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Echo: Glenn Brown in Conversation with Iwona Blazwick

Name: Echo: Glenn Brown in Conversation with Iwona Blazwick
Start: 2026-05-27T19:00:00+0100
End: 2026-05-27T20:00:00+0100
Location: The Hellenic Centre

Wed, 27 May, 7pm - 8pm BST

The Hellenic Centre

London, United Kingdom

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Description

The paintings of British artist Glenn Brown wander freely through the tributaries of art history, channelling unearthly beauty or grotesque decay to depict human and non-human figures. Filtered through the Old and Modernist Masters that Brown appropriates are echoes of Greek mythology and its legacies in art and in metaphors for the subconscious.

“I like my paintings to have one foot in the grave, to be not quite of this world. For me they exist in a dream world, a world that is made up of all the accumulated images stored in our subconscious that coagulate and mutate when we sleep.” Brown has gained international renown for paintings, sculptures and drawings that combine an electric palette with a baroque style to take images from western art history into the realm of the uncanny. Male nudes in postures inspired by Greco-Roman statuary are gesturally rendered in hallucinatory colours to pulse with energy; while in a 2025 show at the Freud Museum bodies and trees in states of metamorphoses take the viewer into a world where Greek myths frame Freudian concepts of the unconscious.

Join us for a discussion between the artist and Iwona Blazwick, speaking about the method and meaning of his remarkable oeuvre.

Image: Glenn Brown, Drawing III (after Novelli), 2025, photo by Lucy Dawkins

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Access

Access to the building is via a few steps; a stair climber is available. Please give us prior notice if use of the chair climber is required. A lift provides access to the lower ground floor and facilities. More details can be found on our website. If you are a blue badge holder, you can be accompanied by a carer to the event. Carers can attend for free. The carer can also be a friend or a family member. Carers must RSVP via 020 7487 5060 prior to the event.
Concession

Students, over 65s, Westminster card holders, those with a registered disabled card can book concession tickets. ID will be required at the entrance.
Member tickets

Are valid for members of the Hellenic Centre only. Please contact membership@helleniccentre.org for more information or to purchase a membership.
Arrival

Please arrive 15 minutes earlier to help us start our events promptly.
Bar

Our bar is open one hour before and after the events programmed by the Hellenic Centre.
Photography

Photography and filming may be taken during some of our events. Please let us know if you do not wish to be included. These photographs serve as documentation of our programming and may also be: -Used and posted on The Hellenic Centre’s social media accounts -Used on our website www.helleniccentre.org as documentation or as part of promotion of events -Used in reports or presentations to funders or stakeholders -Held within The Hellenic Centre archive.