Archive for the 'Acton Group'

Acton group no longer meeting

Peter Spurgeon has announced 26th May 2010 that due to lack of demand the Acton LIP satellite group is no longer meeting. If at any time a new group wishes to form in the area, please get in touch and let us know!

Acton LIP meeting Tuesday 23rd March

Hi, I hope you are all well and that you have been enjoying the recent sporadic glimpses of sunshine. Our next meeting is this Tuesday evening at 7.30pm at the George and Dragon pub in Acton High Street. www.georgeanddragonacton.com I will be giving a brief talk about ‘Typologies’ and suggesting a related group project. We [...]

‘Unlocking Creativity’ seminar at Acton LIP group

Harminder Singh will be giving a seminar entitled ‘Unlocking Creativity’ at the Acton LIP satellite group. Date:   Thursday 25th February Time:   7.30pm Venue: St.Mary’s Church, Acton marketplace, London W3 9NW Stations: Acton Town (Piccadilly line) or Acton Central (Overground) Entrance fee: £2  Reserve a place at www.actonphoto.org.uk Unlocking Creativity Harminder is the author of Times [...]

Acton LIP: Events and new website

Seasons greetings! We have 2 events in January: – Saturday 9th January 2010 at 11.30am Group visit to Political Landscapes exhibition at Magnum Print Room 63 Gee Street, London EC1V 3RS Over the years Magnum Photos and it’s photographers have explored the notion of landscape photography, from the ‘Magnum Landscape’ publication (Phaidon 1997) to more [...]

Acton LIP visit to exhibition at the British Library

This Saturday we will be visiting the “Points of View” exhibition of 19th century photographs at the British Library. From the first tentative ‘drawings of shadows’ produced in the mid-1830s to its universal acceptance as a leisure pursuit, photography was swept along by a tide of entrepreneurial activity throughout the 19th century. As an influential [...]

Acton LIP meeting

Hi Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 27th October at 7.30pm. George and Dragon 183 High Street Acton London W3 9DJ Please bring 5 prints of photos you have taken this year. Thanks, Peter

Acton LIP gallery visit

Hi We will be going to see the following exhibition at 2pm this Saturday 19th: – A Shadow Falls Nick Brandt’s second major body of work continues the photographer’s ambitious and ongoing photographic project to memorialise the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Atlas Gallery 49 Dover St, W1 020 7224 4192 http://www.atlasgallery.com/atlas.php Cheers, Peter [...]

Acton group

Hi Thanks to everyone who came along to the Jonas Bendiksen exhibition at the PM Gallery yesterday. I thought it was a very thought provoking set of images and well worth seeing if you haven’t done so already. Whats’ on We will be alternating meetings at the George and Dragon to view each other’s work [...]

Acton LIP activities

Our next meeting will be at 7.30pm on Tuesday 23rd June at the George and Dragon pub in Acton. Please bring any recent photographs you have taken or a book by a photographer that has influenced you. http://georgeanddragonacton.com/ Saturday 25th July at 2pm Visit to ‘Satellites’ exhibition at the PM Gallery in Ealing The Soviet [...]