Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Elizabeth Xi Bauer
14 October 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent picks Elizabeth Xi Bauer as his Gallery of the Month.
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 Month: The Guildhall Art Gallery
10 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent heads to the Square Mile for an underrated London gallery packed with Victorian art, Rossetti and Jock McFadyen’s gritty Underground paintings.
Paul’s Show of the Month – John Currin: ‘Opening Credits’ at Sadie Coles, 17 Savile Row, to 12th September
2 September 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent takes another look at John Currin’s strange and contradictory new paintings at Sadie Coles.
Paul’s Work of the Month: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom: ‘Patent 3306x’
12 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Fish, T-shirts, sex sounds and Victorian taxonomy:
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Wellcome Collection
5 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent selects the Wellcome Collection as his Gallery of the Month
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Thomas Dane Gallery
22 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Thomas Dane opened his eponymous gallery in 2004 with François Chantala and Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon, who went on to become partners.
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Drawing Room
13 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
The gallery was founded by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Arcadia Missa
21 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rózsa Farkas founded Arcadia Missa straight out of college in 2011
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Grimm
18 March 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yet, so far as I’m aware, Grimm is the only Dutch-originated gallery to have expanded internationally:
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Sprovieri
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Danielle Arnaud
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’.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: James Freeman
10 December 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Founded in 2003, James Freeman operates with invariable good cheer in Islington
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Perrotin
26 November 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Emmanuel Perrotin famously founded his original Paris gallery in 1990 at the age of just twenty-one
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Paul Stolper Gallery
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: GPS Gallery
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hauser & Wirth
23 July 2025 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth, and Ursula Hauser.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hannah Barry Gallery
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
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: 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