Highgate ContemporaryArt

Highgate Contemporary Art occupies 26 Highgate High Street, a gallery space tracing its lineage to Noel Oddy, who bought the Phoenix Gallery in Lavenham, Suffolk, in 1977 before opening a Highgate outpost in 1988 under the name Highgate Fine Art. Over the following decades the gallery exhibited work by artists including Jacob Epstein, John Piper, William Scott and David Hockney. Oddy retired in 2008, and after a rename to Highgate Contemporary Art, painter Hannah Ivory Baker took over as owner in April 2016, aged twenty-nine. Baker now keeps her own studio alongside the gallery, showing contemporary British and European painting, sculpture and ceramics. It continues to trade as a single gallery on Highgate High Street, with no branch elsewhere in London.