited Pitzhanger for a guided tour of the exhibition and their final workshop, where they created the work that you see today. In small groups, the students worked together to first choose a coloured fabric and then decorate it using oil pastels, drawing from their earlier manifestos, layering text and images onto the physical fabric. They then stuffed newspaper into the fabric to create abstract shapes. Many of these soft sculptures resemble strings of beads or sausages – can you see any other shapes in the work? Can you interpret the themes and ideas that the children explored by how they decorated the fabric?

The final product is inspired by Annie Morris’ stunning Stacks, her assemblages of precariously stacked, vibrantly coloured plaster orbs. The work is presented alongside a film by Emile Ebrahim Kelly, documenting the school project at Pitzhanger and the reflections of the student artists.

Date

24 January – 7 July 2024

Venue

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ

Tickets

Access with general admission

Enjoy free admission during the following times:

  • Unlimited access for Members at all times.
  • Every first Thursday of the month 5pm – 8pm, and every Sunday 10am – 12.30pm for Ealing Borough residents.

Concessions available

How to book a group visit

With thanks to

  • Arts Council England
  • Project leaders: Emily Hopkins & Lucia Ferguson
  • Filmmaker: Emile Ebrahim Kelly
  • Christ the Saviour Church of England Primary School
    • Diane Harris – Assistant Headteacher
    • Alison McCulloch – Art Teacher
    • Miss Sian Dawe – Class 5SD
    • Mrs Famina Anwar – Class 5FA
    • Mr W Kerller – Class 5WK
    • Mrs Yates – Class 5MY
  • Tudor Primary School
    • Sonia Saini – Art Lead
    • Mrs Tasneem Akhtar – Bronze Class
    • Ms Kirpal Jutla – Turquoise Class

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+44 (0) 20 3985 8888, pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk

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Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ

Ticketing, Opening Hours and Tour Enquiries: foh@pitzhanger.org.uk
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Reception: 020 3985 8888
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Office: 020 3994 0967

Wednesday - Sunday: 10:00 - 17:00
First Thursday of the month: 10:00 - 20:00
Monday - Tuesday: Closed
Bank Holidays: 10:00 - 17:00

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