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.
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…
3 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
JGM has an unusual programme alternating indigenous contemporary art from Australia with shows by British artists.
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.
18 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Kate MacGarry opened her eponymous gallery in 2002, initially on Redchurch Street
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
4 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
When I first met Sid Motion, she was working for Max Wigram gallery (remember that?)
31 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
OOF is one of London’s less orthodox spaces.
17 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
A new gallery? No, Sylvia Kouvali has recently rebranded her Rodeo space to more personal and less programmatic effect.
26 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Hamiltons Gallery, 13 Carlos Place, London W1K 2EUwww.hamiltonsgallery.com Instagram: @hamiltonsgallery Hamiltons Gallery is unusual. Most obviously for… Read More
19 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Emalin, 1 Holywell Lane, London EC2A 3ET and 118½ Shoreditch High Street, London E1 6JN emalin.co.uk Instagram: @emalinofficial Emalin was… Read More
12 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Bernheim Gallery was founded in Zurich by Maria Bernheim in 2015, and that is where I first discovered its lively international programme
5 June 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Rocket Gallery was founded by Jonathan Stephenson – it’s Stephenson’s Rocket, a little historical joke – in the West End in 1994 –
29 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Baal opened the gallery in 2000, and some 200 exhibitions in, 20 artists are represented across all disciplines.
15 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
If the name is unfamiliar, that’s because the Jack Bell Gallery, which ran 2010-24, has just been relaunched under the direction and ownership of Oliver Durey
8 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Bobinska Brownlee New River is normally a modest but stimulating exhibition space, set in a bunker-like room in the back garden of a house in Islington.
24 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Whilst several galleries have recently moved into the traditional art spaces of Cork Street, Pilar Corrias’s new flagship space is on nearby Conduit Street, with 5,000 sq ft over two floors.
17 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Historically Grosvenor Gallery – which deals principally in South Asian art – is connected to the Estorick Collection – which concentrates on Italy. How so?
10 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
This is the 40th anniversary year of Southwark Park Galleries – the operating name of the Bermondsey Artists’ Group, a… Read More
3 April 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Daria Khan started Mimosa House in 2017 in the back of a half-abandoned office building on Hanover Square, eccentric in layout but handily close to Oxford Circus.
27 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
Cristea Roberts Gallery, 43 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5JG cristearoberts.com Instagram: @cristearoberts Cristea Roberts is an unusual gallery… Read More
19 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent
The Artists Studio Company (ASC) is a charity, founded in 1995, that provides over 650 artists and makers with studios and workspaces
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
