Exhibitions

2nd April 2023 until the 22nd October 2023. Spring public opening with guided tour, and Private View on the 1st.  The private view is open to everyone but  guests must RSVP to the Wende.

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Location: 10808 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230, United States

Geoff MacCormack was one of David Bowie’s oldest and closest friends. Starting in 1973, he joined Bowie on his tours as singer, percussionist, dancer, and photographer. As Bowie preferred not to fly, they travelled together by boat, train, and road.

Later in 1973 they undertook a journey from Yokohama, Japan, back to England, traveling through the Soviet Union with the Trans-Siberian Express. MacCormack’s photos show Bowie unguarded, documenting their close friendship and shared sense of adventure. While on the train, they participated in drinking sessions with sailors and soldiers, meeting fans and tourists, and providing impromptu performances.

The exhibition, guest curated by Olya Sova, also includes David Bowie’s film The Long Way Home, which documents various stages of their trip on the train, including their time in Moscow during the May Day Parade.

David Bowie in the Soviet Union is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

April 6th 2023. This event is open to the public but RSVP is required (details shown on poster)

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It all resembles the plot of a yet-to-be-written musical. Avid mod and aspiring singer Geoff MacCormack – who moved in the same circles as modernist ‘faces’ like Marc Bolan and Mickey Finn – was selling advertising space for a London construction newspaper when an old school pal ‘phoned him and urged him to work with him. The date was January 1973, the caller was David Bowie, and the job entailed joining his band, as singer, percussionist and dancer. He said “yes”.Within weeks, MacCormack was sailing to New York with the flight-phobic Bowie. He remembered to pack his camera, so the party that lasted for three years was recorded in endearingly intimate holiday snaps. While always one to adopt a pose, the feeling here is of an unguarded Bowie – almost as though these are shots from a family photo album. The sense of two mates – one of whom just happened to have become a rock star – having riotous good times is palpable. So much so, that a seasoned music journalist became tearful on seeing these photos.

An exhibition documenting Geoffs time & Travels with Bowie.  ‘Rock ’n’ Roll With Me 73-76’ is set to open at Brighton Museum Gallery on October 17th 2020.  The show features some new and recently discovered images, along with ephemera from Geoffs personal collection. Tickets will be available online from Brighton Museum Gallery from October 2020. Click here to buy your tickets.

On the 23rd May 1973, Bowie performed with The Spiders at Brighton Dome, and was featured on Nationwide Current affairs show aired on BBC1 on 5th June 1973.  You can watch the film here:

You might be able to spot me during rehearsals at the Dome 6:15 minutes in to the footage.

An exhibition documenting my time & travels with Bowie, ‘Rock ’n’ Roll with me’ is set to open in October 2020 at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery located next to the Dome, in the Royal Pavilion Garden in the heart of the citys cultural quarter.

An exhibition documenting Geoffs time & Travels with Bowie.  ‘Rock ’n’ Roll With Me 73-76’ is set to open at Brighton Museum Gallery on October 17th 2020.  The show features some new and recently discovered images, along with ephemera from Geoffs personal collection.

Tickets will be available online from Brighton Museum Gallery from October 2020. Click here to buy your tickets.

On the 23rd May 1973, Bowie performed with The Spiders at Brighton Dome, and was featured on Nationwide Current affairs show aired on BBC1 on 5th June 1973.  You can watch the film here:

You might be able to spot me during rehearsals at the Dome 6:15 minutes in to the footage.

An exhibition documenting my time & travels with Bowie, ‘Rock ’n’ Roll with me’ is set to open in October 2020 at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery located next to the Dome, in the Royal Pavilion Garden in the heart of the citys cultural quarter.

Lucy Bell Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Geoff MacCormack documenting his time and travels with David Bowie.

Geoff MacCormack, AKA Warren Peace, was one of David Bowie’s oldest and closest friends, their relationship dating back to their childhoods’ in Bromley. MacCormack toured with Bowie for three years as a backing vocalist, dancer and percussionist. During this time he recorded with Bowie on five albums — from Aladdin Sane to Station to Station, also co-writing the track “Rock ‘n’ Roll With Me” on Diamond Dogs, and Turn Blue with Bowie on Iggy Pops album Lust for Life.

As Bowie preferred not to fly, he and MacCormack travelled together by boat, train and road. The photographs in the exhibition explore this period, and give a rare insight into their friendship. The exhibition also includes a short film of their journey through Siberia & Russia shot by David Bowie, intercut with MacCormacks photographs

The exhibition of photographs by a British musician and producer Geoff MacCormack documenting friendship and travels with David Bowie will be opened on October 27.

Geoff MacCormack, AKA Warren Peace, was one of David Bowie’s oldest and closest friends. MacCormack toured with Bowie for three years (1973 — 1976) as a backing vocalist, dancer and percussionist. During this time he recorded with Bowie on six albums — from Aladdin Sane to Station to Station, also co-writing the track Rock’n’Roll With Me on Diamond Dogs, and Turn Blue with Bowie on Iggy Pops album Lust for Life.

The exhibition presents more than 70 photographs and it also includes the film The Long Way Home by David Bowie, which documents various stages of their trip, from the docks in Japan through Siberia and Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express, and their time in Moscow for the May Day Parade. The film contains views of Russia shot by David Bowie on a 16-mm camera and unconstrained photographs taken by Geoff MacCormack.

As a part of the opening of the exhibition David Bowie. Rock’n’roll with me at New Holland Island there will be a large parallel program: discussions with Geoff MacCormack, Artemy Troitsky and Francis Whately, screenings: David Bowie: Five Years, David Bowie: The Last Five Years and The Man Who Fell to Earth, public talk by a translator Dmitry Simanovsky, as well as a party at Kuznya House with a DJ and musician Rusty Egan (UK).

The Duffy Archive attended the opening of the David Bowie Geoff MacCormack Collection at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery in Leigh, Essex. Writer, Producer, Photographer and good friend of the Duffy Archive, Geoff exhibited his first solo show of these intimate photographs of David Bowie taken while he was David’s traveling companion between 1973 and 1976. David and Geoff have been life long friends meeting when they were in the scouts together and this set of photographs depicts a rare and intimate insight into a personal journey. The gallery was packed and it’s a must-see exhibit for any Bowie fan. The exhibit is on through to the 14th of April.