Look At You Now exhibition, Children and the Arts event and The HumansÂ’ opening night

8 September 2018 02:35

Zoë featured in National Theatre exhibition

Look out for Zoë and her husband, Gawn Grainger, recreating their childhood snapshots in a new video from London’s National Theatre.

The video accompanies a free exhibition, Look At You Now, which features photos of actors and other theatre-makers connected to the NT. ‘The exhibition celebrates where people start and what they go on to achieve,’ in the theatre’s words.

All of the contemporary portraits were taken by young people under the guidance of professional photographers, in the spirit of nurturing tomorrowÂ’s creative talents.

Look At You Now runs seven days a week at the NT until 13 October.

Zoë’s views on the role of the arts in education

Nurturing creativity among young people was also the theme of a charity event Zoë attended on 5 September. She joined around 200 other leading figures from the arts at London’s Royal Albert Hall for the high-profile gathering, which was organised by Prince Charles’ Children & the Arts charity and aimed to promote – and protect – the arts in UK schools.

Zoë, who is a Children & the Arts ambassador, spoke to the Press Association about the importance of artistic expression for pupils and her concerns that arts subjects are being sidelined in the current education system. She believes that ‘a rounded education is needed for the next generation to ''think outside the box''’.

Today’s exam culture can lead to artistic expression being neglected in schools, and that’s detrimental to pupils’ personal development, she suggested. ‘You have got to run, you’ve got to play, you’ve got to have fun and then the brain will engage,’ Zoë emphasised.

Attending The HumansÂ’ UK press night

The day after the Children & the Arts event, Zoë was pictured in an eye-catching outfit at the UK opening night of Stephen Karam’s family drama, The Humans.

The play has already won multiple Tony awards on Broadway and is now being staged at Hampstead Theatre, where Zoë was most recently seen in the London transfer of Stevie (2015).

With thanks to Janet for her help

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