
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: SLQS Gallery
10 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Founded by Sarah Le Quang Sang in 2024, SLQS Gallery has quickly established itself as one of Shoreditch’s most compelling new spaces
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.

10 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Founded by Sarah Le Quang Sang in 2024, SLQS Gallery has quickly established itself as one of Shoreditch’s most compelling new spaces

13 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery was founded by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout

21 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rózsa Farkas founded Arcadia Missa straight out of college in 2011

18 March 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yet, so far as I’m aware, Grimm is the only Dutch-originated gallery to have expanded internationally:

25 February 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Niccolo Sprovieri was maintaining a tradition when he opened a gallery in 2000, as the original Sprovieri Gallery was founded in Rome in 1913

7 January 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
set up her gallery in 1995, with the idea of encouraging artists ‘to develop their practice without the constraints of market or trends’.

10 December 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Founded in 2003, James Freeman operates with invariable good cheer in Islington

26 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Emmanuel Perrotin famously founded his original Paris gallery in 1990 at the age of just twenty-one

12 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Stolper Gallery, founded in 1998, works directly with artists to publish limited editions, as well as running an exhibition programme.

5 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The GPS Gallery’s name refers not to the Global Positioning System but to its specific location within that system: Great Pulteney Street

23 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Ursula Hauser.

9 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hannah Barry’s eponymous gallery has been based in Peckham since 2008, when the area had a more dubious reputation than now

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

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

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

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.

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

28 May 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
In 2020, they joined forces to form Brooke Benington

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

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

17 April 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
The programme concentrates on artists from Africa and the Diaspora, with an emphasis on painting

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…

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

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