You are warmly invited to the VIP opening event of ‘Art Wars Rogue One Edition’ on Thursday 8th December, 6.00 - 9.00pm at Le Dame Gallery, Meliá White House Hotel, Albany St, Regent's Park, NW1 3UP.

 

Come and enjoy a glass of winter cheer and witness work by some of the best minds in the art world as they fuse art with Star Wars set within the elegance and glamour of the Meliá White House Hotel. 

 

To coincide with the launch of the latest Star Wars film Rogue 1  - eight emerging and established artists, including Sir Anish Kapoor, have each embellished a Star Wars stormtrooper helmet with a unique design. 

The participating artists Sir Anish Kapoor C.B.E., D*Face, Dan Baldwin, Carne Griffiths, Agnetha Sjogren, Polina Vasenkova, Schoony and Miranda Donovan, were each been given a stormtrooper helmet with the instructions from Art Below curator, Ben Moore, to “Turn the Dark Side into the Art side.”  
 
Damien Hirst says of Art Wars: I saw a cartoon recently where a stormtrooper is sat in a chair with his head in his hands looking depressed with a thought bubble coming out if his head saying “those were the droids we were looking for”. So many people today can find that funny and it really shows you how massively all encompassing and ubiquitous Star Wars is....’ 
 
The exhibition will raise funds to benefit two charities, Missing People and the Missing Tom Fund. The Missing Tom Fund was set up by the family of Thomas Moore who disappeared in 2003 aged 31 years old. His friends and family have not heard from him since then. Now 12 years on, with the support of the Missing People Charity his family continue to search for Tom.  The Art Wars Rogue 1 exhibition takes place in the week of Tom Moore’s 43rd birthday.