Current Events #11. A selection of UK art exhibitions and events for week 11 of 2016.
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Books, Camera, Ubu
24 March – 5 June 2016
Franciszka and Stefan Themersons
Partners and life-long collaborators from 1929 until their deaths in 1988, this exhibition delves into Franciszka and Stefan Themersons’ diverse practice, which included painting, photography, film, theatre design, literature, concrete poetry, publishing and illustration.
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
London
NW3 6DG
The Manchester Print Fair No.11
19-20 March 2016
The Manchester Print Fair is an independent art and design event featuring affordable artwork from over 40 local artists, designers and print makers over two days. Facebook event page.
People’s History Museum
Left Bank, Spinningfields
Manchester
M3 3ER
Brink
24 March – 17 April 2016
Brink explores limits, extremes and the unease caused at the point of shifting perception. Exhaustion, perpetuity and frustration feature prominently. Graham Dolphin, Jean-Paul Kelly, Gil Leung, Priit Pärn, Eric Pauwels, Chris Saunders, Lucy Skaer. Curated By Matt Carter. Preview: 19 March
CGP London Dilston Grove
Gallery By The Pool
1 Park Approach, Southwark Park
London
SE16 2UA
Marion Wagschal
5 February – 15 April 2016
Song for a Dead Coyote, 2015
An exhibition of paintings created between 1980 and 2015. Reflecting the painter’s affinity for psychological portraits, the selected works are telling of her preferred subject: the feminine figure as a repository of stories both personal and universal.
Canada Gallery
Pall Mall entrance, Canada House
Trafalgar Square, London
SW1 5BJ
Sarah Lucas: POWER IN WOMAN
10 March – 21 May 2016
The three sculptures – YOKO, PAULINE and MICHELE – each depict a female figure in cast plaster, shown in the North Drawing Room, a very rare occasion on which a living artist has situated works amid the Soane’s multi-layered collections. 22 March artist’s talk.
The Soane Museum
13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
London
WC2A 3BP
Painting by Numbers by Georgia Sowerby
19 March – 1 April 2016
Gum (detail)
2015. 200 x 180 cm, oil on linen
The first solo exhibition by Block 336 studio artist Georgia Sowerby. The show will be held in the entrance space of Block 336. Sowerby’s large-scale paintings are made according to a set of self-imposed rules. Private view: 18th March.
Block 336
336 Brixton Road
London
SW9 7AA
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Gum (detail)
2015. 200 x 180 cm, oil on linen
by Georgia Sowerby who is showing at Block 336.
