Art Exhibitions on Now: November 2018

2nd November 2018 by Tegen Hager-Suart 0

You can find all of our recommended art exhibitions in one place. Below is a list of our 7 must-see art shows for the month, along with a navigation that can take you to smaller weekly listings that are worthy of note, this section is updated with new shows every week. If you want to see exhibitions in London or in your area simply go to our Artist Calendar – let us know about an exhibition using the form at the bottom of that page for the chance to be included in one of our Art Exhibitions on Now posts!

7 Unmissable Art Exhibitions on in November

Interesting Exhibitions upcoming in November:
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7 Unmissable Art Exhibitions on in November

This month’s art exhibitions not to miss choices focus on artistic responses to the cultural state of the Western world in the twentieth century and how mediums interact with and facilitate ideas.

1) Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer Heroic, Symbols 1969, ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. © Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important post-war artists. His work which incorporates raw often unusual materials including sunflower seeds, straw, human hair, lead and concrete with paint, explores collective memory and national identity. Focusing on the conflict, controversies and taboos of recent history in particular Germany’s history during the Second World War his unflinching approach provides beautiful memorials with shocking impact and dark, sedative undertones.

This exhibition which shows work from both the National galleries of Scotland and the Tate’s collection shows key works of Kiefer’s over the last 40 years of his career. This helps trace the development of his views on history, theology, mythology, literature, philosophy and the legacy of cultural history, with death, rejuvenation and the position of ‘painting’ as a concept taking central roles.

Showing at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, until 27th January 2019.

2) Klimt / Schiele : Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Egon Schiele, Seated Female Nude, Elbows Resting on Right Knee, 1914. Graphite and gouache on Japan paper. 48 x 32 cm. The Albertina Museum, Vienna. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Albertina Museum, Vienna

Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele both died in 1918, marking not only the end of their lives but also marked the decline of incredible creative output in Vienna as the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to separate and the culture of Europe started to enter a new phase. This show is a collaboration between the Albertina Museum in Vienna and The Royal Academy of Arts in London to mark the centenary of the artists’ deaths, as
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele are two of the most famous 20th century artists.

In this exhibition, which focuses on their drawing, a fragile and intriguing viewpoint is drawn out that gives the opportunity to explore their relationship as well as their different creative methods. Gustav Klimt’s work epitomised striking, modern painting of fin-de-siècle Vienna at the time, where as, Egon Schiele was young, provocative and prodigiously talented. Both used the immediacy of drawing as a medium to explore modernity, subjectivity and the erotic.

Showing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, between 4th November and 3rd February 2019.

3) Ribera: Art of Violence

Jusepe de Ribera, St Sebastian Tended by the Holy Women, c.1621, Oil on canvas, (detail), 180.3 x 231.6cm, The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. Photo: The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. ©Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

This is the first UK show dedicated to Spanish Baroque painter, draughtsman and printmaker Jusepe de Ribera presenting his sensational and shocking works in grotesque style. 8 large scale paintings are shown with drawings and prints emphasising and exploring violence within his work. Together the 45 works, which are arranged thematically, demonstrate his fascination with martyrdom, sensation, bindings and how humans both literally and metaphorically punish.

His focus on suffering comes across not as personally sadistic or aesthetically chosen but rather taken as a subject on which to ruminate on, figure out and expose as a cultural phenomena.

The works are on loan from several major European and North American collections and most have never been shown in the UK before.

Showing at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, until 27th January 2019.

4) Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

Margaret Ashman, Ogamu, Original Photo Etching Edition of 20 (variable) Image size 60 x 48 cm

This is the third successive Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. This year it is taking place within the Arsenal meaning the exhibition space has tripled in size now covering 2500m2. The show has been curated by the Brocket Gallery and is the biggest contemporary print fair in Britain, showcasing the work of over 200 different printmakers. Alongside original limited editions are practical demonstration, talks and advice for budding collectors.

This exhibition champions every aspect of printmaking with emerging talent being shown alongside established printmakers, both working in everything from etching and lino to woodblock and screen-printing.

The piece shown above is by Margret Ashman whose practice is based on the photographic image and who explores strong, emptive themes. Ashman’s work often features hands as a symbol of positive human nature or as a mode of gesture. This is particularly relevant in her studies of deaf people signing which have lead her to look at faith, spirituality and how we feel and express emotion.

Showing at Building 17, Cartridge Place, Royal Arsenal Riverside, Woolwich, London, between 22nd November and 25th November 2018.

5) Prints of Darkness: Goya and Hogarth in a Time of European Turmoil

Francisco Goya Y Lucientes, Bobalicón (Silly Idiot), (detail), 1864
Manchester Art Gallery,
William Hogarth (1697-1764), The Enraged Musician (detail), 1741
The Whitworth, The University of Manchester

While both Francisco José de Goya Lucientes (1746-1828) and William Hogarth (1697-1764) were famous painters in their own time, their prints can be seen as far more compelling and personal. These often came in the form of serials with the work designed to appeal to the public rather than the art market, this makes their work a trifle more candid and more taboo. The topics they focused on were poverty, homelessness, warfare, violence, cruelty, sexual abuse and human trafficking, social inequity, political corruption, racism, superstition, hypocrisy, rampant materialism, nationalism, mental illness, and alcoholism. The hundreds of prints which show their graphic form (both in subject and style) provoke a variety of emotions and describe the most uncomfortable of scenarios, that unfortunately are still familiar and bear relevance to our current society.

While this is the first time their work has been exhibited together it appears particularly timely since we are on the eve of Brexit and both lived through continental and British tensions in their lifetimes.

Showing at the Whitworth, Manchester, until August 2019.

6) John Moores Painting Prize 2018

Gary Lawrence, ‘Kos Town Paradise Hotel Front Terrace’

The John Moores Painting Prize is internationally regarded as well as being the UK longest established painting prize, having been founded in 1957. This year marks the art prize’s 60th anniversary and the exhibitions 30th anniversary. It forma a key strand of the Liverpool Biennial and while the work changes year to year the level and intention to champion the best of contemporary painting remains the same. The competition is open to all UK- based artists and is judged anonymously. All the works exhibited are for sale making it a must for collectors.

The winner of the prestigious first prize in 2018 is Jacqui Hallum with her painting King and Queens of Wands.

’In her painting, Hallum draws on imagery ranging from medieval woodcuts and leaded glass windows to tarot cards and Art Nouveau children’s book illustrations. She works across a number of loose cotton sheets, staining and dying them with inks (drawing ink, graffiti ink and squid ink). The sheets move between Hallum’s studio and garden throughout this process, before they are grouped and pinned together, concealing and revealing themselves to create a multi-part work.

Jacqui Hallum was born in Wembley, London in 1977 and is based in Totnes, Devon. She attended Coventry School of Art and Design 1996-9 and Slade School of Fine Art 2000-2’

The vistors’ choice winner shown above is Gary Lawrence with his piece Kos Town Paradise Hotel Front Terrace.

‘The painting depicts the sunlit terrace of a hotel I stayed at in Kos Town. I always enjoy the light flickering on every object, in the way Renoir would do, and have tried to show this.
The work was made rolled up due to lackof space by painting small sections at a time. The paint and image go right to the ragged canvas edge anfd it was never intended to be put on a stretcher. It was, rather, more similar to making a drawing on a piece of paper. When hung, flat, attached directly to the wall, it echoes the way in which a tapestry is presented.

Gary Lawrence was born in 1959 in Essex. He attended Braintree College 1976-78, Portsmouth Polytechnic 1978-81, Eastern Illinois University 1981-82, Southern Illinois University 1990-92.’
 
Past winners include: David Hockney (1967), Mary Martin (1969), Peter Doig (1993), Keith Coventry (2010), Sarah Pickstone (2012) and Rose Wylie (2014). Sir Peter Blake, winner of the junior prize in 1961, is Patron of the prize.

Showing at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, until 18th November 2018.

7) Club Dada: Berlin and beyond

Otto DixGerman (1891 – 1969), Kartenspieler [Cardplayers], Drypoint on paper (4/11), 32.90 x 28.30 cm, © DACS 2018

Dadaism was created by a small group of what we know been known as creatives in Switzerland as the First World War was raging across Europe. The name chosen for it’s universality as a nonsense word signifies the movements intentional avant-garde nature and it’s relationship to apparent ‘madness’ as a mode of social critique and political resistance to the political and military state of play at the time. The movement moved with political developments from the original location in Zurich in 1916, to Richard Huelsenbeck’s move to wartime Berlin in 1917 and at the end of the war the Berlin Dadaists used the movement to protest corruption and attack the politicians using the disruption to grasp power.

This display takes the Berlin faction as a focal point, placing it within its international and national context and points out the echoes of the future rise of National Socialism, degenerate art and the we now know impending Second World War.

The piece shown above is an etching of a painting made by Dix in 1920. His work was satirical in flavour with war-wounded soldiers often featuring and although on occasions these injuries are exaggerated they depict something commonplace at this time. Dix was influenced by his own experience in the trenches an sought to counteract the propaganda of war as glory. There is a humour in the work which can come across as deeply uncomfortable but also seeks to place the scene in a position of normality. This political, satirical method that appears similar to cabaret is one of the powerful and necessary aspects of Dadaism.

Showing at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two), Edinburgh, until 11th November 2018.

Interesting Upcoming Artist Shows on this Month:

This is a selection of UK art exhibitions, including group, solo, artist-led and gallery curated shows, that we think are interesting or unusual in some way. We update this section every week so you know the exhibitions to see now. Formally, we presented this information as our Current Events weekly blog posts. If you want to submit your own, follow the link at the bottom of this section.

Exhibitions on in the First Week of November

Original Print Fair 2018

 30 October – 11 November 2018 

Celebrating of the art of the hand pulled print.

Now in its 7th year, Espacio Print Fair is better than ever.

This exciting exhibition highlights the versatility of printmaking through the diverse work of 16 skilled and talented artists. The two floors of the gallery will be full of original hand pulled prints showcasing framed and unframed work on paper including etchings, linocuts, woodcuts, collagraphs and screenprints. As well as all the different techniques used, there are examples of contemporary art for all tastes from representational prints to works of pure abstraction.

The Print Fair is a wonderful occasion and the perfect opportunity to purchase original affordable art. There will also be the artists’ greetings cards on sale as well as small prints suitable for original Christmas gifts.

Moich Abrahams, Jim Anderson, Tania Beaumont, Diane Comte Frost,
Zelda Eady, Steve Edwards, Mario S. Gonzalez, Sally Grumbridge, Ann Simberg,
Ivy Smith, Jane Stothert, Tina Viljoen, Liz Whiteman Smith, Roy Willingham

Curated by Zelda Eady

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road,
London,
E2 7DG

CACHE a group show

3 November – 25 November 2018

‘I realised then that a man who’d only lived for a day could easily live for a hundred years in prison.
He’d have enough memories not to get bored.’
– Camus, The Outsider

This exhibition presents ten contemporary painters. While each of them has a distinct working method,
they share an interest in memory, as part of their process and as a subject.

Angus-Hughes Gallery
26 Lower Clapton Rd
London, E5 0PD

A Personal View – Peter Wileman – Solo Show

7 November – 24 November 2018

Peter Wileman, When All is Said and Done, Oil on canvas, 20” x 24”

Highly sought-after abstracted landscape painter Wileman delivers a new body of work depicting New York, London, and more.

Thompson’s Gallery
3 Seymour Place
London
W1H 5AZ

Laura Fishman: Infinite Possibilities

9 November – 21 November 2018

Laura Fishman, Infinite Possibilities

This engaging and uplifting exhibition which showcases the works of popular artist, Laura Fishman at the 508 Gallery.

View her range of styles, which range from Abstract Expressionism to pour painting, inspired by her love of nature and passion for experimenting with mixed materials. Her paintings share a dynamic use of colour, texture and movement whilst mimicking organic patterns in nature.

508 King’s Rd
Chelsea,
London
SW10 0LD

The Masters: Screen and Stone

1 November – 18 November 2018

Chris Orr RA RE, Searching For a Lost Button at Jackson’s, lithograph with silkscreen

The Masters is a series of exhibitions established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers focusing on a particular branch of printmaking each year. This year’s exhibition will be curated by Chris Orr RA RE and will showcase prints made with screenprint, lithography and digital printmaking.

Bankside Gallery
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London SE1 9JH

Ann Shrager

29 October – 10 November 2018

Ann Shrager, The Bathers

Ann Shrager studied at Byam Shaw School of Painting and the Royal Academy Schools. She is a member of the NEAC and has won both their Arts Club and Travel prizes. Her paintings of quintisentially English and Indian scenes are bathed in nostalgia.

Cadogan Contemporary
87 Old Brompton Road
London
SW7 3LD

Exhibitions on in the middle of November

Time Warp

13 November – 18 November 2018
Private View: Thursday 15 November 6-10pm

Time Warp exhibition brings together eleven artists whose works push imaginative and metaphorical boundaries concerning the twisting and distortion of time and space, using painting, photography, printing and ceramics. Not to be missed!

Maria Alvarez-Echenique, Eva Bachmann, Belgin Bozsahin, John Clark,
Theo Creber, Frank Creber, Jehan E Haddad, Anja von Kalinowski,
Peter Tingey, Andy Taylor, Jairo Zualda & Nicola Green

EVENTS
Interactive Screen Printing Workshop
‘Imaginary Friends’ by Jairo Zaldua & Nicola Green
16 November from 3-6pm

Arts and Crafts Pop Up Show
17 November from 1-6pm

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Rd
London E2 7DG

The irresistible rituals of dust

14 November – 18 November 2018
Private view: 13 November 2018

This solo exhibition by Sylwia Narbutt is a summarizing event for her trip to Caucasus region earlier in the year. She visited Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan and has used photographs and notes made during this trip to create new body of work.
It was made possible through a-n artist development bursary 2018.

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Arch 29,
Rolt Street,
Deptford,
London, SE8 5JB

Geoffrey Key, Six Decades of Painting and Drawing

8 November – 30 November 2018

Geoffrey Key, Salford Park, mixed media, 14 x 20 inches

Geoffrey Key. The show will feature around 30 works spanning six decades, and showcases his constantly evolving style as an artist.

Gateway Gallery
116 Ashley Road,
Hale, Altrincham,
Cheshire, WA14 2UN

Infinite Possibilities: Laura Fishman

9 November – 21 November 2018

Laura Fishman, Tsunami Bomb Acrylic on canvas 100 x 120 cm

This engaging and uplifting exhibition which showcases the works of popular artist, Laura Fishman at the 508 Gallery.
View her range of styles, which range from Abstract Expressionism to pour painting, inspired by her love of nature and passion for experimenting with mixed materials. Her paintings share a dynamic use of colour, texture and movement whilst mimicking organic patterns in nature.

508 Kings Road,
Chelsea,
SW10 0LD

Between Bodies

3 November – 25 November 2018

Emma Cousin, Lewis Hammond, Mona Osman, Neena Percy, Ellie Pratt, Babette Semmer, Lucy Stein,Emma Talbot, Rose Williams, Tom Worsfold

Curated by Neena Percy and Ellie Pratt.

Between Bodies is part of Painting Programme.
Painting programme is a seven-month programme of painting exhibitions curated by different painters, each of whom are invite by Assembly House studio holders. The exhibitions which will explore the role, possibilities and responsibility of collective artistic activity today as well as expose the curators’ unique approach to making, and their appreciation of dynamics within art.
The programme is structured by each studio holder who extends an invitation to another painter, each of whom has been asked to curate a painting-focused exhibition. Within this framework the curating artist can navigate their own interests for each exhibition. The exhibitions will bring together a range of artists within the philosophy that they are all painters together, pitching in and carving out ideas across a broad spectrum of creative activity.
Each exhibition will expose the curators’ unique approach to making, and their appreciation of dynamics within art. It will also give them chance to develop meaningful relationships and dialogues between artists. The programme is broadly removing the role of the gallerist as curator with the value of handing direction to artists.

Assembly House
44-46 Canal Road,
Armley, Leeds
LS12 2PL

Desert Island

15 – 18 November 2018

A group exhibition of the following artists:
Becky Brewis, Hannah Dinz, Liadain Evans, Oscar Farmer, Aisha Farr, Bobbye Fermie, Holly Froy, Shanti Gorton, Harriotte Hodson, Louis Luscombe, Nikoleta Martjanova, Hannah Murggatroyd, Greg Myers, Alice Robertson, Elvira Rose Oddy, Chica Seal, Anna Tveritinova, Alice Walter.

S-G Gallery
2- 4 Southgate Road
N1 3JJ

The Way Things Are: Karanjit Panesar

10 November – 15 December 2018

Karanjit Panesar, Global, The Way Thinghs Are

‘‘This is the way things are.’
‘This is the way things are…!’
[shrugs] ‘What? … I don’t know – this is just the way things are…’

‘THIS IS THE WAY THINGS ARE!’

‘This. Is. The. Way. Things. Are’
What is the place of the alienated individual in the globalised world system, and why are alternatives to it so hard to imagine? How can we envision a better future when we are told that this is the way things are, and that this is the way things have to be?
THE WAY THINGS ARE is a solo exhibition of new work by Leeds based artist Karanjit Panesar, the selected artist of the hotel generation programme for 2018.
Comprising sculpture, film, CGI animation, and text, the exhibition is an attempt to affectively map a world system that is so vast and unrepresentable a totality as to factor into almost every aspect of life and relationships in some way. What does this mean for us – the perennial consumer – and our view of the world at large?
The show borrows from the language of advertising and political rhetoric in an effort to ridicule the pervasive nature of the neoliberal system; its apparent finality and preclusion of alternatives. Framed within an installation that is suggestive of some site of theatrical ruin, the exhibited works move between pessimism and guarded optimism, and between loosely suggested futures and fictive pasts. The exhibition considers the critical function of utopian thinking, and in doing so addresses a crisis of the social imaginary.’

arebyte Gallery
Java House
7 Botanic Square
London City Island
E14 0LG

Looking The Other Way

20 November – 25 November 2018
Private View: Thursday 22 November 6-9pm

Looking the Other Way Press Release

‘This collaborative show brings together an eclectic mix of contemporary images by 30 photographic artists as part of East London Photomonth 2018.

The exhibition features work from both established and emerging practitioners and features a wide range of subjects, characters and moods. This is the eighth exhibition by the Gay Photographers Network in London.’

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road,
London, E2 7DG

MAHL Group Exhibition

9 November – 21 November 2018

Artists: Angela Malone, Steffany Malone, Stephen Asquith, John Hughes, and Peter Livesey
This will be the MAHL group’s 5th Exhibition: Formed in 2012 they have exhibited in the major London Galleries and bring together a collection of sculptures, etchings, prints, oils and watercolours.

Pie Factory Margate Gallery
5 Broad Street,
Margate, CT9 1EW

Between the Lines: East London Printmakers

13 October – 5 January 2018

Severn Moon, Steve Edwards

‘Between the Lines is an exhibition of works by artists from East London Printmakers, a not-for-profit artist run studio based in Mile End. The works survey the breadth of contemporary printmaking, ranging from traditional techniques to experimental processes, and showcase how differently the artists have used print language to explore imagery, surface and mark-making in their work.

ELP provides professional and affordable printmaking facilities for artists, and works together as a collective to exhibit works, teach workshops, host artist talks and offer open access printmaking sessions for the wider artistic community. They also provide a platform for print research, and support emerging and graduate artists through residency programmes and printmaking awards. Now celebrating their 20th anniversary, they also host an annual Festival of Print, and our annual box set of prints is held in the collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
www.eastlondonprintmakers.co.uk’

Gerald Moore Gallery
Mottingham Lane
London
SE9 4RW

Cicatrix: The Scar of a Healed Wound

12 September – 1 December 2018

Cicatrix is a centenary project which reflects the story of Wiltshire during World War I. It is a contemporary art exhibition by Prudence Maltby, Susan Francis and Henny Burnett joined by Commonwealth artists Caro Williams (New Zealand), Catherine Farish (Canada) and Sophie Cape (Australia). Cicatrix is a collaborative exhibition incorporating painting, drawing, sculpture, film, print and sound installation.
This touring exhibition examines the concept of scarring: the physical marks left behind, scars on the Wiltshire landscape, and other scars, obscured but clearly evident as memories mapped within those who’ve experienced conflict.
Cicatrix is a member of the First World War Centenary Partnership, led by Imperial War Museums, and forms a network of regional, national and international cultural and educational organisations.

Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Bath Road
Swindon
SN1 4BA

Exhibitions on at the end of November

Communing with the Ancients: Mark Lumley

27 November – 02 December 2018
Private View: Tuesday 27 November 6-9pm

‘Espacio Gallery are pleased to announce the first comprehensive UK exhibition of sculptures by Mark Lumley. Known for his unique body of furniture designed for Soane Britain, Lumley now presents an oeuvre of sculptures reclusively created over the past three decades.

Exhibiting an expansive body of previously unseen works, this show reveals the rigour, dedication and experimentation of a secretive and devotional practitioner. Focusing on the human form and in particular the head, Lumley’s work uses his expertise as a blacksmith to push the limitations of solid metal bar, using metal like clay, affording a fluidity and organic form which reveals the alchemy of his practice. Other pieces compile off cuts of metal which are shaped, welded and ground using similar processes to those employed for furniture making.

Lumley’s oeuvre extends to sconces, candelabra and outside architectural pieces, treading the boundary between the decorative, the purpose-led and the purely artistic object. Though initially resistant to creating figurative works, his process led practice naturally arrived at figuration as he allowed the metal to move and morph and reveal its form to him. Each piece is guided by the inherent diversity of the material and is neither planned nor controlled as if the artist is surrendering to his medium.

With visual references ranging from Michael Angelo and Rodin to indigenous representations of gods from international ancient cultures, Lumley’s work appears to channel an archetypal relationship with deities, drawn from intuition and guided by the material. The process of secretively forming a world of timeless spiritual representations may be connected to the artists own experiences of wavering mortality and loss and a near death incident aged 27.

Lumley was raised a Catholic, educated in a Benedictine Monastery school and went on to study Medieval History and Archeology before becoming a furniture maker and artist. Searching for spirituality outside of Catholicism his work is distinctly non-religious but inevitably influenced by the aesthetic of iconography.

Mark Lumley’s work has been featured in The World of Interiors, The Telegraph, House & Gardens, Veranda and Architectural Digest. His exhibition ‘Communing With The Ancients’ presents a selection of 50 works exemplifying the diversity and rigour of his practice.’

Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road,
London, E2 7DG

129th Annual Exhibition of the Croydon Art Society

20 November – 8 December 2018

An exhibition of work my members of the Croydon Art Society who won the ‘Art Club of the Year Award 2018’ hosted by Painters Online and sponsored by us.

Exhibition Gallery
Croydon Clocktower
Katharine Street
Croydon, CR9 1ET

The Idea of Absence: Nick Scammell and Simon Head

22 November – 25 November 2018

Simon Head & Nick Scammell, Dedication, 2018

‘Nick Scammell and Simon Head, resident at Lumen Studios during August of this year, present new work inspired by the fabric of St John on Bethnal Green, the church above the crypt that houses Lumen Studios.

Nick Scammell will present a variety of book-works on silence and value, while Simon Head will present a series of drawings and a book of photographic works inspired by the physical structure of the church, taking measure of the desires, hopes and limits of religious consciousness in respect to the organisation of society and culture. The artists will also present a collaborative work, comprising poetry and drawing.

Simon Head’s works walk a line between material, science and poetry, with Head choosing to disorientate form and function through chance. Primarily a conceptual artist, Head is indebted to poetry, sculpture and 60’s minimalism.

Nick Scammell considers impermanence through surface and word.

The artists would like to thank Father Alan Green and the staff at St. John on Bethnal Green, for their assistance.

Simon Head is indebted to The Sir John Soane’s Museum library for assisting in his research into Sir John Soane’s architecture and for permission to use digital copies of the original plans of St. John On Bethnal Green.’

Lumen Studios
The Crypt,
St John on Bethnal Green,
200 Cambridge Heath Road,
London
E2 9PA

Charlie Mackesy

20 – 24 November 2018

Charlie Mackesy, Ambition

A solo show of work by Charlie Mackesy.

Gallery 8,
8 Duke Street,
London,
SW1 Y6BN

Deluge

27 October – 22 December 2018

Danashee Press, 2:3 ‘Land Beneath’

‘DELUGE is the final show of Edinburgh Printmakers at Union Street, in spring 2019 the new gallery and studio space will open at Castle Mills in Fountainbridge.
Our relationship with water is universal and nowhere more so than here in Scotland. From the rains and mists that beat and shroud our landscape to the waves and storms that lash our shores, this elemental force is engrained in our national character. Over the millennia we have learnt to tame this life force in all its myriad of uses, re-directing it through pipes, drains, canals, industries and creative tributaries. This is evident at 23 Union Street.  From its inception as a municipal washhouse through to its current use of Edinburgh Printmakers studio, galleries and shop, water has been central to the activity of the Victorian building. In the beginning, water was used to wash the clothes now it is fundamental to lithography and screen-printing. Water has always permeated the building and the actions within its walls. With the upcoming relocation to Castle Mills at Fountainbridge by the Union Canal, another chapter of this building’s colourful and watery history draws to a close as a new one opens for Edinburgh Printmakers community.
Curator and artist David Faithfull comments: “Through the DELUGE exhibition, members past and present, were invited to consider water in all its manifestations, uses and symbolism; responding to this aqueous element, in whatever form of their choosing. Casting their imaginations to mountain brooks and lowland burns, highland lochs and forest pools, across oceans and seas, upwards into the cloudscapes and meteorological mantle that veils our land. I wanted to question why there are so few pictures of rain and weather in Scottish art, there’s misted mountains but not much more.”’

A particular exhibitor to watch out for is the Danashee Press whose work you can see here.

Edinburgh Printmakers
23 Union Street
Edinburgh
EH1 3LR