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This exhibition illustrates how the struggle to make art an academic subject and give arts admin and academics some credibility baffled it’s way to the top.

The Tension Gallery Art Prize is awarded annually to selected graduating MA students at Central Saint Martins, UAL London. The selectors for 2022 were artist & director of Tension, Ken Turner and artist & Art Monthly magazine consultant, Matt Hale.

Ken Turner’s solo show at Tension in July 2022

A solo exhibition of silkscreen prints and weaving frippery by Sharon Paulger.
July 2023

The first London exhibition in over thirty years of painter Nicholas C Williams will open at the Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury October- November 2023.

Nicholas Ferguson’s unusual career trajectory

The subject of a new exhibition, Anna Lerner’s photographs and words turn the mundane into something fresh, says Anna Lamche

Throughout June, Somerset House is taken over by the London Design Biennale. Taiwan’s Pavilion is particularly worth a visit

An installation by horticultural artists Heywood & Condie at The Artist’s Garden. Open to all 8am – 8pm daily until 23rd May 2023.

A group show at The Bindery featuring collage works by Anna Van Oosterom, Andrew Hewish and Jacopo Dal Bello.

The teenage friendship between Freddie Mercury and artist Adrian Morrish

A remarkable exhibition of new works by Susie Hamilton inspired by literature.

Review by Dr Craig Jordan-Baker. ‘Hidden in Plain Site’ explores how trace memories of human trauma, personal and collective, are embodied within our built environment. Curated by the multi-media artists Veronica Slater and Litza Jansz.

Review of Heather Phillipson’s installation in central galleries at Tate Britain October 2021

Review of exhibition of painting at Hayward gallery October 2021

Review of Allison Katz exhibition in response to Brian Dillon’s review in The Art Newspaper, No.342, February 2022

Curated by Alistair Hicks at The In and Out, a prestigious private members club in Mayfair, this exhibition reveals Joana Galego and Marcus Cope’s latest paintings.

Aleph Contemporary curates an exhibition of paintings by ten contemporary artists on the subjects of dreams and the ephemeral.

Covid through an alchemical lens. Curated by Ruth Calland for Contemporary British Painting

A remarkable new collection of paintings by Serena Rowe pays homage to her muse, fellow Scottish painter Joan Eardley.

Two painters bring everyday items to the heart of their art.

Somewhat unsure I tentatively knock on the door of a terraced house. The address is correct, I have tripled checked it…but there is no sign that there is a gallery here. I am late, but I have let Johnny Golding […]

The debut solo show of paintings by Ghanaian-born artist Kojo Marfo. Open until 17 July. A part of Mayfair Art Weekend.

A sculpture trail of contemporary works installed in iconic squares and locations across the West End. Curated by Mayfair Art Weekend in collaboration with Art in Mayfair. 2-27 June 2021

Taiwan Pavilion, London Design Bienniale open daily until June 27th

“I am interested in words that have multiple meanings, multiple ways of being interpreted. I like to use a word that can be both a verb and a noun. Baffle means to bewilder or perplex, but it’s also a restraint to block noise.” Henry Ward

Recent large-scale figurative paintings, sculptures, and mixed media works on paper by Cornish artist Andrew Litten.

Julie Umerle | Recent Paintings, 18-29 May 2021

18-29 May 2021 | Book Reading and Q&A 22 May

Paolo Canevari ‘Self-Portrait/Autroritratto’ reviewed by Simon Tait

Efi Haliori presented her latest photographic project‘ Transformations’ at CAN Gallery, in Athens.

‘Hearth and Heat’ 22 – 26 July 2015, Florence Trust, St Saviours’, London, GB

Newlon Housing Trust commissioned Artist Micha Eden Erdész in 2011 to create ‘So Near Far’ at their London flagship site Ashburton Triangle, on the periphery of a major London sports venue in Holloway. ‘New_Lon / So Near Far’ was devised […]

At MOCA London’s lockdown event ‘Focus Zoom’, Quilla Constance introduced her video ‘Pukijam’ (2015) as an articulation of the constant activation between her black and white heritage; how her biracial subject position might enable more liberating modes of being.

‘The Liminal Phase’ co-curated by Micha Eden Erdész and Rebecca Jewell Supported by Stadium Capital Holdings, Arsenal Regeneration Team, Florence Trust, Royal College of Art, Institute of Ideas, The Big Draw, Targetti, Howden, ADI Solutions & Audiovisual, Ham and High, […]

Postponed solo show due to Covid 19

A multiply layered and wide ranging exhibition.

I went out to see if the coronavirus experience had motivated any of east London’s street artists to respond to our current situation.

    ‘The Immaculate Dream is an exhibition of fantastical landscapes and constructed spaces, dark fairy-tales and silent stage settings. Works by nineteen artists invite us to explore a looking glass world in which pasts are reimagined and futures projected […]

‘……..an exhibition that explores contemporary notions of the sublime: the human capacity
of feeling when presented with the vastness, obscurity and the terror of the unknown, subsumed into awe when seen from the safe distance of the viewer’s perspective’.

A short reaction to Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ on show at Tate Modern, London, 14 September 2018 – 20 January 2019.

An interview with Alain du Pontavice ahead of his exhibition in London 19 June-1 July 2018

Simon Tait is the editor of Arts Industry magazine, a former arts correspondent for The Times, a critic for the London Magazine and a former president of the Critics’ Circle. Here he meets artist SaySay.Love at his exhibition ‘The Matrix of Water’.

The new Camberwell Space inaugural exhibition A History of Drawing on the practice and teaching of drawing at the College for over 80 years.

All is not as it first appears to be as Xu Zhen converts the shop at Sadie Coles Gallery into a functional Chinese supermarket.

Painting on Lace – The great power of lace inspired Fred Fabre’s exploration of the sensuality of iconic fashion accessories.

Novellist Penny Hancock reviews Victoria Rance: The Night Horse and The Holy Baboon Sculptures, Drawings, Photographs and Animations 2007-2017 at The Cello Factory 23-30 October 2017

Book Launch and Print Exhibition
30 October – 2 November 2017

Frieze London Art Fair, love it or hate it, energises the city in a way no other annual event achieves to do so. On a global scale, the movers and shakers descend into town for their annual pilgrimage. This year […]

Artist and filmmaker Rosalind Fowler reviews a few fllms at Documenta Kassel

An expert panel spanning the worlds of cultural criticism, social media, neuroscience and photography discussed the impact of selfie culture at #Me My_Selfie and I: Self-Expression in the Digital Age, a symposium presented by Huawei that took place in front […]

Curated by Charley Peters, Signal to Noise subtly reveals a multitude of relationships between the artists, which oscillate on a spectrum between collusion and tenuous connections.

In a world full of conflicts and jolts, in which humanism is being seriously jeopardized, art is the most precious part of the human being’ – Christine Macel, curator of the 57th biennale at Venice. A claim of this year’s […]

The artist Alexander James disagrees. He has been producing underwater photographs of flowers and people for the last three decades, always wrapped up in Romanticism: the melancholia of everything being temporary and already gone; the exquisite beauty; the fated end; […]

Group exhibition regarding a future/premonition beyond Trump.
Group review by Robin Woodward. Emma Starkey and Michael Bryan

A review by Tim Barnes

Sarah Butterfield is one of the best representatives of the current revival of Contemporary Impressionism. Butterfield’s brushes encapsulates the way sunlight changes the patterns over the day by the second with the precision of a skilled surgeon. Her capacity to […]

Time we reconsidered work by this artist, whose loose style captures real life

A Personal Reflection on the recent London Groups Open Presidents Prize Exhibition www.thelondongroup.com

‘Striations, digging machines, blades – both depicted and the tools used to make the work – slashes, slices, gouges, and dissections, how could we not call this exhibition DiG?! Extract from Exhibition introductory statement, by Jane Boyer

A first glance response to several exhibitions visited in London

A review by Gabriel Mollett

27th October – 2nd November 2015

Slip off your shoes, submerge into a ball pit and watch a film of … well I am not entirely sure. Sometimes, art is just fucking weird, but at Jon Rafman’s solo show at Zabludowicz Collection, I caught a glimpse […]

Published by Live Art Development Agency & Oberon Books Ltd. London. UK.
Edited by Aaron Wright and Lois Keidan.

A film by Marcus Coates and Henry Montes

Cathy Lomax’s artful mining of her own personal mythologia of the
U.S of A

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Nestled between 1950s self-contained formalism and monumental Henry Moores, is a succinct homage to the visionary artist-activist, Gustav Metzger. Metzger’s approach to art as process, expressed both in paint and the ‘real world’, continues to influence generations of artists and […]

Abstract, largely geometric or reductive art is alive and well in the UK if this exhibition was an indication. Organised in collaboration with the online forum Saturation Point and featuring twenty three artists from every decade from the 1930s to […]

Countering Venice Biennale’s narcissistic tone this humble show, set in a deconsecrated Italianate chapel (Dilston Grove), works on you like a transcendental Indian raag; quietly seeping into your whole being. Between Thought and Space is a live interdisciplinary site-research project spanning […]

The connections between art and science are always an interesting subject to explore. Added to this, the fact that this is an ‘art’ exhibition at the Science Museum, not an obvious venue for such a show, means that Revelations: Experiments […]

Dorine Van Meel’s exhibition at the South London Gallery considers dualities or dual natures. The intriguing subtitle, ‘Between the Dog and the Wolf’, refers to a French expression, ‘entre le chien et le loup’, which describes twilight, which is neither […]