Free entry
Thursday 11 June, 6.30pm-9pm
Across the gallery
| Monday | Closed |
| Tuesday | 11am–6pm |
| Wednesday | 11am–6pm |
| Thursday | 11am–9pm |
| Friday | 11am–6pm |
| Saturday | 11am–6pm |
| Sunday | 11am–6pm |
This event will take place in Koenig Bookshop at Whitechapel Gallery.
– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis
Whitechapel Gallery and MuseumsEtc invite you to join us for the launch of STOP, a new artist’s book by Peter Kennard
Originally conceived in the political upheaval of 1968, and developed over a period of some ten years, STOP marks Peter Kennard’s turn from painting to photomontage in an angry response to the Vietnam War – and to those which have followed.
Featuring no fewer than 160 unseen photomontages, and using a visual language which aims to engage, STOP asks to be read rather than simply viewed. Across its pages, war is seen not as an isolated event but a system – organised, repeated and normalised.
To celebrate the book’s publication, Peter Kennard will be signing copies of STOP from 6.30pm in our Koenig Bookshop.
From 6pm to 9pm in Assembly Room, visitors will also be able to see the film Photomontage Today: Peter Kennard (1983), directed by Chris Rodrigues and Rod Stoneman. The 35-minute film will loop throughout the evening.
“An extraordinary and urgent artist’s book, distilling a lifetime of revolutionary image-making into a compelling and poetic visual narrative.”
Gilane Tawadros, Director, Whitechapel Gallery
Peter Kennard studied at Byam Shaw, the Slade, and the Royal College of Art, where he is an Emeritus Professor of Political Art. He has exhibited across the world, including solo exhibitions at Imperial War Museum, London, UK; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK; United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland; and Gallery Fifty 24MX, Mexico City, Mexico. He has participated in group exhibitions at Tate Liverpool, London, UK; Tate Modern, London, UK; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and Gallerie Vallois, Paris, France.
Kennard’s photomontages have been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally and have been acquired by major collections. They have been shown in community centres, schools and town halls across the UK. They have been used in innumerable publications and newspapers, including The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Scotsman. They have been endlessly reproduced in posters, book covers, placards and digital format, circulated among activist groups and held at protests.
The exhibition Peter Kennard: Archive of Dissent was staged at Whitechapel Gallery from July 2024 to January 2025.
Based in Edinburgh, MuseumsEtc is an independent publisher working internationally at the intersection of photography and politics. Among notable recent publications are a Jo Spence and Terry Dennett trilogy, The League of Socialist Artists: Texts, The Erasure of Palestine, and a new edition of John Thomson’s Street Life in London
