Current Events #52. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 52 of 2017.
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Screenprints: LPW Artist Bev Goodrich

11th October 2017 – 19th January 2018

Screenprints by Bev Goodrich

An exhibition of a collection of screenprints by Bev Goodrich, who created them after taking part in several LPW courses, including their six week Introduction to Print course.

‘I was inspired by Leicester Market’s vibrancy and colour. It is a place buzzing with energy. Loading up in the very early morning, setting out all the fruit, vegetables and fish then packing it all away at the end of the trading day. It is hard work all done with boisterous good humour and noisy banter.’ – Bev Goodrich

The Print Room
LCB Depot,
31 Rutland Street,
Leicester
LE1 1RE

Tomorrow’s World

8 December 2017 – 26 January 2018

Featuring new and recent work from:

Julieta H Adame, Caitlin Alexandra, Sam Baldwin, Steve Bee, Andrew Berry, Beyond Thrilled,
Leo Boyd, Louis Craig Carpenter, Darren Cullen, Dissent, John Doe, Susan Eyre, Luke Fairhead,
Harishazka Fauzan, Fernando Feijoo, 57 Design, Oli Fowler, Stanislaw Gajewski, Le Bear, Matteo Galesi,
Helen Grundy, Scott Hawkins, Daniel Hosego, Heath Kane, Stephanie Kilgast, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jaime Kiss,
The Krah, Matt Littler, Ryota Matsumoto, Steve McCarthy, Anil Mistry, Barbara Nati, Ray Noland,
Anni Onsager, Otto, Sian Pattenden, Mark Perronet, Vickie Perry, Attia Rashid, Mary Rouncefield,
Mark Scammell, Serigrafica 7585, Spizz Energi, Carl Stimpson, Theo Tagholm, Zoe Toolan,
David Vassie, Frederic Voisin, Walden Press and more.

Atom Gallery
127 Green Lanes,
London
N16 9DA

Balraj Khanna: A Retrospective

23 November 2017 – 26 January 2018

Balraj Khanna, African Queen, 1969-70 Oil on canvas 132 x 132 cm

This is retrospective of mixed media painting by Balraj Khanna to mark the 55th anniversary of Khanna’s arrival in the UK.

‘Khanna has been tenaciously loyal to a particular discipline – making art out of childhood memories and everyday events, representing emotion in a way which curiously embraces abstraction and figuration in equal measure’-Robin Dutt

Gallery Elena Shchukina
10 Lees Place
Mayfair
London, W1K 6LL

Rita Ackermann: Turning Air Blue

30 September 2017 – 1 January 2018

Rita Ackermann, Turning Air Blue II, 2017, Oil and pigment on canvas

‘Turning Air Blue’ is an exhibition of new works by Rita Ackermann, who was born in Budapest, Hungary but is now based in New York.

The exhibition comprises of two galleries and thematically reflects its rural setting.  The paintings are of a large scale and

‘The paintings here are large-scale compositions on canvas primed with chalkboard paint, on which washes of white chalk and green and blue pigments have been applied. These Abstract Expressionist-like works are reminiscent of actual chalkboards in a classroom, covered with unintentional erasures and marks, yet they have been conceptually executed by multiple deletions of figurative drawings and landscapes. By way of these gestures, the revenant outline of the erased drawings often emerges into the foreground. The final picture is a record of these movements.

The exhibition continues into the Bourgeois gallery, which comprises two bodies of work: Turning Air Blue and Nudes. The paintings titled Turning Air Blue are large-scale pigment paintings on canvas where translucent figures suggest a feminine shape. These works derive from the Fire by Days series – paintings inspired by accident being the true enemy of intention – which formed Ackermann’s introductory exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, London, in 2012. The palette of these new works is rendered by flesh tones shading into blue. The large paintings have an airy lightness about them, contrasting with the much smaller Nudes. While these smaller framed oils bear a similar pigmentation, they are painted more thickly to evoke the physicality of the female body.’

Hauser & Wirth Somerset
Durslade Farm,
Dropping Lane,
Bruton,
Somerset
BA10 0NL

Janet Boulton: Watercolours

29 November 2017 – 20 January 2018

Janet Boulton, Terracotta Pots with Ceres and Diana, Villa La Pietra

Janet Boulton is known predominantly for her watercolours and paper relief works. This exhibition focuses on her works on paper and her paintings which have been inspired by music, still life and gardens.

40 years ago, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery hosted Janet Boulton’s exhibition, ‘Windows and Reflections’, inspired by her views from classrooms in the town, making this a welcome return to Swindon for this important artist.

Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Bath Road
Swindon
SN1 4BA

Mini Picture Show: RWS & RE Winter Exhibition

30 November 2017 – 21 January 2018

Annie Williams RWS RE, Con Calore, aquatint & wash,34 x 34cm

A selection of small scale works made by artists from the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, including contemporary watercolours and original prints.

Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton St
London
SE1 9JH

Turner & The Whale

7 October 2017 – 7 January 2018

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavouring to Extricate Themselves by J.M.W. Turner. Tate- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856.

This exhibition combines Hull’s whaling collections with works by Turner. This allows for an unusual dialogue between Hull’s great artists and one of the most renowned seascape painters of all time.

Included in the exhibition are three of Turner’s whaling scenes that date from the time when Hull was the UK’s largest whaling port.

Hull Maritime Museum
Queen Victoria Square
Hull
HU1 3DX

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Current Events #1. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 1 of 2017.
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Michael Armitage: The Chapel

13 December – 17 January 2018

Michael Armitage, Exorcism, 2017, © Michael Armitage. Photo © White Cube (Ben Westoby). Courtesy of the artist and the Harry and Lana David Collection

This is a solo exhibition by Michael Armitage, whose large-scale paintings draw on chapel-like qualities and reference historical and contemporary stories, as well as the artist’s own experiences.

The exhibition is accompanied by essays by Mukami Kuria and Roger Malbert, and a discussion between Michael Armitage and SLG director, Margot Heller.

South London Gallery
65-67 Peckham Road
London SE5 8UH

Double Elephant Printmaking Exhibition

13 December to 17 January 2018

Double Elephant Print Workshop at RAMM

Double Elephant Print Workshop’s prize-winning exhibition is open now at RAMM until 17th January. Thirty-four artists from Double Elephant have produced over 75 works which are beautifully displayed in RAMM’s Gallery 22.

This exhibition was made possible by public vote via the Express and Echo’s Local Art Show scheme. It is a fitting way to mark DEPW’s 20 years in Exeter and shows the variety of printmaking that thrives in the city.

Double Elephant Print Workshop
at
Gallery 22
Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Street
Exeter,
Devon EX4 3RX

Testcard P

30 September 2017 – 11 January 2018

Amanda Ansell, LIQUID GOLD, 2016 Oil on canvas, 45 x 60 cm

This exhibition in the crypt of St Marylebone Church was curated by Marco Cali, and seeks to open a space for discussion on current painting practice.

‘The thing that characterises contemporary painting is that each artist pursues a very individual practice. Gone are the days when ‘isms’ gave us useful labels by which to identify an art movement as defined by a group of artists. Instead current painters borrow, beg and steal from every imaginable source in service to the art to which they are devoted. Alongside this, each artist, painter or not, engages in an ongoing dialogue with her or his peers, of which there is a vast pool both historically as well as currently. This dialogue takes place in as many ways as there are of approaching the making of art, from direct copying to responses alongside or in opposition to someone’s work. In any case, the very nature of painting is one of putting in the hours in whatever serves as a studio, a hermit-like pursuit in front of a flat surface. Each painting produced with this intention, is itself a strong statement that adds to the mix and then seeds others in turn.

With this in mind, the theme of this exhibition is works that the artist feels are something new or different with their own practice over the year. These are not necessarily ‘finished’ as such, but instead provide stimulus to a discussion as to what has happened over the last twelve months. As such, they might be sketches, drawings or indeed completed canvases.’

Artists:
Iain Andrews, Amanda Ansell, Louis Appleby, Richard Baker, Karl Bielik, Day Bowman, Marco Calí, Ruth Calland, Lucy Cox, Pen Dalton, Natalie Dowse, Fiona Eastwood, Pippa Gatty, Susan Gunn, Susie Hamilton, Alex Hanna, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Phil Illingworth, Matthew Krishanu, Bryan Lavelle, Andrew Litten, Cathy Lomax, Paula MacArthur, Enzo Marra, Keith Murdoch, Cara Nahaul, Paul Newman, Gideon Pain, Ruth Philo, Barbara Peirson, Narbi Price, Freya Purdue, Katherine Russell, Wendy Saunders, Stephen Snoddy, David Sullivan, Harvey Taylor, Ehryn Torrell, Fionn Wilson, Sean Williams.

The Crypt
St Marylebone Parish Church,
17 Marylebone Road,
London,
NW1 5LT

Small is Beautiful

14 December 2017 – 6 January 2018

Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Haystacks, 2017

The Flowers Gallery exhibits contemporary art work in any medium that measures 7×9 inches or smaller. This enables their exhibition to include over 100 artists, including famous names and emerging talent.

The work is from artists based in over twelve countries.

Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London W1S 3LZ

Connect/Disconnect

15 September 2017 – 24 March 2018

Corinna Spencer, Hamlet, 2017, acrylic on canvas,15x21cm

This exhibition, curated by Sarah Jeffries, shows the work of seven artists on the theme of visual psychological space in relation to modern life.

‘With the political world rapidly changing around us, how do we, as a connected society, deal with relentless negative news? Is digesting all the uncertainty and harshness good for us or should we disconnect?’

Artists showing include:
Corinna Spencer, Cathy Lomax, David Hancock, Mike Bartlett, Sarah Jeffries and Team Beswick & Pye.

The Point
Leigh Road,
Eastleigh,
Hampshire
SO50 9DE

Identity

3 January – 14 January 2018
Private View: Wednesday 3 January 6-9pm

Painting by Sally-Anne Flanagan, oil paint, pastels, acrylic paint, charcoal and ink.

‘Identity is a group of established London based and international artist coming together to exhibit their work at Espacio Gallery. The artists have current as well as past connections and share some common ground yet they are all an entity with distinct pathways on their own artistic journey.’

The works on show will be in a variety of mediums including sculpture, paintings and ceramics.

Artists showing include:
Andy Finlay, Svetlana Atlavina, Sally-Anne Flanagan, Natalia Jezova,
Maria Kaleta, Glen Marston, Betka Milligan, Madeleine Marsh,
Gerald O’Dowd, Alicia Zimnickas

Curated by Sally-Anne Flanagan

Note:
The gallery will be open till 9pm on Thursday 4 January as part of Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays event.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Haystacks, 2017.

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To kick off this year, we have selected 10 exhibitions to see all over the UK this month. Some shows include fine work from the 19th Century while others include great examples of bright and naive forms, as well as a few that will give you a solid insight into emerging trends.

Rose Wylie: Quack Quack

Rose Wylie, Queen with Pansies (Dots), 2016, oil on canvas, 183x331cm © Rose Wylie, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, London, Photograph- Soon-Hak Kwon

Rose Wylie’s large scale work is bursting with playfulness but also strength. Seemingingly naive you can feel the confidence behind the text and strong brushstokes, at the age of 83 Wylie’s work has more wisdom than its childlike style at first lets on. However, in fact it is this sweetness that allows Wylie to play and comment on the current situation of the world: her work is inspired by that which surrounds life, daily occurances, cinema, news stories, celebrities and memories. The work is relatable and draws out the cultural memories that are being formed socially. As this is her first institutional solo show in London, it is the perfect time to view her work in all its freshness.

Showing at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery until 11th February 2018.

London Art Fair 2018

Upper Street Events, London Art Fair 2017, Press Images

As the new year begins, the London Art Fair opens the international art calendar. It invites collectors and vistors to view and engage with carefully selected works of renowned and emerging artists from the 20th century upto the current day. It is a great opportnity to spot what is of interest to critics currently, as well as gather a wealth of inspiration for your own practice.

Now in its 30th year this show offers an expert guide into the market with works selected by leading British and internatonal galleries as well as curated spaces Art Projects and Photo50.

Showing at the Business Design Centre, London, between 17th January 2018 and 21st January 2018.

Thomas Bock at the Ikon

Thomas Bock, Mithina (Mathinna), 1842, watercolour, presented by J H Clarke 1951, courtesy Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, AG290

Thomas Bock was, before his transportation to Australia in the 19th Century for adminstrating abortitive herbs, a engraver and miniature painter. During his conviction he was made to produce portraits of other convicts before and after execution as well as engraving blocks for banknotes. After he was released he became not only the Australian elite’s favoruitie portrait painter but also began to develop his own practice to his own tastes. These included watercolours, works using  pencil, chalk and pastel (as well as rudimentary photography) and covered a wide range of subject matter such as Aborigines, criminals, freemen, landscapes and domestic scenes. This exhibiton brings together a wide selection of his work and demonstrates the breadth of his interests and artistic career.

Showing at the Ikon Gallery until 11th March 2018.

Bacon to Doig: Modern Masterpieces from a Private Collection

Francis Bacon, Henrietta Moraes, 1966 © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. DACS 2017

This private collection gives the chance in Cardiff to see some of the greatest early works of modern British artists. Including pieces by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Barbara Hepworth and David Hockney, and formed over several decades, this collection really demostrates the owners’ eye for great work. Many of the pieces were purchased when the now famous artists were much more obscure, yet each piece would fit in perfectly with a muesum’s collection. It includes two incrediable paintings by Francis Bacon from the 1950s and 1960s.

The collection features work by Freud, painting by Peter Doig,  expressionist canvases by Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff, as well as abstract work by Ben Nicholson, sculptures by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Anthony Caro, and two vases by Grayson Perry.

Showing at the National Museum Cardiff until 31st January.

My Ghosts, John Davies

John Davies, My Ghosts at Turner Contemporary. Photo Stephen White (25)

This exhibition of John Davies’ work is an atomospheric combination of a large-scale tableau, a series of haunting scarecrow figures and recent drawings. The work in My Ghosts focuses on memory, fraglity, the body and the passage of time. While the human form has been a theme throughout Davies career, which he has explored in a variety of media, these pieces seek to not just record the physical human form but as Davies has said  ‘to make a figure, not like a piece of sculpture, more like a person…. I wanted my sculpture to be more like life in the street’.

Showing at Turner Contemporary until 11th February 2018.

Helen Allingham

Harvest Moon by Helen Allingham

Helen Allingham, who was born 1848 and died in 1926, is known as one of the most loved Victorian artists. Her watercolours led to her becoming the first woman to gain full membership to the Royal Watercolour Society. While critically her work has been much admired, it is a rarity to see an exhibition dedicated to her work alone. This exhibition includes works from private collections, important pieces from public galleries and demonstrates her strength as a watercolourist and leading female artist of the 19th Century. The picturesque landscapes feature Shere, Witley, Haslemere and other rural villages as a subject matter, giving a quaint and interesting view of the area at the time. It also includes some of her early graphic work showing her versatility, alongside studies made in preparation for larger, exquisitely detailed work.

Showing at Watts Gallery, Surrey until 18th February 2018.

Lubaina Himid: Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money

Naming the Money by Lubaina Himid

This exhibition, curated by Lubaina Himid the winner of 2017 Turner Pize, is a powerful collection of works by women artists. Alongside 20 figures from Himid’s installation Naming the Money, she has selected work from the Arts Council Collection. These are collected together in one room, which features Himid’s 1987 series of watercolours ‘Scenes from the life of Toussaint L’Overture’ at its centre. The figures from Naming the Money are positioned in clusters throughout the gallery. Each one is an individual with a profession and life story–they refute and draw attention to the way  Europe’s elite used African men and women as finiancial markers to demonstrate their wealth and power, refusing those people the right to humanity, as well as freedom, under slavery. The full installation has been gifted by Himid to the International Slavery Museum.

Showing at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool until 18th March 2018.

FBA Futures 2018

Kris Lock, Synthesiser, Oil on board 120 x 120 cm

The members of the Federation of British Artists (FBA) have selected from across the country the best art graduates of 2017, this means the exhibition acts as an incrediably gifted degree show as well as a showcase of new painting, sculpture and prints, which demonstrate the skill, style and ideas of the emerging generation of artists.

Exhibiting artists include:

Renata Adela (Heatherley School of Fine Art), Raphael Barratt (Camberwell College of Arts), Izaak Brandt (Camberwell College of Arts), Molly Bythell (Newcastle University), Gemma Capocci (Bath Spa University), Terry Channell (Plymouth College of Art), Diane Chappalley (Slade School of Fine Art), Gabriel Choto (Camberwell College of Arts), Michael Clarence (Gray’s School of Art), James Cooper (University of Suffolk), Olivia Crane (London Atelier of Representational Art / LARA), Benjamin Glover (Loughborough University), Alice Grenier Nebout (Central Saint Martins), Rebecca Harper (Turps Art School), Ollie Hayward (Falmouth University), Willa Hilditch (Chelsea College of Arts), Beth Horner (Wimbledon College of Arts), Rihanah Hussain (Bath Spa University), Naoya Inose (Chelsea College of Arts), Anna Jung Seo (Turps Art School), Michael Kashora (Slade School of Fine Art), Grace Lee (Goldsmiths, University of London), Kris Lock (Open School East), Rose McMurray (Leeds College of Art), Leah Meredith (University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Liz Middleton (City and Guilds of London Art School), Aiden Milligan (Gray’s School of Art), Hannah Mooney (Glasgow School of Art), Roisin O’Donnell (Leeds College of Art), David Rae (Gray’s School of Art), Maia Regis (Chelsea College of Arts), Phoebe Ridgway (Leeds College of Art), Sian Rycroft (Leeds College of Art), Jennifer Sendall (University of Suffolk), Gail Seres-Woolfson (The Art Academy), Isobel Smith (Falmouth University), Romily Alice Walden (Leeds College of Art), Frances Willoughby (University of Bournemouth) and Fleur Yearsley (Slade School of Fine Art).

Showing at the Main Gallery and Threadneedle Space, Mall Galleries, London between 9th January and 20th January 2018.

Turner in January, National Galleries in Scotland

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Sea View, Work on paper, Bodycolour on blue paper, About 1826, 13.50 x 19.00 cm, Henry Vaughan Bequest 1900

This collection of JMW Turner’s subtle watercolours were given to the National Galleries of Scotland by the well-respected collector Henry Vaughan, on the condition they be shown all together, once a year, free of charge in January. For over 100 years this collection has been shown in this manner. They range from Turner’s early topographical drawings to his sketches that vividly depict the life of continental Europe in the 1830 and 1840s.

On JMW Turner’s piece Sea View, featured above: ‘Two sailing boats tossed around convey the force of the wind and waves. They pale into insignificance, however, beneath the magnificent sky. A break in the dark clouds reveals a brilliant patch of sunlight which illuminates the distant coast. Turner made full use of the blue paper and body-colour to achieve a remarkable intensity of colour. He began to work on blue paper in the mid 1820s and this drawing was probably made around that time.’

Showing at the National Galleries in Scotland until 31st January 2018.

Contemporary Visions 8

Christian Ruiz Berman, ‘Mirage for Kokochi’ (Illusion of Wealth), Acrylic on Panel, 18x13cm

This annual group show aims to explore and put into dialogue ideas, concepts, movements and innovations that are emerging across all media and disciplines in contemporary art. It includes work from artists at any stage of their career and provides a launch pad for solo shows, inclusion in art fairs and publications.

The judges for this year’s Contemporary Visions are Leo Babsky, Chief Curator of Century Club (London); Kurt Beers, Director of Beers and Author of ‘100 Painters of Tomorrow; Paddy Johnson, Founding Editor of Art F City; Erik Olson, Artist and 2016 CV7 finalist; Richard Stemp, author and Art Historian; Jennifer Winsor, Director of Winsor Gallery, Vancouver (Canada); and Anna Zorina, Director of Anna Zorina Gallery, New York (USA).

Artists showing include:

Sofia Donovan, Oli Epp, Nicola Kloosterman, Igor Moritz, Stamatis Papazoglou, Christian Ruiz-Berman, Gino Saccone, Nicolas Sassoon, Jack Towndrow and JiYoung Yoo.

Showing at Beers, London from 12th January until 24th February 2018.

The image featured at the top is: Christian Ruiz Berman, ‘Mirage for Kokochi’ (Illusion of Wealth), Acrylic on Panel, 18x13cm.

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Current Events #2. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 1 of 2017.
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StArt

30 December 2017 — 10 February 2018

George Loades, Bayards Cove Dartmouth, who’s work is being shown at the RBSA gallery.

An exhibition of artwork by RBSA artists, all of which is being sold for £300 and under.

RBSA Gallery
4 Brook Street
Birmingham
B3 1SA

The Landscape of Time

13 January 2018 – 29 March 2018

Tom Down, Cave, 50×60, acrylic on gesso board ,2016.

This exhibition curated by Antonia Jackson, is hosted by Contemporary British Painting and displays the work of Helen Bermingham, Tom Down, Susie Hamilton, Antonia Jackson, Nicole Price and Ed Saye. Each explores the themes of time and memory through their painting which vary in style from figurative work to semi abstract pieces.

The Crypt,
St Marylebone Parish Church
17 Marylebone Road,
London NW1 5LT

Cornelia Parker: One Day This Glass Will Break

16 December 2017 – 28 January 2018

Cornelia Parker, Fox Talbot’s Articles of Glass (bottoms up), 2016, copyright the artist and Alan Cristea Gallery

A selection of Turner Prize-nominee Cornelia Parker’s experiments with printmaking and photography resulting in large-scale photogravures.

‘For some years Cornelia Parker’s work has been concerned with formalising things beyond our control, containing the volatile and making it into something that is quiet and contemplative like the ‘eye of the storm’. She is fascinated with processes in the world that mimic cartoon ‘deaths’ – steamrollering, shooting full of holes, falling from cliffs and explosions. Through a combination of visual and verbal allusions her work triggers cultural metaphors and personal associations, which allow the viewer to witness the transformation of the most ordinary objects into something compelling and extraordinary.’

This is a Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London.

Royal West of England Academy
Queen’s Road,
Clifton Bristol
BS8 1PX

Henry Silk and East End Vernacular

18 January 2018 – 10 February 2018

Henry Silk (1883-1948) A Summer House. Watercolour. Circa 1930. Signed. Provenance- Artist’s family by descent. 4.5×10 inches. Framed- 13.5×18.5 inches

These watercolours by the basket weaver and East London Group member Henry Silk (1883-1948) are hung alongside paintings by recent artists who have lived and worked in the East End. The Gentle Author of the Spitalfields Life Blog, has selected the works, all of which appear in his latest publication ‘EAST END VERNACULAR Artists: who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century’.

“Complimenting the display of watercolours by Henry Silk (1883-1948), it is my great pleasure to curate a room of some favourite paintings from my book EAST END VERNACULAR, Artists who painted London’s East End streets in the 20th century.

While Henry Silk was one of the leading figures of the East London Group in the thirties, I have chosen works by post-war and contemporary artists who took the legacy forward. My selection includes a picture by Roland Collins from the fifties, rarely seen works by John Allin and Dan Jones from the seventies, Doreen Fletcher’s and Peri Parkes’ paintings from the eighties and concludes with recent works by James Mackinnon and Nicholas Borden.

Together these pictures – many never seen publicly before – illustrate an extraordinary and vital continuum of painting in the East End which spans the twentieth century and extends into our own time”.

– The Gentle Author of Spitalfields Life

Abbott and Holder Gallery
30 Museum Street
-opposite the British Museum-
London, WC1A 1LH

The Drawing Year: End of Year Exhibition 2017

29 November 2017 – 16 January 2018

Rebel, Rebel, Tom Scotcher, Gouache on paper, 52 x 61cm

A group exhibition of students’ work from The Drawing Year, featuring an array of interesting and unusual pieces.

Royal Drawing School,
19-22 Charlotte Road,
London, EC2A 3SG

Clare Woods: Reality Dimmed

6 January 2017 – 10 March 2018

Clare Woods, Creeping Eruptions, 200 cm x 150 cm, Oil on Aluminium, 2017

Clare Woods is a renowned British painter, who established her reputation with large-scale landscapes painted in household gloss and enamel on aluminium. Recently, the artist has moved into figurative painting.

This exhibition presents a new series of raw and powerful paintings by Clare Woods. She is a renowned British painter, who established her reputation with large-scale landscapes painted in household gloss and enamel on aluminium. Recently, the artist has moved into figurative painting. The works, which are frequently vast in scale, were inspired by found photographic imagery the artist collects.

‘These images often depict people at their most vulnerable, including in situations of conflict and confinement. Reinterpreted in oil paint using long, curved brushstrokes and sensuous colour, Clare Woods has created paintings which contain an intrinsic tension between reality and abstraction, beauty and its troubling undercurrent of ever-present danger.’

Mead Gallery
Warwick Arts Centre,
University of Warwick,
Coventry, CV4 7AL

Paulina Pluta – Paintings and Drawings.

4 January 2018 – 24 January 2018

Paulina Pluta, Roman bottle, Oil on panel, Framed in brown wood

Paulina is a realist painter from London. She paints portraits, figure and still life. This exhibition will show some of her work from 2016 and 2017, including personal work from the studio and figurative work completed as a part of the project for Elisabeth Greenshields Foundation Award.

POSK Gallery
238 – 246 King Street,
Hammersmith
London
W6 0RF

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The image at the top is: Rebel, Rebel by Tom Scotcher, Gouache on paper, 52 x 61cm.

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Current Events #3. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 3 of 2017.
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bound : unbound

20 January – 28 February 2018

Lost Words, Altered Book on stitched linen panel, acrylic by Liza Green

bound : unbound is a group exhibition of 5 artists from a variety of disciplines, who have come together to explore the medium of the book. Exhibiting artists include Felicity Bristow, Lynda Wilson, Liza Green, Susie Wilson and Susie Leiper.

&Gallery
17 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

Open Exhibition 2018

13 January–17 March 2018

Alison Goodyear, ‘Munsta Monsta’ 2017 (detail – in progress)

This biennial exhibition comprises of the work of 72 artists, selected from an open call by Kaavous Clayton, Jules Devonshire and Roxy Walsh.

Artists: Jonathan Alibone, Zahra Amirkamali, Emily Arnold, Tristram Aver, Catherine Baker, Sharon Baker, Sophie Bament, Emma Barford, Ben Bird, Giulia Cacciuttolo, Lorsen Camps, Anya Charikov-Mickleburgh, George Chinnery, Fran Copeman, Benjamin Duax, Daniel Earey, Robert Fitzmaurice, Louise Freeman, James Fuller, Alison Goodyear, John Griff, Colette Griffin, Keren Goresh-Freedman, Luke Harby, Jade Hanley, Matt James Healy, Charlie Hurcombe, Sarah Jenkins, Sarah Louise Keber, Jonathan Kelham, Kyle Kirkpatrick, Marine Lefebvre, Silvia Lerin, Maria Lewis, William Lindley, Eugene Macki, Zara Makhdoom, Tahira Mandarino, Ryoko Minamitani, Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Alvin Ong, Sylvia Owens, Alistair Payne, Karen Piddington, Maksim Podorozkin, Duncan Poulton, Richard Powell, Lisa Price, Srecko Radivojcevic, Alison Ranson, Attia Rashid, Chernaya Rechka, Scott Robertson, Luís Filipe Salgado Pereira Rodrigues, Marjan Samie, Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk, Veronica Slater, Emily Sparkes, Stephanie Spindler, Alcaeus Spyrou, Natalka Liber Stephenson, Pamina Stewart, James Tebbutt, Clare Thatcher, David Theobald, Ross Tomkins, Mererid Velios, Satu Viljanen, Jane Walker, Mark Wilsher, Claire Yspol, Jasmin Yusuf.

Contemporary Art Northampton Gallery
Number Nine
Guildhall Road
Northampton
NN1 1DP, UK

Eagle Gallery EMH Arts: Abstract Syntax

11 January – 2 February 2018

Katrina Blannin, Double Hexad Blue, 2011, Acrylic on linen, 60 x 50 cm

An exhibition of work by Chris Baker, Katrina Blannin, John Carter, Natalie Dower, 
Julia Farrer, Kevin Finklea, Matt Magee and Peter Rasmussen.

Eagle Gallery/ EMH Arts
159 Farringdon Road
London EC1R 3AL

Fresh Paint

6 January – 4 February 2018

Kathryn Maple, RED ROOF, Oil on Paper, H120 x W150cm

‘Fresh Paint will showcase a mixture of established and emerging artists, from Royal Academicians to those just out of degree shows based around the country. Artists will include Orlanda Broom, Tom Hammick and Stephen Chambers RA as well as a slew of exciting new painters including Kathryn Maple.

The thematic strand through this diverse range of paintings, which weaves them all together is colour. Apart from being critically lacking in the winter scenery, many cultures mark their New Year celebrations by using bright, cheering colours in the form of fireworks or costumes. The use of optimistic hues symbolise — like our exhibition — the hope and the promise of the year’s opening months.’

Messums Wiltshire
Place Farm,
Court St,
Tisbury,
Salisbury,
Wiltshire,
SP3 6LW

The River Project

26 January 2018

The River Project, an exciting contemporary exhibition of collaborative work by local school children, members of the local community and artists; Alison Boult, Katie Brookes, Nikki Gardham, Rebecca Harper, Kathryn Maple and Elizabeth McCarten.

Find out more on their Facebook Page.

Sun Pier House
Medway Street
Chatham,
ME4 4HF

True/False/Fake/Real

17 January – 28 January 2018
Private View: Thursday 18 January 6-9pm

An exhibition curated by Seacourt – The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking

Gallery 1
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #4. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 4 of 2017.
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Poets, Portraits and Landscapes of Modern Scotland

13 January – 8 February 2018

Ruth Nicol, ‘Candy Mill from Brownsbank’

This exhibition brings together the iconic portraits of Scottish poets by Alexander Moffat. Including Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Norman MacCaig, Robert Garioch, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown and Edwin Morgan as well as paintings of the landscapes associated with the poets, by Ruth Nicol.

Lillie Art Gallery
Station Rd,
Milngavie,
Glasgow G62 8BZ

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13 January – 11 February 2018

Stig Evans, ‘Ravished Image’

A show of seven contemporary abstract painters which explores space, colour, line and edge. ‘In developing the images, the artists favour intention over accident.’

Some of the assertions they are attempting to test are:
‘What is hard painting?
Painting that is hard edged, non-figurative and abstract
Painting that endures
Painting that is a complex and esoteric distillation of ideas’

Phoenix Brighton
10–14 Waterloo Place
Brighton BN2 9NB
East Sussex
UK

This Year’s Model! parts I and II ‘Does the Body Rule the Mind?…’

5 January – 28 January 2018

Caroline Thomson, I’ll drive a tank straight through your heart II

The annual members’ show of studio1.1. London.

Including work by Paige Perkins, Ute Kreyman, Julie Caves, Andrew Seto, Graham Carrick, Kelly Sweeney, Caroline Thomson, Henry Ward, Sonia Petrone, Ruth Philo, Stephen Buckeridge, Sacha Meaden, Euan Stewart and Katya Kvasova.

‘Duck or rabbit? Old crone or beautiful woman. The games the mind and eye can play are notorious. And then there’s muscle memory. Are de Kooning’s last paintings (made while supposedly of unsound mind) invalid? Someone has certainly decided they have less ‘value’ on the art market? Or are they just the most beautiful things he has ever produced? Is there a duality? A contradiction? Or is it just where you start from? Where do you want to get to? Well I wouldn’t start from here…

‘But we cannot cling
to the old dreams anymore
no we cannot cling
to those dreams

Does the body rule the mind
or does the mind rule the body?
I dunno…’

The Smiths ‘Still Ill’’

Studio 1.1 Gallery
57a Redchurch Street
Shoreditich, London
E2 7DJ

Upright Animal: Selma Parlour

5 January – 10 February 2018

Selma Parlour- ‘unlikely chords of colour and angular planes’

Pi Artworks presents the inaugural exhibition of Selma Parlour’s immaculate paintings that are new or never have been exhibited before. The show has been curated by Sacha Craddock.

Pi Artworks Gallery
55 Eastcastle Street,
London, W1W 8EG

Frivolous Convulsions

12 January – 25 February 2018

Aliki Krikidi, All you have to do is to take an uneven number (Truffles with dragons and cinnamon) Oil on canvas 150 x 255cm 2008

A collection of work by Aliki Krikidi // Babette Semmer // Grant Foster // Ben Westley Clarke // Denzil Forrester // Lucy Stein // David Harrison // Melissa Kime // Vanessa Mitter // Jack Catling // Robin Bale // Stuart Brisley. Curated by Vanessa Mitter and Ben Westley Clarke

“In a world that has really been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood“ – Guy Debord
“There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world” – Jean Baudrillard

Turf,
46/47 Trinity Court (Ground Floor),
Whitgift Shopping Centre,
Croydon, CR01UQ

in with the new

17 January – 28 January 2018

Renee Rilexie, Room of a Thousand Butterflies

‘January is the month which looks both ways: back to the old year and, more importantly, forward to the new.

So what better time for an artistic collaboration to infuse the New Year with creative energy?

This January, artists from The Artists’ Pool and London Visual Arts have joined together for an artistic expedition at Espacio Gallery.

LVA Artists
Maureen Collier, Anisha Samani, Barry Moore, Ellie Atkins, Nich Batt,
Kay Singla, Ben Honey, Paula Koski, Becca Clegg, Nellam Markanday

The Artists’ Pool
Jesus David Gomez, Mario Bieletto, Rilexie, Manuel Miguel,
Oscar Martinez Olivera, Roberto Cortes Arellano’

Gallery 2
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #5. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 5 of 2017.
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Treasures of the Deep by Gary Scholes

11 January – 4 February 2018

Gary Schols, Treasures of the Deep, Olympus Digital Camera

This is an exhibition of recent work by Gary Scholes. His paintings explore the symbolism of the creative imagination and use the iconography of modern warfare, dream symbolism and images from the popular culture of his youth. The idea being to demonstrate, capture and analyse in visual form areas of his subconscious he has become aware of.

The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone, London
E11 1HG

Pamela Golden: Thunderstruck

10 January 2018 – 3 February 2018

Pamela Golden, Phantom Linebacker, 2017, sumi, watercolour and ink on paper, 110 x 100 cm

Thunderstruck consists of a series of new paintings by Pamela Golden exploring real and imagined images of Iraq. The title of the exhibition, is taken from the AC/DC song American soldiers played whilst bombing in the Iraq War.

Marlbourough
6 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4BY

Kati Heck: Heimlich Manoeuvre

23 November 2017 – 10 February 2018

Kati Heck, Heimlich Manoeuvre, at Sadie Coles HQ, Trinklied vom Jammer der Erde

For her first exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, and her first solo London showing, Kati Heck presents a range of new paintings based on Gustav Mahler’s composition Das Lied von der Erde (1909) – whose lyrics are based in turn on Chinese poetry – and a new video sculpture, Der Springende Punkt Case II. Heck’s practice incorporates sculpture, film, performance and photography, with compositions that branch into multiple genres – with literature, art history, folklore and lived experience forming simultaneous and indivisible strands.)

Sadie Coles HQ
62 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5QN

The Performativity of Painting

16 January – 16 February 2018

Schild, 2017, Tobias Buckel and The Late Night Traveller, 2017, Alex Roberts (image credit: Laurin Gutwin) (detail)

Curated by Alex Roberts this exhibition explores the idea of painting as an act.

‘Painting – the performance of structures, fragments and use of space within the perceived painted frame, and the relating inherent surround.
In bringing together these artists, through their distinct individual accounts and methodologies, The Performativity of Painting offers opportunity to consider site-specificity, theatrical tropes, depicted surfaces, staging and the interconnectedness of the artwork’s context (in the works’ content and proximity). In this sense, the exhibition will seek to address painting’s embodiment of the performative space.’

Artists: Tobias Buckel, Liz Elton, David Lock, J.A. Nicholls, Selma Parlour, James Pimperton, Rebecca Molloy, Alex Roberts.

Stephen Lawrence Gallery
10 Stockwell Street
London
SE10 9BD

In Line

18 January – 23 February 2018

Photograph of In Line exhibition at the Griffin Gallery

This exhibition brings together the work of nine different artists whose distinct practices explore a common territory in quite different ways and mediums including painting, video, installation, wall painting, drawing and kinetic sculpture. Thematically they are focused on the use of line to generate a complex structure or form, bounded by a set of rules that ultimately determine the final work. It has been curated by Saturation Point, Patrick Morrissey| Hanz Hancock.

Exhibiting artists include:
Duncan Bullen
Robert Currie
Daryl Brown
Lothar Götz
Ben Gooding
Hanz Hancock
Peter Lowe
Patrick Morrissey
Wendy Smith

Griffin Gallery The Studio Building
21 Evesham Street
London
W11 4AJ

Unfold

30 January – 11 February 2018
Private View: Thursday 1 February 6-9pm

Andrea Coltman, Johnny Sleeps

Curated by Carlos de Lins
‘Unfold is a fascinating journey into the creative mind of the artist. It reveals the creative processes that are essential to the development of their art. They allow the viewer a glimpse into sources of inspiration, and invite the onlooker to watch their ideas unfold, evolve and eventually develop into finished works.

The exhibition showcases a variety of interpretations and mediums reflecting their different styles.’

Artists exhibiting:Tanaz Assefi, Andrea Coltman, Evaldas Gulbinas, Renee Rilexie,
Ekaterini Koliakou, David Emmanuel Noel, Sara Wickenden,
Claire Weinstock.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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This month’s selection of 10 exhibitions to see in UK includes several shows that are curated around works inspired by or thematically related to famous cultural figures, alongside this are several notable solo shows that demonstrate the depth of each artist’s work and process as well as their greater cultural significance.

Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites

The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434, Oil on oak panel of 3 vertical boards, 82.2 cm × 60 cm (32.4 in × 23.6 in)

Even today Jan van Eyck’s ‘The Arnolfini Portrait’ is well known by the general public and continues to inspire artists, writers and historians. This exhibition looks at how four centuries after it was first painted, it inspired the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and stimulated them to create a new, radical style of painting. Works by the Brotherhood, which included John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt, focus on legends, real-life muses, the possibilities of reflections on mirrors and indulgent, decadent details and trappings.

The whole show is an interesting view of the obsession through the ages of the thematic link between romantic narratives and gorgeous, intricate surprises, embellishments and backgrounds.

This exhibition was organized by the National Gallery in collaboration with Tate Britain.

Showing at the National Gallery, London until 2nd April 2018.

Journeys with The Waste Land

The Shore, 1923 (oil on canvas), Nash, Paul (1889-1946) : Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K. : Bridgeman Images

“On Margate Sands.

I can Connect

Nothing with nothing.”

-T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land has inspired and influenced visual art since it was written. Journeys with The Waste Land looks at how over 60 artists and nearly 100 works can be seen in conjunction or reference to the themes of The Waste Land. Including work by Banner, Cecil Collins, Tacita Dean, Elisabeth Frink, Patrick Heron, Edward Hopper, Barbara Kruger, Helen Marten, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Paula Rego, John Smith and JMW Turner, there is more than enough to see even if you are unfamiliar with T.S. Eliot’s work.

In 1921, T.S. Eliot arrived in Margate in a physically and mentally delicate state. He worked on The Waste Land while sitting in the Nayland Rock Shelter on Margate Sands. The poem was pivotal to developing the modernist style and demonstrated the fractured world that was left after the First World War as well as Eliot’s own state of being.

This exhibition focuses on and explores how art can present the changing and shifting of voices, references, characters and places. It is a culmination of a three year radical, curating project. Local residents, ranging in age between 20 and late 70s, have selected the works, designed the layout of the show and written the exhibitions texts after many months of working collaboratively to discuss personal connections between art, poetry and life. The mode of curation here is directly complementary to The Waste Land’s multiple perspectives and different voices.

Artists whose work is being shown include:

Berenice Abbot I Fiona Banner I Christiane Baumgartner I Sir Peter Blake I William Blake I Leonora Carrington I Cecil Collins I John Davies I Tacita Dean I Tess Denman-Cleaver I Benedict Drew & Nicholas Brooks I Jacob Epstein I Elisabeth Frink I Philip Guston I Henrik Håkansson I Rozanne Hawksley I Patrick Heron I Edward Holloway I Edward Hopper I David Jones I R.B Kitaj I Käthe Kollwitz I Winifred Knights I Barbara Kruger I Matt Lewis I Percy Wyndham Lewis I Nalini Malani I Helen Marten I Bernard Meadows I Ana Mendieta I Lee Miller I Henry Moore I Olive Mudie Cooke I Paul Nash I John Newling I Eduardo Paolozzi I Deanna Petherbridge I Man Ray I Paula Rego I Julia Riddiough I Martin Rowson I Rosalie Schweiker I Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian I Walter Sickert I John Smith I Lalage Snow I John Stezaker I Jo Stockham I Graham Sutherland I Emma Talbot I Berny Tan I Vibeke Tandberg I William Turnbull I JMW Turner I Cy Twombly I Edward Wadsworth I Sally Waterman I Jane & Louise Wilson I William Lionel Wyllie I Carey Young

Showing at The Turner Contemporary between 3rd February – 7th May 2018.

Roy Oxlade: Work From the 80s & 90s

Roy Oxlade, Saucepan and Wine Bottle, 1984, Oil on canvas, 120 x 151 cm, 47 1/4 x 59 1/2 ins © Estate of Roy Oxlade

This is the first solo exhibition of Oxlade’s work since his death in 2014, it is made up of paintings he created in the 1980s and 1990s and demonstrate the underlining themes and metaphors that underpin Oxlade’s use of bold colour and improvised image. His subject matter mainly consists of his home and studio in Kent, notably including anglepoise lamps, lemon squeezers and his wife Rose Wylie.

Roy Oxlade was born in Tottenham, North London and emerged in the 1950s as one of a group of prominent London-based painters including Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossoff. His work is known for prefacing authenticity in marks, immediacy and feeling alongside spontaneous wit, sensuality and a lack of pretentiousness or formal painting traditions.

Roy Oxlade:

‘Painting to me is like a room of the imagination. It’s up to me what I do with it. I choose its size and its materials – usually canvas and oil paint. At the beginning its relationships don’t amount to much – it’s a rectangle in a jumble of art history I relate to […] There would not be much fun in leaving the room empty […] I have put in some other stuff, some characters, some actors – tables, pots, colours, easels, lamps, scribbles, figures and faces to interact with each other. I adjust the temperature, open the windows, shut the windows, throw things out, change the lighting.’

Showing at Alison Jacques Gallery between 21st February to 7th April 2018.

Minjung Kim: The Memory of Process

Minjung Kim, Nautilus 2010 Mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper 82 11:16 x 57 1:2 in. (210 x 146 cm) Photo- White Cube (George Darrell)

Minjung Kim is one of a few female heirs of the Dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) movement. At the age of nine, she started being traditionally trained in Korean watercolour painting and calligraphy. This exhibition organized by Katharine Kostyál is the first comprehensive exhibition of her work in the UK to date and shows paintings from throughout her career, demonstrating her refined minimalist language and focused exploration of abstraction and serialization.

‘Kim has described her work as ‘a visualization of Zen and Tao’ and her unique process, whereby she remains silent and of even breath when executing each mark, results in paintings with rhythmical abstract surfaces that seem to pulsate, as if the result of organic growth. In this way, Kim’s method is in keeping with the Dansaekhwa approach to painting. The term ‘Tao’, which can be understood as a ‘path’ or journey without any definitive end, relates closely to her work, which fundamentally connects mind with body and body with subject in a controlled, ritualistic manner. Characterised by their intense, conceptual focus, her canvases suggest a catharsis, harnessing the energy that results from repetitive mark making.’

Showing at The White Cube Gallery until 10 March 2018.

The Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018

Afternoon Shadows, Charlotte Keates, Acrylic on panel, 34 x 34 cm

The Columbia Threadneedle Prize is a very well renowned prize for figurative and representational art in the UK and Europe, it includes fascinating new works by emerging and established artists. This exhibition includes carefully selected works that challenge and question what figurative art can consist of and how photo-realism fits into the genre of representational art. In the words of Frank Auerbach they look for work “that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing”.

The work we’ve chosen to represent the exhibition here is ‘Afternoon Shadows’ by Charlotte Keates, which is being shown along with other selected works. Her description of the piece is as follows:

‘I’m interested in how both the man-made and the organic can meld together in this piece. I am aiming to portray the beauty achieved through geometric simplicity in ‘Afternoon Shadows’ – the way shadows are cast, yet only in certain areas. I want the viewer to feel like they need to look closely to notice all is not as it first may seem. Pillars stop abruptly, levitating just off the ground and trees seem to float without casting any shadows at all.’

Showing at The Mall Galleries until 17th February 2018.

Caroline Achaintre: Fantômas

Caroline Achaintre Fantomas, installation view

Caroline Achaintre creates striking and intelligent ceramic sculptures as well as hand-tufted wall hangings that combine a multitude of references and associations. These subjects and visual tropes range from iconic catwalk fashion, carnival, and death-metal iconography to early 20th century Primitivism and Expressionism, focusing in particular on how they adopted imagery from non-western and prehistoric imagery in order to depict their contemporary world.

Her sculptures echo masks, drawing on the cultural associations of masks as things that can come alive and conjure their own beings. The exhibition name ‘Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre in 1911. references a mask which was worn by a French shape-shifting criminal who was created by the writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre in 1911. Her use of the motif of masks places them as a liminal space between fantasy and reality where both are equally valid.

She has also produced a Limited Edition Print to accompany the exhibition called ‘Woofer’ which cements and emphasizes the power of her interpretation of masks.

Showing at De La Warr Pavilion until 29th April 2018.

Eugene Palmer – Didn’t It Rain: New Paintings

Installation View, Eugene Palmer, Didn’t it Rain, Black I (blue), Black II (yellow), Black (pink) oil on canvas, 240cm x 155cm, 2018 Photography- Steve White

Didn’t it Rain comprises of three distinct but interconnected series of figurative paintings that form fascinating visual allegories about the Black female subject. It is Eugene Palmer’s first major solo exhibition in the last decade, his new work explores how the relationship between Black people, the church and extended family endures and operates. Palmer places himself in the cannon of W.E.B Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Catlett and Keith Piper while maintaining a vague sense of unease in the viewer.

The five up-scaled double portraits, which provide the focus of the show, show women elegantly modeling glamorous outfits. Each of these are larger than life and set against flat backgrounds with each portrait having a double or doppelgänger. He uses this repetition to demonstrate the “labour of painting” but also how to locate a united self.

All the portraits are from American websites where Black women model church attire. He uses the formalised postures with the flat backgrounds to convey that while they project confidence, health and reassurance, there are aspects of these women hidden by the finished appearance. Carol Dixon comments “Whatever these women might be experiencing is shielded behind the façade of their personae.”

Showing at James Hockey and Foyer Galleries, UCA Farnham until 24 March 2018.

Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings

Wings over Water 1930 Frances Hodgkins 1869-1947 Presented by Geoffrey, Peter and Richard Gorer in memory of R?e Alice Gorer 1954 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N06237

This exhibition, thematically located, looks at artworks that have been inspired by the celebrated author Virginia Woolf.

From childhood Virginia Woolf spent a lot of time in the Cornish town of St Ives; ‘To the Lighthouse’ was inspired by the view of Godrevy Lighthouse from St Ives. As she was a pioneering feminist this exhibition using her writing as a starting point, looks at how women explore landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art.

It includes work by over 80 artists with substantial pieces by Laura Knight, Gwen John, Vanessa Bell, Winifred Nicholson, Sandra Blow, Barbara Hepworth, Claude Cahun and Dora Carrington.

The exhibition will tour after it’s stint at Tate St Ives and will move to Pallant House, Chichester between 26th May – 16th September 2018, continuing to The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, between 2nd October – 9th December 2018.

Showing at Tate, St Ives between 10 February – 29 April 2018.

Waqas Khan

The Text in Continuum, 2015. Photograph- Waqas Khan:Galerie Krinzinger, Wien

Waqas Khan produces his works while in a trance-like state, they speak of the process that goes into their creation: meticulous, painstaking and precise. The exhibition guides you from small drawings to large-scale floor based work easing you into contemplation.

Borrowing from biological organic growth and the work and lives of Sufi poets, his work mimics in the mind webs and celestial expanses making one consider views of the world from space, mountain ranges or even just the night sky. His work both visually and practically is a meditation on unity, life and being part of the world at large.

Made mainly in ink on paper, the work asks you to enter into the space and state that it was created in. The small lines and dots, nearly always in red, blue, white or black, become more and more enthralling the longer you look at them drawing you into thinking about the potential for understanding, a theme taken from Han’s interest in Sufism and the Sufi spirit of synthesis and diversity.

Showing at Manchester Art Gallery until 25th February 2018.

A New Era: Scottish Modern Art 1900-1950

The Birth of Venus, 1934, Edward MacEwan Baird Copyright- Graham Stephen

This exhibition highlights the remarkable response of Scottish artist to the development of modern art in the early 20th century, it examines how progressive and responsive they were to the great movements happening at the time in Europe.

Included are over a 100 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by more than 50 artists each one demonstrating a subtle and unusual take on the culture of the time. In particular, it focuses on the transition from the work of JD Fergusson and SJ Peploe who experienced in Paris the work of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, to when in the 1950s Alan Davie, Doris Zinkeisen, William Gear, Margaret Mellis, and Eduardo Paolozzi started to lead the European contemporary art scene.

The exhibition who takes an art group established in Edinburgh in 1939 as it’s namesake has a complementary exhibition running at the Keiller Library: Magazines and Manifestos: British Periodicals from 1890 to 1950. This exhibition works in conjunction since it demonstrates the powerful force of radical thoughts at the time as well as how their authors and artists used any means possible to form discussion and disseminate ideas.

Showing at Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art (Modern Two) until 10 June 2018.

The image featured at the top is: Afternoon Shadows, Charlotte Keates, Acrylic on panel, 34 x 34 cm who is showing at The Columbia Threadneedle Prize Exhibition 2018 in the Mall Galleries, London. You can see more of her work by clicking here.

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Current Events #6. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 6 of 2017.
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Winter Flowers

20 January 2018 – 8 March 2018

Elizabeth Blackadder RSA, Orchids and Bananas (1989), watercolour, 69 x 102 cm

A selection of prints, watercolours, oils and sculpture on the subject matter of plants.

Artists include: Ade Adesina, Elizabeth Blackadder, Mary Bourne, Gordon Bryce, Alfons Bytautus, Victoria Crowe, Michael Docherty, George Donald, Graham Fagen, Alexander Fraser, Derrick Guild, Elspeth Lamb, Kirkland Main, Jennifer McRae, David Michie, Marion Smith, Frances Walker, Adrian Wiszniewski and, of course, Anne Redpath.

RSA Lower Galleries,
The Mound,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2EL

Longwick Art Exhibition

17th – 18th February 2018

Lunch on the Wind, Anne Hewitt

The 30th anniversary of the Longwick Art Show, located in the Longwick Combined Church of England School this is an annual display of works by local amateur and professional artists.

Exhibiting artists include: Ray Styles, Rachel Wright, Rachel Wright, Pauline James, Mike Bowker, Michael York, Marian Carter, Jo Stewart, Jill Blackburn, Jenny Hay, Janet Erskine, Jane Miller, James Scutt, Jadi, Jackie Webb, Irenke York, Helen Willson, Helen Robinson, Glenn Hart, Geoff Johnson, Gareth Hendley, Emma Wheeler, Diane Riddy, David Floyd, Damian Ward, Cynthia Evenden, Chris Dignan, Catherine Henshaw, Catherine Constable, Barry Macey, Anne Hewitt, Anna Kingsnorth, Andy Lee.

Longwick School
Walnut Tree Lane
Longwick
Princes Risborough
Bucks
HP27 9SJ

Destroyed by Shadows

Destroyed by Shadows Flyer

A group exhibition of the following artists:
Dominic Beattie
John Bunker
Neil Gall
Peter Lamb
Andrea Medjesi-Jones
Harland Miller
Selma Parlour
DJ Simpson
Michael Stubbs
Shaan Syed
Clare Woods
Vicky Wright

The Cornerstone Gallery
Liverpool Hope University
The Creative Campus
17 Shaw Street
Liverpool
L6 1HP

Bloomsberg New Contemporaries 2017, Block 336, London

27 January – 3 March 2018

Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Installation Image, Block 336, Photograph: Tom Carter

An exhibition of 47 artists selected for Bloomberg New contemporaries including:
Raen Barnsley, Calum Bowden, Eleanor Breeze, Christy Burdock, Robbie Campbell, Neil Carroll, Sofia Caselli, Adam Castle and Ed Twaddle, Tereza Červeňová, Sarah Cockings and Harriet Fleuriot, Declan Colquitt, José Rafael Cordeiro, Jake Elwes, Darek Fortas, Rufus Roma Genn, Matthew Gough, Thomas Greig, Tom Hatton, Caitlin Hazell, Gabriella Hirst, Jack Howell Evans, Hettie James, Jack Killick, Carla Lavin, James Laycock, Gal Leshem, Melissa Magnuson, Lucy Mayes, Amanda Moström, Rhona Mühlebach, Nathan Roy Newton, Robbie O’Keeffe, Irvin Pascal, Katarzyna Perlak, Seth Pimlott, Tom Platt, Glen Pudvine, Maïa Régis, Harriet Rickard, Martin Sekera, Devlin Shea, Felix Treadwell, David Walker Kennedy, Max K Weaver and Michaela Yearwood-Dan.

Block 336
336 Brixton Road
London
United Kingdom
SW9 7AA

Society of Wood Engravers: 80th Annual Exhibition

30 January – 18 February 2018

David Robertson, Less Affordable Housing, wood engraving

This is the 80th annual exhibition of wood engravings by members and includes a range of approaches and subject matter. There is a special display by Pam Pebworth.

Bankside Gallery
48 Hopton St
London
SE1 9JH

Leosoc

7 – 15 February 2018

Photograph of the Leosoc exhibition

A mixed media group exhibition by members of the Leonardo Fine Arts Society, Imperial College.

Blyth Gallery
Imperial College London
Sherfield Building
London
SW7 2AZ

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Current Events #7. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 7 of 2018.
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The Adam and Eve Project

13 January – 25 February 2018

Adam and Eve by Michael Cook you can view his work here.

A group leading artists who live and work in Derbyshire and Staffordshire have produced work to make something with a personal response to the story of Adam and Eve and how it has been interpreted over the centuries.

Brampton Museum
Brampton Park
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire
ST5 0QP

For a Burning Love

21 January – 25 February 2018

Work for Burning For Love, including artists Stephen Carley, Alison J Carr, Nick Grindrod, Warren Hayes, David Jones, Rita Kaisen, Mandy Payne, Stephen Todd, Kate Whateley, and Sean Williams.

An exhibition of contemporary painting by the following artist:
Stephen Carley, Alison J Carr, Nick Grindrod, Warren Hayes, David Jones, Rita Kaisen, Mandy Payne, Stephen Todd, Kate Whateley, and Sean Williams.

This exhibition has been curated curated by Sean Williams.

The Old Lock Up Gallery
19, The Hill
Swifts Hollow
Cromford
DE4 3RF

Michael Ashcroft, Lisa Hooper & John Threlfall

10 February – 28 March 2018

San Stefano Square, Venice by Michael J Ashcroft MAFA, oil on board 10 x 12 inches

A joint exhibition of the work of Michael J Ashcroft, Lisa Hooper and John Threlfall.

McGill Duncan Gallery
231 King Street
Castle Douglas
Dumfries and Galloway
SCOTLAND
DG7 1DT

Night follows Night

3 February – 17 March 2018

Night follows night press release

A collection of work by Paul Fenner, Anne IIsley Anna Jung-Seo, Jessie Makinson, Hannah Murgatroyd and Paige Perkins.

Gallery 98 Ramsgate
98 Highstreet,
CT11 9RX
Ramsgate

Rural

16 – 29 February 2018

Rural press release image

An exhibition of 5 artists showing work in various media.

Martin Jones – Photography

Frances Marr – Ceramics

Dan Bilton – Landscape Ink Work

Debra Sweeney – Landscape work

Jill Hillman – Landscape in Gouache

Studio53
George Street
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP27BB

Transcendance

9 – 18 February 2018

‘Grey Drift 3’ by Graham Crowley Oil on canvas 91cm x 121cm

A group exhibition of artists exploring otherness and the conflict between simple boundaries of the real and unreal.

Curated by Sarah Jeffries and Alexander Hinks, this show includes work by: Abi Box, Alan Brooks, Alexander Hinks, Darren Nixon, Gary Colclough, Graham Crowley, Kiera Bennett, Louisa Chambers, Martin Dukes, Ruth Solomons, Sarah Jeffries, Patrick O’Sullivan, Zoe Schoenherr.

The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road
Waterloo
SE1 8TJ
Londo
United Kingdom

YELLOW

13th – 25th February 2018

Rosana Miracco, The Falling Sky 1, 2013

Curated by Terry Beard this shows features the work of 16 gallery artists responding to the theme yellow. It is part of an annual series of exhibitions the Espacio Gallery runs that focus on colour as a theme exhibiting artists include:

Terry Beard, Robert Fitzmaurice, Zelda Eady, Christine Calow,
Sally Grumbridge, Bozena Czyz, Philip Leevers, Lizzie Brown,
John Adams, Tina Viljoen, Ann Simberg, Susan Keshet,
Andy Metcalf, Rosana Miracco, Kirsty Kerr

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #8. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 8 of 2018.
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Reflections in a Blue Lake: Reduction Woodblock Prints by Chen Li

19 February – 24 February 2018

Chen Li, 2010, Reflections in a Blue Lake, reduction woodblock print, 100 x 100cm, Edition 8/12

‘Chen Li’s award-winning reduction woodblock prints bring his unique vision and abundant originality to an age-old technique, creating pure magic. Chen Li (b. 1971, Kunming) uses a rare woodblock reduction technique perfected in Yunnan. He prints all colours from a single woodblock, using thick oil-based colours that result in a mesmerising textured surface. Each step along this process destroys the previous one. Only a single edition can be printed and the process can never be repeated.’

Katrine Levin Gallery, Coningsby Gallery,
London, 
W1T 4RJ

Face To Face

27 January – 2 March 2018

Face to Face Press release image.

This exhibition is curated by Sasha Bowles and includes work by Mark Jackson, Sue Williams A’Court, Sasha Bowles, Wendy Saunders, Corinna Spencer.

‘’I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould……..
I know faces, because I look through the fabric of my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.’’ Kahlil Gibran

ANGUS-HUGHES Gallery
26 Lower Clapton Rd
(at the junction of Urswick Rd)
London,
E5 0PD

The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2018

20 February – 3 March 2018

Holland Street, Angela A’Court PS, Soft Pastel, 71 x 67.5 cm

Including works made with pastel, pencil, chalk and charcoal, The Pastel Society exhibits a range of thematic work. The show mixes the work of elected members of the society with those selected from open submissions.

Mall Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

Through the Window

20 January to 24 March 2018

Robert Pugh Canboulay re-enactment square

A mixed show featuring paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery focusing on themes including: Early evenings with houses all lit up inside, we can peek into other lifestyles, catching glimpses of their treasured objects on the shelf and arrangements on the table. Or maybe you are cosy by the fire, watching the birds feeding in the fading light, thinking of weekend walks in the countryside, bracing days by the sea.

Artichoke Gallery
Church Street
Ticehurst
TN5 7AE

Lulu Manasseh: Locating One Self

8 February – 2 March 2018

Lulu Manasseh
Between Here and There, Map F, 2017
Reconstructed drawing on canvas
60 x 60 cm

Gallery Elena Shchukina presents Locating One Self, a solo exhibition of mixed media paintings by London-based artist and PROJECT2017 public vote competition winner, Lulu Manasseh. Comprising four interrelated series of works, the exhibition is conceived as a narrative display of Manasseh’s artistic and spiritual journey over a year of intense creative productivity.

With a focus on process, intended both as the physical practice of building an artwork and the artist’s labour of self-discovery, Locating One Self guides the visitors through a transcendental journey of shifting perspectives.

Earthy, layered paintings incorporating natural materials such as hessian and clay, the artworks on the lower floor are firmly grounded in the physical realm. Titled The Heart of the Matter, this series is a practical exploration of materials, but also a philosophical search for point(s) of origin, the crux “where two opposing forces cross and meet, providing a completely new and unique perspective. Centred on the heart of the matter we can explore our relationship to ourselves and the world around us.”

Moving up to the ground floor, the works gradually lose their earthbound qualities – natural pigment, black paint and woven material slowly give way to thin layers of white paper and clean, graphic marks.

“The drawings illustrate a universe of moving points, forming pathways that stop, pass each other, cross or meet.”

Shifting focus from the ground to the stars, the works in the Mapping Infinity series take the artist’s exploration of our relationships to the metaphysical realm, attempting to capture fleeting snapshots of a universe in constant flux: “multidimensional, multi-directional, we can move between or create new constellations… The possibilities are endless.” Looking back onto the world from a higher viewpoint, Manasseh achieves a complete shift in perspective in Between Here and There. “Realising that the actual process of building the maps is integral to the information received from them,” explains Manasseh, these maps can help us to see ourselves.

The journey of Locating One Self finds its conclusion in a final act of synthesised unity: inscribing the maps within layers of clay, hessian, fibres, acrylic and oil paint, Manasseh creates powerful textural black and gold paintings in which all perspectives finally meet.

“It is only by diving into the depths, into the darkness, that we can discover One Self. A timeless presence, an anchor in this ever-changing world. A place where we all meet, where differences fall away and we unite in harmony.”

Gallery Elena Shchukina
10 Lees Place
Mayfair, London
W1K 6LL

Daily Rites

Private view: 1 March 2018
2 March 2018 – 18 March 2018

Coupling (A Good Book), Daily Rites, Edition A / 5 Colour Screenprint, Tom Berry

This exhibition of Tom Berry’s work includes paintings and screen prints that explore ordinary, daily activities that become imbued with a symbolic power through repetition.

‘Daily Rites is an ongoing set of images which explore the impulses hidden beneath modern, commonplace activities. It is concerned with ritual and desire, and other instincts which underpin the modern humdrum. Each design is first painted in monochrome on wood panel, and a small edition of screenprints are produced from this image.’

Deptford Does Art
28 Deptford High Street
London SE8 4AF

Gin & Bare It

8 February 2018 – 3 March 2018

Angela Reilly, Knot, Oil on Canvas, 101.6cm x 101.6cm

This is a group exhibition of artists exploring the human figure in their individual styles.

Artists exhibiting include: Joyce Gunn Cairns MBE, Alan McGowan, Angela Reilly, Violetta Palak, Sebastiano Cantarella and Trevor Jones.

This exhibition is sponsored by Firkin Gin.

Union Gallery
4 Drumsheugh Place,
Edinburgh,
EH3 7PT

on my island none of this would be true

1 February – 3 March 2018

This exhibition focuses on the conflicting associations, ideas and stereotypes that islands as a space conjure up.

Artists exhibiting include: Naama Arad, Guy Ben-Ner, Verity Birt in collaboration with Holly Graham and Richard-Forbes Hamilton, Edgar–Walker, Gery Georgieva with music by Patchfinder, Joan Jonas, Terence McCormack, Hannah Regel and Mike Seaborne.

arebyte gallery
Java House,
Botanic Square,
London City Island,
E14 0JU

Go with the Flow

27 January – 4 March 2018

Go with the Flow press release

‘Flow explores the ways in which the physical materials that artists choose and use to create work influence and direct the Final outcome. The exhibition includes sculpture, painting, photography, film, ceramics and installation in which matter oozes, pours, tears, sags, cracks or hangs in the balance, vitally influencing form and scale.  Tension is created between the intention of the artist and the potential of accident.
Artworks include the film Singularity by Solveig Settemsdal, which won the prestigious Jerwood Drawing prize; and ceramics by the ground breaking artist Jonathan Keep, who programmes 3D printers with an element of chance to create innovative and intriguing porcelain pieces.
Alexis Harding, winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, will be showing work that challenges the way paint normally behaves and functions.  And, Harriet Hill will be making a site specifc installation that responds directly to the visceral qualities of the materials she uses and the OBS Gallery space.
Clare Price’s paintings explore the tension between geometric elements derived from digital technology and more expressive mark making. And, Emily Glass’ making process ensures that forms cannot be wholly predetermined, her fabric sculptures suggest the play of improvisation and chance.’

OBS Gallery
Tonbridge School
High Street, Tonbridge
Kent, TN9 1JP
England

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Current Events #9. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 9 of 2018.
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Coastal Structures – and an Ice Cream Van

24 February – 27 April 2018

The Hut Diner, 40 x 40cm , Pete Monaghan

This solo exhibition by Pete Monaghan focuses on vernacular architecture in Celtic landscapes. His free and nuanced style uses mixed-media and careful colour balances to draw you into the beauty and dignity of the humble buildings and structures he presents. His style breathes life into forgotten dwellings and conjures up individual narratives with each work. This is a stunning opportunity to see Pete Monaghan’s work in the gorgeous village of Machynlleth, where the landscape directly echoes his subject matter and one not to be missed. You can view more of Pete Monaghan’s work here.

MOMA MACHYNLLETH
The Tabernacle
Heol Penrallt
Machynlleth
Powys SY20 8AJ

The Classical Now

2 March – 28 April 2018

Yves Klein, Blue Venus (S 41), 1962. Dry pigment and synthetic resin on plaster 69.5 × 30 × 20 cm. © Yves Klein estate, ADAGP Paris / DACS, London, 2018; Image © Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM) 2018

The Classical Now is a major exhibition exploring Greek and Roman antiquity in the modern artistic imagination.

Presented by King’s College London in partnership with MACM (the award-winning Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins), the exhibition traces the ways in which Graeco-Roman art has captured and permeated the modern imagination. It examines classical presences in the works of twentieth-century artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore and Yves Klein, and leading contemporary artists including Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Louise Lawler, Grayson Perry, Marc Quinn and Rachel Whiteread. The show explores the myriad continuities and contrasts between the ancient, modern and contemporary, revealing the ‘classical’ as a living and fluid tradition.

The Classical Now is staged across two spaces at King’s College London, the Inigo Rooms in the East Wing of Somerset House, and the Arcade at Bush House – part of The King’s Cultural Quarter.

Exhibited works range from classical Greek and Roman artefacts (in bronze, marble and mosaic) to contemporary painting, sculpture, video and photography. The exhibition will feature contemporary works in which classical forms receive provocative new expression – such as the fragmentary bodies by contemporary artist Marc Quinn – alongside more oblique or suggestive uses of ancient themes, such as Bruce Nauman’s landmark video performance, Walk with Contrapposto (1968). Paris-based artist Léo Caillard, known for dressing classical statues in contemporary attire, has been commissioned to produce a new site-specific installation for the exhibition.

Alongside ancient Greek and Roman objects, The Classical Now exhibits work by Edward Allington, Pablo Bronstein, Léo Caillard, Jean Cocteau, Michael Craig-Martin, André Derain, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Damien Hirst, Alex Israel, Derek Jarman, Yves Klein, Louise Lawler, Christopher Le Brun, Roy Lichtenstein, George Henry Longly, Ursula Mayer, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Giulio Paolini, Grayson Perry, Frances Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Marc Quinn, Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Sacha Sosno, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread. The show will also incorporate the video-installation, ‘Liquid Antiquity: Conversations’, featuring interviews with six contemporary artists (Matthew Barney, Paul Chan, Urs Fischer, Jeff Koons, Asad Raza and Kaari Upson) – commissioned by the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, and designed by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro.

Inigo Rooms
Somerset House East Wing,
London
WC2R 2LS

Sol LeWitt: Colour

14 February – 17 March 2018

Sol LeWitt Concentric Irregular Black and White Bands 1994 Oil-based woodcut on Tosa-Misumi paper Paper 32.5 x 48.0 cm : Image 29.2 x 43.5 cm Edition of 100 Signed and numbered lower right

This is the first solo exhibition of Sol LeWitt’s graphic works since his death over ten years ago. It focuses on his late prints a medium he began to work with in 1970. This includes several print series and both organic forms and basic shapes.

Alan Cristea Gallery
43 Pall Mall,
London
SW1Y 5JG

Picnic

3 – 4 March 2018

This exhibition presents work that are playful female perspectives on Manet’s ‘Le Dèjeuner Sur L’Herbe’, including work by Megan Preston-Elliott,Antonia Showering, Tuesday Riddell, Freya Douglas-Moris, Cora Cuthbert, Polly Bennett, Nina Silverberg, Victoria Cantons, Florence Mytum, Jeanette Gunnarsson.

Subsidiary Projects
28 Bonnington Square,
London
SW8 1TQ

Andrew Viner: A Simple Image

24 February – 12 March 2018

Andrew Viner’s new paintings originate for his quest for a simple image. They represent both place and experience and are inspired by raw coastlines, dark seas and imagined ships. His work draws on what he sees during local walks and trips to the Cornish Coast. All of the work are simplified to their essence.

Mccully and Crane
27b Cinque Ports Street
Rye
East Sussex
TN31 7AD

Collective Possibilities

28 February – 5 March 2018
Private view: 28 February 2018

Syeda Begum, Floating, In The Sum, 2016.
Oil and pencil on panel
11″ x 14″

Curated by Julian Wild.
An exhibition of the work of 10 emerging artists. Including Syeda Begum, Meng Ni Beh, Aimee Brigginshaw, Sue Dagnall, Nathali du Luart, Dominic Head, Karin Jolly, Rebecca Kunzi, Patrick O’Donnell and Meg Wroe.

The featured work above is by Syeda Begum. Her work is heavily influenced by the urban environment of London. Her often very minimal and stripped back works are a response to the city and draw on key forms present in the city’s architecture and play with the urban colours of street signs. Her work presents her sense of detachment and disconnection from London. You can find out more about Begum and view more of her work on her website.

The Old Newington Library
155 Walworth Road
London
SE17 1RS
United Kingdom

Open Exhibition: SSA & VAS Together 2018

29 January – 8 March 2018

Joanna Kessel, (In)visible Cities- Interface IV​, winner of the Scottish Gallery Award

This is a collection of work by Scottish artists who were sourced from an open call, over 200 artworks have been selected by a team of members from the societies.

The Royal Scottish Academy,
The Mound,
Edinburgh,
EH2 2EL

Camaradas: UK – Mexico Art Competition

27 February – 4 March 2017
Private View: Wednesday 28 February 6-9pm

After four other editions, the Embassy of Mexico is now presenting “Camaradas: UK – Mexico Art Competition”, a fantastic opportunity for emerging artists from both the United Kingdom and Mexico to work and learn from each other and to discover unexpected similarities they share.

One British and one Mexican artist must become comrades and form a partnership, the partners must submit either an individual proposal of a piece by each artist, or a joint proposal. The art piece presented engages in a dialogue on a subject or idea of their choosing. The works will include paintings, photographs, videos, sculpture, performance and other visual art forms.

A panel of judges comprised of leading figures in the art world will select the best partnership proposal.

Curated by Pablo Lugo

Supported by the Embassy of Mexico

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Oil and pencil on panel
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Current Events #10. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 10 of 2018.
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21st Annual East Riding Open Art

2 March – 28 April 2018

Exhibitors at 2017’s East Riding Open Art exhibition

The East Riding open art exhibition presents the work of artists that live in Hull and East Riding, it consists of 310 pieces by both professionals and amateurs.

Treasure House & Beverley Art Gallery
Champney Rd,
Beverley
HU17 8HE

In A Country Far Far Away

1 March – 17 March 2018

Press image for ‘In A Country Far Far Away’ exhibition

A cross-border group art exhibition with accompanying workshops, concerts and events inspired by fairytales, myths and legends from countries in war and crisis

Speakers’ Event Artists in transition, Athens
Far Away Film Fest Animations by artists worldwide
Dance Amici Dance & Music for the Deaf
Tell Tale Pots Make art from relicts
Puppet Making with Arteast & the Creative ESOL Group
Communal Golem building day
Myth End: The Hamlet a Myth Away Adventure installation
Stop Clock Storytelling for All 360 seconds to tell a tale
Sound Baths by Mystery School of Sound
East London Life Drawing 2 guest sessions to join
LivingROOTS Interviews and photo portraits with gallery visitors

Mishaped Pearls UK folk, 1 March 8 pm
sandmoon Indie folk, Lebanon, 17 March, 7 pm

The Art Pavilion Mile End Park,
Clinton Rd,
London
E3 4QY

2018 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize Exhibition

5 – 17 March 2018

Charlie Schaffer, Head of Thandi Oil on canvas,50 x 50cm, winner of the Brian Botting Prize

An exhibition of selected entries for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize. The prize encourages encourage creative representational painting and skilled draughtsmanship.

Mall Galleries
The Mall
London
SW1

Dame of the Hour : International Women’s Day exhibition

5 March 2018 – 22 March 2018

Politeness is Not Required Sal Jones United Kingdom Painting Size- 21.3 H x 21.3 W x 2 in

This exhibition, curated by Kate Constantine, is a showcase of 22 local and international artists. It is designed to mark international women’s day.

St. James Wine Vaults,
10 St James Street,
Bath,
BA1 2TW

Ferens Art Gallery Open Exhibition 2018

17 February – 22 April 2018

Isabella Maclure’s ‘East Coast’ who is exhibiting at the Ferens Art Gallery Open Exhibition.

A collection of amateur and professional artists ‘ work that covers a diverse range of styles and media.

Ferens Art Gallery
Queen Victoria Square,
Carr Ln,
Hull
HU1 3RA

Mum Before Me: an exhibition inspired by our mothers

8-13 March 2018

Press image for Mum Before Me

Opening on International Women’s Day, this exhibition is themed upon the question ‘Who was your mum before you were born?’

18 artists reflect on the lives of the women that became their mothers.

Exhibiting artists include:
Helen Adie, Julie Bennett, Jackie Brown, Joan Byrne, Gill Day, Lulu Ditzel, Gin Dunscombe, Edori Fertig, Rebecca Fortnum, Tracey Francis, Pia Goddard, Caroline Gregory, Liz Honeybone, Helen Ireland, Leona Mitchell, Jacqueline Utley, Cynthia Wild, Caroline Wright.

Jeannie Avent Gallery,
14 North Cross Road,
London
SE22 9EU

Threads: Women’s History Month


06 March – 11 March 2018
Private View: Tuesday 6 March 6-9pm

Curated by Renee Rilexie

‘Our lives as women contain many threads. Some run through time, connecting us to our past selves and pointing a way towards the future.

Others are the threads that weave us together with our family and friends. And there are also the threads of memory, of those we have loved from near and from far, and of those we have lost.

In Women’s History Month, the Threads exhibition reaches out beyond the boundaries of national borders, language, culture and belief, inviting participants to choose a thread from the wide tapestry of their lives and gently unravel it to release its meaning, wisdom and secrets.’

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #11. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 11 of 2018.
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Still Life: Lisa Milroy & Jayne Parker

3 March – 18 March 2018

Lisa Milroy, Memory, 2017, oil on canvas, 184 x 233cm

This collaborative exhibition includes film, photography, sculpture and painting. It charts both artists continued interest in material, transformation, the experience of absence and how memory resides within us.

Art in Perpetuity Trust – A.P.T Gallery
Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside
Deptford, London
SE8 4SA

The Other Art Fair

22 March – 25 March 2018

50×60, Still Waiting, Gitte Valentiner-Branth

A direct artist to buyer show with work from emerging and undiscovered artists.

Victoria House
Southampton Row
London WC1A 2QP

1 Godley VC House

8 March – 20 April 2018

1 Godley VC House, Griffin Gallery, Image courtesy of Jon Emmony

Curated by Tim A Shaw, Emma Smale and Niamh White, this exhibition is based on a floor plan from Tim A Shaw’s London flat being converted into a skeletal frame that creates an imagined room.

Exhibiting artists:
Rachael Champion | Karen David | Jon Emmony | Alexandra Lethbridge | Steve Macleod | Cameron Morgan | Rose Pilkington | Charley Peters | Tim A Shaw | Esna Su

Griffin Gallery The Studio Building
21 Evesham Street
London
W11 4AJ

Sophie von Hellermann: New Waves

16 February – 24 March 2018

Installation view- Sophie von Hellermann- New Waves, Pilar Corrias, London,

The first solo exhibition of Sophie von Hellermann’s work which include paintings drawn from her subconscious and references to current affairs, literature and mythology.

Pilar Corrias Gallery
54 Eastcastle Street
London W1W 8EF

Longwick Art Exhibition

24 March – 25 March 2018

Lunch on the Wind, Anne Hewitt

The Longwick Art Show, located between 24th March and 25th March in the Brill Church of England School is an annual display of works by local amateur and professional artists to raise money for the school.

Exhibiting artists include: Ray Styles, Rachel Wright, Rachel Wright, Pauline James, Mike Bowker, Michael York, Marian Carter, Jo Stewart, Jill Blackburn, Jenny Hay, Janet Erskine, Jane Miller, James Scutt, Jadi, Jackie Webb, Irenke York, Helen Willson, Helen Robinson, Glenn Hart, Geoff Johnson, Gareth Hendley, Emma Wheeler, Diane Riddy, David Floyd, Damian Ward, Cynthia Evenden, Chris Dignan, Catherine Henshaw, Catherine Constable, Barry Macey, Anne Hewitt, Anna Kingsnorth, Andy Lee.

Brill School
The Firs
HP18 9RY

Varying Degrees: Peter Wileman

3 March – 24 March 2018

Peter Wileman, A Favourable Breeze, 50x60cm, Oil on Canvas

A solo show of Peter Wileman’s work which uses washes and glazes along with complimentary colours to create depth and mood.

Lemon Street Gallery
13 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2LS

nth nature: Lilah Fowler

16 March — 21 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 15 Mar, 6–9pm

Lilah Fowler, nth nature

‘A few whiles away: there are roads, roads and roads.
Delicate ribbons of travel, following contours of least resistance. No one believes in landscape anymore; the land becomes landscape becomes map.
Why exactly am I here?’

A collection of new work by Lilah Fowler that looks at the tensions between what we think of as natural and tcyberspace divide in how we designate, chop up and contain within physical locations and cyber space.

Assembly Point
49 Staffordshire Street
London SE15 5TJ

Transitions- A Solo Show by Adébayo Bolaji

20 February – 20 March 2018

“Black President – A Portrait Of Fela Kuti” by Adébayo Bolaji, 2018

A solo show of Bolaji’s focusing on the idea of reaching your full potential by removing or adding narratives and subjects in order to find a way to ‘deal with himself’.

someth1ng
52 Honor Oak Park
London,
SE23 1DY

JABBERWOCKY: and other nonsense in the here and now

13-18 March 2018
Private View: Thursday 15 March 6-9pm

Cristina Cantilena, Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

‘This exhibition is inspired by Lewis Carroll’s ‘Jabberwocky’, one of the greatest examples of nonsense literature. The poem’s impressive use of fictitious words and abstract imagery masterfully illustrates a scene of childhood fantasy, in which the monster lurking dangerously in the shadows is finally eliminated. While the narrative itself remains mysterious, the action of overcoming a great evil is undeniable. It is Carroll’s creative reframing of threat and danger through his bewilderingly-named creatures that has elevated the poem to such acclaim.

The show includes a myriad of contemporary messages about playing with fantasy in order to comprehend reality and to defeat menace. This encompasses two-dimensional and three-dimensional artworks (painting, photography, print, mixed media, installation), as well as video/film and performance, all of which may be political, personal or as nonsensical as the poem itself. With the poem as a focus, artists convey impressions of today’s Jabberwocky narrative both figuratively and in abstract forms, drawing from playful and serious perspectives.’

Denise Wyllie, Ida Ndoni, Kevin Derbyshire, Lawrence Mathias,
Les Lismore, Liz Derbyshire, Jonathan Graham, Cristina Cantilena,
Lizy Bending, Ben Mellor, Helen Lack, Elena Rizzardi,
Yolanda Pinto Medina, Verena Giavelli, Sonia Stanbury, Adolfo Solarte (FITO),
Marcos Buarque de Hollanda, Art Hop Life, Marcia Mar,
Andrés González-Meneses, Janet Moses, Naïg Thomé, Meliha Gunenc,
Julia Schoklitsch, Edson Costa, Luciana Mariano

Curated by Ana Cockerill

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #12. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 12 of 2018.
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Beneath the Canopy

31 March – 30 June 2018

Herme Bellido, Thames Dawn 7 (Detail)

An exhibition that includes paintings, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery that focuses on tress, birds and insects. Particularly the branches of trees and wildlife they support.

Here Bellido’s work looks at stillness and uses inks alongside silkscreen.

Artichoke Gallery
Church Street
Ticehurst
TN5 7AE

[city]Frequency: Make Zimmermann

22 March – 1 April 2018

[city]Frequency Press image

A.P.T Gallery
Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside
Deptford, London
SE8 4SA

Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda

24 February – 20 May 2018

Stephen Chambers, The Court of Redonda (detail), 2017, oil on panel, each: 48 x 39 cm © Stephen Chambers, photography by SCS. Images courtesy The Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge.

This major exhibition by Stephen Chambers introduces ‘The Court of Redonda’, a collective portrait of an imaginary court of maverick and singular individuals. it includes 101 paintings with artists imagining an alternative world.

‘Curated by Emma Hill, The Court of Redonda was made over a two-year period that coincided with Britain’s referendum about leaving the European Union and touches upon themes of identity, heredity and nationalism.  She says, “The Court of Redonda is woven from a story about an uninhabited place, which writers and artists have envisioned.  It is a work about the collective human spirit.  The expression of the necessity and freedom of creative imagination, for art’s ability to reflect to us the moment we are living in and for an individual artist’s statement to carry the weight of this, is at the heart of images Chambers presents us with in the faces of his imaginary courtiers.”‘

The Heong Gallery
Downing College, University of Cambridge,
Regent St, Cambridge
CB2 1DQ

Context: Gallery Artists & Collaborators

23 February – 31 March 2018

Geraldine Swayne | Je t’aime moi non plus | 2014 | Enamel on aluminium | 7.5x12cm

This exhibition includes the work of 19 artists, who are gallery artists or regular contributors, it includes painting, drawing, sculpture & installation.

Exhibiting artists:
Peter Ashton Jones, Emma Bennett, Kiera Bennett, Tom Butler, Dan Coombs, Florian Heinke, Sam Jackson, Reece Jones, Kate Lyddon, Eric Manigaud, Wendy Mayer, Hugh Mendes, Alex Gene Morrison, Gavin Nolan, Dominic Shepherd, John Stark, Geraldine Swayne, Barry Thompson, Gavin Tremlett.

Gallery Director Zavier Ellis states:
“In some ways a gallery artists show is a pretty dull and unimaginative thing to do. But, on the upside it enables our audience to digest our stable in context. We are mostly a painter’s gallery, albeit with a curatorial emphasis that embraces every medium when appropriate. The artists we exhibit are technical, but this is nowhere near enough in itself. You will find that each one of them makes work with an intense emotional, philosophical or psychological charge, and so their work operates in a challenging, profound way.
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CHARLIE SMITH LONDON,
336 Old Street,
Shoreditch,
London EC1V 9DR

Width of Circle

22 March – 3 May 2018

The Beast, 2017, Oil on Linen, 40x56cm, Dominic Shepherd

This is the first of a series of exhibitions titled “WIDTH OF CIRCLE”, which is intended to explore the areas of interest that will shape the further series and identity of the overall project.

Exhibiting artists:
Lex Thomas, Olha Pryymak, Dominic Shepherd, Peter Burns and Ben Sadler.

Width of Circle
Titan House
Old Wharf Road
Stourbridge
DY84LS

Stations: Simon Carter

2 March – 6 April 2018

Stations Simon Carter exhibition flyer

An exhibition of Simon Carter’s paintings.

Oasis Cafe,
2 Connaught Avenue,
Frinton-on-Sea

Secret of the Landscape|

23 February 2018 – 6 April 2018

Jessica Warboys, Sea Paintings, Dunwich, 2016 and 2017

Curated by Rita Selvaggio this show deals with landscape as a mental, tactile, physical and spatial passage, an emotional geography that can be expanded, deconstructed, reassembled and reimagined.

Exhibiting artists include:
Isabelle Cornaro, Giulia Piscitelli, Jessica Warboys

‘Jessica Warboys’ Sea Paintings are made below the high water line at the sea’s edge. After immersion, the sodden canvases are pulled from the sea and laid out on the beach. Mineral pigments are thrown directly onto the sea beaten fabric; its folds and creases catching the grains of colour. The process is then repeated with the canvas returning to the sea or being left to dry on the beach. The sea, wind, and sand along with the pigment and the artist’s hand create forms through the movement of colour. The place and date of making is given in each work’s title, emphasizing the mirroring of location and time.’

Frith Street Gallery
Soho Square, 60 Frith Street
London
W1D 3JJ

#pengtings

27 March – 1 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 29 March 6-9pm

Victoria Perloff, Figures

#pengtings is an exhibition by a group of international female artists who are consciously choosing to confront how they present interpretations of the world and how they weave into this interpretation their own desire.

‘Social media has given us all carte blanche to reinvent ourselves as super-human, exaggerating how we look and artificially enhancing what we believe are our best features. The pressure surrounding body image is a real and growing issue and can occasionally manifest itself in anxiety and mental illness. There are numerous ways to define beauty and catching a moment to appreciate it can be a way to alleviate the stresses of life and escape into a world of imagination. This can be achieved with art that pushes the boundaries of what is real and can imitate itself within painting, drawing, and sculpture.’

Exhibiting artists:
Caroline Lovett, Diana Sandetskaya, Jacqui Grant, Josette Aitman,
Michelle Karpus, Tania Askar, Victoria Perloff

Curated by Jacqui Grant

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #13. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 13 of 2018.
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You are an ocean and I am a living thing: Thom Kofoed

19 March – 21 April 2018

Thom Kofoed, Toni Morrison

This solo exhibition includes paintings, needlework and drawings by Thom Kofoed.

‘This exhibition represents my own personal anthology of female poets. Each of these women explore and interrogate the nature of poetry: through poetry itself or through novel writing, non-fiction writing, visual art, music or comedy. Many of them work across all of these artforms. They each take a radical approach to language and use it to the full extent of its power. They play with words, create incomparable images and tell stories that no one has heard before.

All of these women have also inspired my own work as a writer and an artist. When I was growing up, I wasn’t exposed to the wealth of work being created by female poets. I only knew the very few who were represented in my textbooks at school; I had to go in search of others myself. As I read more, I realised that the white male monopoly on poetry as an artform had required many women to work beyond the boundaries, and embed their poems in other artforms. I realised that every time I read a Toni Morrison novel or listened to Joni Mitchell or watched Victoria Wood’s stand-up, I was hearing and absorbing poetry in a powerful and important way. This collection is a celebration of these women.’ — Thom Kofoed

The Poetry Society
22 Betterton Street
London
WC2H 9BX

Ann Oram: New Paintings from the studio

7 March – 31 March 2018

Ann Oram, Midnight Still Life, Mixed Media, Watercolour paper, 67 x 78cm

Ann Oram’s latest solo show at the Scottish Gallery focuses on architecture, still life and landscape. She has shown at this gallery for over 30 years and her work continues to explore the interior with still life and show the same expertise for demonstrating engaging shape and form.

The Scottish Gallery
16 Dundas Street
Edinburgh
EH3 6HZ

Small Wonder

From 10 March 2018

Nicki Vowls, Heroes of Deal 1881, Oil based ink on board (single edition of 1 for W&Y), 34 x 34cm

An exhibition of small paintings and prints by Susan Absolon, Sandra Miller, Nicki Vowls, Jackie Russell, Julia Hamilton and Caroline Yates.

Will & Yates Gallery
95 Beach Street
Deal  Kent
CT146JE

Night Realms: Arusha Gallery x Kristian Day

29 March – 29 April 2018

Ana Milenkovic, Bacchus (detail), 2017, (Ana Milenkovic is showing at Night Realms)

This group show is the first collaboration between Kristian Day and Edinburgh’s Arusha Gallery. It features the work of Hamish Pearch, Margaux Valengin, Markus Vater, Ana Milenkovic, Rafal Topolewski, Fiona Finnegan and Christopher Orr.

‘This cosmopolitan group, at different stages in their careers, produce work that is profoundly Romantic in nature. This Romanticism is strongly reminiscent both of the pan- European sensibility most associated with artists and writers such as Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Caspar David Friedrich, Charles Baudelaire, but also profoundly modern in its desire for intimacy, meaning and security in a socially fragmented world.

[…]

Although the painting on show at Night Realms is predominantly figurative, it is also often dark and enigmatic, eluding clear definition. As such, it engages the darker, clandestine, side of the human psyche, where meanings are confused and space disorientating, vertiginous, dreamlike or hallucinatory.’

Night Realms
Arusha Gallery,
13A Dundas St,
Edinburgh
EH3 6QG

”WOMEN CAN’T PAINT…”

7th April – 12th May 2018
Private view Friday 6th April 6 – 9pm

Press image for Women Can’t Paint…’ by Geraldine Swanye

Exhibiting artists include:
Roberta Booth / Jean Cooke / Stevie Dix / Jane Harris / Rosa Lee / Mali Morris / Hannah Murgatroyd / Cherry Pickles / Clare Price / Emma Roche / Geraldine Swayne / Josephine Wood / Rose Wylie

Turps Gallery & ASC Gallery
Taplow House, Thurlow Street
London
SE17 2UQ

Tom Hammick: Lunar Voyage

16 March – 5 May 2018

Tom Hammick, Nightfall, 2017 – Reduction woodcut

‘British painter and printmaker Tom Hammick has described landscape in his work as a metaphor to explore an “imaginary and mythological dreamscape.” Drawing from a wide range of sources, from Japanese woodblock prints to Northern European Romantic painting, utopian Modernism and contemporary cinema, Hammick’s depictions of isolated human dwellings grounded in uncanny dreamlike settings summon the uneasy atmosphere of a psychologically-charged thriller, or a dystopian suburban nightmare.

In the present exhibition of woodcuts, shown in its entirety for the first time in the UK, Hammick conjures a metaphorical journey to outer space, weaving interstellar dreams and earthly relationships. A suite of seventeen images traces the cyclical path of his protagonist, an archetypal artist or poet, who leaves life on earth in pursuit of freedom and isolation on the moon – only to be haunted by memories of those he has left behind.’

Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London W1S 3LZ

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Current Events #14. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 14 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country.
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The Chaiya Art Awards

29 March 2018 – 8 April 2018

Iain Andrews, Corvus Corax (St. Anthony), acrylic an oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm

This exhibition at the gallery@oxo shows the successful work of entrants to the Chaiya Art Awards. The Chaiya Art Awards exists to show challenging and thought inspiring art in a modern setting through contemporary eyes. The works by innovative and exciting artists are in a variety of media including painting, sculpture and video. This year’s awards focus on the theme: Where is God in our 21st century world?

Exhibiting artist:
Adams Bridget Organised Kindness
Andrews Iain Corvus Corax
apaRicio-yoldi claRa Fragment edMemory
Askey Matthew Grenfell
Attwood Trevor God
Beaumont Sheona Natal
Bingham James El Evangelista, Romel
Booth Colin Jesus Wept
Bradbury Roz How do you see me?
Campbell-Wharam Hannah Wilderness
Castelan Isabela GODLESS
Chlapowski Teresa Where do we go?
Chorkularb Jade One Day, I Will Stop Crying
Christie Heather Enlightenment
Codling Peter Naivety
Crawford Andrew Beyond the edge of gone
David Susie studies for the shipwrecked #1
Davis Louise The Exiles
Fryer Mike I keep God handy in my little box
Green Kate In the detail
Ho Rachel Scarred
Hobbs Paul St Anmol
Klein Simon Standing in between.
Lavers Kirsten Admitting the possibilities of error
Lawty Sue Seqentia
Lloyd-Williams Trudi Albedo
Mendes Ana This is my God
Newman Karl Seek and you shall find
Parr Gina Last Fish Supper
Rushton Maxwell Left Out
Rutt Elisabeth I know all the birds of the hills, and all that moves in the field is mine’. Psalm 50:11
Shepherd Simon The Real Thing
Smith Sue Florescence
Smith Mandy Genes
Stair Julian Infant sarcophagus
Theobald David Modern Wonder
Tompsett Deborah a 1000 bottles of tears
Wang Yue Koryo
Weatherbee Karen Pathways
Wilson Stephanie Shrouded in Mystery
Wouda Marjan The Other Lamb
Zia Anusheh Celestial Adhaan
ashar The suspense of living on the edge

gallery@oxo,
Oxo Tower Wharf,
Bargehouse Street,
South Bank,
London, SE1 9PH

Adam Hennessey Pigeon to Dove

15 March – 28 April 2018

Adam Hennessey, 2017 Pigeon to dove, acrylic on canvas, 50x35cms

This body of new work by Adam Hennessey was originally made as a special project for the London Art Fair, Hennessey began by making nine small pieces to begin to explore scale. The work in this exhibition consider painting as a drawing form and offer a range of surreal and cunning humour. This is particularly noticeable in his work ‘Pizza’ that shows a cartoonish slice seemingly levitating and a ‘Cabbage’ that seems to solemnly look at you.

New Art Projects,
6D Sheep Lane,
London, E8 4QS

80 – TUTOR SHOW

23 MARCH – 7 APRIL 2018

Kerry Harding, Tree-Pool,
Photography by Simon Cook 01736 360041

This showcase of the work of the St Ives School of Art’s tutors includes work by Laura Menzies, Alice Mumford, Gary Long, Hilary Gibson, Kerry Harding, Ges Wilson, Amy Albright, Ashley Hold, Emma McClure, Marion Taylor, Liz Hough, Greg Humphries, Ilker Cinarel, Liz Luckwell, and Steve Dove.

The show will open with a performance by Ilker Cinarel, and during the exhibition several events are scheduled including live painting demonstrations by Alice Mumford, Gary Long and others, and talks by Liz Luckwell, Marion Taylor, Liz Hough and Hilary Jean Gibson.

Kerry Harding, whose piece ‘Tree-Pool’ is featured above, is an experienced painter and tutor. Her paintings look at her view of nature while prefacing paint as the hero. Throughout her work Harding has built up a vocabulary of marks and surfaces that interpret and vividly depict the Cornish Landscape. You can view more of her work here.

Penwith Gallery,
Back Road West,
St.Ives,
Cornwall,
TR26 1NL

All Things Being Equal: Sandra Porter: Drawings, Prints & Paintings

10 Mar 2018 – 15 Apr 2018

Sandra Porter, work, showing at All Things Being Equal

Sandra Porter’s work begins with her looking at architecture, such as monumental buildings including St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow and Siena Cathedral in Italy. These abstract works use grids and stripes, inspired by the iron bothies on the Isle of Skye. This is her fist solo show and includes large-scale carborundum prints, drawings and paintings.

The Museum in the Park Gallery
Stratford Park
Stratford Road
Stroud
GL5 4AF

Moore and Plum: Paintings, Music and Things

6 April 2018

Marie-Louise Plum, Backyard Wrestling, 100 x 75cm

Marie-Louise Plum and John Moore present an exhibition of outsider art within a private surrealist members club.

Marie-Louise Plum’s work focuses on preservation, memory, mortality, sense of self, and identity, following themes of social alienation, sexual ambiguity and subversion of the “common sense”. She works on revealing and exposing scavenged lost fragments of forgotten objects or ideas.

Vout-O-Reenee’s
The Crypt
30 Prescot Street
London
E1 8BB

JACK BULLEN // TOTENTANZ

21 March – 5 May 2018

Jack Bullen, Totentaz

‘Collaborating with dance artist and choreographer, Agnese Lanza to develop and interpret the theories of Austro-Hungarian Movement Analyst, Rudolph Laban (1879-1958), Jack Bullen presents paintings, monotypes and installation transcribing Hans Holbein’s macabre Renaissance woodblock series, Dance of Death, or, Totentanz.’

This exhibition shows the second chapter of Bullen and Lanza’s collaboration.

‘With this series, Bullen has complimented the abstract movement of his central characters with colour theory and alchemical history. Working with the backdrops of early Renaissance masterpieces, as homage to Holbein, and fabricated using techniques of that time, the artist combines pigment properties and colour association, with symbolism and planetary attributes to identify not only the weight, speed and dynamism of each character, but also their associated personality traits. An eight-panel folding screen will create a 3-dimensional arena in which to engage with 2-dimemsional imagery through a bold reinterpretation of Holbein’s The Ambassador’s.’

Brocket London
16 Windmill Row,
London,
SE11 5DW

THE LAST DAY ON EARTH: 10 days/10 exhibitions

7 – 15 April 2018,
Preview: Friday 6 April 6pm – 9pm

Jay Rechsteiner, Studio in Margate, UK, 2017

The Last Day on Earth is a work-in-progress exhibition that changes or transmutes over the course of 10 days to form one new installation per day.

Crate Project Space will be used as an exhibition studio-lab where Rechsteiner will be working within a clearly defined framework of themes and materials. It will focus on the challenges, dangers and impact of continuous digitalisation and will be live streamed. The new installation will be ready at 2pm each day.

To find out more about Jay Rechsteiner who is a storyteller and process-based artist working within several practices, please visit his website.

Crate Project Space,
1 Bilton Square,
Margate, CT9 1EE

Mat Collishaw: The Centrifugal Soul

24 March – 4 October 2018

Mat Collishaw, The Centrifugal Soul Year 2016 Materials Acrylic, Aluminium, LED Lights, Motor, Paint, Resin, Steel Exhibitions On the Origin of Art, 2016 The Centrifugal Soul, 2017

This solo exhibition by Mat Collishaw includes his piece Centrifugal Soul, which is a 3D zoetrope that is based on Geoffrey Miller’s theory that the ability to make art comes from human’s instincts of courtship and reproduction. The sculpture on show at Castle Howard, is of animated birds of paradise as they perform elaborate mating dances and extract pollen from wild blossoms. Alongside the zoetrope are hung a series of brand new C-prints depicting birds tethered to perches.

Castle Howard
Castle Howard,
York
YO60 7DA

The Space Between

3 April – 8 April 2018
Private View: Thursday 5 April 6-9pm

An exhibition showing the work of members of the London Independent Photography’s Central Group; these pieces will be focused on the relationship between the photographer, the subject and the viewer.

Exhibiting artists:
Hady Bayoumi, Héloïse Bergman, Dorota Boisot, Chris Burrows,
Jan Cylwik, Steve Jones, Danilo Leonardi, Anna Lerner, Teresa Levitt,
Hugh Look, Rashida Mangera, Heather Martin, Frankie McAllister,
Ingrid Newton, Jim Paterson, Ray Rapkerg, Edith Templeton, James Thorp,
Geoff Titley, Ariadne van de Ven, Kate Wentworth, Alec Wyllie

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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Current Events #15. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 15 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country.
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Components

6th – 12th April 2018

A group show displaying works by a range of emerging artists.

V.23 The Old Biscuit Factory
Block F
100 Clements Road
London
SK16 4DG

Surface tension by Sam Hodge, Andy D’Cruz and Marcia Teusink – 5 to 29 April 2018

5 April – 28 April 2018

Surface tension features work by artists Sam Hodge, Andy D’Cruz and Marcia Teusink. The three artists share a fascination with the idea of surface tension in its scientific meaning (the elastic-like force on the surface of a liquid) and its more artistic and poetic implications (surfaces of paintings and drawings, tensions in materials, tensions between objects), and they explore these themes across multiple media.

The Stone Space
6 Church Lane
Leytonstone, London
E11 1HG

Wasp

Private View Thur 5 April 6.30-9pm
6 April – 5 May 2018

Coco Bayley, I try we try, 2016

This group show includes work by:
Rachael Allen, Andrea Arnold, Coco Bayley, Liz Berry, Sophie Collins, Emma Cousin, Stevie Dix, Marie Jacotey, Melissa Leigh-Houghton, Momtaza Mehri

Hannah Barry Gallery,
4 Holly Grove,
London
SE15 5DF

Paradise Underground

18th April 2018, 6pm – 12am

Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury, Selfie with Fawn Mask,2018,
acrylic & watercolour on cotton stretched canvas, 160 x 120 cm

A group exhibition of performance art and painting by 23 artists.

An installation within an installation; Paradise Underground takes over SUGAR CANE BAR for a night of ritual, art and play!

Join us for a post-apocalyptic art experience featuring roaming characters, bespoke cocktails, new media works, painting installation and ceremonies.

Sugar Cane Bar
247 Lavender Hill
Clapham Junction
London
SW11 1JW

South Asian Modernists 1953-63

30th September 2017 – 15th April 2018

Francis Newton Souza, Self Portrait, 1961, Oil on board, 61cm x 76cm,

The self-portrait by Francis Newton Souza, a highlight of the Ruth Borchard Collection, has been included in Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery’s exhibition, South Asian Modernists 1953-63. The exhibition explores the works of Pakistani and Indian artists who worked with Victor Musgrave between 1953-63.

Whitworth Art Gallery
Oxford Rd,
Manchester
M15 6ER

Superstition

13th – 14th April, 2018

Paula Macarthur, Let me be your eyes, 2013, oil on canvas, 140 x 140cm,

Superstition acts as a four-walled mineral cabinet consisting of artists that all depict geological forms such as crystals, gemstones and geodes. Featuring work by Cy Bernheim, Jane Ashby, Leah Luten, Olivia Pratt and Paula MacArthur.

Project Space Wapping49 Pennington St
London
E1W 2BD

Emergance

7 March – 21 April 2018

Framework Herefordshire is a support network for emerging artists and this is their third annual exhibition at ASG. Local artists and friends, starting out on their artistic journey, curated the exhibition in conjunction with the gallery.

Apple Store Gallery
The Rose Lipman Building
43 De Beauvoir Rd
London N1 5SF
United Kingdom

Baring Teeth: Painting Show

14 April – 12 May 2018

A contemporary painting show in Kent displaying works by 14 contemporary painters. All welcome.

Gallery 98
Ramsgate
CT11 9RX

Third Order

13 April – 29 April 2018
Private view: 13th April 6-9pm

Agnieszka Katz Barlow, Telepathy

Third Order is an all-female group show focusing on contemporary painting and including 4 UK based artists: Agnieszka Katz Barlow, Sara Dare, Anna Liber Lewis, Karolina Albricht.

Unit 3 Projects
ASC Studios, Empson Street
London, E3 3LT UK

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Current Events #16. A selection of UK art exhibitions on in week 16 of 2018, including group and solo shows across the country. (click images for larger view)

Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking

24 March – 5 May 2018

Glenn Brown, Drawing 26 (after Boucher), 2015
Indian ink and acrylic on paper
84 x 59 cm, framed 89 x 64.4 x 4.5 cm

This large diverse international painting show includes work by artists from several generations and is hung salon-style.

Work is being shown by the following artists:
Jan Albers, Sue Arrowsmith, Paul Barlow, Eric Bainbridge, Anthony Bennett, Michael Bevilacqua, Merijn Bolink, Juan Bolivar, Kate Bright, Ralf Broeg, Glenn Brown, Simon Campbell, John Chilver, Sacha Craddock, Michael Craig-Martin, Hansjoerg Dobliar, Rowena Dring, Marcel van Eeden, Machiko Edmondson, Tim Eitel, Roberto Ekholm, Dee Ferris, Gail Fitzgerald, Saul Fletcher, Ed Fornieles, Torben Giehler, Lothar Goetz, Deme Georghiou, Brian Griffiths, Terry Haggerty, Jane Harris, Matthew Harrison, Karolyn Hatton, Gerard Hemsworth, Gregor Hildebrandt, Stefan Hirsig, Dale Holmes, Paul Housley, Tom Howse, Des Hughes, Richard Jacobs, Ben Judd, Ben Kaufmann, Scott King, Richard Kirwan, Rannva Kunoy, Des Lawrence, Christoph Lohmann, Bob Matthews, Caroline McCarthy, Penny McCarthy, Peter McDonald, Dominic McGill, Robert McNally, Dawn Mellor, Nathaniel Mellors, Jo Melvin, Robert Moon, Ryan Mosley, Jost Münster, Julian Opie, Carl Ostendarp, Helena Petersen, Michael Petry, Daniel Pettitt, Jan van der Ploeg, James Pyman, Ged Quinn, Barry Reigate, Bernd Ribbeck, Darren Richardson, Mark Riddington, David Risley, Ben Rivers, Neil Rumming, Lesley Sanderson & Neil Conroy, Sophie Schmidt, Gary Simmonds, Dillwyn Smith, Maxima Smith, Stephen Snoddy, Michael Stubbs, Daniel Sturgis, Srinivas Surti, Tomoaki Suzuki, Finlay Taylor, David Thorpe, Dimitra Vamiali, Riette Wanders, Mathew Weir, Richard Wentworth, Lucy Williams, Keith Wilson, Martin Wöhrl, Clare Woods, Richard Woods, Will Yackulic and more.

Attercliffe,
747 Attercliffe Road,
Sheffield,
S9 3RF

Book Launch: ‘The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh’: Miroslav Pomichal

Thursday 19 April 2018, 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Miroslav Pomichal, Still Life with Monastery, oil on panel, 25 x 30cm

Miroslav Pomichal’s new artist book ‘The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh’ is being launched at Griffin Gallery, London this Thursday. During the evening the artist and publisher (Invisible Print Studio) will have a discussion on the work chaired by art and culture critic Jonathan McAloon.

Press release:

Tne Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh

The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh has been produced as a hand-made volume of original artworks, printed alongside a number of carefully chosen texts. This hand made book references a wide variety of sources, from medieval incunabula (early examples of printed books) to German Expressionist artefacts such as Wassily Kandinsky’s book, Klänge (Sounds) 1913. Kandinsky described Klänge as a “musical album.” The woodcuts, prose poems, and typography merge and complement one another in a symphonic synthesis. The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh uses the same romantic symphony of image and text, stitched together as an immersive journey.

Using the traditional notion of the ‘traveller’, The Picture Book of Ehrenfried of Entenbeurgh tells the story of philosopher-vagrant, stumbling through the centuries in search of the essence of the European imaginative modus operandi. The artworks are produced in a process that is simple but unique to Pomichal’s practice; being both painterly but with echoes of German Expressionist woodcuts. The imagery is created with Microsoft Paint, a simple raster graphics programme that is arguably the most widespread and accessible program of our time. It is something of a cultural artefact itself. The digitally produced artworks are then printed on archival matte paper, hardbound and published as a limited edition of 100.

Pomichal says: “The book represents Ehrenfried’s imaginary inner journey. This inner journey expands and contracts according to its own ahistorical logic, moving beyond time and phenomena and aspiring towards the ideal, synthetic form of, what I call, ‘the Gothic impulse’. This is laced with unreason, inter-connectedness, hypertension, anxiety, and feebleness of excess. The essence of ‘the Gothic impulse’ is schismatic and blasphemous, as well as anagogical and divine”.

Miroslav Pomichal (1984, Bratislava) lives and works in London and Velka Lehota, Slovakia. He studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art (BA Art History) and Wimbledon School of Art, University of the Arts London (MFA Fine Art). His solo shows include Duino Elegies at Kun Kelemen Fine Arts (2017, Bratislava), Kaukazske Malovanky at Flatgallery (2016, Bratislava) and Living Like a God at CANAL (2016, London). He was selected for Saatchi New Sensations (2014) and Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2014-15) and exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Newlyn Art Gallery Newlyn, Bosse & Baum London, The Lightbox Museum and Gallery Woking, or World Museum Liverpool.

Invisible Print Studio is a publisher and producer of original concepts in print. Launched in 2013 by Michael Hall and Coralie Sheppard it has published editions by Simon Patterson, Bruce McLean, Andrew Bick, Ray Richardson and many more established and early career artists. Their most recent project The Arca Project: An Exhibition Inspired by the Work of W.G.Sebald was their first full curatorial project in print and was presented by PayneShurvell Gallery in London and Suffolk.

Please RSVP to michael@invisibleprintstudio.co.uk or info@griffingallery.co.uk

Griffin Gallery
21 Evesham Street
London
W11 4AJ

Tangerine Trees and Marmalade Skies: Steve Capper

26th April – 12th May
Private view: Thursday 26th April 2018, ’til 8:30pm.

Steve Capper, The Brow, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 28 inches

40 works by Steve Capper

‘The show features pieces with Steve’s trademark use of kalaedescopic colour and his take on still life and the regional landscape. In viewing Steve’s work, we are visually reminded of what was one once said about The Beatles song which inspired the title of this exhibition: “A sonic carpet that enveloped the ears and sent the listener spinning into other realms”.’

Gateway Gallery
116 Ashley Rd,
Hale,
Altrincham
WA14 2UN

Taking Shape

12 April – 30 April 2018

This exhibition presents work by three artists Alan Lennon, Stephen Holmes and Alan Martin on the theme of the contemporary, playful and abstract to showcase their different approaches.

Lennon-Art Gallery
83 Henderson Row,
Edinburgh
EH3 5BE

No Man’s Land: Talk and Silent Disco by Darvish Fakhr

19 April – 27 April 2018

Darvish Fakhr, Desert 2, 100 x 150cm

Darvish Fakhr, Desert 9, 100 x 150cm

No Man’s Land is a solo exhibition by Iranian-American artist Darviswh Fakhr. The show focuses on the incredible tale of the deaf-mute Iranian farmer Darvish Esfandiarpour and his silent rebellion against the environmentally devastating land reforms of the Shah of Iran’s regime in the 1960s. Over almost have a century, Esfandiarpour assembled heavy stones on dead trees, giving birth to the Stone Garden – a site of both devastation and rebirth, and invigorating ceremonial dances.

Mainly consisting of oil paintings and charcoal drawings the show itself investigates the notion of boundaries, space and movement.

On the Thursday 19th April, Fakhr will be joined by the British dancer Akram Khan top hold a discussion on the themes of the show and go on to hold a silent disco in celebration of The Stone Garden. Movement is a key practice of Fakhr’s work since he sees his studio as a cosmic gym.

Asia House
63 New Cavendish St
London
England
W1G 7LP

Arthur Lanyon: White Chalk Lines

30 March – 5 May 2018

Arthur Lanyon, Black Collar, oil, acrylic, gold gesso, spray paint, charcoal on linen, 170 x 190 cm

“Where Do We Come From,
 What Are We,
 Where Are We Going”
 
This solo exhibition of Arthur Lanyon’s multi-media and multi-scale paintings demonstrate ad intense two year period of creativity and development. Spanning 3 floors of the gallery, ‘White Chalk Lines’ invites the viewer to explore Lanyon’s frenetic and vivid stream of consciousness presented as dynamic mark making.

‘Delving into the ambiguous, abstracted and gestural work of this talented young painter, one absorbs the tangible imprint of recent experience, distant memory and notable lineage.’

Anima-Mundi
Street-an-Pol,
St. Ives,
Cornwall, TR26 2DS

After Eden

16 April – 28 April 2018
Private View: Tuesday 17 April 6-8pm

Nick Archer, Eden, 168 x 132cm

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven” Paradise Lost, John Milton, 1667

The show is a celebration of the diversity of the natural world and hints at it’s decline in the face of man. The fall of man is positioned as a place to investigate the state of the world we live in today after man has been banished from paradise.

‘Mehta Bell Projects encourage a dialogue on the potential hazards and misgivings of the world we live in, and investigate the consequences of our actions in these deeply troubled times. On a voyage through the exuberance of nature and its infectious energy, these works also pose a valuable reminder of the temptations and risks that are ever present and ask that we be mindful that paradise can be lost.’

Artists:

Nick Archer
Lauren Baker
Anouska Beckwith
Orlanda Broom
Ting Cheng
Kamolpan Chotvichai
Peihang Huang
Marc Quinn
Tom Shedden
Benjamin Thomas Taylor
Jane Ward
Tawan Wattuya
Kristjana Williams

Herrick Gallery
93 Piccadilly
London
W1J 7NQ

Viewpoints: The Rooftop Collective

17 April – 22 April 2018
Private View: Tuesday 17 April 6-9pm

Viewpoints is a series of artistic conversations: it is a collection of photographic & art works by six photographers and six artists, curated by Anna McNay. Subject matter includes sublime landscapes, dynamic portraiture and work that acts as an immersive experience. Cohesion is brought to the exhibition by the artists working from London and everyday local surroundings in order to form an ongoing dialogue about their thoughts and ideas.

This sixth show of the Rooftop Collective (est. 2010) showcases work by members:
Chris King – Paul Clifford – Toby Deveson – Tom Owens – Graham Matthews –
Jeremy Johns: along with selected artists chosen to pair with each photographer –
Judith Burrows – Consuelo Simpson – Annamarie Dzendrowskyj – Susan Clare –
Michael Wallner – Lesley James.

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
(Just off Brick Lane in East London)

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The image at the top is: Arthur Lanyon, Black Collar, oil, acrylic, gold gesso, spray paint, charcoal on linen, 170 x 190 cm

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