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AUBREY WILLIAMS CATALOGUE
Published to mark our upcoming exhibition AUBREY WILLIAMS: NOW AND COMING TIME. Opening on 4th Feb 2010 continuing until 3rd Apr 2010.

This Exhibition runs along side AUBREY WILLIAMS: ATLANTIC FIRE. Running from 15 Jan until 11th April at Walker Art Gallery Liverpool.


Conversations about Leary, the Havard Experiments, Millbrook and the Sixties




El Anatsui Microsite
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A 60 minute documentary directed by Suzanne Campbell-Jones which tells the story of Chili Hawes, Director of the October Gallery and of how, with a team of artists and friends, she rescued a derelict building in London and turned it into a world renowned, pioneering gallery of contemporary art from around the planet.

For further enquiries about DVD’s please contact the Gallery 020 7242 7367 or www.mostlymovies.co.uk

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CURRENT EXHIBITION

04 February 2010 to 03 April 2010
AUBREY WILLIAMS: Now and Coming Time

The New Year of 2010 welcomes in two major exhibitions, in two different cities, of the work of one extraordinary international artist: Aubrey Williams. October Gallery, London and Walker Art Gallery, National Museums Liverpool, have joined forces to produce two linked and overlapping solo exhibitions of Williams’ work together with the publication of a new catalogue providing fresh insights into one of the twentieth century’s great artistic spirits.

Born, in 1926, in Georgetown, Guyana, Aubrey Williams remains one of the great enigmas of twentieth-century painting. He can be seen as a colossus, bestriding the Atlantic, with feet firmly planted in two very different worlds. Yet his brilliant career remains unknown to many, unacknowledged by all but the most insightful of art critics and art historians.



MOST RECENT EXHIBITION

03 December 2009 to 30 January 2010
Transvangarde: Leading Contemporary Artists

Featuring alone in the Front Gallery : “In the World, But Don’t Know the World?” a major new metal sculpture by El Anatsui, which was premiered at the 3rd Moscow Biennale in September 2009.

Accompanied by an exhibition of artists including W.S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Rachid Koraïchi, Aubrey Williams, Huang Xu and Kenji Yoshida.

El Anatsui has to date explored a wide range of different media and materials to create a wealth of different sculptural pieces over a long and distinguished career. Of late, he has drawn much attention worldwide with his highly ingenious metal sculptures made from tens of thousands of liquor bottle-tops forming magnificent wall sculptures. The title “In The World But Don’t Know the World?” references the new developments in understanding by which humanity strives to progress. The work consists of a series of independent and interchangeable units and with its free-flowing possibilities of form becomes a metaphor of the mind’s creation of meaning – as much an epistemological tool as it is an object of beauty.





FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, 16th February, 2010
The Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lecture series presents:
Exploring Consciousness: Yogic and Buddhist Philosophy in Relation to Psychic Awareness
Dr Serena Roney-Dougal

Entry £7 /£5 Concessions, Arrive 6pm for a 6:30pm Start - Wine available
Please reserve your place as space is limited.
Email rentals@octobergallery.co.uk or call 44 (0)20 7831 1618

Dr Serena Roney-Dougal

Advaita Vedanta, Kashmiri Shaivism and Mahayana Buddhism all teach that Consciousness is eternal, infinite and the ground of all being: reality in all its different forms. Consciousness is also our highest ideal, our morality and ethics. This philosophy enables a much clearer understanding of exactly what is mind and the place of psychic phenomena (e.g. telepathy) in our world-view.

In the 1970’s a theoretical framework for parapsychology, known as the psi-conducive syndrome, was developed from Patanjali’s yoga sutras. At the psychic level we experience mind not limited by time, space and the senses, as potential omniscience and omnipotence, considered by some as attributes of the divine, and called the siddhis in yogic philosophy. Patanjali says that these develop automatically as we become aware at the deeper levels of consciousness, called samadhi.

Serena Roney-Dougal did a PhD thesis in Parapsychology at Surrey University, and is the author of the books Where Science and Magic Meet and The Faery Faith. She has spent over 35 years studying and experiencing scientific, magical and spiritual aspects of the psyche, and has lectured and taught courses, seminars and workshops in America, Europe, Japan and India. For the past six years she has been researching the relationship between meditation and psychic awareness with Yogis and Tibetan Buddhists in India. This research is now continuing at Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Scotland.

This lecture is part of a series to be held at the October Gallery on the last Tuesday of each month (excluding August). Please check back to these pages for further details of the upcoming programme or email drdluke@gmail.com to be added to the series' mailing list.

2010 Programme

Tuesday, 30th March  

Our Living Sun: The Missing Piece in the Cosmic Jigsaw
Greg Sams

Tuesday, 27th April  

Special Guest: To be confirmed

Tuesday, 25th May   Blather, Rinse, Repeat: An Ethnography of Online Conspiracy Theories
Damien DeBarra
Tuesday, 29th June  

Was Jung a Mystic? The Occult World of C.G. Jung
Gary Lachman

Tuesday, 27th July  

Drugs and Magic: The Chemicals of Chaos
Julian Vayne


 
 
 

 

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Tel: + 44 (0)20 7242 7367 Fax: + 44 (0)20 7405 1851

Director - Chili Hawes; Artistic Director - Elisabeth Lalouschek; Special Projects - Gerard Houghton;
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Press Officer - Alana Pryce; Rentals Manager - Jo Walsh; Education Co-ordinator - Elizabeth Fraser-Betts;

The October Gallery is open from 12:30 to 17:30, Tuesday to Saturday.
The Gallery is closed during official holidays and for the entire month of August.

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