Alannah Weston in front of a series of three photographs by Richard Billingham in “The Family,” an exhibit presented at the gallery last year.
Most local art lovers know that the Gallery at Windsor is the brainchild of Alannah Weston, daughter of Windsor owner Galen Weston. But few realize that it’s not the first gallery she has created.
In the mid-’90s, shortly after graduating from Oxford, Alannah joined up with a small, enthusiastic group of young, London-based artists. And with an entrepreneurial spirit that even her father might envy, she decided to hold an exhibition of their work in her tiny London apartment. “The only room available was the loo,” she says, straight-faced. “So we called it the Privy Gallery.”
Laughing at the memory, she recalls that her artist friends rose to the occasion with impish ingenuity. “One guy created a dollhouse that fit precisely into the cistern. When you flushed the toilet, the dollhouse gradually filled with water. It was quite a show!”
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