From Jenny Holzer to Henry Moore, from Patrick Procktor to Michael Wishart, from Duncan Grant to Hugo Guinness, from the arrestingly contemporary to the unexpectedly classic, Doomed and Famous brings together a gloriously personal selection of works from the collection of writer, critic, curator (and one-time child star) Adrian Dannatt. The exhibition - which coincides with the UK launch of Dannatt’s book of the same name - is rich in cross-currents and connections - art-historical, historical, psycho-geographical, aesthetic and, above all, autobiographical.


Amongst the many artists, writers, filmmakers and architects included one might mention such names as; Richard Hamilton, Joanna Kirk, James Coleman, Liza Fior, Augustus John, Anthony Palliser, Roger Hilton, Gio Ponti, Willie Landels, Pierre Le Tan, John Pawson, Lawrence Durrell, Mary and Tessa Newcomb, Keith Vaughan, Wolf Mankowitz, Douglas Gordon, Glynn Boyd Harte and Duggie Fields.

This exhibition constitutes the second part of the launch of Dannatt’s book, Doomed and Famous (a selection of his obituaries of improbable bohemian figures, written over the last four decades), the first having been a show of works from his collection in New York held at Miguel Abreu Gallery at the beginning of 2021.