Bright Old Things Exhibition Launch

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm UTC+01:00

Helen of Troy 20 Hanway St London W1T 1UG | London

Bright Old Things Exhibition Launch
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A special evening featuring the talents of eight legendary Bohemian creators…all being on the wrong (or perhaps right?) side of 40...
With a performance by
*The Bright Old Things Orchestra*
JF Whitney
Your host has created many artworks in a range of none~too~strict disciplines, with group and solo shows in London and solo exhibitions in Berlin, Dublin and Geneva.
Has also performed music worldwide on a variety of instruments in a wide variety of bands while appearing on over 70 record releases…
"Fucking Brilliant!" John Cooper Clarke
"This is sooo cuuute!" Eartha Kitt
"What a fine mutilation!" Jello Biafra
flytowhitneysmoon.com
Joni Belaruski
Her work celebrates the weird and the wonderful, the dark and the silly, drawing inspiration from pop culture to pornography to David Attenborough, and fishing around within the dark depths of the human psyche where dreams and nightmares reside... Topped off with a healthy touch of gallows humour. A canvas could be a wall, a guitar, a drumskin, a piece of wood....
She exhibits regularly in the UK and has had her artwork used by numerous bands including Foy Vance, The 1975, The Libertines and The Urban Voodoo Machine. She is also a touring musician, playing drums for punk folk favourites ‘The Great Malarkey’ and tuba for Rotten Boroughs.
jonibelaruski.com
Christos Tolera
I believe in the magic of paint and the visceral qualities it has of applying skin to flesh and surface to substance. I am interested in composition and balance and occasionally imbalance. I am still in thrall to the poetry and romantic possibilities of paint. I hope that my work, when successful, bypasses the intellect and affects people emotionally and in an ideal world the audience would experience the same feelings when they are looking as I had when I was painting.
christostolera.com
Dish
Her highly skilled and expressive paintings have ranged from the gloriously grotesque to the elegantly pictorial, adorning a range of surfaces from vintage ceramics to public mural art via record cover illustration and on canvases great and small…
gurdish.com
Ella Guru
Has brought yours…and her own…strangest dreams to canvas in her richly deviant and esoteric style for many full moons. From whitewashed gallery walls to secret~panelled Bohemian castles, her vibrant art has added its own sacred profanity to many an environ.
Her distinctive Hagstrom guitar has played many a tune in many bands, among them The Voodoo Queens, The Deptford Beach Babes and The Tropics Of Cancer.
“You’re Weird!” (Quentin Crisp)
ellaguruart.com
David Montgomery
His legendary camera has captured Jimi Hendrix, 60's Stones & Who, Sophia Loren, Peter O'Toole, Terence Stamp, Jean Shrimpton, Lucian Freud, Andy Warhol and even The Queen!
@davidmontgomerystudio
Karla Da Silva
Her richly pictorial, allegorical and mystical portraits have rendered many inspired female artistes as being even more so…
karladasilva.com
Alan Milliner
30 years in theatre prop making and engineering projects will certainly be evident in the exhibits wrought by this talented sculptor, bon vivant and event host (Jazz Train, The Big Club)
@alan_milliner
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Helen of Troy 20 Hanway St London W1T 1UG, 20 Hanway Street, London, W1T 1UG, United Kingdom

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