Paul’s Fairs: Stories of Frieze London
12 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The layout of Frieze London has been shaken up this year, and the fair feels fresh. As ever, though, it’s… Read More
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: JGM Gallery
3 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
JGM has an unusual programme alternating indigenous contemporary art from Australia with shows by British artists.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: IONE & MANN
25 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The first part of IONE & MANN (say ‘Eye-Oh-Knee’ if you like) sounds close to ‘Ionian’, and that’s in line with being run by the Greek-born Alkistis Koukouliou. Logically enough, she’s seen championing Zeus above.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Kate MacGarry
18 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Kate MacGarry opened her eponymous gallery in 2002, initially on Redchurch Street
Paul’s Gallery of The Week: Galerie Max Hetzler
11 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
According to Hetzler himself ‘The programme is the artists’, which I guess puts the emphasis on which artists are chosen, and the quality is high
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sid Motion
4 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
When I first met Sid Motion, she was working for Max Wigram gallery (remember that?)
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: OOF Gallery
31 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
OOF is one of London’s less orthodox spaces.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: MASSIMODECARLO
24 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Massimo De Carlo’s background was in pharmacy and jazz when he founded his gallery in Milan in 1987.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sylvia Kouvali
17 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
A new gallery? No, Sylvia Kouvali has recently rebranded her Rodeo space to more personal and less programmatic effect.
GHOSTS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY… SUMMER SHOW 2024
8 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
As ever, the RA Summer show is an over-packed and variable mix, but there are good things to be found and the whole room presentation of Carey Young’s film ‘The Vision Machine’ is particularly welcome
Conflicted Choices from The Treasure House Fair
28 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Treasure House Fair is an enjoyable chance to escape the world’s problems. Or is it? Strolling round the 70… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hamiltons Gallery
26 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hamiltons Gallery, 13 Carlos Place, London W1K 2EUwww.hamiltonsgallery.com Instagram: @hamiltonsgallery Hamiltons Gallery is unusual. Most obviously for… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Emalin
19 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Emalin, 1 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3ET and 118½ Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JN emalin.co.uk Instagram: @emalinofficial Emalin was… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bernheim Gallery
12 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Bernheim Gallery was founded in Zurich by Maria Bernheim in 2015, and that is where I first discovered its lively international programme
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Rocket Gallery
5 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rocket Gallery was founded by Jonathan Stephenson – it’s Stephenson’s Rocket, a little historical joke – in the West End in 1994 –
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: domobaal
29 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Baal opened the gallery in 2000, and some 200 exhibitions in, 20 artists are represented across all disciplines.
PHOTO LONDON 2024 – 10 images about the people.
17 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Most photographs at Photo London 2024 are, unsurprisingly, of people. That may be because of who they are (the Rolling… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Larkin Durey
15 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
If the name is unfamiliar, that’s because the Jack Bell Gallery, which ran 2010-24, has just been relaunched under the direction and ownership of Oliver Durey
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bobinska Brownlee New River
8 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Bobinska Brownlee New River is normally a modest but stimulating exhibition space, set in a bunker-like room in the back garden of a house in Islington.
A STROLL AROUND BERLIN: GALLERY WEEKEND 2024
1 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
There are a lot of galleries in Berlin and matters are well coordinated. So it is that, at the end… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pilar Corrias
24 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whilst several galleries have recently moved into the traditional art spaces of Cork Street, Pilar Corrias’s new flagship space is on nearby Conduit Street, with 5,000 sq ft over two floors.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Grosvenor Gallery
17 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Historically Grosvenor Gallery – which deals principally in South Asian art – is connected to the Estorick Collection – which concentrates on Italy. How so?
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Southwark Park Galleries
10 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is the 40th anniversary year of Southwark Park Galleries – the operating name of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, a… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Mimosa House
3 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Daria Khan started Mimosa House in 2017 in the back of a half-abandoned office building on Hanover Square, eccentric in layout but handily close to Oxford Circus.