It is with huge excitement that we announce that the launch of CHEERIO Publishing will take place on 27th & 28th April 2022, in collaboration with the Estate of Francis Bacon, at Tristan Hoare Gallery, Fitzrovia.
The launch features a 48-hour exhibition of Francis Bacon paintings and John Deakin photographs, alongside works by CHEERIO associated artists and writers including Neil Bartlett, Greta Bellamacina, James Birch, Jeremy Deller, Bella Freud, Blondey McCoy, DBC Pierre, Anthony Reynolds and Martha Sprackland.
As part of the two-day celebration of Bacon and CHEERIO, Tristan Hoare will host a free lunchtime poetry reading on Wednesday 27th from 13.30-14.00, in collaboration with The White Review and Offord Road Books. Poets reading at the event are Greta Bellamacina, A. K. Blakemore, Sarah Fletcher, Anthony Joseph, Niall McDevitt and Kandace Siobhan Walker.
We are proud to have partnered with Hatchards as our designated bookseller for the event. Hatchards will host a pop-up bookshop in the gallery which will sell a range of CHEERIO- and Bacon-related titles throughout the two days.
The exhibition is free to attend and will be open to the public between
13.00-18.00 on Wednesday 27th and
11.00-18.00 on Thursday 28th.
DBC Pierre © Sarah Lee David Keenan © Heather Leigh
We also launch CHEERIO’s second publication, BIG SNAKE LITTLE SNAKE, the new memoir by Booker Prize-winning author DBC Pierre. Pierre will be in conversation with writer David Keenan at 18.45 on Wednesday 27th about fate, travel, chance, quantum physics and his latest book.
BIG SNAKE LITTLE SNAKE is a cascade of true events and stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a short film with a parrot in Trinidad, which not only examines the nature of gambling, the love affair between gambler and game and the mindset of obsessive practitioners, but aims to shed light on the invisible odds and outrageous chances of everyday life on Earth.
Book tickets here and pre-order BIG SNAKE LITTLE SNAKE here.
James Birch © Carla Borel Dolly Alderton © Alex Cameron
We are also delighted to announce that curator James Birch, author of BACON IN MOSCOW, will be in conversation with the acclaimed journalist, broadcaster and novelist Dolly Alderton about love, art, time, place and his memoir at 18.45 on Thursday 28th April.
BACON IN MOSCOW is the account of Birch’s audacious quest to mount the ground-breaking Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow in 1988, when he found himself not only the subject of a honey-trap, but also the focus of the KGB and a picaresque and shady cast of officials, attachés and politicians.
