Paul’s Galleries of the Week: London Art Fair special
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
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: Tate Modern
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Gazelli Art House
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: National Portrait Gallery
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Photographers’ Gallery
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,
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Saatchi Gallery
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)
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Victoria Miro
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: LAMB
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Whitechapel Gallery
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’,
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix
15 November 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix founded her eponymous gallery in Spitalfields in 2017.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: The Perimeter
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Hollybush Gardens
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Alison Jacques
25 October 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Alison Jacques’ new space is directly opposite Waddington Custot – where she had her first permanent gallery job.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Stephen Friedman Gallery
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: OHSH Projects
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Flowers Gallery
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
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: indigo+madder
13 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Krittika Sharma co-founded indigo+madder in Deptford in 2019, then moved to a more central location last year –
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Tension Fine Art
6 September 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Tension Fine Art has operated since 2019 in the somewhat unlikely locality of Penge in South-East London.
Paul’s Gallery of Week: The National Gallery
30 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
The National Gallery… it sounds pretty comprehensive, though there’s no sculpture (where’s that national gallery?) and a more accurate title would be something like ‘The National Gallery of European Paintings by Men, 1260 – 1920’, with hardly anything from other continents and just 0.5% by women.
Paul’s Gallery of Week: Cecilia Brunson Projects
23 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
If anyone tells me they are going to White Cube’s Bermondsey space, I advise them to drop in at Cecilia Brunson Projects, which flies comparatively under the radar but is only a stone’s throw away.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Phillips
16 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Damien Hirst: ‘Octa’, 2021 from the ‘Seascapes’ – oil on canvas, 122 x 183 cm Phillips, 30 Berkeley Square, London… Read More
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: White Cube
9 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Jay Jopling set up White Cube in a small space on Duke Street, St. James’s, where 75 shows by 75 different artists were presented between 1993-2001, including several by the YBAs with whom the gallery become closely associated.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Sadie Coles HQ
2 August 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Ask London artists who they would most like to show with, and the answer is often ‘Sadie Coles’
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Lehmann Maupin
26 July 2023 • Paul Carey-Kent
Lehmann Maupin, though, has had a permanent presence since October 2020, when Cromwell Place became the London location of the gallery founded by Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin in New York in 1996