"in progress" is an exhibition showcasing the diverse work of talented third-year photographers at Middlesex University to be held at the Kingsgate Gallery. The show is open from 21st February 2008 through to 28th February, 12-6 daily.

The show has been organised and run by the photographers themselves, in conjunction with Kingsgate Workshops Trust, as a preview to their final degree show at The Truman Brewery on 7th June 2008.

Each photographer has contributed one print as an interim work in progress towards their final major project. This is a wonderful opportunity to come and see the broad-ranging, contemporary subject matter and high quality prints currently being produced by this group of twenty four photographers. Work exhibited is available to purchase, priced individually on application.

Please visit www.mdxphotoshow.co.uk for information on the photographers and their work

Kingsgate Gallery is proud to invite you to Putting Down Routes, an exhibition showcasing multi-media work by young people aged 9 to 18 from local Primary and Secondary schools, produced during Kingsgate Workshop Trust’s intergenerational Putting Down Routes project.

Funded by Camden’s Small Grants and Community Fund and initiated by Kingsgate Workshops Trust, Putting Down Routes enabled 3 groups of young people from Kingsgate Primary School and Hampstead Secondary School to explore differences and similarities between cultures and generations, through the preparation, serving and sharing of food.

Working in partnership with young people, and elders from West Hampstead Women’s Centre, Kingsgate Workshops Trust artists Polly Pollock and Nicola Lane developed a programme of unique multi-media art workshops, delivered between November 2007 and February 2008.

The children from Kingsgate Primary School Year 5 and Hampstead School’s Year 7 and 10, worked with Polly Pollock on a series of basketry and food preparation workshops.

Students from Hampstead School’s Photography and Art A Level courses worked with Nicola Lane to create a documentary film and still images of the Putting Down Routes project. This included filming and interviewing different age groups about food and cultural identity and filming the preparation of different food during the workshops.

Kingsgate Workshops Trust would like to thank Hampstead School, Kingsgate Primary School, West Hampstead Women’s Centre and Camden’s Small Grants and Community Fund.

To investigate ways of being.

The division between thinking and doing tends to result in retrenched positions which become reactionary in themselves, static and therefore counter productive to the investigative nature of creativity. Creativity embraces and does not preclude other sources or theoretical positions that could be useful for its purpose.

The artworks shown here are the result of an attempt to use different ways of being, to use thinking and doing in a symbiotic rather than confrontational or competitive way. The artists are all temporarily students and are both serious and committed. They are on a course of study which seeks to embrace the wide, the unexpected, the known and the unknown. We expect you, the visitor, to be able to participate in this endeavour and take away something that will increase your own understanding of the creative process in the visual arts.

WINTER SHOW 08 is a great opportunity to buy the perfect Christmas gift direct from the artist before they are snapped up by galleries and retail outlets. Come along and enjoy the festive fun of mulled wine and mince pies, and enjoy the art on show and meet the artists.

WINTER SHOW 08 is a unique and inspirational, creative shopping experience, giving everyone the opportunity to purchase an individual piece of art...   ... WINTER SHOW 08 will be the charitable Trust’s largest seasonal exhibition yet, exhibited in Kingsgate Gallery and the Kingsgate Education Building.

WINTER SHOW 08 exhibiting a diverse range of art works including Paintings, Ceramics, Textiles, Furniture, Jewellery – and more; prices ranging from as little as £5...to £500. Treat yourself or a loved-one to a truly original and special gift.