Paul’s Gallery of the Week: OHSH Projects
OHSH Projects, founded in 2021, sounds like a place for the occasional off-beat presentation, but partners in art and life Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver
Author: Paul Carey-Kent
Art critic and curator, based near Southampton. I write most regularly for Art Monthly, Frieze, World of Interiors, Seisma, Border Crossings, Artlyst, ... and, of course, FAD.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Flowers Gallery
Angela Flowers (1932-2023) founded her eponymous gallery in 1970, initially concentrating on living British artists in Central London before expanding the roster and pioneering the late 90’s trend of galleries moving east
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: indigo+madder
Krittika Sharma co-founded indigo+madder in Deptford in 2019, then moved to a more central location last year –
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tension Fine Art
Tension Fine Art has operated since 2019 in the somewhat unlikely locality of Penge in South-East London.
Paul’s Gallery of Week: The National Gallery
The National Gallery… it sounds pretty comprehensive, though there’s no sculpture (where’s that national gallery?) and a more accurate title would be something like ‘The National Gallery of European Paintings by Men, 1260 – 1920’, with hardly anything from other continents and just 0.5% by women.
Paul’s Gallery of Week: Cecilia Brunson Projects
If anyone tells me they are going to White Cube’s Bermondsey space, I advise them to drop in at Cecilia Brunson Projects, which flies comparatively under the radar but is only a stone’s throw away.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Phillips
Damien Hirst: ‘Octa’, 2021 from the ‘Seascapes’ – oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: White Cube
Jay Jopling set up White Cube in a small space on Duke Street, St. James’s, where 75 shows by 75 different artists were presented between 1993-2001, including several by the YBAs with whom the gallery become closely associated.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sadie Coles HQ
Ask London artists who they would most like to show with, and the answer is often ‘Sadie Coles’
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Lehmann Maupin
Lehmann Maupin, though, has had a permanent presence since October 2020, when Cromwell Place became the London location of the gallery founded by Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin in New York in 1996
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Ben Brown Fine Arts
Ben Brown’s background was in the secondary market – he spent ten years at Sotheby’s, taking a particular and ongoing interest in Italian art – before he opened his eponymous gallery in London in 2004
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Purdy Hicks
The gallery was established in East London in 1995, and for much of this century was on Hopton Street, conveniently close to Tate Modern.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Mayor Gallery
Tracking back, The Mayor Gallery was actually the first to open on the street, when founded by Fred Mayor (1903-73) in 1925.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Skarstedt
Skarstedt originated in New York and now operates in Paris and London as well. It was founded in 1994 by Swedish-born Per Skarstedt
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Aleph Contemporary
In something of a contrast to last week’s David Zwirner, Aleph – founded in 2019 – has the simplest of gallery models:
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: David Zwirner
It’s hardly a surprise that there are good things to see at David Zwirner, generally considered to be one of the four biggest ‘mega-galleries’ in the world
Action to Australia, Rain to Iran: Photo London 2023
This year’s Photo London is above average, with two excellent special exhibitions (of Martin Parr’s recent work and ‘Writing her… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Castor
When I first met Andy Wicks, he was an artist (and I liked his work). But his role arranging artist-run pop-ups led him to morph towards gallerist, and Castor Projects was born in 2016.
Waiting around in Berlin
Berlin has the coordination London lacks, and so it is that the annual Berlin Gallery Weekend sees 55 galleries on the official programme and at least as many other galleries all opening new shows on Friday 29 April
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: VITRINE
VITRINE, following the opening of a new Fitzrovia space in May 2022 and last month’s relaunch of its original Bermondsey space – a shopfront-style space – might now be seen as a mega-gallery
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Piano Nobile
Jean Cooke: ‘Beach, Birling Gap’ 1975 Piano Nobile, 96/129 Portland Road, London, W11 4LW www.piano-nobile.com Instagram @pianonobilegallery Piano Nobile was… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
I’ve been around long enough to remember when Pippy Houldsworth opened on Cork Street in 1999, moving west for a while before settling in Heddon Street from 2011.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Thaddaeus Ropac
That tricky spelling is the Latinate version of the gallerist’s first name: he was born in 1960 as Thaddäus within a family of Carinthian Slovenes in southern Austria. He interned with Joseph Beuys, opened his first gallery in 1981, and now leads a global brand
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Somers Gallery
Somers Gallery, handily placed between Euston and Kings Cross, is an unusual space which should be better known. It’s run by a Mexican, Javier Calderon, who also owns Flori Canto,
