Clarendon Gallery, Mayfair, is delighted to present Beyond , an exhibition by the celebrated British photographer Harry Skeggs. Documenting a journey he made to the Antarctic peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in the early Spring of 2022, this presentation is comprised of around thirty works and captures the dramatic landscape of the Antarctic, an area known as the ‘Polar desert’, as well as the wildlife that exists there and on the Sub-Antarctic islands.
Andipa is delighted to present The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, an exhibition by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan. His work, which has been described by the art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, as possessing a ‘demented, wild, fascinating, scabrous kind of energy’,will be represented by twenty-one small-scale drawings mostly dating from the 1980s.
Andipa is delighted to present The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, an exhibition by the acclaimed singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan. His work, which has been described by the art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, as possessing a ‘demented, wild, fascinating, scabrous kind of energy’,will be represented by twenty-one small-scale drawings mostly dating from the 1980s.
Britain’s first ever museum of sex objects is to be showcased at the Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury. Conceived by Deborah Sim, former creative director of the groundbreaking erotic emporium Coco de Mer, the peripatetic exhibition seeks to trace Britain’s sexual history via a collection of storytelling objects which celebrate sexual heroes, moments and places.
Britain’s first ever museum of sex objects is to be showcased at the Horse Hospital, Bloomsbury. Conceived by Deborah Sim, former creative director of the groundbreaking erotic emporium Coco de Mer, the peripatetic exhibition seeks to trace Britain’s sexual history via a collection of storytelling objects which celebrate sexual heroes, moments and places.
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) and the Aga Khan Centre Gallery are delighted to present Football and Religion: Tales of Hope, Play and Passion, an exhibition exploring the relationship between football and religion and how the two often overlap in both expected and unexpected ways. The show celebrates football’s ability to champion social causes, promote marginalised voices, and create opportunities for inclusion and diversity in ways no other sport can.
Clarendon Gallery, Mayfair, is delighted to present Beyond , an exhibition by the celebrated British photographer Harry Skeggs. Documenting a journey he made to the Antarctic peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in the early Spring of 2022, this presentation is comprised of around thirty works and captures the dramatic landscape of the Antarctic, an area known as the ‘Polar desert’, as well as the wildlife that exists there and on the Sub-Antarctic islands.
Artifice Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Place and Space, a conceptual book showcasing the scale and breadth of work completed by the international firm Montalba Architects since its conception nearly two decades ago. The book explores the duality of Montalba’s approach to design, combining the calm precision of Swiss architectural practice with the radical experimentation of 1970s and 1980s California, whose influences range from the playfulness of post-modernist architecture to the controlled complexity of Deconstructivism.
BASTIAN London is delighted to present Lullaby for Realville, the first solo exhibition in London by Edin Zenun. Running from 15 July to 13 August 2022, the show is comprised of twenty-six small and medium scale abstract paintings which appropriate, distil, riff-on and assimilate music, utopian political philosophy, art history, lavatory graffiti and music. While these influences are not always visually apparent, Zenun configures these influences in abstractive form, a process he likens to musical sampling.
This summer, MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, stages the largest solo exhibition of Lubna Chowdhary’s work to date at a key moment in her practice. Chowdhary’s work demonstrates a skilled approach to making that references multiple cultures and times. Having worked as an artist for 35 years, Chowdhary has received significant public art commissions and this is her first large-scale museum exhibition. For MIMA, Chowdhary brings the ambition of her public art works and approaches to making into a gallery setting.
James Butterwick and San Francisco-based gallery Modernism Inc. are delighted to present a survey of work by Ukrainian artist Oleksandr Bohomazov (1880-1930) for this year’s edition of TEFAF, commencing 25 June 2022. The exhibition comes at a time of heightened interest in Bohomazov. Following this presentation, his work can be seen in two shows, at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, in October 2022 and at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, in March 2023.
The Culture Trust Luton is delighted to present a survey of work by the late comic book artist Steve Dillon, creator of the celebrated Preacher series and founder of the magazine Deadline. Comprised of more than 50 works, the exhibition follows the development of his work from 1978 to 2016, the year in which he died aged 54 of medical complications in New York.
BASTIAN London is delighted to announce, Emil Nolde — Anatomy of Light and Water. The presentation, which runs from 6 May to 30 June 2022, is comprised of 17 seascapes executed in watercolour by the artist between 1920 and 1946 in the region of Seebüll near the German-Danish border, where the artist spent most of his summer months.
Celebrated British artist Ben Turnbull will unveil his latest body of work, twelve pieces exploring acts of violence resulting from religious influence, at The Mount Without (formerly St Michael’s on the Mount Without), Bristol, opening on 6th June 2022 in a collaboration with Bristol creative collective ART808.
The anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s death is being commemorated this year with the launch of an NFT by the celebrated British artist Ben Turnbull.
Stanley Spencer Gallery are delighted to present Delight in Nature: Stanley Spencer’s World, opening on 31st of March. The new exhibition will chart the influence the natural world had on Spencer’s development as an artist, from his very early years to the end of his life. Beginning with his tentative drawings done as a boy, the exhibition looks at how landscape and the natural world became an integral part of Spencer’s artistic practice. Later in life, when he was going through a troubled divorce, he complained that his landscapes and still-lifes were mere ‘pot boilers’ (easily saleable works that helped him survive financially). This exhibition reveals however, that his study of nature was not only a meditative tonic, but also informed his figurative work, becoming an intrinsic part of his visionary narratives.
Shapero Rare Books are delighted to present a new exhibition entitled Too Much Too Young by the artist Jolyon Fenwick, which will run from the 23rd of February to the 18th of March.
Albany Arts is delighted to announce the latest solo exhibition of work by Pie Herring. Fortitude marks Herring’s debut London solo show, featuring an explosive body of painted works. The exhibition comprises of two series of work which reflect and were inspired by a year she spent painting across two continents.
The Athena Arts Foundation was launched in June 2021 with the aim of harnessing digital technology to bring pre-modern art to a wider audience. Its main platform, a hub with information about exhibitions, podcasts and other resources worldwide, is already attracting attention. Next week sees the launch of ‘Living Portraits’, a new initiative to bring historical portraits to a younger audience. This collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) and immersive story-telling specialists Megaverse, uses innovative technology to allow the subject of the painting to literally come alive and tell the viewer their life story.
A work by the Russian Expressionist Alexej von Jawlensky that has been in private hands for the last century, and which has not been seen in public since the 1920’s, is being offered for sale by Ketterer Kunst, Germany’s premier auction house. Frauenkopf mit Blumen im Haar [Head of a woman with flowers in her hair] does not appear in the artist’s catalogue raisonné and was only presented to and validated by the Jawlensky archive in 2017. Painted around 1913, the portrait is of significant historical importance as it represents a turning point in Jawlensky’s practice as he moved away from the figurative paintings and landscapes which he previously considered his best works.
Stanley Spencer Gallery is delighted to present Mind and Mortality: Stanley Spencer’s Final Portraits. Comprised of 26 works, the exhibition spans fifty years from 1909 until the artist’s death on the eve of the 1960s and reveals not only the importance of portraiture to Spencer’s artistic practice, but also the intimacy and unflinching candour he brought to it.
Dealers and curators of Banksy artworks, Andipa in Knightsbridge, London are releasing six versions of the famous ‘Girl with Balloon’ subject in celebration of Banksy’s most popular artworks of the same theme, the Love is in the Bin, famously shredded while being auctioned at Sotheby’s in 2018.
The Sotheby's Girl with Balloon (2006) , later renamed Love is in the Bin , sold for just over £1m in 2018 on an estimate of £300,000 to £400,000. Its estimate this time around is £4m — £6m, however, it is expected to sell in excess of that when it goes under the gavel at the auction house’s evening sale on 14 October.
October sees the launch of The Gadget Show Big Book of Cool Stuff, a 192-page, fully illustrated guide to the world of gadgets and tech, featuring Craig Charles and his co-presenters from Channel 5’s much-loved The Gadget Show.
The book, published by Black Dog Press, recreates the excitement and fun of the hugely popular TV programme, which has become a staple for gadget addicts and innovation enthusiasts since it was first aired in 2004. The show’s team of Craig, Georgie Barrat, Ortis Deley and Jon Bentley unearth the very latest in gadgetry, from flying cars, to a robo-chef that can rustle up a delicious meal at the press of a button, to an intelligent toilet that can tell if you’re unwell.
Cecilia Brunson Projects is pleased to present Overlooking the Amazon, the first exhibition of Katie Van Scherpenberg in the UK. With a career spanning more than five decades, Van Scherpenberg is one of the most remarkable painters to have emerged in Brazil during the second half of the 20th century. An important figure in the Rio de Janeiro art circuit in the 1970s and 1980s, the artist was never affiliated to any groups or movements. Instead, she pursued an extremely original and coherent trajectory which remains largely unknown to international audiences.
Cecilia Brunson Projects and Almeida & Dale Art Gallery are delighted to announce a presentation of works by the acclaimed Brazilian artist Luiz Sacilotto (1924-2003). A pioneer of Concrete art and an early proponent of Op Art, Sacilotto stands alongside artists such as Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely in the international development of Post-War abstraction. The exhibition is curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Denise Mattar and runs concurrently with Almeida & Dale’s exhibition ‘Sacilotto - A Vibração da Cor’ in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This Month Black Dog Press are launching Morgan Howell at 45rpm, brings together a series of 3D paintings from Morgan Howell’s cult favourite series of SuperSizepaintings of 7” singles, blown up to 70cm by 70cm. This book shrinks them back down to fit perfectly on a record shelf. A who’s who of the music world, this compendium is a list of the most must-have records of the last century.
Cocoon House records, in nearly 200 pages of beautiful photography and insightful essays, the process of creating the Cocoon House. Located in Long Island, New York, the house was designed by Nina Edwards Anker as a testament to the potential of sustainable design, going beyond what is normally seen in the homes of this popular holiday destination.
The house takes its name from the curved shape of its outer wall, which curls around a cinematic curved glass interior. The skylights continue the play on light and shadow first started by the Cocoon House’s coiled shape by providing delicately tinted light across the whole house. In alignment with Goethe’s theory of colour, the house moves from sunset reds above the master bedroom to sparkling yellows in its most active use areas, such as the living room. As an interior designer as well as architect, Anker has combined practical concern with comfort, designing most of the furnishings herself to be soft and light, fitting with the architectural themes of the house.
This October, Artifice Press is releasing Choreographing Space,a reflection on the work and practices of e+i studios by its founders, Eva Perez de Vega and Ian Gordon.
The book is divided into four sections, organised not by chronology but by what Eva and Ian describe as the ‘genus’of their projects: the ideas, intents and hopes which link each project. Each section starts with a philosophical text which informs the questions and concepts raised in the following projects and concludes with a section focusing on the future potential of one of the projects in a post-extinction world.
Masterpiece Art is delighted to present a selection of new work by acclaimed British artist Noj Barker. The exhibition, entitled BLINK #2, will be shown at its London Gallery, with a further iteration, BLINK #3 at its recently opened Dubai space.
The London exhibition is comprised of more than ten medium and large scale works by Noj Barker created over the last year. Barker creates his psychedelic images by layering ever smaller dots of acrylic on top of each other. Sometimes luminescent in their colourful variety, sometimes severe in their monochromatism, the final canvas encourages exploration.
