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
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.
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
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
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
23 February 2024 • Mark Westall
This is the tenth anniversary year of Bosse & Baum, founded by Alexandra Warder and Lana Churchill in 2014.
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
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
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
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 –
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
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
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.
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
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,
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)
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
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.
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’,
15 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix founded her eponymous gallery in Spitalfields in 2017.
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.
1 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hollybush Gardens belongs to the honourable tradition (Frith Street, Seventeen, Mimosa House…) of galleries named after where they used to be rather than where they are.
25 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Alison Jacques’ new space is directly opposite Waddington Custot – where she had her first permanent gallery job.
18 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cork Street has its mojo back, with new arrivals Alison Jacques, Tiwani and Stephen Friedman adding substantially to what’s on view.
27 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
OHSH Projects, founded in 2021, sounds like a place for the occasional off-beat presentation, but partners in art and life Henry Hussey and Sophia Olver
20 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Angela Flowers (1932-2023) founded her eponymous gallery in 1970, initially concentrating on living British artists in Central London before expanding the roster and pioneering the late 90’s trend of galleries moving east