Suzannah V. Evans: Under The Blue

An evening of poetry on National Poetry Day

Marking the first public event for Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden, poet Suzannah V. Evans and curator Guy Robertson come together at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery to explore Hodgkin’s art through poetry and scholarship.

Evans’s debut collection Under the Blue takes inspiration from Hodgkin, with its cover featuring his luminous painting Water (2016). Her poems, which weave together themes of life, art, and intimacy, create a striking dialogue with Hodgkin’s prints. Robertson, editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Hodgkin’s prints and works on paper for the Estate of Howard Hodgkin, offers unparalleled insight into the artist’s practice and legacy.

Together, Evans and Robertson will illuminate the connections between Hodgkin’s visual and emotional language, inviting audiences to see his art afresh through words and scholarship.

Date and Time

Thursday 2nd October 2025

6.30–7.30 pm

Welcome drink included with ticket

Venue

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery
Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ

Tickets

Adult: £14
Disabled Person: £10
Student: £7
Disabled Companion: £0
Jobseekers/Income Support: £0

Ticket also grants you access to Pitzhanger Manor, all exhibitions, and free Thursday Lates activities on the night. 

If you wish to view the house and gallery before the talk, this ticket grants you entry from 5pm onwards.

About Suzannah V. Evans

Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut poetry collection is Under the Blue (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2025). She is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue (Guillemot Press). A chapter of her work appears in Carcanet’s anthology New Poetries VIII. Her poetry has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and a Northern Writers’ Award, performed at international festivals, and broadcast on BBC Radio.

About Guy Robertson

Guy Robertson is a curator and writer based between London and Spoleto, Italy, where in 2015 he was Founding Director of the Mahler & LeWitt Studios – a programme of residencies, exhibitions, performances, publications and events based around the former studios of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt, as well as the Torre Bonomo.

He ran an acclaimed project space in Peckham, London, called Son Gallery (2010-2013), was curator of the Anna Mahler Association (2011-2014), and was founder and curator of the artist’s book fair, Copeland Book Market (2012-2015) which had its home on Bold Tendencies, London. 

Robertson also works as an art historian and is currently writing a catalogue raisonné for the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust on the artist’s prints and works on paper (Art Publishing Inc. and Fort Worth Museum, forthcoming).