Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Pitzhanger Manor
2 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Pitzhanger Manor, in Ealing, was his country house. After acquiring the estate in 1800, he transformed it into a showcase of his architectural style
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: Vestry St
25 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Vestry St Gallery opened in Hoxton in 2022, as an outpost of Cross Lane Projects, in a first floor space
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Annka Kultys Gallery
20 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is the tenth anniversary year of Annka Kultys’ and over the decade the Swiss gallerist has developed a forward-looking and distinctive position
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: October Gallery
11 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
October Gallery is a registered charity supported by grants, donations and rental of the gallery’s facilities, as well as sales of art.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Canopy Collections
4 June 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Canopy Collections opened a permanent space near the British Museum, enabling it to host a regular programme of exhibitions
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Brooke Benington
28 May 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
In 2020, they joined forces to form Brooke Benington
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Cabinet
30 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cabinet, 132 Tyers Street Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, London SE11 5HSwww.cabinet.uk.com Instagram: No Cabinet has remained enigmatically atypical… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Annely Juda
23 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The space has spectacular glass-roof light on the upper level, with crane access that has made it possible to show monumentally heavy sculptures
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tiwani
17 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The programme concentrates on artists from Africa and the Diaspora, with an emphasis on painting
Paul’s Fairs: My Art from miart
7 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
My choices seem to concentrate largely on Italian artists & galleries, which does reflect the participant demographic. Let’s start with water…
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: 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