A striking collection of colourful and playfully dramatic images that use pencil, ink, paint, collage and photography to springboard you into your own creative adventure.
Come Along With Me invites you on a journey of partially told adventures, fragments of stories and glimpses of the unusual. It asks you to imagine what has happened and what might happen next – what stories will you then tell? What do you notice and who do you meet along the way? Do you see small simple details, such as a well-formed leaf, or do you get carried away into wild fantasies?
Danni Leach is a London-based illustrator, designer and maker with a strong preference for vibrant colours, bold lines and creating a harmony between traditional materials and digital practice. Her artwork is influenced by a love of books, storytelling, silliness and real-life adventures in nature – most notably woods and water. She has a particular interest in children’s picture books, fun, mess and paint.
Previous exhibitions include London’s 100sqft, The Dray Walk Gallery, Islington Arts Factory, The View Finder Gallery and Colchester’s The Hay Gallery.
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Interact with the exhibition
Beneath some of the artworks there are chalk boards for visitors – young and older – to make their own responses, or leave their own creative imprints for others to enjoy. There is also a specially created Gallery Trail for children to complete.
School and community groups can visit free of charge by pre-booking and can use the exhibition to support Arts Award Discover and Explore. Contact Androulla on 020 7709 8908 or youth@halfmoon.org.uk for more information.
Opening times
Come Along With Me runs from 13 January-23 March and 29 April-10 July 2024 at Gallery @ Half Moon during the theatre opening hours: Monday – Friday 10am-6pm and on Saturdays from 10am-4pm if there is a show on in the theatre.
Art at Half Moon
In addition to our foyer exhibition space, you can also explore the changing face of Tower Hamlets in our Snapped 1990 | 2020 photography exhibition in the Half Moon Garden. Same scene, 30 years apart.
Our Stages of Half Moon exhibition is on permanent display in the upper corridor and is overflowing with photographs and original posters highlighting the rich heritage of Half Moon Theatre.
Discover Snapped 1990 | 2020 Explore the Stages of Half Moon archiveGallery @ Half Moon
Our exciting space for local artists to display their work in the foyer of our children’s theatre
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