London Art Week Summer 2021 exhibitions draw delighted UK clients and visitors in person once again
Roman terracotta Head Of A Woman, late 1st century BC-1st century AD, sold by Kallos Gallery.
LONDON
.- LAW is a beautifully produced platform, easy to navigate and provides an alternative experience to other online platforms and art fair viewing rooms. The ability for collectors to see the works online and then, if they wish, in each participants gallery space is very special and a good way of bringing visitors back to galleries, particularly after such a turbulent year.
The above quote from first-time participant Piano Nobile sums up the hybrid London Art Week Summer 2021, which took place online and in galleries from 2-16 July, and concurs with other exhibitors as to the warm response from clients to once again be able to view artworks in person.
The Library at Strawberry Hill, c. 1790. Photo: The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
LONDON
.- Last October London Art Week introduced a new series of interim online events: Art History in Focus. Another impressive line-up of insightful and lively talks will be taking place this March.
16 March The Female Artists, Actresses, and Playwrights of Strawberry Hill Theatricals
This webinar will explore the role of female artists, actresses, and playwrights involved with theatre at Horace Walpoles Strawberry Hill; present illustrations of Walpoles scandalous gothic play The Mysterious Mother by the artist Diana Beauclerk and the closet built to house them at Strawberry Hill and will also touch on Walpoles literary executor Mary Berrys play Fashionable Friends, performed at Strawberry Hill with sets designed by her sister Agnes and with herself and the sculptor Anne Damer in the leading roles. Damer had a close relationship with the famous actress Eliza Farren, re