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Gallery Watch: Leighton Space, Liminal & Guts For Garters

Another week, another gallery or three. But it’s nice to see this one opening outside the West Kentish Town ghetto and in the previously artistically-untapped “Leightons” area just east of the Assembly House pub. Leighton Space , says the blurb, provides the “opportunity for professional artists to show work at all stages and in a …

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But is it art?

I know it’s all art, art, art this week on The Kentishtowner, but before we forget, we have to plug the Camden New Journal’s recent interview with NW5 legend Dame Paula Rego on the subject of local graffitti. Rego, whose studio is in Kentish Town, wisely supports the idea of a committee to consider the …

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Grafton Road

Grafton Road is coming up in the world. Why? Because this formerly maligned corner of West Kentish Town’s warehouses, factories and yards (mostly remnants of its former life as the centre of the piano industry in Edwardian times) have been rebirthed as fashion, film, production, media, TV studios and architectural practices. Wander the streets and …

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