Josh Lilley has announced the expansion of their galleries at 40-46 Riding House Street. Nick Goss’ current exhibition, Nine Mile Burn, has been extended until January 15, 2021.
In summer 2019, Josh Lilley took occupancy of 40-42 Riding House Street, the neighbouring building to the gallery’s longtime home. A space that embodies more than a century of London history — remembered as a furrier, delicatessen, fascist bookstore and travel agency over the past century — it now lives as the largest storefront for culture in the neighbourhood.
Initially used as a second space, 40-42 served as a stage for Derek Fordjour’s In Memoriam, an intense installation and appendix to Fordjour’s painting exhibition in the main gallery in October 2019, then as the location for tightly conceived single-room exhibitions for Benedetto Pietromarchi and Nicholas Hatfull in the early months of 2020.
Unifying the two properties through the summer, Merrett Houmøller Architects conceived a comprehensive remodel centred around a double-height gallery connecting the two floors of exhibition space. A sun trap space for large-scale display as well as a grand signature of the new Josh Lilley, the atrium gallery amplifies street views of the gallery’s extended frontage.
“The opportunity to expand the physical spaces of the gallery while retaining our presence in this enigmatic corner of Fitzrovia was something I couldn’t pass up. The options we now have with 3,000 square feet of gallery space in central London, at the location with which the gallery has become synonymous, allows for far more ambitious exhibitions that will benefit our existing artists, as well as newcomers to the program. Additional office space and two new private viewing rooms give us the chance to be surrounded by more of the magical works coming from our artists’ studios.”
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