Galleries - April 2025

Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery Trust Mattock Lane, Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ www.pitzhanger.org.uk pitzhanger@pitzhanger.org.uk 020 3985 8888 Charity Registration: 1152434 Company Registration: 08278049 J’Accuse…! Sculptures by Nicole Farhi 19 March – 15 June 2025 Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, Ealing Green, London W5 5EQ Nicole Farhi in her studio with the busts. Photo by © Iona Wolff, 2025 Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery is pleased to announce a new exhibition of sculpture by artist and designer Nicole Farhi. Farhi will display 25 hand-sculpted ceramic busts, each depicting victims of miscarriages of justice across multiple countries around the world over the past 125 years. Running from 19 March to 15 June 2025, the exhibition portrays victims whose wrongful convictions have shaped legal history. The exhibition takes its name from J’Accuse…! — Émile Zola’s famous open letter that exposed the wrongful conviction of Captain Alfred Dreyfus in France in 1898. Inspired by Dreyfus’s case, Farhi has spent the past two years researching and sculpting figures from around the world who have been unjustly accused, from Timothy Evans, whose wrongful execution helped abolish capital punishment in Britain, to Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison before his conviction was overturned in 2023, leading to the resignation of Helen Pitcher, Chair of the Criminal Cases Review Commission. J’Accuse…! invites visitors to consider the people behind these cases. Each bust, crafted with personal care, offers a portrait of an individual who endured years, even decades, of wrongful imprisonment, some faced torture, some lost their lives. A celebrated designer turned full-time sculptor, Nicole Farhi CBE is widely known for her eponymous fashion brand but has dedicated the past two decades to her artistic practice. Having trained under