Artists Julie Henry and Debbie Bragg, Henry/Bragg (Studio 0-127) worked together for more than 25 years. Julie passed away on 27th February 2025 after a long battle with cancer. The Escape Artists is an exhibition in her honour at Farsight Gallery, the new arts venue in Soho. The artists had been working on a book of all the work they had achieved together and the book will be launched at the show. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to the Princess Alice Hospice who looked after Julie in her final days.

The artists' humorous images of living with cancer shine some light into the darkest spaces. For the photographic work Biopsy, Julie is pictured in a hospital gown sat on the steps of a spaceship, her visual depiction of how cancer treatment can feel like being abducted by aliens.

The book The Escape Artists is a Limited Edition Collectors' art book surveying the artists’ overarching theme of escapism, with a foreword by Eddy Frankel, former Art Editor of Time Out.

It is a catalogue of the artists' works from 1998 to 2024 which look at the importance of play in culture and society, and how common folk attempt, and sometimes succeed, to escape the mundanities of life. The artists worked with a diverse range of subjects from football fans to amateur gardeners, old mods to talent show contestants, pigeon fanciers to ageing punks, Brits abroad to street sex workers, bingo players to championship dog showers. The show includes photography, film and installation from some of these projects, including a chance to see the seminal football dual projection Going Down.

‘Henry/Bragg depict totally ordinary people doing totally totally ordinary things, and that ends up feeling totally extraordinary in the process.’ EDDY FRANKEL

The pop-up exhibition is on Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th May 2025, with an RSVP only Private View on Friday 2nd May 2025. Purchasers of the book at the show will receive a free 8 x 10 print.

Farsight Gallery
4 Flitcroft Street
London WC2H 8DJ
Nearest tube Tottenham Court Road
farsightcollective.com
www.henrybragg.com/show

Friday 2nd May 2025 6pm - 9pm (RSVP only Private View)
Saturday 3rd May 2025, 12-6pm
Sunday 4th May 2025, 12-6pm

Free Entry

For the Private View please RSVP to [email protected]
Pre-order the book at www.henrybragg.com/book

Supported by Genesis Imaging Ltd, Create Cocktails, Maestro Dobel tequila and Bushmills Irish whiskey.