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To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Halfboy by Stuart Pearson Wright, we will be screening his 2-channel video installation 'Maze' on the first three days of the opening. Constance (Keira Knightley) and Edmund (Stuart Pearson Wright) stumble through an Elizabethan maze, having lost each other along the way. Minds and decorum unravel as twilight closes in and they are no closer to reuniting.
Keira Knightley on Maze “Ideas (for Maze) were developed at his studio over cu...pcakes and tea and under the skeleton of his dog, and a film piece was decided on: a collision of our worlds”
Stuart Pearson Wright on Maze “Characters from Elizabethan period dramas are expected to perform in a particular way. The male has got to be heroic – if he’s wearing a cod piece, he’s got to get his sword out, win the maiden, and save the day…So, I wanted to take all of those references and expectations and piss them up the wall: explode the myth of the hero.”
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About Halfboy Even as The Children Act 1975 gave adopted children the right to their birth records upon maturity, the National Health Service was providing assisted conception services using anonymous donor sperm. Conceived in a South London NHS facility in 1975, artist Stuart Pearson Wright will never have access to his paternal heritage, a loss that has evolved from childhood confusion to the remorse of a father of two young children. Halfboy came about as a result of a cha...nce encounter with a box of childhood photographs, a rare find as most such mementos were lost due to the peripatetic lifestyle imposed by the artist’s mother in the 1980s. Reconstructed from photographs and personal memories, the paintings that make up Halfboy are imbued with a portraitist’s eye for detail, bringing to life the minutiae of time and place. Humour and pathos jostle for attention in this autobiographical series, which will be supplemented by works made in the aftermath of a personal tragedy that unfolded upon his move to Suffolk.
About Stuart Pearson Wright Stuart Pearson Wright (b. 1975) trained at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, during which time he won the BP Portrait Awards Travel Award (1998) awarded by the National Portrait Gallery (NPG). The subsequent exhibition at the NPG opened to rave reviews and Wright was heralded ‘a Hogarth for our times’ by Godfrey Barker of the Evening Standard. In 2000, he won the BP Portrait Award for Gallus Gallus with Still Life and Presidents and was awarded a commission to paint J. K. Rowling for the collection of NPG. In 2006, Wright’s exhibition Most people are other people, a collection of forty portrait drawings of British and Irish actors was exhibited at the NPG and National Theatre, London. Recent exhibitions of Wright’s work were held at Riflemaker, London, in 2010, 2012 and 2013 and his works are in public collections including The British Museum, Government Art Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum and many others.
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Artist's talk with Stephen Sutcliffe today at 3PM. See some of his other works and hear about Twixt Cup and Lip. Downing Arts Cambridge Film Festival

@stuartpearsonwright we hope you have ticked off some of the things you still need to paint in Kid With A Bleeding Brain. Can't wait to see it at #halfboy opening to the public on 2 November. #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #painting #oilpainting #artincambridge

We are so excited to welcome Cambridge Film Festival to the Heong Gallery again. Stephen Sutcliffe's wry and hypnotic 'Twixt Cup and Lip' will be screened between 24 and 28 October, with an artist's talk at 3PM on 24 October.

Missed the Art and Communication Symposium last Saturday? We've got you covered.

The sign is up. #halboy by @stuartpearsonwright opens on 2 November. #signpainting #signofthetimes #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #oilpainting #oilonlinen

🍬🍭Our pic 'n' mix drawing prompts were a hit! By the end of the day, the window was full of colourful pennants and our community bunting was a joy to behold. Thanks to @alicecourtley and @yessicabaetenillustration for running the event and thank you @thebigdraw for letting us prove once again that #everyonecandraw !🍭🍬 . . .... Photos by @mylinhlephotography #heonggallery #thebigdraw #doihavetodrawyouapicture
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📣 That's all, folks. Last chance to see Do I Have To Draw You a Picture at #heonggallery today. 12-5. Free. All welcome!📣 . . . Photo: My Linh Le... #doihavetodrawyouapicture #lastchance #lastday #exhibition #cambridge #downingcollege
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Something for your artistic sweet-tooth. Come to our Pic 'N' Mix stand between 11 and 5 tomorrow. Free. All ages and abilities welcome. Downing College, Cambridge, The Blake Society

Jean Frénon and Cole Swensen next to Louise Bourgeois's spider. Fabulous book launch of Now, Now, Louison at #heonggallery this evening. #louisebourgeois #doihavetodrawyouapicture @les_fugitives_publishing @downingcollege_cambridge

Fresh from the national launch at Tate Modern, number two in our series of end-of-exhibition events, is the launch of the English translation of Jean Frémon's literary portrait of Louise Bourgeois. Tomorrow, Thursday 4 October, from 6PM.
FREE. ALL WELCOME!
Les Fugitives Alliance Française de Cambridge Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge Downing Arts Downing College Poetry Society

📣📣The first of four free events to celebrate the end of the exhibition is a chance to make your own posters with @theblakesociety 📣📣 . . 5-7 Wednesday 3 October. .... It's a well known fact that making #art and having art to look at is generally a good thing. Get inspired by #jennyholzer #glennligon #wolfgangtillmans #jasperjohns #louisebourgeois and others and #draw #colour and #collage your way to #wellbeing .
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Follow @heong_picnmix to see what our talented coordinators have in store for #thebigdraw on Saturday 6 October. Pick your prompts from our sweet jars and let your imagination run wild. Free fun for all the family!
#everyonecandraw #drawing #familyactivity #youngchildren

Photographing the artist at work. One of the many things we got up to at the studio of @stuartpearsonwright yesterday. Professional #photography by @studiostagg to follow. #halfboy opens at #heonggallery in November. #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #stuartpearsonwright #suffolk

For one day only, come to The Heong Gallery Sweet Shop where the sugary treats are replaced with words and prompts for spontaneous drawing. Pick and Mix your treats to come up with a unique, original picture. You will draw on a colourful pennant, which will join others on a community bunting celebrating drawing through visual jokes and word play. Illustrators Yessica Baeten and Alice Courtley will help spark ideas and ignite your imagination through word association games and fun drawing exercises.
So, whether you draw every day, or haven't drawn in years, join us for an afternoon of drawing and laughs for all ages. Spend five minutes or five hours!

an excellent small art gallery with refreshing small exhibitions

an excellent small art gallery with refreshing small exhibitions