Locals

Lydia Wood drawing the Turner’s Old Star in Wapping, London

Location

Gerald Moore Gallery
Mottingham Lane
London
SE9 4RW

Description

This exhibition runs from Saturday 18th January 2025 to Saturday 15th February 2025.


Locals is an exhibit of work from the ongoing Pub Project - Lydia Wood’s mission to draw every pub in London.

The exhibition will showcase over a hundred architectural pencil drawings of London Pubs amongst other installations. With a focus on memory and nostalgia, recollecting the stories Wood has absorbed on sketching days over the past three years; alongside her own connection to pubs.

Lydia Wood makes detailed pencil drawings of London pubs. In 2021 the South East London artist declared she would draw every pub in London, all 3000+ of them. Now about 10% of the way through, Wood travels across the city to draw their exterior architecture from life; meeting landlords, landladies, locals and pub cats along the way.

The project aims to be more than just the physical artworks, by using her monochrome graphite drawings as a vehicle to discover the diverse variety of establishments across the capital.

The ritual of setting up to sketch a pub all day, means Wood is offered a unique insight into the pub and its particular community, preferring to receive her historical titbits and local legends from impromptu conversations had with punters throughout the day. The project is estimated to take anywhere between 20-30 years in its current form.

Prices

Free

Contact and Booking Details

More information at this website.

Upcoming Dates

This exhibition runs from Saturday 18th January 2025 to Saturday 15th February 2025.

Forthcoming dates:

Sat 15th Feb 2025 
(10:00am to 4:00pm)

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Gerald Moore Gallery
Mottingham Lane
London
SE9 4RW

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This exhibition runs from Saturday 18th January 2025 to Saturday 15th February 2025.

This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:

January 2025

February 2025