Indica Gallery
51°30′27″N 0°08′16″W / 51.507364°N 0.137737°W
Industry | Literature, art gallery |
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Founded | November 1965 |
Defunct | November 1967 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | London |
Key people | Paul McCartney, Barry Miles, John Dunbar, Peter Asher |
Products | Books, art |
Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard (off Duke Street), St James's, London from 1965 to 1967, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop. John Dunbar, Peter Asher, and Barry Miles owned it, and Paul McCartney supported it and hosted a show of Yoko Ono's work in November 1966, at which Ono met John Lennon.[3][4]
Indica Books and Gallery
Miles had been running the bookshop and alternative
Yoko Ono and Beatles involvement
At the time, Paul McCartney was dating Asher's sister Jane Asher and living in the Asher family house at 57 Wimpole Street. He became involved with the emerging underground culture in London, and helped set up the bookshop and gallery.[11] He was the Indica bookshop's first customer, before it even had premises; he would look through the books at night that were stored in the Ashers' basement and leave a note for the books that he had taken to be put on his account.[6] Artists such as Pete Brown also helped in the renovation of the Indica.[12] Jane Asher donated the shop's first cash till, which was an old Victorian till that she had played with as a young girl.[13] McCartney helped to draw the flyers which were used to advertise the Indica's opening, and he also designed the wrapping paper.[12][14]
McCartney encouraged fellow-
Indica Bookshop
In 1966, the Indica bookshop was separated from the Indica Gallery, and moved to 102
The
2006 exhibition
An exhibition at
See also
- Matthiesen Gallery, London
References
- ISBN 9781315533032.
- ^ "Contact Us". Guy Peppiatt Fine Art. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
- ^ "Art & the 60s: Episode 3". BBC Two. UK: BBC. 7 August 2004.
- ^ Kirby, Terry (21 November 2006). "Where John met Yoko: The gallery that broke the mould". The Independent.
- ^ Barry Miles (2010) – London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 p. 160
- ^ a b Miles. pp. 223-224
- ^ Friends of the Scotch of St James 11 November 2006
- ^ "Indica Gallery Exhibition Art Party, Swinging 60s London, Marianne Faithfull". Kinolibrary. YouTube. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ Barry Miles (2010) – London Calling: A Countercultural History of London Since 1945 p. 161
- ^ Barry Miles (2002) – In the Sixties p. 68
- ^ Barry Miles (2002) – In the Sixties p. 82
- ^ a b Miles. p. 227
- ^ Miles. p. 226
- ^ Bernard, Kate (5 November 2006). "Playing to the gallery". The Observer. (It's 40 years since Indica set London swinging. Kate Bernard catches up with its founding gallerist John Dunbar.)
- ISBN 978-1-61312-513-7.
- ^ Wawzenek, Bryan. "The Day John Lennon Met Yoko Ono". Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ Miles. p. 237
- ^ Miles. pp. 237–238
- ^ "Frieze Magazine; Riflemaker becomes Indica". Frieze.com. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ "Riflemaker becomes INDICA". Kunst Aspekte. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-7493-8658-4.
- ISBN 0-7535-0716-1.