Curators' Talk and Panel Event: Punks, Princes and Protests: The Chronicles of Feliks Topolski RA

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The panel event from 7pm will include speakers Dr Marta de Zuniga, Director of the Polish Cultural Institute in London, Anglo-Polish artists Andrzej Klimowski & Danusia Schejbal, Dr Paul Rennie, British 20th Century Art & Design Historian, Central Saint Martins, and Founder of Rennies Seaside Modern Gallery, and the Exhibition Co-Curators – Lucien Topolski, Director of Topolski Memoir charity and Dr Julia Griffin, Co-Curator of the award-winning Young Poland and Curator of the Granville-Skarbek Anglo-Polish Cultural Exchange (APCE), a public programming forum originated by POSK.

Set within Feliks Topolski’s Studio on the South Bank, the exhibition ‘Punks, Princes & Protests: The Chronicles of Feliks Topolski RA’ showcases some of the Anglo-Polish reportage artist’s most evocative and historically pertinent work, documenting London’s social, cultural and ethnic diversity throughout the years. Topolski tirelessly documented the changing social, cultural and political tides of the 20th Century, travelling across the world but returning always to London, and, from 1951, to his Studio underneath Hungerford Bridge. The area has changed immeasurably since then, yet the Studio remains an example of a bygone era of a bohemian, progressive and independent London. 

It's the last few weeks to catch the exhibition at the iconic Topolski Studio where Feliks created some of his most significant works and received leading cultural figures of his day – including Prince Philip, Chrissie Hynde, Andrei Tarkovsky, Indira Gandhi, Mick and Bianca Jagger, Aldous Huxley, Simon Callow, Heathcote Williams, Michael X, Bertrand Russell, and Graham Greene – now reopened to the public for the first time since 1989.  The exhibition will then tour to POSK Gallery from 20 July until September.