To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, please support Oakleaf by joining us for a relaxing morning of self-care. Their interpretation of the question will be revealed after the photos have been taken, so that the final result represents a multifaceted exploration of an individual, interpreted in several ways. The two portraits will be displayed alongside each other in an exhibition at the New House gallery, accompanied by the subjects own interpretation of each aspect of themselves responding to the question: who are you on the inside, who are you on the outside? They were told to respond however they chose, as long as it could be exhibited alongside the two portraits. Rather than a standard photoshoot set up of ‘photographer shoots subject’, this was a ‘subject led’ collaboration between photographer and subject – a means of giving people a voice and a way of expressing themselves without having to find words for how they feel. Kayt’s portrait will represent the version of the subject that exists on the outside, that the world sees, whilst Lauren’s portrait will be a more abstract reflection of the version of the subject that lives on the inside, the version that the outside world is usually less privy to. The exhibition will take place 13th-21st May 2023 as part of National Mental Health Awareness Week, with a private view on the 12th of May between 7-9pm. New House Art Space have partnered with local photographers Kayt Webster Brown and Lauren Thompson to bring you: INSIDE OUT, an exhibition documenting and highlighting mental health issues using subjects from the locality. Paper has been around for about 2000 years – come see how far it’s fallen. Showing their interpretation of our title “why would I ever fight fair?” His brother Sir Norman Watson, Baronet, (1897 - 1989), provided funding for the early development of Lake Louise, a ski resort in Alberta, Canada.Group exhibition of exactly TEN of the best artists to ever do things with paper. Watson's sister, Florence Nagle, was a race horse breeder and trainer. Fowler inherited the bulk of Watson's estate and died 14 years later in the West Indies he was also found drowned in his bathtub. Some have suggested that he was murdered by his young American lover, Norman Fowler (– March 23, 1971). Watson was found drowned in his bath on at his home in Knightsbridge, London. almost everyone appears to have liked him." One of Watson's lovers was the American male prostitute and socialite Denham Fouts, whom he continued to support even after they separated as a result of Fouts's drug addiction He added "When I think of him then, I think of his clothes, which were beautiful, his general neatness and cleanness, which seemed almost those of a handsome young Bostonian." įisher writes that Peter Watson "was a figure of striking attractiveness women in particular seem to have found his manners irresistible. Spender recalled to Connolly's biographer, Clive Fisher, that Watson hated "priggishness, pomposity and almost everything to do with public life," and he suspected that he had educated himself "through a love of beautiful works and of people in whom he saw beauty. He persuaded Picasso's dealer, Daniel Kahnweiler, to comment on the contemporary art market and he also got Michel Leiris to write about Giacometti. Watson commissioned articles on artists barely known at the time in England, such as Balthus, Morandi and Klee. He rarely contributed articles, but gave many opportunities for his friends to have their pictures reproduced in the magazine, and also encouraged Horizon to look beyond British Art, particularly to Paris. Watson was art editor for the magazine between 19. Stephen Spender was also involved with the magazine initially. In 1940, Watson provided funding for Cyril Connolly's Horizon and became its arts editor. One chapter from Hugo Vickers' authorized biography of Cecil Beaton is titled "I Love You, Mr. In 1930, society photographer, artist and set designer Sir Cecil Beaton began a lifelong obsession with Watson, though the two never became lovers. He was the principal benefactor of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London and also provided financial assistance to English and Irish painters including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and John Craxton. Watson was an avid art collector acquiring works by such artists as Miró, Klee, and Pablo Picasso, which were displayed in his Paris apartment in the 1930s. He was educated at Lockers Park School, Eton College and St John's College, Oxford. Watson was the son of William George Watson, later Sir George Watson, 1st Baronet, and was the youngest of three children-his brother Norman was born in 1897 and sister Florence in 1894. He funded the literary magazine, Horizon, edited by Cyril Connolly. Victor William (Peter) Watson (14 September 1908 – ) was a wealthy English art collector and benefactor. English art collector and arts benefactor
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