I Want To Be An Insect
Pictorum Gallery - April 2024
I Want to Be an Insect is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring the works of four international artists, Becky Tucker, Tito Stanley, Megan Rea and Aniela Preston. Each artist has drawn inspiration from art historical sources spanning the surreal to the renaissance. The exhibition's title, borrowed from a sculpture by the legendary Leonora Carrington, serves as a thematic anchor, reflecting the exhibiting artists' shared interests in metamorphosis, materiality, and the surreal
Embodied Selfhood
Pictorum Gallery - February 2024
Embodied Selfhood, a group exhibition of five international artists:H. E. Morris, Melania Toma, Dennis Scholl, Arslan Eroglu, and Maria Positano. Spanning installation, sculpture, painting and textile, the exhibition focuses on how art can be used as a vehicle for the expression of identity, selfhood, and individuality. The artists’ unique practices investigate the many iterations of self as a product of culture, society, and psychological experience.
Dream of the Mother Language
Pictorum Gallery - January 2024
Dream of the Mother Language, a solo exhibition by multidisciplinary visual artist Alicia Radage (she/they). This exhibition spans ten years of the artists’ career, showcasing both archival and new work. As a trained Somatic Shamanic Practitioner, Alicia looks to ancient ways of connecting to and receiving wisdom from the ‘more than human’. In this way, she foregrounds her spiritual practice throughout her artistic work, and places all she creates within a powerful feminist framework.
The Sudden Opening of Little Leaves
Pictorum Gallery - November 2023
The Sudden Opening of Little Leaves showcases the work of Tuesday Riddell, Emily Pope, and Polina Pak.
The exhibition's title, 'The Sudden Opening of Little Leaves,' is taken from a journal entry by poet Sylvia Plath. Each of the artists showcase personal narratives that explore grief, life, death, and the ritualistic practice of making work.
Only Until This Cigarette is Ended a group exhibition featuring nine international artists: Leily Moghtader Mojdehi, Tosin Kalejaye, Naomi Boiko, Olamide Ogunade, Elena Rivera-Montanes, Verde, Nina Baxter, Johanna Bath, Brittany Fannin
Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended
Pictorum Gallery - July 2023
Noises in the Florid Sky
Pictorum Gallery - September 2023
Noises in the Florid Sky, a solo presentation by Lydia Hamblet. Exploring themes of weather, movement and memory, the exhibition is the artist's first solo show with the gallery. Showcasing an incredible eighteen new paintings, Hamblet transforms the gallery space into an immersive, energetic environment where the viewer is enveloped by a vibrant symphony of colour.
Bodies, Gluttony and Me
Pictorum Gallery - May 2023
In accordance with the Catholic faith, Gluttony is one of the seven deadly sins. Although often used with regards to food, Gluttony also refers to a desire for excess, wanton hedonism, and consumption. Featured Artists: Zoe Francis Spowage, Rosie Gibbens, Qingqing Liu, Damaris Athene, Nettle Grellier, Faye Elenaor Woods, Anna Choutova
The Songs of Hecate
Pictorum Gallery - April 2023
The title Between the Bridge and the Door refers to sociologist Georg Simmel's elaboration of the bridge and door as modes of transition to analyse the transitional space between past, present and future identities. In this exhibition, transition is at the core. There is an intentional ambiguity created by each artist - the forms are open to analysis, often reveal-ing the viewer 's biases and impressions.
Works by the selected artists share an aesthetic synergy, despite their vastly different subject matters, colour palettes and even scale
Between the Bridge and the Door
Pictorum Gallery - February 2023
The title Between the Bridge and the Door refers to sociologist Georg Simmel's elaboration of the bridge and door as modes of transition to analyse the transitional space between past, present and future identities. In this exhibition, transition is at the core. There is an intentional ambiguity created by each artist - the forms are open to analysis, often reveal-ing the viewer 's biases and impressions.
Taking a Broom to a Wasps’ Nest Pictorum Gallery - December 2022
Taking a Broom to the Wasp's Nest showcases the work of six exceptional women abstract artists: Jo Dennis, Kim Booker, Lydia Hamblet, Rhiannon Salisbury, Sunyoung Hwang, Yaya Yajie Liang. The title of the exhibition, Taking a Broom to the Wasp's Nest, is taken from the poem Abstract by Connie Wanek. The title touches on a sense of urgency and movement, responding directly to both the formal elements of the artists' works and the wider art historical context that they exist within.
I Felt That
The Tub - July 2022
I Felt That features works by Shir Cohen, J Williamson, Ruth Batham, Jennifer Nieuwland, Louise Benton, Lavinia Harrington, Chloe L-S-H, Lucienne O’mara, Lucy Cade, Mhairi Bell-Moodie, Zayn Qahtani, Polina Pak and Qingqing Liu. I Felt That is a collaborative, multidisciplinary, care-centred project that calls special attention to work by thirteen selected women and non-binary artists who have experienced the gender pain gap.
In Reverie Part I
ACAVA - June 2022
IN REVERIE: Part 1 is a group show, featuring painting, video and sculpture by Nell Brookfield, Paula Turmina, Olivia Mundy, Salome Wu, Karen Tronel and Kirsty Lackie
In this exhibition, the artists invite the viewer to explore their dreams, playful illusions and unique perceptions of the world around them, offering a unique glimpse into their creative processes. Given the past year and a half of covid-induced isolation, IN REVERIE: Part 1 aims to propel the viewer through an emotional and enlightening voyage of imagination and freedom.
In Reverie Part II
ACAVA - June 2022
A duo show of works by Georgia Dymock and Maciej Kosc. Inspired by the increasingly pressing politics of the body and the complexities that surround representations of form, IN REVERIE: Part 2 considers how we position the body in space in relation to other beings, especially at a time when we have been separated from others for so long. Foremost on the minds of the artists are the ways in which they can adapt the body to their preferred forms and styles. Be it through digital manipulation before painting, or fast-paced application of paint touched up with minute details, the works in this exhibition are constantly in
As Seen By Me
Studio West - April 2022
The show brings together paintings and sculptures by two British artists Roland Lawar and Anthony Laurencin. The exhibition title, taken directly from Lawar’s writing, speaks to the central themes of each artists’ practice: perception, personal interpretation, lived experience, and materiality
16 Branches High
Studio West - March 2022
16 Branches High, a solo show by London-based Polish painter and sculptor Karolina Albricht. The exhibition presents abstracted painted works of differing scale, juxtaposed to an exploratory body of sculpture. Thematically the pieces on show are a continuation of Albricht’s investigation of both formal and metaphysical concerns including colour, space, the body, movement, and gesture.
The Reality in Whytch You Create
Studio West - February 2022
The exhibition explores reality in an expanded sense, drawing on dreams, subconscious experience, and myths. The artists separately create surreal depictions of space, unusual characters and new assemblages of images which disorient and challenge the veracity of our experiences. Largely through painting, accompanied by Wu's sound and video work, each artist unveils pieces that collapse and blend facets of the imaginary with the everyday.
Tomorrow Will Be The Most Beautiful Day Of Your Life
Studio West - January 2022
Tomorrow Will Be The Most Beautiful Day of Your Life, an exhibition of new works by Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang. Cantons and Xu share a studio and work in conversation, questioning how art operates as a redeeming medium and addressing themes of uncertainty, identity and the female gaze. The exhibition is unique in that it shows work of two artists who are intensely bonded, known for creating depictions of one another and working in unison.
Untouchable
Liliya Art Gallery - August 2021
UNTOUCHABLE is an exhibition featuring seven female artists who work with ceramics. This group exhibition presents an up-to-date survey of ceramic as a versatile and fascinating medium from a range of artists’ perspectives, whilst also considering the contemporary and historical importance of women to the popularity of themedium.
Universal Yearnings
Liliya Art Gallery - June 2021
Liliya Art Gallery is pleased to present Universal Yearnings, a brand-new body of work by Rafaela de Ascanio.
Working predominantly as a painter and ceramicisit, Universal Yearnings is an intimate and powerful exhibition focusing on explorations of feminsim, the solar system and mythology.
Cry Cowboy Cry
Liliya Art Gallery - May 2021
Cry Cowboy Cry, a solo show by Douglas Cantor.
Cry Cowboy Cry offers an emotionally complex body of work. Reflective of both Cantor’s geographical and emotional state, the artist’s current practice focuses on two main motifs: the nude, and the horse.
Take Me Somewhere Nice
Liliya Art Gallery - May 2021
Take Me Somewhere Nice presents a body of work by Henry Glover, created almost entirely during a period of social and physical isolation. As such, it embodies the complex emotions of loneliness and desire that have been exacerbated by the recent global health crisis. Glover’s act of transforming these experiences into images and objects serves as a mirror for the viewer, allowing us to reflect upon our own responses to the global environment.
