Last week, Town Hall Presents hosted its inaugural artist salon to celebrate the launch of Michael Petry’s ninth book, Mirror Mirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art.
The soul of Inner Space, in all its renovated splendour, was brought back to life after ten years of meticulous refurbishment, from a dank basement that had once been a bomb shelter and an archive of one hundred years of the Borough’s social history.
Michael’s authority exploring how contemporary artists use reflective surfaces in their work and on the humble mirror as an object of magic, power, and transformation through their practice provided the perfect catalyst for an electric evening of celebration.
The underbelly of Town Hall played witness to a rare cross-pollination of doers and dreamers. United by a shared hunger for genuine human connection and expansive thinking, acclaimed artists, designers, and dancers shared space and ideas with policy makers, entrepreneurs, and academics.
People from entirely different disciplines and generations graciously collided to create something new and refreshing. A community of Creators that provokes each other to contribute to the society around them, that feeds off the exchange of curiosity and thought, and are energised by a platform and forum to do it all.
That evening ignited a harmony between the building and the people within it, projecting a new version of what a Town Hall has historically stood for. It is the start of more to come and a prelude to the founding community of the Town Hall Society.
Huge thanks, specifically, to the very talented
@michael___petry for collaborating with Town Hall, alongside
@roberto.ekholm ,
@carlhopgood , and
@virginia_damtsa and everyone else who came.
For the creators, the doers, the dreamers - welcome to The Society.
