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Join us for our brand new series of tutored life drawing classes! The Saatchi Gallery Learning team will guide you in discovering your own drawing style, introducing a range of approaches from traditional to more experimental techniques. 

Each session we will be attended by a different model to draw from, so that you can be inspired by a diverse range of bodies. We will explore artist research, and provide guided prompts to get into the flow. Book a ticket now to attend your session. 

These classes are open to all levels, and will run 6.30PM – 8.30PM. All materials will be provided. There will be a 10-minute break in the middle of the session; participants can bring water bottles and light refreshments (however, please note that no alcohol is permitted during the session). 

**Early Bird Ticket Offer! Early bird tickets are now sold out. Standard tickets are available priced at £25**

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For our sixth collaboration with the internationally acclaimed RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the 2026 garden brings together contemporary art, thoughtful planting, and public participation with kinetic artist Lucy Gregory, garden designer Naomi Ferrett-Cohen, and supporter ING. The garden celebrates the simple pleasure of gathering together outdoors such as in a park or meadow, and the positive effect nature can have on us.

Guests are invited to venture down the garden path into a surreal environment of interactive, anthropomorphic tree-like structures that hug the space. As visitors push the sculptures into motion, they trigger a joyful, spiralling dance that gradually settles into a playful, slapstick wobble as momentum slows. 

Inspired by mechanical toys, Victorian automatons and early animation devices, she constructs large-scale figurative ‘kinetic collages’, where abstracted ‘cutouts’ or black and white imagery are mounted on engineered steel frames. Gregory’s practice upends the traditional ‘look, don’t touch’ mentality, instead encouraging play and curiosity through interaction with the artworks. The viewer becomes the engine, activator and performer, intertwined with the work itself, as they bring the sculptures to life through participation and touch.

The project is supported by ING, whose commitment to advancing sustainable practice and supporting cultural initiatives reflects a shared belief in the value of nature, creativity and collective responsibility. 

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From grassroots heroes to Wembley icons, the Emirates FA Cup and Adobe Women’s FA Cup are competitions which have long been celebrated as a fundamental part of British culture. They are home to unforgettable moments of unquantifiable magic that have both shaped the evolution of the society in this country and been shaped by the country itself.

The Art of Possibility invites you to explore what makes these historic competitions so special through the unique lens of art.

Spanning three galleries, this is a first-of-its-kind exhibition that brings together newly commissioned artworks, historical artefacts, unseen photography and immersive digital experiences that celebrate 150 years of FA Cup culture.

Our first and second galleries invite you to step into the moments that have defined the FA Cups.

The space features a curated range of newly commissioned artworks from global artists including Carlo Bellman and Solider, as well as immersive and sculptural installations by Lazarian, Grace Clifford and Sally Barton. The space will also feature pre-existing work by contemporary artists such as Slawn, who created a special edition tribute to the Men’s FA Cup trophy. Each of the artist’s work centres on key moments in respective Cup histories, demonstrating how core values such as inclusivity, democracy, community, and respect come to life both on and off the pitch.

Our third gallery looks towards the future – and how creativity and modern culture have impacted the game. Through creative workshops and forward-looking visual experiences, visitors are invited to imagine the next chapter of Cup history where new voices, new stories and new possibilities continue to shape the nation’s most loved football competitions.

Moving between past, present and future, The Art of Possibility showcases the FA Cups as a platform of belief, ambition, and creativity. 

Admission is free, with booking recommended to guarantee entry. 

Please note: Gallery 3 will close at 12PM on May 10 for an Adobe Women’s FA Cup watch party. 

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Textile Art Redefined explores the innovation and creativity of contemporary fine art textiles. Showcasing work by 15 visionary artists, from the UK and across the globe, the exhibition both celebrates the vibrancy of textile art today and expands its very definition.

Curated by Helen Adams and inspired by her book Fine Art Textiles, the show brings its pages to life in the Gallery. In an increasingly digital world, creating by hand has taken on a new appreciation. Visitors are invited to see how century old techniques including embroidery, quilting, weaving, knitting and crochet are used in textile art today.

Featured artists:
Ian Berry
Caroline Burgess
Chiachio & Giannone
Signe Emdal
Kaffe Fassett
Anne von Freyburg
Sara Impey
Deniz Kurdak
Kenny Nguyen
Simone Pheulpin
Benjamin Shine
Jakkai Siributr
Jenni Dutton
Magda Sayeg

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BEERS London presents painter Andrew Moncrief and sculptor Sebastian Neeb in an exhibition exploring the deconstruction of meaning, materiality, and message. Both artists employ a wry sensibility to unsettle the conventions of their disciplines.

Moncrief approaches figuration from the inside out. His carnal, disembodied ‘figures’ verge on the comic, with echoes of Philip Guston, Francis Bacon, Cecily Brown, and Jenny Saville. Rather than presenting complete bodies, he leaves fragments, residue, and painterly clues: anti-portraits that feel provisional and open-ended. Viewers are invited to assemble meaning from what remains, as if granted access to raw material instead of a finished image.

Neeb likewise elevates detritus. His sculptural ‘portraits’ function as absurd totems, celebrating minor characters and cast-off forms. Both seductive and uneasy, his mobile statuettes resemble imaginary awards for offbeat figures: grotesque, tender, and faintly comic. 

Together, the artists subvert spectacle and higher art forms from within.  Balancing sincerity with irony, they challenge how art behaves in an image-saturated world. Humour becomes both method and invitation, a destabilising force that opens otherwise closed systems, welcoming viewers into the joke – even without the punchline. 

Presented by BEERS.

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Spectral Interference is a solo exhibition by London-based painter Anna Liber Lewis, presented with Hannah Payne Art. Bringing together a new body of work, it marks a rupture from her earlier grid-based paintings, embracing abstraction as a site of risk, embodiment, and perceptual instability.

Across paintings of varying scale, Liber Lewis leaves behind the grid and earlier line work. Structure remains, not as a fixed system, but as a generative structure that can be disrupted, softened, or pushed to breaking point. The surfaces evolve through cycles of editing and return: worked into, scraped back, reactivated, and at times deliberately destabilised. Old works are revisited and altered, reflecting a willingness to give up control in pursuit of something more alive.

Central to this body of work is an interest in high-stakes painting and the tension between abstraction and figuration, structure and the body, control and risk. Influenced by artists including Helen Frankenthaler and Carroll Dunham, Liber Lewis approaches abstraction as a physical, confronting act, where the mark carries memory, effort, and jeopardy. Gesture operates as a record of decision-making, endurance, and doubt.

The exhibition brings together significant new and recent works, including Embodied Other, My GRB Afterglow, and Very Rare Picture of Earth II, alongside large-scale canvases shown publicly for the first time. It represents her most ambitious institutional presentation to date, following her inclusion in Unreal City: Abstract Painting at Saatchi Gallery in 2024. 

Artist walk-through with Anna Liber Lewis and Geir Haraldseth: Saturday 28 March, 1pm

Meet the artist in Gallery 1 for a special walking tour of the exhibition. Anna Liber Lewis will be in conversation with Geir Haraldseth, Senior Curator at the National Museum, Norway. Together, they will move through the exhibition, discussing the ideas and processes behind the work — from gesture and material to risk, revision and the evolving language of abstraction. Should you wish to attend, please RSVP here.

Images courtesy of the Artist and Hannah Payne Art. Photography by Benjamin Deakin. 

About Hannah Payne Art
Hannah Payne Art is a nomadic gallery platform working between Oxford and London, supporting emerging and mid-career artists through ambitious exhibitions, institutional collaborations and dialogue-led programming. The gallery champions artists at pivotal moments in their careers, fostering the development and presentation of new work through thoughtfully curated exhibitions and partnerships.

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Girls Who Devour brings together three interconnected bodies of work by London-based British-Malaysian-Chinese artist Caroline Wong – Cats and Girls, Hungry Women, and Picnics and Parties. Across pastel drawings and mixed-media paintings, Wong explores femininity, appetite, desire, and excess through scenes of convivial consumption and intimate female gathering.

The exhibition positions voracity as a feminist method. Wong’s women feast, drink, spill, and linger within feverish, highly saturated, sensorial environments, transforming acts of eating into gestures of female agency and pleasure. Appetite emerges as an aesthetic modality through which women reclaim bodily autonomy and resist historical expectations of restraint and delicacy, reversing their longstanding positioning as consumable objects.

Oscillating between exuberance and unease, these scenes evoke the complexities of desire and self-knowledge. Pleasure borders on loss of control, and indulgence becomes both liberating and vulnerable. Throughout the exhibition, Wong’s tactile mark-making mirrors the immediacy of eating and touching, producing images that are both visually striking and sensorially evocative. 

Adapted from text by Sophie Guo, curator and art historian at the Courtauld Institute of Art. 

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★★★★★

“One of the most expertly curated and deeply satisfying displays of contemporary art in London in recent memory.” – Time Out

★★★★

“Convinces you that contemporary art is alive and kicking hard” – The Standard

Celebrating four decades of ground-breaking contemporary art, The Long Now is an expansive group show presenting new works by iconic artists closely associated with the Gallery’s dynamic history, alongside fresh voices from a new generation.

Spanning two floors and nine major exhibition spaces, the exhibition features special commissions, installations, painting and sculpture, and culminates with Richard Wilson’s iconic 20:50. A landmark in Saatchi Gallery’s history, 20:50 has been shown at each of the Gallery’s past locations and now, for the first time, is presented on the top floor.

Filling the space with recycled engine oil, it creates a mirrored environment that both disorients and captivates. In the context of today’s climate crisis, the work takes on renewed resonance, inviting reflection on the fragility of our surroundings, community, and environmental uncertainty.

The Long Now takes its name from a concept of fostering long-term thinking and challenging throwaway culture. Newly created works appear alongside historic pieces that remain impactful and relevant, continuing Saatchi Gallery’s tradition of showing art of the present while giving artists the space to realise ambitious ideas.

The exhibition opens with works exploring process and mark-making – a fundamental human gesture reimagined by Alice Anderson, Rannva Kunoy and Carolina Mazzolari. This spirit of experimentation runs through works by Tim Noble, André Butzer, Dan Colen, Jake Chapman and Polly Morgan, who push subject, style and scale.

At the centre stands Jenny Saville’s monumental Passage (2004). Combining strength and beauty, it exemplifies her ambition to “be a painter of modern life, and modern bodies.” The work anchors the exhibition’s energy, inviting a powerful and intimate encounter with the human form.

Painting, a constant in Saatchi Gallery’s programme, is further represented by Alex Katz, Michael Raedecker, Ansel Krut, Martine Poppe and Jo Dennis, alongside new and emerging voices who continue to expand the medium’s possibilities.

Immersive installations shift the focus from viewing to participation. Allan Kaprow’s YARD, with its chaotic arrangement of tyres, encourages movement and play, while Conrad Shawcross’s suspended Golden Lotus (Inverted) transforms a vintage car into a kinetic sculpture, prompting reflection on transformation, agency and the role of the viewer.

The exhibition raises questions of technology and the future, with Chino Moya, Mat Collishaw and Tom Hunter reflecting on surveillance, automation and AI – considering how the digital world permeates contemporary life.

Themes of fragility and climate change weave throughout. Gavin Turk’s fractured Bardo suggests cultural decay and the precarious balance between permanence and collapse, while works by Olafur Eliasson, Chris Levine and Frankie Boyle use light to create moments of contemplation. Environmental concerns are explored by Edward Burtynsky, Steven Parrino, Peter Buggenhout, Ibrahim Mahama, Ximena Garrido Lecca and Christopher Le Brun, who address extraction, waste and renewal.

Curated by Philippa Adams (Senior Director, Saatchi Gallery 1999- 2020).

Featured artists: Alice Anderson, Olivia Bax, Frankie Boyle, Edward Burtynsky, Peter Buggenhout, André Butzer, Jake Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Dan Colen, John Currin, Jo Dennis, Zhivago Duncan, Olafur Eliasson, Rafael Gómezbarros, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Damien Hirst, Tom Hunter, Henry Hudson, Alex Katz, Allan Kaprow, Maria Kreyn, Ansel Krut, Rannva Kunoy, Christopher Le Brun, Chris Levine, Ibrahim Mahama, Carolina Mazzolari, Jeff McMillan, Misha Milovanovich, Polly Morgan, Ryan Mosley, Chino Moya, Tim Noble, Alejandro Ospina, Steven Parrino, Martine Poppe, Michael Raedecker, Sterling Ruby, Jenny Saville, Petroc Sesti, Conrad Shawcross, Soheila Sokhanvari, John Squire, Dima Srouji, Gavin Turk, Richard Wilson, Alexi Williams Wynn.

This exhibition contains depictions of nudity and mature themes. Viewer/parental discretion is advised.

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With thanks to our collaborators: Artvisor, Morra Foundation and MONA Tasmania, EFG Private Bank Ltd, Sweet Harmony, Cauldwell Collection and the Fine Art Group.