Kings Place Gallery

Events at Kings Place Gallery

• Abstract Critical Newcomer Award at Kings Place Gallery

  Art

  30 Mar 2012 to 20 Apr 2012

  Five artists from the 2011 degree shows nationwide have been selected by artists Phillip Allen, Carol Robertson, Iain Robertson, Alan Shipway and Gary Wragg to exhibit alongside them as part of the abstract critical Newcomer Awards. One of the selected graduate artists will be awarded the £5000 abstract critical Newcomer Award. The selected graduate artists are: Jack Sutherland (UCA Canterbury), Katy Kirbach (RA Schools), Dan Roach (Cheltenham), Zara Idelson (Glasgow School of Art) and Gwennan Thomas (Wimbledon School of Art).

• Chris Moore: Catwalking at Kings Place Gallery

  Art

  2 Dec 2011 to 10 Feb 2012

  Dubbed the "King of the Catwalk" by the fashion industry, photographer Chris Moore has captured images of catwalk shows from the ateliers of Paris Couture in the sixties with Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin and Courreges to the spectacularly theatrical events staged by Hussein Chalayan and Alexander McQueen.

• Gail-Nina Anderson: Venus - The Goddess of Love and Art at Kings Place Gallery

  Special Event

  27 Feb 2012

  Aphrodite in ancient Greece, Venus in ancient Rome, the goddess of love is the most enduring of the pagan Olympian deities, still a popular point of reference for female beauty. In art her appearance varies to appeal to the taste of the times - from Botticelli to Rubens, Titian to Burne-Jones, artists have painted her naked figure as their ideal of womanhood (and a great excuse to depict the nude, made artistically respectable by a few classical embellishments). This talk charts her visual history from pre-classical goddess through the types and variations of Greek and Roman art, her spectacular reappearance in the Renaissance and her continuing popularity as a motif. It also looks at her associations with mythology and symbolism.

• Janet Lance Hughes: Portraits of Central Saint Martins at Kings Place Gallery

  Art

  2 Dec 2011 to 10 Feb 2012

  Janet Lance Hughes' exhibition at Kings Place Gallery celebrates the arrival of Central Saint Martins to the Granary Building at Kings Cross with a collection of portrait paintings of CSM's illustrious alumni and staff. Janet's subjects are contemporaries at large in the world of British arts and industry.