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Imagining Hawksmoor

RA Forum

27 February 2012

At the Geological Society, Piccadilly

Tower of St George in-the-East, Wapping (1714–29) by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Photo © Royal Academy of ArtsA panel discusses the work of one of Britain’s most original and enduring architects and explores how his architecture – both built and unbuilt – has left its mark [...]

At the Sohemian Society on Roland Camberton and his novel Scamp. 14/11/2011

Iain Sinclair will address the Sohemian Society on Roland Camberton and his novel Scamp.

Venue: The upstair’s room, The Wheatsheaf Pub, Rathbone Place, London W1.

Date and time: 14th November at 7.30pm. Admission £3

Picture This: Iain at Somerset House with Tracy Chevalier

Link: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/literature/picture-this-2011

4  October 2011

Doors 18.30 for private view of the gallery, event starts 19.00 The Courtauld Gallery £12.50/£11 concessions

Join us for Picture This…, now in its third year, hosted by our Writer in Residence Frances Wilson. Six eminent writers will discuss their favourite work of art from The Courtauld Gallery’s permanent collection.

Describing an artwork that [...]

IMPROVING THE IMAGE OF DESTRUCTION

A short text, written yesterday after a walk with Stephen Gill, and a visit to his studio. It is intended to accompany a series of photographs Stephen made of bricks and rocks picked up in the aftermath of the recent Hackney riots. I thought this was a fascinating angle of approach, which somehow shifted the [...]

Futurology: Iain Sinclair at the QE Hall, Southbank

As London looks forward to 2012′s Olympics, the self-styled ‘greatest show on Earth’, Iain Sinclair projects his vision of the post-games future by visiting the ruins of previous grand projects. His new book, Ghost Milk: Calling Time on the Grand Project, starts out from the East London Olympic site and takes in Athens and the [...]