Paul Carey-Kent Archives

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 Book of the Month: Eric Butcher – Trace Elements

29 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Trace Elements, a new monograph documenting Eric Butcher’s striking shift towards a more sustainable artistic practice.

Paul’s Work of the Month

16 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent chooses Kenjiro Okazaki’s richly layered abstract painting at Pace Gallery as his Work of the Month.

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Paul’s Show of the Month – Chico da Silva: And the Soul Is for the Birds at Nottingham Contemporary

8 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent reviews Chico da Silva’s first European institutional solo exhibition, where 36 paintings reveal a vivid cosmology of hybrid creatures..

Paul’s Basel- Part Two

1 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul Carey-Kent-two of Basel’s most memorable exhibitions: Frank Stella at the Jewish Museum and Chloe Wise at Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger.

Paul’s Fairs: Art Basel | Basel 2026

24 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

From Louise Bourgeois and Taryn Simon to Bruce Nauman and Ana Mendieta, Paul Carey-Kent selects his standout discoveries from Art Basel 2026.

Bridging the Gap to Explore Connection and Repair Through Sculpture at Hypha South Bank

11 June 2026 • Mark Westall

Bridging the Gap is a show of sculpture that draws inspiration from its immediate environment, using the proximity of Southwark Bridge as a metaphor

Paul’s Fairs: Photo London 2026

15 May 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Conversations at this year’s Photo London (14th-17th May) often started with evaluation of the 11th edition’s move from the characterful… Read More

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 Work of the Month – Sigmar Polke: Untitled, 1980-81

15 April 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent

Paul’s Work of the Month explores Sigmar Polke’s Untitled (1980–81), a layered painting blending Dada wit, classical reference and contemporary critique.

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ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES II

21 July 2025 • Mark Westall

ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES aims to highlight and celebrate artists whose practices, spanning decades, are deserving of attention NOW.

Upcycle

6 February 2025 • Mark Westall

Using plenty of wit and a dash of deception, the artists demonstrate how something utterly mundane can be completely transformed.

Paul’s Shows: Say It With Flowers

31 October 2024 • Mark Westall

But enough of that: ‘Say It With Flowers’ sees a dozen artists tackle other subjects through flowers: sex, fertility, menopause, economics, culture, shyness, ageing, darkness…

Excellent work, 60+ & no gallery – ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES.

12 July 2024 • Mark Westall

That makes it, in effect, an ‘advanced version’ of the well-known Bloomberg New Contemporaries.

St Leonards meets The World

14 May 2024 • Mark Westall

For ‘St Leonards meets The World’, curator Paul Carey-Kent – whose home town is St Leonards – has
matched six artists based there with six UK-based artists who bring an international dimension.

EXHIBITIONS

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Grosvenor Gallery

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?

Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Mimosa House

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.

Amelia Bowles in conversation with Paul Carey-Kent

25 March 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

Amelia Bowles’ first solo show is at Ione & Mann to 18th April. Her work sits between sculpture, painting and… Read More

INTERVIEWS

Multimedia at Art Rotterdam 2024

2 February 2024 • Paul Carey-Kent

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Art Rotterdam (1-4 Feb), and the last before it moves from the iconic… Read More

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

Art Cologne 2023 (16-19 November) features some 200 galleries: it’s not particularly international, but that doesn’t matter much, as there are so many high-quality German and Austrian galleries. Walking around an art fair is a blend of the familiar and the surprising. Here are ten things that surprised me: