CURRENT EXHIBITS [178]

A prolific painter and printmaker closely related with the ‘Pop' Art Movement, Patrick Caulfield is best known for his ironic, iconic and vibrant depictions of modern life that reinvigorated traditional artistic genres such as still life. Stylistically, Caulfield's work draws upon a simplified visual language recalling sign painting and graphic art, depicting everyday objects using vibrant colou...   [more]

Philip Munoz 13 Jun - 29 Jun 2013 Philip Munoz is particularly concerned with the idea of beauty through transformation. This interest is channeled into his stylish portraits of attractive young women, adorned with tattoos and piercings. His fascination for city life is exemplified by his exceptional still-lives that cleverly capture the seduction and glamour of high-street window displays. A voye...   [more]

Opening: June 13th   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Ron Bolt | Salt Water | Primal Light  13 Jun - 29 Jun 2013  Like many of us, Ron Bolt observes the degradation and destruction of the environment with growing alarm. ‘We are quite possibly living in the twilight of the natural world as we have known it. In that regard, my work is an act of preservation. To preserve the natural world is to preserve a language of the wind and shifting light...   [more]

Brigitte Polemis | Just a Number 13 Jun - 29 Jun 2013 Urban spaces inhabited by faceless men in suits arranged in rows, circular formations, spirals, or overlapping layers as repeated motifs: these are the key features in the new group of works presented by Brigitte Polemis under the title “Just a Number”. Yet, although specified by their general title as works commenting on the dehumanisation o...   [more]

Neil Douglas  13 Jun - 29 Jun 2013  I am looking at the influence of photography and film in my painting, placing a greater emphasis on sketching and observations from life. Using my earlier works as the starting point of my research, I am leaving behind aspects of hyper-realistic representation, whilst maintaining its disciplines, with the aim of finding a fresh stylistic language capable of inc...   [more]

"I want the things that I make with this material to receive as much consideration as painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, so I make an effort to enter them into public viewing places... to elevate them further in the eyes of those who look at the art of our time". Sheila Hicks, 'The Weaving of Art', a film directed by Bernard Monsigny, Paris, 1987 Alison Jacques Gallery is delighte...   [more]

Opening: May 23rd   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Artists John Lawrence and Roy Voss have conceived the exhibition 'For What It Is' for ANDOR. Developed through collaborative processes, the exhibition features new works by both artists including sculptural installations and gallery texts informed and influenced by ANDOR's invitation, and by the specific architecture of the gallery spaces.John Lawrence lives and works in London. He graduated from...   [more]

Opening: May 31st   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

A major exhibition of works by Leon Kossoff focusing on the artist’s drawings and paintings of London will go on show at Annely Juda Fine Art from 8 May - 6 July 2013. The exhibition is curated by Andrea Rose, Director, Visual Art, British Council and curator of Kossoff’s Venice Biennale exhibition in 1995. London is the city where Leon Kossoff was born and grew up, and which he has mined with...   [more]

Over ten years ago, Andrew Mansfield made a series of exquisite paintings derived from images in Karl Blossfeldt’s Art Forms in Nature. Blossfeldt’s work, first published in 1928, made a profound impact on the development of the photographic image in the 20 century and the current magnificent exhibition at The Whitechapel Gallery demonstrates the astonishing beauty of these images and their...   [more]

One Submission | Two shows | Two selectors  2 x Opening Receptions: Sat 4 May 3-6pm and Sat 8 June 3-6pm 2013 Selected by Paul Noble 2-26 May | Selected by Ceri Hand 6-30 June 2013 See link below to see which are artists were selected by which selector.  Some were selected by both and will be in both exhibitions. A.P.T has launched the fifth Creekside Open competition for visual artists living o...   [more]

Opening: May 4th   3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

"The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man". Friedrich Nietzsche In a jolting new exhibition, artists Steele and Frimpong (aka Freeakpong) collaborate and join together in a savage-like force, forming an alliance against humanity. Their somewhat violent works comment upon everything they believe is wrong with the world (and that's a lot). They seem to hate us all - white, black, relig...   [more]

Opening: June 6th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Berlin is a radically transformed city from the one Margaret Hunter came to know when she moved there in 1985. She witnessed the heady moments in 1990 when in a triumphant celebration of the defeat of communism, the Wall was pulled down, and she joined 119 international artists to mark this precise moment of liberation with paintings, on a specific section of the previously inaccessible eastern sid...   [more]

Opening: May 14th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This exhibition of intimate works by Will Maclean is a variation of the School of Art History’s exhibition at St Andrew’s University in November 2012. In the accompanying catalogue, Tom Norman’s illuminating essay places the two groups of new small works into the mainstream context of Maclean’s overall project. The Post Card Series and The Lantern-Slide Series incorporate elements of layering and co...   [more]

Opening: May 14th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Developed over a three-year period, Geoffrey Farmer’s The Surgeon and the Photographer will be shown for the first time in its completed form for its UK premiere. The work consists of hundreds of puppet-like figures, composed of images cut from old books and magazines mounted onto fabric forms, and is accompanied by a new film commission. His work blends the collage and assemblage tradition...   [more]

Bartha Contemporary is delighted to announce German artist Henrik Eiben’s (b. 1975, Tokyo) first UK solo exhibition entitled ‘Now’s the Time’. The exhibition will feature new sculptures as well as abstract paintings and works on paper. Please join us for the private view on Thursday May 16th from 6.30 – 8.30PM. Exhibition continues until June 22th 2013. For his first solo-exhibition at B...   [more]

Opening: May 16th   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

Bodil Furu’s (NO) accomplished screen works reflect on the social and environmental dynamics that shape change. The work draws on closely documented encounters with people living in vastly different situations – as far apart as an excessively polluted and overpopulated city in Peoples Republic of China and the remote region of northern Norway where an island might have a population of one.   [more]