John Broadley
Screenprint. Signed by the artist.
Edition size: 50 | Image size: 84 x 47cm | Paper size: 90 x 53.5cm
London’s Soho has taken on many iterations, acting as a meeting point in which to drink, see live entertainment, go shopping – and of course, all with a touch of risqué magic. A knot of streets and run-throughs that’s still home to clubs, traders, bars, a thriving gay community and much more besides, its 1950s heritage as a beatnik hangout is preceded - perhaps ironically - as a haunt of the aristocracy decades before. Surrounded by theatreland, this one square mile of excess and frivolity is as vibrant today as the characters that have repeatedly frequented it.
Jake Kennedy