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Gormley & Freud At The Royal Academy, 18 November 2019

Neither of us would have made a special trip to the Royal Academy to see either one of these exhibitions on its own, but when we realised that we were due to be across the road in Fortnum & Mason for an early evening Gresham Society event that evening, the opportunity to see:

…was too good for me and Janie to miss. (Click the above links to see the RA’s excellent on-line resources for each of these shows).

First we took in the Gormley. Janie got trigger happy with her iPhone.

The signage tells you to duck and dive your way through this piece, while another sign tells you rather strictly to stick to the outside of the piece. Where’s my sat nav when I need it the most?
I tried to emulate the pose.
This matrix piece made us feel a bit dizzy
Janie was especially taken with the sketch books aplenty,
Having done various real caves and even the Củ Chi tunnels in our time, this synthetic cave held no fear for us, although the health and safety brigade warned us about the dark, head hazards and claustrophbia before we entered. It was fun.

While we were more interested to see the Freud than the Gormley, in the event the Freud was a small exhibition with only a few interesting pieces.

Lucian clearly fancied himself more when he was young…
…than he did when he was older.

As we had suspected, neither show would have satisfied us as a single visit show, but we were pleased to have seen both in one visit, especially so on a day when we were to be so nearby anyway.

There are more photos, in a single album with the Fortnum & Mason ones, to be seen by clicking the link below: