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An exclusive retrospective exhibition with over 40 rare signed works of surrealist erotica by John Thornton is coming to ONGallery in London.

John Thornton was drawn to surrealism and inspired by Rene Magritte, Salvador Dali, Giorgo de Chirco, Luis Brunel, Guy Bordain, Bill Silano, Jeanloup Sieff, Art Kane and Duanne Michals. He embarked on producing his distinctive “Surreal Erotic Images” gaining inspiration from all areas, be it visual, the written word or something he had seen, first making drawings before taking the photographs. All we know are that his images are truly unique.

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Alfred Hitchcock learned to make films in a converted railway power station on Poole Street in Hoxton, and The Lady Vanishes was shot there in 1938

A plaque to Newton Dunbar and the Four Aces, the Dalston club where Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff played, is due to go up on Collins Tower, facing the site of the club that was knocked down in 2007

18th Floor, a rooftop restaurant and bar on top of The Gantry hotel in Stratford, opens for dinner on Thursday 29 October, with steaks for sharing, Scottish lobster and DJs at weekends

Surrealist erotica by John Thornton

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