Last Wednesday night (yep, we know, that’s like a million gazillion years ago in blogging time but we’ve been busy eating chocolate) our Shoreditch store on Redchurch St played host to a private viewing, unveiling the newly displayed artwork courtesy of the greatly talented Hugh Mendes in collaboration with the CHARLIE SMITH london gallery. We previously introduced you to Hugh’s Obituary collection when we interviewed him post-trim with our now Covent Garden based barber James Redfern.
The beers were put on ice (making good extra-curricular use of the barber’s sinks) the floor had been swept clean of hair and at 7pm, eager fans of Hugh’s work (and we like to think our shop too) soon arrived.
There are further pieces being displayed in our Covent Garden store too. So if you happen to be nearby, do pop in, say hello and admire the fantastic art that Hugh has produced. For now, here’s some photos from the event.
Artist Hugh Mendes in our Redchurch St shop
Murdock Shoreditch Head Barber Vincent Vincent and Store Manager Chris Oliver
Richard Hamilton by Hugh Mendes
Mr Brendan Murdock, Zavier Ellis of CHARLIE SMITH london and artist Peter Georgallou
This is what a barber’s sink gets up to in its spare time
Murdock Shoreditch Senior Barber Tom Harrigan
Merce Cunningham by Hugh Mendes
Vidal Sassoon by Hugh Mendes
Murdock barbers Gwen Jansen and Stephen Martin
Murdock barber conference
Murdock Covent Garden’s Kial Pound and Senior Barber Tom Harrigan of Murdock Shoreditch