The Theatre Royal Plymouth
Featuring work from Black Sabbath Ballet & Quadrophenia
October 1st - 15 November 2025
The Theatre Royal Plymouth presents works from Henrietta Graham
30 SEPTEMBER-15 NOVEMBER
This series of paintings from Cornish based Artist Henrietta Graham exhibits works from of her Arts series- an ongoing exploration of creatives working in a variety of multi disciplines. From Opera, Circus, Drama this series evolves with collaborations from Directors, Choreographers and most recently Composer Rachel Fuller and Pete Townsend.
This show will feature Henrietta’s most recent canvases of Black Sabbath Ballet- a groundbreaking production from Carlos Acosta and Birmingham Royal Ballet alongside the ballet being performed at TRP.
Henrietta Graham, the Cornwall-based painter known for her powerful figurative work, is featured in the BBC programme We Were the Mods.
Her striking series of Quadrophenia-inspired paintings which delve into Pete Towshend’s original story book, The 1979 Film and Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet, were exhibited at world Premiere at Theatre Royal Plymouth and will be also exhibited at Sadlers Wells for the London Premiere.
The ballet reimagines The Who’s 1973 rock opera and its 1979 film adaptation through dance, music and visual storytelling. Henrietta’s paintings, displayed alongside the production, explore the raw emotion, fractured masculinity and search for identity at the heart of the Mod subculture. Her work brings a bold visual dimension to the ballet’s themes of youth, rebellion and transformation.
The programme connects key voices behind Quadrophenia past and present, including Pete Townshend, Rachel Fuller, Phil Daniels, and Rob Ashford, and highlights how artists like Henrietta are helping bring this iconic story to new audiences.
Henrietta Graham trained at Parsons School of Art in Paris and The Thomas Heatherly School of Fine Art in London. Exhibited and selected by The Royal Society of Portrait Painters ,The Royal Society of Marine (Prizewinner), The BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery London and Leighton House, London.
Her current work includes commissions and projects that range from the surrounding fishing industry in Cornwall to ongoing projects with Dancers from The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and Rambert School of Ballet and contemporary Dance.
If you visit Newlyn you can see a series of reproductions of Graham’s work along the harbourside. This was a collaboration between the artist and the Newlyn Harbour Commissioners.
In this short film artist Henrietta Graham talks about her work and in particular her fishing series in Newlyn.
