The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration.
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Noah Davis
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Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.
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Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
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This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
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Home: Figure and Portrait Drawing Workshops
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Express yourself freely and creatively at this figure and portrait drawing course that will encourage you to reflect on the themes of family and the home.
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Noah Davis: Relaxed View
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Our Relaxed Viewings are dedicated to visitors who'd benefit from a more informal approach to noise and movement in the space, or who feel more comfortable knowing that they can enter and exit freely.
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Home: Family Drawing Workshops
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Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.
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Listening Session: Hannah Catherine Jone & the Chiron Choir
Led by Hannah Catherine Jones, Chiron Choir present a live set of somatic chants, vocal improvisations and compositions.
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Young Barbican Night: Noah Davis
Join us for a private view of the Noah Davis exhibition and enjoy a series of workshops and performances by an incredible line-up of artists, specially curated for Young Barbican members.
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Architecture on Stage: New Architects
A talk from some of the most exciting, emerging architects working in Britain today: EBBA, NVBL, OF Architecture and Studio KA.
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Noah Davis: Curator Tour with Wells Fray-Smith
Join curator Wells Fray-Smith on this exhibition tour, highlighting Davis’s use of found photography and images of friends and family as source material for his exuberant paintings of everyday life.
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CYFF: Collage & Community Cookbook
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Free drop-in activities during the festival, come along for to the Collage & Cookbook Corner.
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Home: Community Exhibition
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Come along to this free foyer exhibition that brings together a range of artworks in response to the themes of family, identity and the home.
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Architecture on Stage: Gort Scott
London-based architects Jay Gort and Fiona Scott discuss their diverse portfolio in the UK and beyond.
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Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha
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Within a new, intimate gallery in the Barbican, contemporary artist Huma Bhabha's monumental sculptures forge new dialogues with works by 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti.
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Talk: Jason Moran on Noah Davis and music making
Join American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran in the Art Gallery as he explores different contexts for music making, taking inspiration from the paintings of Noah Davis.