REBECCA X WARHOL
Unique Exhibition Debuts the Work of Popular
Love London Gallery Creator Alongside Rare Warhol Archive
Rebecca Walker, the artist, visual poet and digital creator behind Love London Gallery, will make her London debut with the first original public showing of her work, at 67 York Street Gallery.
Walker’s unique visual essay, Love London Gallery, reimagines the capital and has been loved by more than 300,000 people across Instagram, Facebook and beyond since 2017.
Her new exhibition (on 4-7 December) continues this passion for celebrating London through her distinctive lens, with intricate multimedia work, which blends detailed, hand drawn linework and cartography with digital devotion.
Rebecca’s timeless pieces capture the city not only as it is, but as it feels, with a style entirely of her own, but with echoes of Eric Ravilious, the layered storytelling of Edward Bawden, Madge Gill and the quiet power of printmaker Clare Leighton.
Her love of vintage design, the graphic language of post-war illustration, and poetic printmaking traditions all infuse her drawings. Rebecca’s London is both map and memory; its cathedrals, terraces and towers
reimagined not as cold monuments but as living poetry.
The exhibition not only shares the story of a city, but of a singular woman who sees it differently - Rebecca broke into the art world not through privilege or connections, but by creating her own path and building an audience who were drawn to her unique, visual storytelling about the capital and its art.
So it’s fitting that she will be sharing a stage at the exhibition with Andy Warhol, another singular artist who saw the world differently, and shared her love for London, calling it “better than New York in the Sixties.”
The exhibition will feature a unique archive of signed original photographs revealing the life and work of Warhol during the birth of the Pop Art movement, before his first 15 minutes of fame.
The extraordinary, intimate studio images were shot in the early Sixties by fine art photographer William John Kennedy, and were almost thrown away, after being kept in storage for nearly 50 years.
Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to see some of the earliest photographs of America’s most influential Pop Artist, and experience London in an entirely new way with the gallery debut of one of the capital’s most exciting visual storytellers.
Notes to the Editor
Rebecca X Warhol exhibition
Open: 4 - 7 December
Address: 67 York Street Gallery, Marylebone, London, W1H 1QB
VIP Private View: 4 & 5 December, 6-8pm
Public opening: 4 & 5 December 10am - 5pm.
6 December 10am - 6pm. 7 December 10am - 4pm
Website: www.lovelondongallery.com
i: @lovelondongallery