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.
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: Cristea Roberts
27 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cristea Roberts Gallery, 43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG cristearoberts.com Instagram: @cristearoberts Cristea Roberts is an unusual gallery… Read More
Amelia Bowles in conversation with Paul Carey-Kent
25 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Amelia Bowles’ first solo show is at Ione & Mann to 18th April. Her work sits between sculpture, painting and… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: ASC Gallery
19 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Artists Studio Company (ASC) is a charity, founded in 1995, that provides over 650 artists and makers with studios and workspaces
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Vigo
13 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Vigo, 7 – 8 Mason’s Yard, London SW1Y 6BU www.vigogallery.com Instagram: @vigogallery Vigo has been operating since 2011, originally… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Courtauld Gallery
9 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN.courtauld.ac.uk Instagram: @courtauld Three collectors led the 1932 foundation of The Courtauld… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Edel Assanti
28 February 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Edel Assanti was founded in 2010 by Jeremy Epstein and Charlie Fellowes. They were still working at Gagosian and Hamiltons galleries respectively, which led them to use a name less obviously associated with themselves
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Richard Saltoun
14 February 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
I first met Richard Saltoun some 16 years ago, when he was dealing from Savile Row together with Laurent Delaye (who now runs his gallery from Ramsgate) prior to setting up on his own account in 2012
Paul’s Fairs: Ceramic Brussels
7 February 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Brussels has just hosted the world’s first fair dedicated specifically to contemporary ceramics, with 60 galleries at Tour & Taxis. … Read More
Multimedia at Art Rotterdam 2024
2 February 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Art Rotterdam (1-4 Feb), and the last before it moves from the iconic… Read More
Paul’s Fairs: Out of the Usual at BRAFA 2024
31 January 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair – BRAFA – was founded it 1956, making it the longest-running such event…. Read More
Paul’s Gallery of The Week: Copperfield
24 January 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
When I first met Will Lunn he was the youngest gallerist in town, having founded Sumarria Lunn (with Vishal Sumarria) in 2009 when he was just 21 –
Paul’s Galleries of the Week: London Art Fair special
17 January 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
London Art Fair special: I guess everyone knows that the standard of the London Art Fair is – to put… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tate Modern
10 January 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TGtate.org.uk Instagram: @tate The opening of Tate Modern in 2000 is now seen as pivotal… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Gazelli Art House
3 January 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Gazelli Art House has an unusual mixture of shows, most of which could be categorised under four rather disparate headings.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: National Portrait Gallery
27 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin’s Place, London WC2H 0HEnpg.org.uk Instagram: @nationalportraitgallery The National Portrait Gallery has now been back for… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Photographers’ Gallery
20 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Photographers’ Gallery opened in 1971 in Covent Garden as the first UK public gallery dedicated to the medium,
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Saatchi Gallery
13 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Can you name the Saatchi Gallery’s previous locations? Boundary Road, St John’s Wood 1985-99 and County Hall, Waterloo 2003-06 are the obvious ones prior to the Chelsea opening in 2008, but add in the interim Underwood Road, Hoxton (2000-02)
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Victoria Miro
6 December 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Victoria Miro studied painting at the Slade and opened her first – small – gallery in Cork Street in 1985. In 2000, Miro moved to an 8,000 sq ft former furniture factory in northeast London
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: LAMB
29 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
LAMB is unusual among London galleries in two respects. First, it operates on two floors, one for art and one for design.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Whitechapel Gallery
22 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whitechapel Gallery has a distinguished history. Founded in 1901 to present ‘the finest art of the world for the people of the East End, London’,
Surprised by Art Cologne
18 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Art Cologne 2023 (16-19 November) features some 200 galleries: it’s not particularly international, but that doesn’t matter much, as there are so many high-quality German and Austrian galleries. Walking around an art fair is a blend of the familiar and the surprising. Here are ten things that surprised me:
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
15 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix founded her eponymous gallery in Spitalfields in 2017.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Perimeter
8 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Perimeter, a non-profit exhibition space in Bloomsbury founded in 2018 by Alex Petalas. He’s a Swiss-Greek solicitor – and a collector: shows typically include works he owns and the space is named after his first purchase in 2011: a sculpture by Eva Rothschild.