Active Environmentalism can best be described as taking individual decisions as part of a collective responsibility.
We are all familiar with the problems, but what are the solutions? By hearing from experts across a range of fields we can better inform our own personal decision making.
Our photography programme features international, renowned and emerging artists and photographers working in various parts of the world encouraging dialogue between contemporary imagery and archives, reflecting on the evolution of photography as a storytelling genre.
14 July – 13 August
It is with great pleasure that we welcome Tuesday Riddell back to Cork street for her highly anticipated second solo show at Messums London.
Wednesday 28 July, 6:30pm
Join us talk with photographer Yan Wang Preston interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon.
Wednesday 4 August, 6:30pm
Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill his own wheat, in order to bake bread for his family.
18 August – 10 September
A new series of works by Francesco Poiana is set to reflect our surreal and quietly wild times this autumn. The Italian artist sought to recreate from memory the landscape of his home in the Dolomites from his studio in Bethnal Green, before returning to this landscape to capture it en plein air through spring and early summer.
8 September – 1 October
Robert Capa (1931 – 1954) is a legend in the history of photojournalism and possibly the most famous war photographer of the last century.
Wednesday 15 September, 6:30pm
David Kogan will introduce his photography collection which includes work by the renowned war photographer Robert Capa.
Wednesday 22 September, 6:30pm
Join us for a talk with award-winning British Egyptian documentary photographer Laura El-Tantawy interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon.
Wednesday 13 October, 6pm
Talk at Messums Wiltshire gallery and online with V&A director and author Tristram Hunt as he introduces his new book ‘The Radical Potter’.
Friday 22 October, 6:30pm
Join us for a talk with documentary photographer Sophie Green interviewed by our director of photography Dr Julie Bonzon on the occasion of ‘Showtime’ her first solo show in our Wiltshire gallery in October.
3 – 26 November
We are delighted to welcome Tyga Helme to our Emerging Talents Programme for her debut solo exhibition with Messums London.
Trained at Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal Drawing School in London, where she won the Machin Foundation Prize, Tyga uses nature as a metaphor for feelings of being overwhelmed.