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Open Call Curator-in-Residence for 2025 to 2026

Open Call: Curator-in-Residence for 2025/2026 The Place The Fitzrovia Chapel is an enchanting jewel of Byzantine inspired architecture located in the heart of the Fitzrovia community. Grade II* listed the former chapel of the Middlesex Hospital is a place of meaning, memory and sanctuary for many. Today it is a 21st century place for quiet reflection, discovery and celebration. The chapel has developed a distinctive artistic programme, supporting both emerging and established artists and learning opportunities. It is an enriching cultural space with a focus on creative health and wellbeing. The chapel is open to everyone of all faiths, beliefs,...

Art, Exhibition

Roots of Magic

‘The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.’ W.B. Yeats The Fitzrovia Chapel is delighted to present Roots of Magic (17 July to 20 July), a pop-up exhibition of new drawings by Ukrainian artist and illustrator Daria Hlazatova. Living and working in Ukraine, Daria’s work has been exhibited in the USA and the UK and featured on album covers, in publications, music videos and a silent film. She is known for her portraits against nocturnal backgrounds, weaving the imaginary realms together with celestial symbolism and folk-inspired visuals. Her work is a concoction of...

Exhibition, News, Photography

The Ward – Revisited

Exhibition dates: 6 January – 5 February 2023 Open to the public: Tuesday – Saturday 11.00 – 18.00 and Sunday 12.00 – 17.00 Film running times: The Ward (21 minutes) The Ward Revisited (36 minutes) looped Free, you don’t need to book Watch the interviews if you can’t come along The Fitzrovia Chapel is proud to announce its forthcoming exhibition, The Ward – Revisited by Gideon Mendel. In 1993, Gideon spent a number of weeks photographing the Broderip and Charles Bell wards at the Middlesex Hospital. The Broderip was the first dedicated AIDS ward in London, and was opened in...

Exhibition, History, News, Photography

Lee Miller: Nurses

Exhibition open to public 11 May – 5 June Open Tuesday – Saturday 11-6 and Sunday 12-5 Closed Mondays and Sat 28, Sun 29 May and Wed 1 June The Fitzrovia Chapel is proud to announce our exhibition Lee Miller: Nurses held in conjunction with the Lee Miller Archives, and forming part of our ongoing cultural programme relating to the history of the chapel as part of the former Middlesex Hospital. Lee Miller is an iconic name in the world of photography and art, with a career that spans many realms from modelling to Surrealism to gourmet chef. She is most renowned,...

Art

Caroline Walker: Birth Reflections

CAROLINE WALKER Birth Reflections 18 February – 4 March 2022 The Fitzrovia Chapel is proud to present an exhibition of new large-scale paintings by artist Caroline Walker. They follow her recent residency at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson maternity wing at University College Hospital (UCLH). Caroline Walker is known for painting women at work and often behind the scenes, from hotel maids to her own mother. This new series of paintings sees her capture midwives, doctors, cleaners and mothers, and is inspired by a series of four paintings by Frederick Cayley Robinson ‘The Acts of Mercy’. These large paintings, measuring 200...

Art, Fashion, History

LEIGH BOWERY Tell Them I’ve Gone to Papua New Guinea

The Fitzrovia Chapel are delighted to announce an exhibition to celebrate the life and work of renowned performance artist Leigh Bowery. The chapel is the only remaining building of the Middlesex Hospital, where Leigh died from AIDS on New Year’s Eve 1994. Leigh is a legendary figure who spans the worlds of art, fashion, dance, club and music. Essentially he himself was the living breathing work of art, his now iconic designs and costumes were ubiquitous and meant for Leigh, as he pushed his body through ever more extreme creations, designed to shock and thrill onlookers from dance floor to...

Community, News

Share your views about the Fitzrovia Chapel

The Fitzrovia Chapel has stood in the very heart of Fitzrovia, central London, since 1891. Firstly as the chapel of the Middlesex Hospital and most recently as a building in its own right. It reopened in 2015 as a heritage space and charity for arts and the community. Happily opening again after lockdown (our first open day is Wednesday 19 May), we’d love your views about bringing the chapel further out into the community so that even more people can visit, learn, be inspired and enjoy the beauty within its walls. Whether you are a Fitzrovia resident, worker or visitor...

Weddings

Tips for Creating a Beautiful Wedding during Covid-19

Now that the government has told us that weddings and civil partnership ceremonies in the UK must currently be held with no more than 15 guests, the Fitzrovia Chapel, with its focus on intimate ceremonies, has come into its own. And after having hosted nearly ten ceremonies under the new guidelines (and having spoken to lots of couples along the way), we’ve put together a small list of tips to creating a beautiful wedding. We hope you find them useful. What are the current guidelines on weddings? From 28 September no more than 15 people can legally attend a...

Art, News, Photography

With Fists, it Kicks, it Bites

The Royal College of Art and associated Fitzrovia galleries are delighted to announce the collaborative exhibition With Fists, It Kicks, It Bites. The exhibition by the 2020 graduating students of the RCA MA Photography course, will be divided across the physical gallery spaces of Edel Assanti, TJ Boulting and Webber Gallery, as well as the beautiful and historical location of The Fitzrovia Chapel. Coming together to support the emerging generation of artists, the galleries are thrilled to be able to present to the public the exciting, assertive and experimental work currently made. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the RCA had to...

Art, Community, News

Artist Tom Croft Brings Portraits of NHS Heroes to Fitzrovia Chapel

Artist Tom Croft has created a virtual exhibition (installed and scanned observing strict government guidelines) at the Fitzrovia Chapel showcasing portraits of NHS staff, created during the current crisis. The exhibition incorporates work by 15 artists, all members of the Contemporary British Portrait Painters (CBPP), which represents many of the top portrait painters living and working in the UK. The display, which is exclusively available online, was installed and scanned at the chapel. The virtual exhibition celebrates frontline workers through portraiture and will raise funds for NHS Charities Together, to help support to the ongoing COVID-19 relief effort. Portraits of...

Architecture, Art, History

From living room to chapel room

We hope you’re all safe, healthy and happy at home. If you’re missing the chapel, however, we might have the perfect thing. As part of our programme of trying to bring the best of the chapel to you while we’re all staying more at home, we’ve added a beautiful 3D virtual tour on to our website. Click on the link here and experience the calm and beauty of the chapel from your living room. But wait, it’s also informative! As you virtually wander round the chapel, click on the coloured circles and find out historical or cultural snippets about the...

Photography

Revisit The Ward

On the day the incredible Nightingale Hospital, built in just nine days to treat coronavirus patients , has opened in London, we also pay tribute to another hospital with an extraordinary purpose. When the chapel was part of the Middlesex Hospital, the Broderip and Charles Bell wards were some of the few dedicated AIDS wards that existed in London. Gideon Mendel‘s photographs from 1993 show how these wards became more like a second home and the staff and patients friends. The Broderip was opened by Diana, Princess of Wales in 1987. This was the era before antiretroviral medications had become...

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