Discovering MacDonald Gill: Architect, Artist and Mapmaker
His great-niece to give The Arts Society Chiswick's January 2025 Lecture
An example of one of MacDonal Gill's maps
December 28, 2024
The Arts Society Chiswick’s starts its 10th Anniversary year with a lecture on the subject of “Discovering MacDonald Gill: Architect, Artist and Mapmaker”.
This illustrated talk by Max Gill’s great-niece, Caroline Walker, presents a colourful overview of this versatile artist's personal life and artistic achievements and is being given on Thursday, 9 January 2025 at 8pm at POSK, King Street Hammersmith.
MacDonald 'Max' Gill, younger brother of the sculptor and typographer Eric Gill, was an architect, graphic designer and letterer, best known for his pictorial maps, especially those for the London Underground. He also created painted maps for Arts & Crafts houses including Lindisfarne Castle, magnificent murals for Cunard liners, and eye-catching publicity posters for organisations such as the Empire Marketing Board. An enduring legacy is his alphabet for the Imperial War Graves Commission used on all British military headstones since the First World War.
Experienced lecturer Caroline Walker began research into her great-uncle ‘Max’ in 2006. Since then, she has co-curated several exhibitions of his work around the country, contributed articles to publications including Country Life and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and set up a dedicated website.
Max's work can be found in many localities around Britain. Caroline will include local connections wherever possible.
Olivia Freeman, Chair, The Arts Society Chiswick said, “We welcome back members old and new together with guests for this illustrative talk.”
Doors open at 7pm, as does the private bar with the lecture beginning at 8pm. The Lecture will start at 8pm and guests are very welcome for a payment of £15 on the door.
Membership of the Arts Society Chiswick includes ten expert lectures on the second Thursday of every month (except August and December) and the opportunity to participate in tours, visits, social events and Special Interest Days. Half year Membership available from 1 July. For more information see the society’s web site. For more information see the society's web site.
The Arts Society Chiswick brings people together through a shared curiosity for the arts, to create opportunities for everyone to be part of a diverse community in which they can enjoy, learn about, participate in, and preserve the Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Like Reading Articles Like This? Help Us Produce More This site remains committed to providing local community news and public interest journalism. Articles such as the one above are integral to what we do. We aim to feature as much as possible on local societies, charities based in the area, fundraising efforts by residents, community-based initiatives and even helping people find missing pets. We’ve always done that and won’t be changing, in fact we’d like to do more. However, the readership that these stories generates is often below that needed to cover the cost of producing them. Our financial resources are limited and the local media environment is intensely competitive so there is a constraint on what we can do. We are therefore asking our readers to consider offering financial support to these efforts. Any money given will help support community and public interest news and the expansion of our coverage in this area. A suggested monthly payment is £8 but we would be grateful for any amount for instance if you think this site offers the equivalent value of a subscription to a daily printed newspaper you may wish to consider £20 per month. If neither of these amounts is suitable for you then contact info@neighbournet.com and we can set up an alternative. All payments are made through a secure web site. One-off donations are also appreciated. Choose The Amount You Wish To Contribute. If you do support us in this way we’d be interested to hear what kind of articles you would like to see more of on the site – send your suggestions to the editor. For businesses we offer the chance to be a corporate sponsor of community content on the site. For £30 plus VAT per month you will be the designated sponsor of at least two articles a month with your logo appearing if supplied. If there is a specific community group or initiative you’d like to support we can make sure your sponsorship is featured on related content for a one off payment of £50 plus VAT. All payments are made through a secure web site. |