It’s been a couple of weeks since London Art Fair inaugurated the global art calendar for 2024, initiating the art world year with fresh new concepts and ideas as well as a remarkable array of works by iconic names.
As 2024 unfolds, there are plenty more exhibitions and events to enrich your cultural calendar – check out our selected highlights for February below, including many which celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community and its profound contribution to the art world this LGBT+ History Month and beyond.
Queer Britain is the UK’s first bricks and mortar national LGBTQ+ museum. It is an essential place for all regardless of sexuality or gender identity, to find out about the culture they have been born into, have chosen or seek to understand.
Queer Britain’s inaugural exhibition, We Are Queer Britain!, celebrates Queer life focussing on the period since the first Pride March in London in 1972. It won the Museum Association’s Best Small Museum Project of the Year Award 2022.
Visit QB and see the award winning exhibition at 2 Granary Square, in London’s King’s Cross from Wednesday – Sunday; 12-6pm.
At Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex, experience rarely-seen early drawings by one of the most iconic artists of our time, David Hockney. These 60+ year old works are beautifully placed at Charleston to resonate with the way of life established by the Bloomsbury Group artists who lived there, in which art and experimental thinking are at the centre of everyday life.
Feast your eyes on Jonathan Baldock’s characteristically sensory works at Yorkshire Sculpture Park this Spring and Summer. Touch Wood features new works in ceramic, textile and basketry inspired by the seasons, paganism, myth, folklore and our deep connection to nature. Baldock creates his sculptures using age-old materials, techniques and traditions rooted in the histories of working-class people.
Join a free guided tour highlighting LGBTQIA+ artists and works in the Tate Modern collection. Learn more below.
Museum of Transology is the UK’s most significant collection of objects representing trans, non-binary and intersex people’s lives. The Museum kindly supported the Platform section at LAF24 – ‘A Million Candles, Illuminating Queer Love and Life’. To learn more about their collection, visit their website below.
If you enjoyed seeing Nooka Shepherd’s work on Soho Revue’s stand at in Platform at LAF24, you’ll be delighted to hear that you can experience more by the artist in her upcoming solo show open for the full duration of February. In ‘Grass Stained Heart’, Nooka Shepherd presents ceramic works, paintings, embroideries and etchings which communicate with the imaginal realm.
If you’re in Margate, make sure to visit Liminal Gallery to experience the work of Ingrid Berthon-Moine and Jennifer Nieuwland. Berthon-Moine’s watercolour paintings on materials like fake ostrich leather challenge gender norms, inviting viewers into an ambiguous realm. Her works disrupt traditional notions of softness and aggression, contemplating intimacy dynamics and gender roles. Jennifer Nieuwland, a Dutch/Italian artist in London, uses sand and gels to heighten sensory qualities in her exploration of external pressures on the female body and psyche. The series negotiates tensions between beauty, horror, and humour in a charged and ambiguous encounter.
The must-see photography exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery
Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 is open until 25 February 2024
£5 tickets for all visitors aged 25 and under are available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Returning after the NPG’s three year closure and redevelopment, the Photo Prize is a must see for anyone interested in contemporary photography.
You may recognise Nick Veasey’s work from the front cover of TIME Magazine or his recent collaborations with Alexander McQueen and the Victoria and Albert Museum, but you can now experience a solo show of his x-ray image artworks at Blueríder Art in Mayfair until 17 February.
Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery presents a duo exhibition with Daniel Silver and Abraham Kritzman at their space in Deptford. This will be the first time that Silver’s work will be displayed at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery, and the first time both artists exhibit together, evidencing mutual interests, themes, and use of materials in their respective practices.
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The gallery is delighted announce the opening of their new gallery in Hampshire with an inaugural ‘Winter’ exhibition.
Jenna Burlingham Gallery has expanded with a move to a much larger building, Rope House, on the same street as their original space in Kingsclere. This was once a 19th-century rope merchant’s home and workshop and now has the feeling of an informal townhouse. With open galleries at ground level and drawing rooms upstairs, paintings, prints, sculptures and ceramics are displayed throughout as part of interior settings.
Sumi, or Japanese ink, has been used for Oriental calligraphic works and paintings for a long time. The need for works in Sumi, an art form backed by a long unbroken history, remains strong.
In contemporary art, which is filled with an indiscriminate mix of materials and representation techniques, works produced based on Sumi are specifically referred to as “Sumi_ism” and at #7 exhibition a collection of works from Reiko Tsunashima and Sogen Chiba, Mizuho Koyama are displayed from this field.
Kerlin Gallery are delighted to present ‘Stuck on dawn,’ Marcel Vidal’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Celebrated for his diverse practice and immersive sculptural installations, the exhibition brings together three series of work in Marcel Vidal’s first exhibition dedicated exclusively to painting.
A review of Ikon’s artistic programme in the 1990s, presenting work by 40 artists who showed during this period. With Elizabeth Macgregor as Director, Ikon’s outlook was increasingly international, whilst also showing an eclectic mix of British artists including Basil Beattie, Permindar Kaur, Keith Piper, Yinka Shonibare, Georgina Starr and Mark Wallinger.
There are just a few days left until London Art Fair opens its doors to launch the international art calendar for 2024. With so much to see and experience at LAF24, Fair Director Sally Bent has put together her highlights
From Jessica Wood, Publisher, ROSA Magazine ROSA’s new Sussex Art Map by Helen Cann. Courtesy of ROSA Magazine. London Art Fair 2024 carries the sweet scents of the South Downs and the Sussex seaside as England’s most culturally sophisticated region
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