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Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia

Past exhibition
15 September - 20 December 2020
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  • THE TOP 5 ART EXHIBITIONS TO SEE WHEN LOCKDOWN LIFTS

    Tabish Khan, FAD, November 29, 2020
  • Pascal Latra, Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst party at The Colony Room © Pascal Latra

    Interview: ‘The party that never stops’: Sarah Lucas on The Colony Room Club, Soho, with Darren Coffield

    Darren Coffield, The London Magazine, November 6, 2020
  • Daniel Farson’s photograph of Francis Bacon (c.1950) is ticketed at £1450 at the Dellasposa Gallery.

    One last visit to the Colony Room in new exhibition

    Frances Allitt, Antiques Trade gazette, The Art Market Weekly, September 28, 2020
  • Michael Woods (Right) and Michael Heath (Left)

    A wee dram with Robbie Coltrane

    Evening Standard, September 16, 2020
  • Amelia Troubridge, Michael Wojas hoovering at The Colony Rooms, 2008

    Tales from the Colony Room: Art and Bohemia

    Dellasposa, ARTFIXdaily, September 15, 2020
  • Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst party at The Colony Room, Pascal Latra / Tales From The Colony Room

    How Did a Million Dollars Worth of Art Vanish From a Bohemian Drinking Club?

    Tom Sykes, Daily Beast, September 15, 2020
  • Amelia Troubridge, 'Michael Wojas hoovering at The Colony Rooms', 2008

    The Colony Room Club - Where British Modern Art Got Drunk

    Angie Kordic, Widewalls, September 14, 2020
  • Sarah Lucas and Damien Hirst party at The Colony Room Pascal Latra / Tales From The Colony Room

    Mystery of the art treasures that vanished from the Soho drinking den

    The Observer, The Observer, September 13, 2020
  • Colony Room Club members in the 1980s, including Michael Wojas (far left), the club’s third and final proprietor; Doctor Who actor Tom Baker (standing next to Wojas); the artist Francis Bacon (middle row, second left); and journalist Jeffrey Bernard (seated, front right). Photograph: © Neal Slavin. Courtesy of Darren Coffield

    Missing: the art that vanished from Soho's Colony Room

    Vanessa Thorpe, The Guardian, September 13, 2020
  • The Guardian

    Missing: the art that vanished from Soho's Colony Room

    Vanessa Thorpe, The Guardian, September 13, 2020
  • Members of the Colony Room Club photographed by Neal Slavin for his book Britons. Back row from the left: Michael Wojas, Tom Baker, Bruce Bernard, Liz McKenzie, Michael Clark, Allan Hall. Middle row: Mike McKenzie, Francis Bacon, Ian Board, John Edwards, John McEwan. Front row: Thea Porter (on the floor), Jeffrey Bernard, David Edwards (all images courtesy of Darren Coffield and Unbound).

    Step Into the Colony Room, the Raucous Haunt of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the YBAs

    Tiernan Morgan, HYPERALLERGIC, September 11, 2020
  • Muriel Belcher and Francis Bacon at Wheeler’s in Soho in 1975, photographed by Peter Stark.

    Seventy Years in a Colourful Trade

    Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books, July 16, 2020
  • David Sandison/The Independent/Shutterstock

    Tales from The Colony Room: Soho’s most notorious drinking den, remembered

    Darren Coffield, GQ, April 25, 2020
  • Tracey Emin in the Colony Room Club REX/SHUTTERSTOCK

    Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia by Darren Coffield review — the sozzled set of old Soho

    Roger Lewis, The Times, April 23, 2020
  • Infamous Colony Room Relived In New Book

    Edward Lucie-Smith, Artlyst, April 23, 2020
  • Christine Keeler (pictured) was one of the glamorous society members who visited The Colony back in the 1960s

    Misfits floating on a sea of booze: It was the notorious Soho hangout for some of Britain's louchest stars. And when the

    Rodger Alton, The Daily Mail, April 18, 2020
  • BBC Radio London: The Colony Club

    Robert Elms, BBC Radio London, April 14, 2020
  • Tell is like it was: Ian Board and Jeffrey Bernard REX FEATURES

    Tales from the Colony Room by Darren Coffield review — Soho’s sleaziest club

    Roland White, The Times, April 12, 2020
  • Tell is like it was: Ian Board and Jeffrey Bernard. Courtesy of Rex Features

    Tales from the Colony Room by Darren Coffield review — Soho’s sleaziest club

    Roland White, The Sunday Times, April 12, 2020
  • Tracey Emin at The Colony Room Club © Clancy Gebber Davies

    Read Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Last Bohemia

    Belle Hutton, AnOther, April 7, 2020
  • The club’s owner, Michael Wojas, photographed by Amelia Troubridge

    Colony Room Club: Bohemian Rhapsody

    Dan Carrier, Camden News Journal, February 27, 2020
  • The club’s owner, Michael Wojas, photographed by Amelia Troubridge

    Colony Room Club: bohemian rhapsody

    Dan Carrier, Camden New Journal, February 27, 2020
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