Barclays Capital is the Principal Sponsor of the Donmar Warehouse. The Donmar is an award-winning theatre of national and international acclaim based in
The theatre attracts some of the most gifted and highly regarded actors, directors and writers to its stage and produces original, challenging and creative productions. The Donmar has earned an international measure of acclaim that far exceeds the size of the 250 seat-theatre. A distinguished record has been recognised through numerous awards and, since 1992, Donmar productions have won 26 Laurence Oliver Awards; 12 Critics Circle Awards; 10 Evening Standard Awards and 10 Tony Awards for presentations on Broadway.
The Donmar’s Artistic Director, Michael Grandage, is one of the country’s leading directors and has won numerous awards for his productions at the Donmar.
Alexandra Hedison
Alexandra Hedison, a Los Angeles-based artist and photographer first showed her abstract landscape work at Rose Gallery in Santa Monica’s renowned Bergamot Station. In 2003, Hedison’s solo exhibition Elements, an overview of her work from the previous four years, was exhibited at
White Room Gallery in West Hollywood. In 2005 the gallery also exhibited her (Re)Building series, which addressed the challenging themes of loss, transition, and recovery.
Ithaka is Hedison’s latest body of work, which takes its title from the C P Cavafy poem of the same name. Shot in the temperate rainforest in North America, this series of large-format photographs first previewed for the press launch of Concrete + Glass [the art event which brought together over 25
artists to the galleries and arts spaces in London’s East End] in October 2008. The same year, Hedison exhibited Ithaka at Shoreditch Town Hall in London and Gallery 28 in New York as part of The New Yorker’s 2008 Passport To The Arts.
She is currently working on a new series of images that examines the foundation and construction of Malibu beach houses as a metaphor for exploring the role of memory in the architecture of the subconscious. Hedison will be participating in an international group exhibition that will tour the Middle East in 2010.
