Beat the winter weather blues by exploring the UK’s vibrant cultural landscape as the dark evenings creep in this November. From the freshest contemporary concepts to modern masterpieces, here is our guide to the top exhibitions and events that will make you want to leave the house this month.
The National Portrait Gallery’s autumn programme welcomes the return of this major exhibition exploring David Hockney’s work over the last six decades through a series of intimate portraits depicting prominent figures in the artist’s life.
This unmissable exhibition marks a ground-breaking endeavour as it presents the first major survey of feminist art by over 100 UK-based women artists. Discover the ways in which networks of women harnessed radical ideas and rebellious approaches, making an instrumental impact on British culture. These creative endeavours played a pivotal role in advancing women’s liberation amid a backdrop of profound social, economic and political change.
If you’re in Chichester, make sure to stop by Candida Stevens Gallery whose Winter Exhibition begins this month, showcasing groupings of works by a number of the gallery’s represented artists. This vibrant curation presents contrasting themes, displaying abstract alongside figurative and painting alongside embroidery.
Visit the Hayward Gallery for a journey through the past 50 years of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s career, celebrating the artist’s meticulously crafted, deeply thought-provoking and quietly subversive works featuring pieces from all of his major photographic series.
Marck is a prominent Swiss contemporary artist who challenges conventional artistic practices through his daring and experimental video sculptures which combine the creation of physical, handcrafted sculptures with video to provide a tactile experience. The artist’s works invite diverse audiences to appreciate the joy and imagination in distinguishing between the virtual and the real.
El Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon has taken over the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall and is now on display for all to experience until April 2024. The monumental sculptural installation is made from thousands of metal bottle tops and fragments, stitched together into large panels creating abstract fields of colour, shape and line. This commission by Hyundai extends from Anatsui’s interest in the migration of goods and people during the transatlantic slave trade.
Chosen in collaboration with George Baselitz and directly sourced from his studio, Sculptures 2011 – 2015 presents never-before-seen large scale works alongside freehand ink drawings. Welcoming visitors into a woodland of raw timber sculptures, the exhibition offers a fresh perspective on the artist’s creative process.
Austin / Desmond Fine Art presents An Adventure in Change, featuring two prominent British abstract artists, Peter Sedgely and Jeffrey Steele, who played pivotal roles in the ‘Op Art’ movement during the 1960s. in this transformative decade, art broke free from the confines of canvas surfaces, engaging the viewer’s eye and mind.
‘Unreal’ presents the work of three women artists who view photography as a means for imaginative creation. The exhibition explores the uses of contemporary photography which go beyond factual documentation.
Country Living Christmas Fairs take place this November and December in London, Glasgow and Harrogate.
The Fair is a wonderful opportunity to immerse yourself in the Christmas spirit and discover unique gifts, handmade crafts and delicious treats from British artisans and makers.
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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.
Now that the UK art scene has found time to catch its breath post-Frieze, we thought we would take a moment to share with you 10 contemporary artists who should definitely be on your radar. Keep reading to discover more.
Contemporary painter Paul Ettedgui (b. 1967) lives and works in London, having exhibited at a number of prominent UK galleries and Art Fairs. After a foundation at Camberwell School of Art he then completed a degree in Fine Art at
Antonio Pichillá is a contemporary artist whose work is influenced by the rich history of textile making by the women of his native Guatemala. Focusing on the ever-developing connections between western contemporary art and the vernacular tradition of craft, the
