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: JGM Gallery

3 October 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

JGM has an unusual programme alternating indigenous contemporary art from Australia with shows by British artists.

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Paul’s Gallery of the Week: IONE & MANN

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.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Kate MacGarry

18 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

Kate MacGarry opened her eponymous gallery in 2002, initially on Redchurch Street

Paul’s Gallery of The Week: Galerie Max Hetzler

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

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sid Motion

4 September 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

When I first met Sid Motion, she was working for Max Wigram gallery (remember that?)

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: OOF Gallery

31 July 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

OOF is one of London’s less orthodox spaces.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sylvia Kouvali

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.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hamiltons Gallery

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

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Emalin

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

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bernheim Gallery

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

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Rocket Gallery

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 –

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: domobaal

29 May 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

Baal opened the gallery in 2000, and some 200 exhibitions in, 20 artists are represented across all disciplines.

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Larkin Durey

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

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Bobinska Brownlee New River

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.