Triple Threat: Calligraphy, Drawing, Painting
Triple Threat: Calligraphy, Drawing, Painting
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Date
Description
Triple Threat: Calligraphy, Drawing, Painting
With Gemma O’Brien
Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025
Location: St Bride Foundation
In-person times (BST):
Doors/Bar: 18:15pm
Talk Starts: 19:00pm
Talk Ends: 20:30pm
Live calligraphy demonstrations: 20:30–21.30pm
In-person tickets: £9, £12, £14
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Join Gemma O’Brien at St Bride Foundation in London for a talk tracing her creative journey – from a letterpress studio to the global stage. What began as a love of typography grew into a career spanning commercial lettering, large-scale murals, and international talks. In this session, she’ll share behind-the-scenes process insights, live calligraphy and drawing, and how returning to original tools helped her reclaim her eyes, brain, and attention. The talk is informed by her recent studies in neuroaesthetics and celebrates the enduring power of craft and the human hand.
Gemma O’Brien is an internationally renowned designer and artist known for her bold graphics, illustrative lettering and murals. Her work has been commissioned by Apple, Nike, Google, and is held in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. Outside her commercial design work, she explores language, nature and the human experience through her art practice. In 2025, she is conducting research on flow states in visual artists at Goldsmiths, University of London, as part of the MSc program in Neuroaesthetics.
www.gemmaobrien.com/
www.instagram.com/mrseaves101/?hl=en
If you have any access requirements, please contact events@sbf.org.uk ahead of the event.
Organiser
Established in 1891 with a clear social and cultural purpose, St Bride Foundation is one of London’s hidden gems.
Housed in a beautiful Grade II listed Victorian building, St Bride Foundation was originally set up to serve the burgeoning print and publishing trade of nearby Fleet Street, and is now finding a new contemporary audience of designers, printmakers and typographers who come to enjoy a regular programme of design events and workshops.
Many thousands of books, printing-related periodicals and physical objects are at the heart of St Bride Library. Volumes on the history of printing, typography, newspaper design and paper-making jostle for space alongside one of the world’s largest and most significant collections of type specimens. The printed, written, carved and cast word may be found at St Bride in its myriad forms. Architectural lettering and examples of applied typography in many media, together with substantial collections of steel punches and casting matrices for metal types are also held in this eclectic collection. The Reading Room is open to visitors twice a month and on other days by appointment. Although we operate on a cost-neutral basis, it is necessary to charge for some of our services. Details are available by emailing the library team at library@sbf.org.uk.
St Bride retains many of its original features, including the baths, laundry, printing rooms and library. As part of the Foundation’s original mission to provide for the community, many of the building’s unique and characterful spaces are available to hire whether for meetings, weddings or classes.
St Bride also houses the popular Bridewell Theatre, and Bridewell Bar (once the laundry), and hosts a year-round programme of plays, comedy, music and exhibitions.
With some 65,000 visitors a year St Bride Foundation is a major London hub for the creative arts in London. We look forward to welcoming you soon.
Venue
St Bride Foundation, 14 Bride Ln, EC4Y 8EQ London
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