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An awesome and ridiculous film that leaves you thrilled beyond the point of your natural endurance
2012
Theatre
The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C
Blood Brothers
Music
The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed
Muse
I was smitten by both Gilberts enormous luxuriant moustache and the intelligence and nuance of this highly entertaining play
I totally recommend Babbo to anyone who is looking for really good and traditional Italian food
Always been a fan but never seen them live. I was ecstatic to be part of this epic event. WOW!
London,
Sue Steward's rating
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Phone: 0207749 6850
Website: www.ideageneration.co.uk
Email: katie.reynolds@ideageneration.co.uk
Trains: Tube: Old Street 
Other-worldly but beautiful: Alice & Lily by Jenny Wicks
Jenny Wicks’s fascination with the unexpected appearance of two ginger-nuts in her brother’s family led to this magnetic, sometimes eerie collection of portraits of babies, children and adults possessing the mysterious ginger gene.
There is something other-worldly about red-headed children with staring blue eyes but also something irresistibly beautiful. This collection of portraits represents both, and also stretches to those strange mongrel beards adorning brown-headed men.
Ginger-haired young women have long been chosen subjects in art history, none more passionately than those hand-picked by the Pre-Raphaelites. Their combination of orange hair and porcelain white skin, epitomised today by Lily Cole, appears throughout the show, and Wicks exaggerates it in the plain white backgrounds.
Making a mockery of the term “redhead”, the palette forms a glorious autumnal swatch, while the distribution of pigment is fascinating: sometimes, a single tone appears to have leached from hair into skin and gathered in small puddles as freckles.
Walking among these portraits has the air of a scientific sampling, like a Victorian survey. And in some ways it is; Wicks’s fascination is as much with the journey of the ginger gene as with photography as art — and that element is just as striking as the show’s value as an exquisite portrait collection.
Until 8 March. Information: 020 7749 6853,
www.ideageneration.co.uk.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
