Danielle Arnaud, 123 Kennington Road, London SE11 6SF UK
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Danielle Arnaud graduated in Art History from the Courtauld Institute in 1982, and set up her gallery in 1995, with the idea of encouraging artists ‘to develop their practice without the constraints of market or trends’. The set-up is unusual: the entrance hall and three substantial rooms in her elegant house in Kennington are given over to exhibitions, providing gently colour-coded settings which give you a good idea of how the art might fit in your own home. Visits are by appointment, and you have until 17th January to arrange to see the excellent ‘The Weather Was Inside’, with three of the 19 artists Arnaud represents: Katie Deith, Helen Maurer and Sarah Woodfine. Another, Sarah Dobai, is next up. Arnaud is French, and like several other Gallic art world luminaries – take Laure Prouvost, Marguerite Humeau, Laurent Delaye, Nadege Meriau, and Ingrid Berthon-Moine – her accent has proved strong enough to survive many years here to alluring effect. The gallery also extends geographically, having opened residency and exhibition spaces in France and Italy, shown frequently in Venice, and collaborated in London with The National Trust, The Garden Museum, the Natural History Museum and – least surprisingly – the Imperial War Museum, an underrated art venue close enough to make for a convenient double visit. Female artists are in the majority in Arnaud’s 130 exhibitions to date. I recall enjoying recent shows by Oona Grimes, Kathleen Herbert, Suki Chan and Katharine Fry. Go back further and Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Tessa Farmer and Uta Kögelsberger come to mind…
London’s gallery scene is varied, from small artist-run spaces to major institutions and everything in between. Each month, art writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives a personal view of a space worth visiting. A collection of previous columns ‘Paul’s Galleries to Go’, will be launched at the London Art Fair on 20th January.
