All posts by Darren

Experienced software architect & developer. Retro video game enthusiast. Formula 1 fan. Environmentalist.

Forerunner Magazine Launch: Friday 11th March 2016

Forerunner Magazine Launch Poster - Friday 11th March 2016Forerunner Magazine Launch
Friday 11th March 2016
7.30pm (free entry)

The Ladywell Gallery will be hosting the magazine launch of Forerunner, with issue 1 visiting the people and places behind the video game industry. To accompany the magazine launch, the Ladywell Tavern will be hosting a night of music from LL Burns, Horsey and Lucid DJs.

7.30pm Doors
7.45pm Horsey
9.00pm LL Burns
10.00pm Lucid DJs

From the authors

For issue #1 of Forerunner, we took a trip along the west coast of North America, visiting people and places connected to the video game industry. From founding figures and academics, to journalism, museums and new frontiers, this issue looks at video games in their variety of manifestations and reaching influences. There’s also a bunch of dope illustrations by Jacob Read…

Please Click Here for more information.

Poems In Ladywell: Wednesday 24th February 2016

Poems In Ladywell
Wednesday 24th February 2016
7:30pm – 10pm (free entry)

Join us at the Ladywell Gallery for our monthly evening of poetry.
The theme is Wood…

As always, come and recite or read your own poems on the theme, or read poems you love written by other authors. Or just come and listen. Starts at 7.30pm.

Please Click Here for more information on the Poems In Ladywell group.

Political Cartoons by Martin Rowson: Wednesday 10th February 2016

Political Cartoons: Giving The Gift of Offence
Hosted by Martin Rowson
Wednesday 10th February 2016
Doors open: 7:30pm
Tickets: £12

Martin Rowson, one of the UK’s leading cartoonists and political satirists and ‘scourge of the political establishment’, will give his thoughts on the power of giving and taking offence, exposing the techniques, practice and purpose of caricature, followed by a Q&A.

Be prepared to be shocked, enlightened and thoroughly entertained! All ticket sales go to supporting this year’s Brockley Max Festival. Over 16 years only. Tickets £11.49 in advance, £12 on the door.

Buy tickets at Eventbrite

Please join us for this rare opportunity for an informal and intimate discussion from one of the UK’s most distinct political commentators and help support Brockley Max.

Come early for a burger and beer for £10 only.

Poems In Ladywell: Wednesday 27th January 2016

Poems In Ladywell
Wednesday 27th January 2016
7:30pm – 10pm (free entry)

Join us at the Ladywell Gallery for our monthly evening of poetry.
The theme this month is Flood(s)…

As always, come and recite or read your own poems on the theme, or read poems you love written by other authors. Or just come and listen. Starts at 7.30pm.

Please Click Here for more information on the Poems In Ladywell group.

Welcome Sophie Lewis

The Ladywell Gallery is proud to announce Sophie Lewis has joined our list of exhibiting artists. Sophie Lewis currently has work on display in the exhibition titled ’Visual Abstraction’.

Sophie Lewis is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator living in South East London. She has always taken an interest in attracting wildlife into the garden and became concerned on reports of the decline of bee population.

Please Click Here for more information on Sophie Lewis.

Welcome Maciej Jedrzejewski

The Ladywell Gallery is proud to announce Maciej Jedrzejewski has joined our list of exhibiting artists. Maciej Jedrzejewski currently has work on display in the exhibition titled ’Visual Abstraction’.

Maciej Jedrzejewski has moved over from Poland to England at the age of 11 years old. He has spent his childhood in a small quiet town, located north west of Poland. The artist’s earliest memories are those of him drawing.

Please Click Here for more information on Maciej Jedrzejewski.

Welcome Laura Hepworth

The Ladywell Gallery is proud to announce Laura Hepworth has joined our list of exhibiting artists. Laura Hepworth currently has work on display in her exhibition titled ’Visual Abstraction’.

Laura Hepworth’s work examines the themes of creation and connection: “how few of us wonder how they were created and what connections we may have with endless vista of stars and galaxies. Do we ever stop to consider what lies in the darkness?

Please Click Here for more information on Laura Hepworth.

Visual Abstraction: 24th January – 7th February 2016

Preview Night: Friday 29th January 2016 from 6:30pm
Exhibition: 24th January – 7th February 2016, 12pm – 6pm

The Ladywell Gallery is proud to announce Visual Abstraction, an exhibition by Laura Hepworth with guest artists Maciej Jedrzejewski & Sophie Lewis.

In many cases where art and science collide, paradoxes occur in the artist’s work that has found influences in the findings of research by the work of scientists. Pablo Picasso, Robert Van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, have included this interdisciplinary concept into their work, this is evident in Picasso’s paintings reflected in Albert Einstein’s theory of space time relativity and how he achieved this understanding of geometric form within the chaos of his works…

Please Click Here for more information on this exhibition.

Poems In Ladywell: Wednesday 30th December 2015

Lord of MisrulePoems In Ladywell
Wednesday 30th December 2015
7:30pm – 10pm (free entry)

Join us at the Ladywell Gallery for our monthly evening of poetry.
The theme is Saturnalia, the World Turned Upside Down, The Lord of Misrule etc..

As always, come and recite or read your own poems on the theme, or read poems you love written by other authors. Or just come and listen. Starts at 7.30pm.

Please Click Here for more information on the Poems In Ladywell group.

Life Drawing Class: Thursday 17th December 2015

Life Drawing Class
Every Thursday
7:30-9:30pm
£10 per session

Join our Life Drawing Class every Thursday night from 7:30pm at the Ladywell Gallery. Whether you’re stuck at stick-people or a budding Waterhouse, these weekly classes are for you.

A Professional model and all materials are provided, along with an experienced and enthusiastic tutor.

Please Click Here for more information.