Paul’s Fairs: London Original Print Fair 2025
24 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
In chronological order, are eight items I like at Somerset House. The fair isn’t restricted to editions, incidentally: five of these are unique works
Paul’s Gallery of the Week
London’s gallery scene is varied, from small artist-run spaces to major institutions and everything in between. Each week, art writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent gives a personal view of a space worth visiting
Writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent collects various writings here, including his Gallery of the Week column for FAD art news and texts from the shows he has curated. He currently writes freelance including for Art Monthly, Seisma, STATE, Border Crossings and World of Interiors. See Instagram for his daily choice from current shows. Some non-art content, such as photo-poems, is also included.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Canada Gallery
19 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Several of London’s embassies and consulates have hosted art exhibitions from time to time, but Canada has had the most consistent programme
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: IMT GALLERY
13 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is the 20th year of IMT, quite an achievement for a small not-for-profit space that favours boundary-pushing collaborative approaches, workshopping and experimental writing
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Coleman Projects
5 March 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Artist Frances Coleman lives above Coleman Projects, placing her well to act as the public face of the programme that she has directed for over two decades
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Rosenfeld
26 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ian was a wonderful man, full of good humour, passionate about his artists – and very clear about his tastes
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hales
19 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hales Gallery was founded in Deptford in 1992 by two Pauls, Hedge and Maslin
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Christie’s
12 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Go to Christie’s in New York at the moment, and that roves controversial: its ‘Augmented Intelligence auction’
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Alice Amati
5 February 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
I knew Alice Amati from her previous roles – at Taymour Grahne, David Zwirner and Workplace – before she set up her own space two years ago
PAUL’S FAIRS: THE FACES OF BRAFA, 2025
25 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair – BRAFA.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Public Gallery
22 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
What’s the largest commercial gallery in East London?
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Mazzoleni
15 January 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery opened a London space in 2014, initially at ground level on Albermarle Street, now less visibly on the first floor of 15 Old Bond Street
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Alma Pearl
17 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Alma Pearl opened last year, occupying a substantial L-shaped space alongside the Regent’s Canal towards Haggerston
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Anthony Wilkinson
11 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Anthony showed on a fairly occasional basis in collaboration with other galleries before settling into a new permanent location in Soho earlier this year
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Almine Rech
4 December 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
After running spaces jointly for some years, Almine Rech founded her own gallery in Paris in 1997
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: HS Projects
27 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
However, the lobby of 5 Howick Place near Victoria hosts regular shows, and there are also exhibition projects elsewhere.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Delfina Foundation
20 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
40 residencies per year, and over 1000 practitioners have been helped since Delfina Studios was set up by Delfina Entrecanales
Paul’s Fairs Art Cologne: Never Mind the Doom
11 November 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
If President Trump makes the rich richer I guess that might be good for the art market, but the mood remains darkened by his victory:
Paul’s Shows: Say It With Flowers
31 October 2024 • Mark Westall
But enough of that: ‘Say It With Flowers’ sees a dozen artists tackle other subjects through flowers: sex, fertility, menopause, economics, culture, shyness, ageing, darkness…
Art Basel Paris: The Not So Usual.
19 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Excellence is fairly routine, then, so I went in search of fare that was also unusual in some way. Here are 10 examples:
Paul’s Fairs: Frieze Masters – the South American edit
14 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
No sooner had I walked into Frieze Masters than I bumped into the Brazilian painter Gabriela Max. Perhaps that was a portent, as I found plenty of interesting work from South America…
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