Join us for a talk with David Kogan OBE interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon. In this conversation, David Kogan will take us through his journey as a collector, his interest in significant events of modern history and his incredible collection of conflict photography which includes vintage prints by the renowned war photographer Robert Capa.
Join artist Tom Robinson for an online preview of his inaugural exhibition at Messums Wiltshire.
Tom Robinson grew up in Dorset and trained at The Royal Drawing School in London. He moved from London to Jersey before settling in Norfolk where he now lives and works.
Join us online or come along to the Long Gallery for the preview of Tom Robinson's exhibition 'Red Day'.
6pm online preview
6:30pm gallery preview (in person) Followed by supper from 7pm, book separately here
Tom starts a painting with a one-dimensional idea of colour and form and gradually establishes a structure and colour key, describing his work as ‘reaching for something hovering behind the surface of the drawings’. The paint is applied thickly, soaking brushes in pots of paint rather than a palette. Then reworking the paint, scraping it back with chisels or small planes of wood.
Join us for a talk with award-winning British Egyptian documentary photographer Laura El-Tantawy interviewed by Dr Julie Bonzon.
A selection of works from El-Tantawy’s acclaimed series 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' will be exhibited in our London gallery in September
Susan Ogilvy started painting bird nests almost by accident. One day, while tidying up her garden after a storm, she found a chaffinch nest – a strange, sodden lump on the grass under a fir tree. She carried it inside and placed it on a newspaper; over the next few hours, as the water drained out of it, the sodden lump blossomed into a mossy jewel. She was amazed, and dropped everything to make a painting of the nest at exact life size.
Join us for an online talk with documentary photographer Sophie Green as ‘Showtime’ her first solo show opens in our Wiltshire gallery.
Sophie Green will be interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon.
Green’s photographs celebrate the joy, uniqueness and eccentricities of under-represented subcultures in Britain, often in playful and humorous ways.
Hugo Tagholm leads the national marine conservation and campaigning charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS).
The charity Surfers Against Sewage takes action from the beach front to the front benches of Parliament, where it unites a voice for the ocean through its Ocean Conservation All Party Parliamentary Group. It mobilises over 100,000 community beach and river clean volunteers annually and has been instrumental in helping introduce and enforce new government legislation to protect our seas.
Online talk with acclaimed documentary photographer Martin Parr CBE, social and art documentary photographer Sophie Green and documentary photographer Dod Miller as they discuss British eccentricities, cultural customs and humour in photography.
Join us for a conversation with Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, representing 55,000 farming businesses. In 2018 she became the first woman to be president of the organisation, having been vice-president from 2014 to 2018. She was re-elected in 2020 for a second two-year term as president Minette also runs a 300-acre tenant farm at Downton near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
Can plastic packaging ever be better for the environment than paper? Why don’t we just get rid of packaging altogether?
Why isn’t all packaging recyclable? Is all plastic made from petrochemicals?
The answers to these questions may surprise you.
In this online conversation, photographer Nii Obodai will present his series ‘Big Dreams’ and ‘Paradox of Paradise’.
Messums London presents its first contemporary photography show by artists Nii Obodai and Justin Keene. Through a selection of delicately composed and elusive images, this exhibition encourages us to ponder our relationship with nature and read cultural history through the environment.
In this online conversation, photographer Justin Keene will present his series ‘Walls in the Riverbed’.
On the occasion of Messums London first contemporary photography exhibition 'Resonances', visual artists Nii Obodai and Justin Keene will be in conversation with Stephanie Blomkamp, founder of Oath magazine, on the visibility, circulation and championing of African photography today.
