Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Wellcome Collection
5 August 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent selects the Wellcome Collection as his Gallery of the Month
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Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Thomas Dane Gallery
22 July 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Thomas Dane opened his eponymous gallery in 2004 with François Chantala and Martine d’Anglejan-Chatillon, who went on to become partners.
Paul’s Book of the Month: Marguerite Humeau – Auguries
3 June 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Paul Carey-Kent reviews Auguries, a major publication exploring Marguerite Humeau’s ambitious sculptures, ecological thinking and land art projects.
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Month: Grimm
18 March 2026 • Paul Carey-Kent
Yet, so far as I’m aware, Grimm is the only Dutch-originated gallery to have expanded internationally:
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 Gallery of the Week: Pilar Corrias
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.
Paul’s Gallery of the Week: Richard Saltoun
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
Paul’s Gallery of The Week: Copperfield
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 –
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: 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 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.