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The Lightbox Award-winning gallery & museum in Surrey. We believe that art has the power to make you feel good. Registered charity no: 1073543.

The Lightbox is an award-winning charitable arts and heritage organisation with a social purpose to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of its community.

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❗LAST CHANCE TO SEE❗Closing this Sunday (19th March), it's your last opportunity to visit 'Lucian Freud and The Soul as ...
16/03/2023

❗LAST CHANCE TO SEE❗

Closing this Sunday (19th March), it's your last opportunity to visit 'Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere'.

Curated by artist Somaya Critchlow, delve into works created over sixty years by Lucian Freud alongside early paintings of Professor Keith Critchlow, David Bomberg, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Käthe Kollowitz, Frank Bowling and Somaya Critchlow

£9.50 Day Pass, Lightbox Members and Under 21s Free

All images © 2022, Deniz Guzel

Exhibition supported by Maximillian William

#painting#exhibtion#somayacritchlow#freud#woking#visitsurrey

SPECIAL OFFER 😀 : To celebrate The Lightbox’s 15th anniversary year, we still have our 15% offer for all venue hire unti...
15/03/2023

SPECIAL OFFER 😀 : To celebrate The Lightbox’s 15th anniversary year, we still have our 15% offer for all venue hire until 31 March 2023.

Whether you need a small room to get creative or a larger space to gather the whole team, why not take advantage of our offer and have your meeting at The Lightbox?

At an additional cost, we have our bespoke in-house catering service from Stretched and Fired with flexible menus available to fit all your needs.

For more information, email [email protected]

Surrey Chambers of Commerce Woking Council

Working on our Carers create project is creative and confidence-building for young carers and artists.On this  we wanted...
15/03/2023

Working on our Carers create project is creative and confidence-building for young carers and artists.

On this we wanted to share some recent work where they worked to create portraits using acrylic paints.

Need a little help with gifts this Mother's day? Our new lightweight scarves could make the perfect gift. Expertly craft...
14/03/2023

Need a little help with gifts this Mother's day? Our new lightweight scarves could make the perfect gift. Expertly crafted from the softest recycled material, and will keep you cosy on your wildest adventures, celebrating everything to do with the British Countryside.
Prices From £17.99

We will be celebrating Earth Day on Saturday 22 April with The Wild Escape. There will be free entry to all our exhibiti...
13/03/2023

We will be celebrating Earth Day on Saturday 22 April with The Wild Escape.

There will be free entry to all our exhibitions and plenty of crafts, animal face painting, storytelling and interactive activities from local community partners including WWF.

Join us from 10.30am.

🎨Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🎨Join us for a private tour of an exhibition, disc...
12/03/2023

🎨Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🎨

Join us for a private tour of an exhibition, discussing artworks on display and how the exhibition was curated.

Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 9:45 am

£10 Adults ● £8 Lightbox Members
🌟BOOK NOW http://bit.ly/3HkVXdL 🌟

📷© The Lightbox gallery and museum

#tour#behindthescenes#lucianfreud#somayacritchlow

Calling all Teachers and Schools!Have you seen the Hyundai's Great British School Trip? They are offering bursary suppor...
09/03/2023

Calling all Teachers and Schools!

Have you seen the Hyundai's Great British School Trip? They are offering bursary support to help fund travel and entry to incredible venues across the UK, and we are one of them!

Find out more here: https://greatbritishschooltrip.com

🚨NEW EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨Sophie Ryder: All of Us  To celebrate International Women's Day,  we are delighted to annou...
08/03/2023

🚨NEW EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT🚨
Sophie Ryder: All of Us

To celebrate International Women's Day, we are delighted to announce that The Lightbox will present a solo exhibition by world-renowned British artist Sophie Ryder.

Opening 1 April 2023, the exhibition will be an opportunity to explore Sophie Ryder’s world of mystical beings in this major new solo show that brings together her unique cast of characters.

1 April 2023 – 10 September 2023

Exhibition supported by Hignell Gallery
Kindly sponsored by Bonhams

📷Sophie Ryder (b. 1963), All of Us, 2003, Charcoal and pastel on paper
Work: ©MMXXIII Sophie Ryder – All Rights Reserved & Photo: ©MMXXIII Sophie Ryder – All Rights Reserved

#exhibition#thelightbox#sculpture#newexhibition#surreydaysout#artist#InternationalWomensDay #iwd23

🎨Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🎨Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 9:45 am£10 Adults ● £8...
07/03/2023

🎨Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🎨

Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 9:45 am
£10 Adults ● £8 Lightbox Members

🌟BOOK NOW http://bit.ly/3HkVXdL 🌟

📷© The Lightbox gallery and museum

#tour#behindthescenes#lucianfreud#somayacritchlow

🌟OPENING TOMORROW🌟David Marron: Waiting Room07 March - 19 March 2023Illness affects us all at one time or another. It ha...
06/03/2023

🌟OPENING TOMORROW🌟

David Marron: Waiting Room
07 March - 19 March 2023

Illness affects us all at one time or another. It hardens life’s path and can alter it completely. Through illness, we can be corroded in ways that are not always visible or understood. These works explore the occurrence of an unwanted bodily attack and its emotional response.

Visit for FREE on the ground floor of The Lightbox.

#artgallery#artexhibition#art#localartist#woking#thelightbox#surrey

📷David Marron, Viral Head Study I, 2022, Acrylic and charcoal on canvas © The Artist

Mini Gallery Explorers for under 5s is back on Tuesday at 11am.This time will be an adventure on the railway in Woking's...
05/03/2023

Mini Gallery Explorers for under 5s is back on Tuesday at 11am.

This time will be an adventure on the railway in Woking's Story.

Tickets are FREE and first come, first served from 10.30am at reception

Looking for a team away day venue? The Lightbox is situated in the centre of Woking, with easy access to the M25 and A3 ...
03/03/2023

Looking for a team away day venue? The Lightbox is situated in the centre of Woking, with easy access to the M25 and A3 and a short walk from Woking station, only 25 minutes from Waterloo.

Let us know your needs and estimated budget, and we'll create your event with you.

Included in our rooms: are projectors, screens, AV equipment, flipcharts and more.

At an additional cost, we have our bespoke in-house catering service from Stretched and Fired with flexible menus available.

For more information, email [email protected]

Surrey Chambers of Commerce Woking Council Surrey Directory Business Buzz Surrey We Are Woking

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⭐It's World Book Day⭐Did you know that you can purchase art books and more at bargain prices?  Visit our ‘pre-loved book...
02/03/2023

⭐It's World Book Day⭐
Did you know that you can purchase art books and more at bargain prices? Visit our ‘pre-loved books’ shop for a fine (art) selection!

Our Art Talks series starts again this Saturday,4th: The Self Portrait and what it tells us11th: Frida Kahlo18th: The Pr...
01/03/2023

Our Art Talks series starts again this Saturday,

4th: The Self Portrait and what it tells us
11th: Frida Kahlo
18th: The Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
25th: The British Realists

Per talk: £15 Adults, £12 Members/Students.
10% Discount for all four booked, please call 01483 737800.

🎨Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🎨Join us for a private tour of an exhibition, disc...
28/02/2023

🎨Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Tour: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🎨

Join us for a private tour of an exhibition, discussing artworks on display and how the exhibition was curated.

With works by Lucian Freud, Professor Keith Critchlow and Somaya Critchlow at the heart of the exhibition, we will use examples that uncover the artist’s intentions, the connections between the artists in the exhibition and the conversations around the human condition these artworks reveal.

Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 9:45 am
£10 Adults ● £8 Lightbox Members

🌟BOOK NOW: http://bit.ly/3HkVXdL 🌟

#tour#behindthescenes#lucianfreud#somayacritchlow#thelightbox#woking

© 2022, Deniz Guzel Photography

Come this afternoon to help our 20/20 Project Artist in Residence, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, explore ideas around an ima...
26/02/2023

Come this afternoon to help our 20/20 Project Artist in Residence, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, explore ideas around an imaginary palace in our FREE Family Drop-in sessions today at 2-3.45pm.

You can find out more here: https://bit.ly/3C0fRrk

Come this afternoon to help our 20/20 Project Artist in Residence, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, explore ideas around an ima...
25/02/2023

Come this afternoon to help our 20/20 Project Artist in Residence, Madi Acharya-Baskerville, explore ideas around an imaginary palace in our two FREE Family Drop-in sessions today and tomorrow, 2-4pm.

You can find out more here: https://bit.ly/3C0fRrk

❗Call for Proposals❗Do you need a space to realise a project/ group show/ screening in 2023? The Art Fund Prize Gallery ...
24/02/2023

❗Call for Proposals❗

Do you need a space to realise a project/ group show/ screening in 2023? The Art Fund Prize Gallery at The Lightbox is now accepting proposals for Summer and Autumn 2023.

We’re imagining exciting exhibitions, explorative engagements and inventive installations within our ground floor gallery space.

In short, we offer:
💥 Two, three or four week exhibition slots
💥 Assistance installing the show
💥 Assistance in all the design material
💥 No commission taken
💥 650 inc. VAT per week hire fee

Click the link below to submit your proposal – we can’t wait to see it!

http://bit.ly/3iJzTO3

#artexhibition#proposal#artgallery#local#woking


Photo: Install shot from UCA Farnham MFA Photography show, 2019

Have you heard of Keith Critchlow (1933-2020)? Keith Critchlow was an artist, writer, geometer and professor of art and ...
22/02/2023

Have you heard of Keith Critchlow (1933-2020)?

Keith Critchlow was an artist, writer, geometer and professor of art and architecture. He studied painting at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art, after which his interests turned to the field of sacred geometry in art and architecture. He taught at the RCA as Professor of Islamic Art and his books explore the relationship of art, nature and geometry.

The legacy of Keith Critchlow is built into the walls of The Lightbox, as among the many artists, architects and creatives influenced by Keith Critchlow is Julia Barfield, architect of The Lightbox. Keith Critchlow both taught Barfield at the
Architectural Association in London and worked alongside her on the award-winning Cambridge Mosque, completed in 2019.

🌟Find out more by visiting our exhibition Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere, Open until 19 March 2023
£9.50 Day Pass ● Lightbox Members and Under 21s Free

🌟Our current heritage display also features the work of Keith Critchlow and the Woking and Cambridge Mosques. Find it in Woking's Story.

📷© Keith Critchlow. Image courtesy of the estate of Keith Critchlow.

#thelightbox#visitsurrey#artexhibiton#somayacritchlow#lucianfreud#woking

🌟Open today in our Art Fund Prize Gallery 🌟The Weird and the Wonderful by Patrick GibbonPatrick Gibbon wanted to create ...
21/02/2023

🌟Open today in our Art Fund Prize Gallery 🌟

The Weird and the Wonderful by Patrick Gibbon

Patrick Gibbon wanted to create art since childhood, but adult ‘life’ got in the way. After a career as a graphic designer, a subsequent bike accident forced him to retire early, leaving him with creative time. After writing a biography, Covid struck, and the dark days of lockdown began. For his own sanity, he began to express both his joys and sorrows through the art of painting. Ideas immediately surfaced, resulting in 21+ acrylic paintings on canvas, covering various social, moral, scientific, historical and religious messages. Family and friends have since encouraged him to exhibit his work, resulting in this exhibition.

Open until 5 March 2023

Free Entry • £3 Suggested Donation

#exhibition#art#woking#thelightbox#visitsurrey

📷Harmony by Patrick Gibbon © The Artist

Phew, that's half term over! You know we are never finished with the workshops though.Our 20/20 artist in residence, Mad...
20/02/2023

Phew, that's half term over! You know we are never finished with the workshops though.

Our 20/20 artist in residence, Madi, will be running two FREE drop-in's this weekend from 2-4pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3C0fRrk

Guildford Shakespeare Company is putting on a fantastic show of Richard II. Check it out: A narcissistic ruler. An unele...
19/02/2023

Guildford Shakespeare Company is putting on a fantastic show of Richard II. Check it out:

A narcissistic ruler. An unelected leader. A country at breaking point...

Shocking in its modernity, Shakespeare’s RICHARD II is a blistering examination of what happens when leaders’ self-inflated egos dictate a nation’s future.

4-25 FEB
£10 TKTS FOR 16-25s
Pay What You Can Nights

👑 BOOK NOW 👑
http://bit.ly/3Vlg67L

We're Hiring! Come and join our team.Weekend Visitor Experience Assistant, closes: Mon 27 Feb at 9amFreelancers for The ...
18/02/2023

We're Hiring! Come and join our team.

Weekend Visitor Experience Assistant, closes: Mon 27 Feb at 9am

Freelancers for The Wild Escape, closes: Tues 28 Feb at 5pm

Chair of trustees, closes: Fri 24 Feb at 5pm

See our website for further information: http://bit.ly/2WF6VA3

Our friends over at  are hosting their first Mini Mela Festival – A Celebration of South Asian Cultures in partnership w...
17/02/2023

Our friends over at are hosting their first Mini Mela Festival – A Celebration of South Asian Cultures in partnership with Amina Khayyan Dance Company.

Visit www.dancewoking.com/whats-on for more information and to book your tickets.

Pop in this afternoon for our FREE Family Drop-in to make Paper tube Artists.You will be able to create your own artists...
17/02/2023

Pop in this afternoon for our FREE Family Drop-in to make Paper tube Artists.

You will be able to create your own artists, from Dali, Kahlo or Picasso to any in between or since - who would you make?

Come in anytime between 1.30 - 4pm to join in the fun.

Thanks to Weybridge for supporting

🌟LAST CHANCE TO BOOK Panel Discussion: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🌟Thursday 23 February 2023, 7.00pm – 8.00pm£10...
16/02/2023

🌟LAST CHANCE TO BOOK Panel Discussion: Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere🌟

Thursday 23 February 2023, 7.00pm – 8.00pm
£10 Adults £8 ● Lightbox Members

This event will bring together a range of speakers across disciplines responding to and reflecting upon the work and themes of the exhibition 'Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere'.
The speakers are Somaya Critchlow (artist and curator), Hettie Judah (writer), Isabel Seligman (curator, British Museum) and William Feaver (painter and author of two volumes of ‘The Lives of Lucian Freud’ - ‘Youth’ & ‘Fame’).

Glass of wine or soft drink included 🍷

Book here: bit.ly/3udxorv

Exhibition supported by Maximillian William
📷 Deniz Guzel Photography, 2022.

#paneldiscussion#somayacritchlow#lucianfreud#thelightbox#woking#visitsurrey

Pop in this afternoon for our FREE Family Drop-in to create Big Art Fun.You will be able to add your mark to a long line...
15/02/2023

Pop in this afternoon for our FREE Family Drop-in to create Big Art Fun.

You will be able to add your mark to a long line of drawings and doodles, just like all the artists do.

Come in anytime between 1.30 - 4pm to join in the fun.

Thanks to Weybridge for supporting

Join self-taught artist Steve, Steve Chapman - aka stevexoh in the Art Fund Prize Gallery THIS Thursday, 16 February 202...
14/02/2023

Join self-taught artist Steve, Steve Chapman - aka stevexoh in the Art Fund Prize Gallery THIS Thursday, 16 February 2023, from 11am - 2pm for an opportunity to meet and learn more about his work and inspirations.

Steve Chapman - aka stevexoh latest solo exhibition is titled Outsiders Welcome: A Collection of Drawings. Steve’s art has been described as “art which captures so well how weird and imperfect the world is.”

This collection of drawings presents a number of windows into Steve’s imagination and invites the visitor to consider important questions about life, work, the universe and what animals are really thinking.

The exhibition runs until 19 February in the Art Fund Prize Gallery.

Free Entry • £3 Suggested Donation.

The Lightbox is celebrating its 15th anniversary year, and to mark this, we are offering 15% off all venue hire costs fr...
13/02/2023

The Lightbox is celebrating its 15th anniversary year, and to mark this, we are offering 15% off all venue hire costs from now until 31 March 2023.

Whether you need a small room to get creative or a larger space to gather the whole team, why not take advantage of our offer and have your first meeting of the year at The Lightbox?

Surrounded by world-class art and with full AV equipment available, our functional and stylish rooms are the perfect place to bring your team together to plan for the year ahead.

Visit link in bio or email [email protected] for more information.



“The two eggs […] instantly caught my attention, leading my two eyes in and up towards the naked figure whose two breast...
12/02/2023

“The two eggs […] instantly caught my attention, leading my two eyes in and up towards the naked figure whose two breasts seem to mirror the two eggs in the dish, displaying a purposeful or unconscious spatial symmetry. While eggs are often associated symbolically with fertility, one could dually interpret something more violent in the depiction, as they have been boiled and sliced in half.” - Somaya Critchlow

Visit Lucian Freud and The Soul as Sphere.
Open Tuesday - Sunday until 19 March 2023.
£9.50 Day Pass ● Lightbox Members and Under 21s Free

Exhibition supported by Maximillian William

📷Lucian Freud (1922-2011), Naked Girl with Egg, 1980/81, oil on canvas © Courtesy of British Council Collection © The Lucian Freud Archive. All Rights Reserved 2022/Bridgeman Images

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The Lightbox is an award-winning charitable arts and heritage organisation with a social purpose to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of its community.

We strongly believe that art has the power to make you feel good and we strive to ensure that this philosophy is at the heart of everything we do. Our diverse cultural programme includes exhibitions featuring world-renowned artists, local heritage, talks and tours, social events and arts and crafts workshops for all ages.

We also host special fundraising events. These raise money for our charitable ventures such as our Art and Wellbeing initiative which provides opportunities for those that would otherwise not be able to access arts and heritage services to take part in creative workshops, including free drop-in sessions for families. The programme also includes community workshops for those living with dementia and their carers, those affected by mental health issues, those in local care homes and hospices, and clients of the nearby homeless shelter.

These programmes would not be possible without the support of our visitors. Whether you choose to become a Lightbox Member, attend a fundraising event, visit an exhibition, or simply buy something from our Shop, all profits feed back into the charity which means these valuable services are able to continue.

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Exhibition: A Window into Scottish Art: The Ingram & Fleming Collections

23 April – 3 July 2022 at The Lightbox

A Window into Scottish Art will bring together more than 30 significant works that explore the history of Scottish Art.

The exhibition is not a chronological survey, but a pick of landmark periods and themes that shines a spotlight on the character, inspiration, and talent of Scottish artists and provokes new ways of defining their achievements.

The works will include paintings, drawings, sculpture and collage by artists such as George Jamesone (1587‐1644) known as ‘the Scottish Van Dyck’, through to the Glasgow Girls and Boys and the Scottish Colourists (Peploe, Fergusson, Hunter, and Cadell). 20th‐century figures such as Eduardo Paolozzi and John Bellany will join contemporary artists such as Caroline Walker, Alison Watt, Barry McGlashan, and Iman Tajik who will further explore the many facets of the Scots’ creative imagination.

The exhibition is drawn from two collections that complement one another: The Ingram and Fleming Collections.

The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art is now recognised as one of this country’s most significant, and publicly accessible, collections of Modern British Art, and the Fleming Collection is considered the finest collection of Scottish art outside public institutions.

A Window into Scottish Art features eight sections.

Phoenix from the Ashes signals the rebirth of Scottish art following its wholesale destruction during the Reformation. A rare work by Scotland’s first home-grown professional artist will be on display: George Jamesone’s (1587‐1644), portrait of Robert the Bruce painted in 1633 for Charles I’s Scottish coronation.

Lost Idyll explores the thirst for innovation which revolutionised industry and agriculture resulting in the Highland and Lowland Clearances and the humanitarian disasters of mass emigration and economic exile. Works included span from John Knox’s (1778‐1845), View of the Clyde, towards Dumbarton Rock, c. 1830 to Barry McGlashen (b. 1974), Painting in Defence of Migrants, 2021 to Iman Tajik’s 2015 documentation of the Calais Jungle.

Painters of a Modern World 1882‐1893 focuses on the generation of young painters, now known as the Glasgow Girls and Boys, who looked to France for new forms of expression to record contemporary life. They turned their backs on the Victorian’s love of highland scenery and storytelling towards a new objectivity depicting rural life, inspired by French Realism. Highlights include Flora MacDonald Reid (1861‐1938), Fieldworkers, 1883 and Sir John Lavery (1856‐1941), The Blue Hungarians, 1888.

Art Brute considers the break with the Glasgow School by the next leaders of the avant‐garde. Mid-career artists ‐ SJ Peploe (1871 – 9135) and JD Fergusson (1874‐1961) ‐ allied themselves with the brutish, semi‐abstract Fauve artists, addicted to primary colour, who believed that ‘honesty’ in art was rooted in their subjective response to external reality. Two key Scottish-Fauve works are included: Fergusson’s Blue N**e, 1909‐10 and SJ Peploe’s Luxembourg Gardens, 1912

Swagger explores how Scottish artists’ technical accomplishment combined with international savoir‐faire resulted in a streak of dandiacal brilliance worthy of Whistler, Sargent and Manet. In return, Whistler became a hero of Scottish painters. Here you can see works ranging from Anna Phoebe Traquair (1952 – 1936), Miniature of Hilda, 1884 to Stephen Conroy’s (b. 1964), Study for a Painting, 1989.

The Cold Light of Day considers what impact the Second World War had on a group of Scottish artists in Paris (Gear, Turnbull and Paolozzi) in the late 1940s, absorbing the impact of an earlier generation of international modernists to forge a new visual language expressive of the bleak reality as well as the boundless inventiveness of peace. Eduardo Paolozzi (1924‐2005), Discobolous of the Castello, 1946 and Mr Cruikshank, 1950 are included in this section.

The Darkness and the Light looks at the duality of the Scots psyche ‐ conveyed most vividly in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde – and how it runs through the story of Scottish art. On one side is pessimism, repression, guilt and bleakness on the other is sensuality, colour, technical abandon and a love of southern climes. On display will be Ken Currie (b. 1960), To Live and to work no. 307, 1996‐96 and Peter Howson’s (b.1958) Gallowgate 27, 1991.

Et in Arcadia Ego focuses on the Poet, Artist and Gardener, Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925‐2006) ‐ one of the most inventive and unexpected of conceptual artists. His principal legacy is the world‐renowned garden Little Sparta, Lanarkshire, in which he revived the neoclassical tradition of the garden ‘as a place provocative of poetic, philosophic and even political thought’. His works are characterized by formal beauty, texture and wit as expressed in one of his great late works on show: Classical/Neo‐Classical 1993 made in collaboration with carver John Sellman which explores the roots of civilisations and their decline.

And finally, A Sense of Place features a group of works which convey the Scot’s rootedness in landscape, homes and studios in Scotland and abroad. Anne Redpath (1896‐1965), Window in Menton, 1948, Joan Eardley (1921‐1963), Wild Sea, c. 1959 and Wilhelmina Barns‐Graham (1912‐2004) Blue Studio, 1947 are all featured.

James Knox, Director, the The Fleming Collection, said: “This exhibition, which brings together two outstanding collections, offers not just a window into the splendour, grit and beauty of Scottish art; it also offers a window into the psyche of a far flung, northern nation with all the historic contradictions that brings.”

Jo Baring, Director of the The Ingram Collection of Modern British and Contemporary Art said “The Fleming and Ingram Collections have a shared mission to showcase the art in our collections to wide audiences, increasing both access to and knowledge of the periods and artists represented. This exhibition is a demonstration of our shared ethos, and we hope visitors to The Lightbox will enjoy the strength and variety of the works on display.”

Image: Thomas Faed, The Last of the Clan, 1865. The Fleming Collection
WOKING CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AGM

Delighted to be able to attend the Woking Chamber of Commerce AGM yesterday. Seeing business figures from all over Woking talk about their optimism for the future growth and development was wonderful to hear. There is a real sense that Woking is a "place to be" and that the right decisions have been taken to grow the town and secure it for the future. We will always support the business community, which is why so many of my Conservative colleagues were in attendance. Thanks also to The Lightbox for hosting..... and excellent work to the chap photobombing the picture of myself and Cllr Rashid Mohammed.
Went for a walk yesterday to check out Victoria Place Woking!

Came out of the lifts.....where roughly 'Toys R us' used to be, and it was quite Epic to behold.

Was great to meet Jake and Kim, who is the manager at The Gym Group Woking, which opens here soon.

Decided to pop into The Lightbox Pop Up Gallery and saw a lady having her picture taken.....recognised her - It's local artist Nagihan Seymour , one of the 4 artists featured there. Had a really lovely chat.

A bit later, also bumped into Shyne Adcock, who will be with us next month, talking about their awesome music festival ShyneFest , happening in June.

Also met Hannah Bruce Art and Elaine Winter too.

Popped into 'Forever in The Now' another exhibtion of work by local artist Sean Henry. Some great pieces in there.

I loved the cats!

Moonwalked over to The Peacocks, got cat food, some lunch and decided to check out M + S.

It's big, but not as big as I'd imagined.

But I did find an 'Easy Guide to Happiness' on one of their T shirts....and I loved that.

Also as you come from the Peacocks into the new bit, Italia Conti will be opening there soon - And they have a big picture of Leona Lewis on the building....which I Loved. 😍

Overall, not overwhelmed.... but it does look very cool.

There's FREE PARKING until Sunday, so definitely do go check it out, and see for Yourself.




WOW! What a morning 🙌 We are so pleased to announce that Victoria Place is now OPEN!💥

A huge welcome to all the stores that opened today including Marks and Spencer Woking, Moss Bros. and SKECHERS! 🛍

We also opened the ‘Forever In The Now’ exhibition curated by Sean Henry and David Worthington and the pop-up gallery presented by The Lightbox 👏

We hope you all enjoy!

Come to The Lightbox gallery with us! 👋🖼🎨

The Lightbox has welcomed a new Director called Sarah Brown who will be taking the helm of the award-winning gallery and museum in Woking. 🎨

Learn more about her journey in their most recent blog ➡️ https://bit.ly/3FFhQAa

There are some fabulous upcoming exhibitions at The Lightbox that are not to be missed. Discover more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3romrBB

🚂🚃🚃 Inclusive train play sessions in and this Sunday (27 Feb)

Do you know an or child who loves trains? 😍🚂 This Sunday, All Aboard Club is running their inclusive train play sessions at The Lightbox gallery in and at All Hallows Church in .

Boxes and boxes of trains and track ... and a safe, understanding and supportive environment for the children to develop their social and communication skills.

▶ Details and tickets:
WOKING: https://aac-wokinglightbox.eventbrite.co.uk/
TWICKENHAM: https://aac-twickenham.eventbrite.co.uk/

If you’d like a chat about our play sessions and your child’s specific needs, please call us on 07948 407343 or email [email protected]

Our play sessions run every month - for our full programme, see our website: https://www.allaboardclub.com/play-sessions/



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