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The six new paintings by James White, collectively titled ’Cornered’, indicate a development and departure for the artist. White paints with intense meticulousness to represent varying degrees of observation. He achieves an arresting description of material surface, with objects in corners, or at times pure shallow illusory space providing an almost claustrophobic, sense. The possibility of...   [more]

Leah Gordon's new photographs investigate the practice of the grading from black to white of skin colour, referred to as Caste, which revealed the extent of racial mixing in 18th century colonial Haiti. A measuring system which moves through black to white in nine degrees, it was developed by a French colonialist living in Haiti during the slave plantation period. Moreau de St. Mery created a surr...   [more]

Opening: June 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Expanding on themes established in her large-scale paintings, Francesca Lowe's 'tree-cuts' and 'book-cuts' are created by cutting into a complete, already-published book or magazine. As with Lowe's canvases, the cut books rely on layering, but while painted images are layered though a process of building up, the book-cuts come into being by deleting content already there. Working from back to front,...   [more]

Opening: July 9th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ROKEBY presents a new body of work by Sam Dargan whose deeply layered paintings combine ambitiously rendered landscapes with historical narrative.  In recent years Dargan has produced a series of grand paintings that allude to a ‘romantic’ ideal of landscape. These paintings, to be seen for the first time, incorporate specific historical events that are re-imagined by the artist. However, m...   [more]

Opening: July 11th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

In Summer 2012, SPACE and Studio Voltaire will present a major two-venue exhibition of the work of the celebrated British photographer Jo Spence.  The presentation will be the UK’s largest exhibition to date of Jo Spence’s work since her death in 1992. Jo Spence (1934 – 1992) was a key figure on the UK photographic scene from the mid seventies and crucial in debates on photography and the...   [more]

Opening: June 11th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Victoria Miro is delighted to announce its fourth solo exhibition with Grayson Perry.In The Vanity of Small Differences Grayson Perry explores his fascination with taste and the visual story it tells of our interior lives in a series of six tapestries at Victoria Miro and three programmes, All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, for Channel 4.  The artist goes on a safari amongst the taste tr...   [more]

Opening: June 7th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Victoria Miro is delighted to announce an exhibition of new work by Sarah Sze, her second solo show with the gallery. Characteristic of Sze's expansive practice, the exhibition will comprise several interrelated installations - conceptual constellations of everyday objects.Over both floors, Sze's latest body of work re-imagines the gallery as a kind of laboratory where processes of observation, exam...   [more]

Opening: June 20th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

The biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the UK in over 40 years presents the modern world’s most famous art school. From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology the Bauhaus’ utopian vision sought to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and de...   [more]

IBID PROJECTS is pleased to exhibit the works of Harold Ancart, Rallou Panagiotou and Colin Snapp together for the first time. Harold Ancart’s works on paper, wall drawings and sculptural installations derive from a principal of immediacy typically associated with conventional drawing. For Ancart, drawing is transitional - the means to open a sculptural field and activate a given physical space. His...   [more]

Opening: June 27th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

People on Sunday is a project by Olivier Castel, Katie Guggenheim and Justin Jaeckle that responds to the site of the top floor of IBID, turning the gallery into a live cinema through which to watch the action in Hoxton Square below. The project is titled after the 1930 silent German film, directed by Curt and Robert  Siodmak from a screenplay by Billy Wilder. The film features five ‘non-actors’ (a w...   [more]

Opening: June 27th, 2012   6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

The ‘Souls’ were a sophisticated set of young aristocrats and society debutantes, who were drawn together by a shared interest in erudite conversation and high-spirited wit in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.  Counting amongst their number many brilliant young politicians, such as Arthur Balfour MP, later Conservative Prime Minister, a pivotal figure in the group, and the charisma...   [more]

Opening: June 22nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Working in a classical sculptural idiom, Dexter Dymoke’s practice explores the correlations and tensions between objects, materials and their engagement in space - he describes his work as an engagement with a discrete but rigorous conceptual enquiry into the symbolic and metaphoric role of materials. Through a wide range of sourced, transformed and crafted materials, his practice recalls the noti...   [more]

Opening: July 6th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The world’s largest open submission contemporary art show, now in its 244th year, continues the tradition of showcasing work by both emerging and established artists in all media including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, architecture and film. The Summer Exhibition attracts a high volume of entrants annually with over 11,000 entries received this year. Royal Academician Tess Jaray is...   [more]

This summer, as Britain celebrates The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the Royal Academy is marking the occasion with a series of displays and events. Peter Greenham’s Study for a Portrait of Her Majesty The Queen (1964) is on show in the entrance hall, while displays in the John Madejski Fine Rooms celebrate the long-standing connection between the monarchy and the Academy from its foundation in 176...   [more]

This exhibition will explore British art through the theme of migration from 1500 to the present day, reflecting the remit of Tate Britain Collection displays. From the sixteenth and seventeenth century Flemish and Dutch landscape and still-life painters who came to Britain in search of new patrons, through moments of political and religious unrest, to Britain’s current position within the global lands...   [more]

Opening: January 31st, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

In 1948 London hosted the first Olympic Games after the Second World War. The ‘Austerity Games’ (as they became known) took place at a time of economic crisis in a city devastated by bombing, but they provided a platform for reconciliation and reconstruction. In 2012 Britain welcomes the Olympics once more, and while the spirit remains, the context in which they are taking place has entirely changed...   [more]

Opening: March 31st, 2012   10:00 AM - 5:45 PM