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Prior to becoming a painter, Gary Bunt spent many years working on building sites throughout Kent and Sussex, surrounded by his family. He describes the days as long and hard, but full of laughter, loyalty, respect and love. Gary fondly recalls the moments he spent with his dad and seven uncles, and whilst packed into cars on cold winter mornings, longed for spring to arrive. It was in reminiscing about these moments, hearing the laughter and wise advice, he felt inspired to create a work based on old sayings. In this exhibition, Marrows, Spuds & Onions, Gary Bunt presents a new selection of works.

 

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Flowers have, throughout history, inspired artists, writers and creatives. FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE seeks to reveal the myriad ways that flowers continue to be depicted by artists and their omnipresence within our contemporary culture. Occupying two floors and over nine major gallery spaces, this exhibition features large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression.

Aside from studies of their inherent beauty and drama, flowers are also utilised as symbols, signifiers or metaphors for human emotions and impulses.  Flora lies at the heart of myths and stories that inform our cultural outlook and language. Recognised as unparalleled objects of beauty in nature, artists continue to evoke the power and beauty of flora to convey a multitude of messages and meanings. 

Over 500 unique artworks and objects are on display throughout the exhibition, divided into nine sections – from Roots, In Bloom, Flowers and Fashion, Science: Life & Death, to New Shoots – each exploring different creative themes and media.

One room is entirely devoted to a bespoke installation piece by Rebecca Louise Law, made up of over 100,000 dried flowers, while another is transformed into a digital projection space featuring interactive work of the pioneering French artist Miguel Chevalier.

Curatorially, sections of the exhibition involve collaborations with institutions and designers such as Marimekko. The project partner for a presentation of photographic works from Flora Imaginaria, curated by Danaé Panchaud and William Ewing, is the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP).

Featured artists include:
Cristina Alcantara, Pedro Almodóvar, Nobuyoshi Araki, Nick Archer, Gillian Ayres, Jessica Backhaus, Mandy Barker, Brendan Barry, Susan Beech, Valérie Belin, Andy Bettles, Elizabeth Blackadder, John Blakemore, Jean Baptiste Bosschaert, Faye Bridgwater, Orlanda Broom, Buccellati, Olga Cafiero, Ann Carrington, Rob & Nick Carter, Miguel Chevalier, Christo, Philip Colbert, Lottie Cole, Stephanie Comilang, Sharon Core, Michael Craig-Martin, Reuben Dangoor, Lia Darjes, William Darrell, Tom de Houwer, Richard de Tscharner, Elspeth Diederix, Jim Dine, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Ron van Dongen, Xuebing Du, Elaine Duigenan, Pamela Ellis Hawkes, Ruud van Empel, Joanna Epstein, Mary Fedden, Robert Frank, Anne von Freyburg, Erwan Frotin, Adam Fuss, Matthieu Gafsou, Kate Gibb, Grace Gillespie, Sky Glabush, Daniel Gordon, Maro Gorky, Roberto Greco, Jo Grogan, Anna Halm Schudel, Joanna Ham, Rose Electra Harris, Dan Hays, George Henry, Realf Heygate, Damien Hirst, Aimée Hoving, Gary Hume, Florence Hutchings, Mila Ilingina, Yinka Ilori, Michelle Jung, Nadav Kander, Heath Kane, Sandra Kantanen, Alex Katz, Neil Kellerhouse, Rob Kesseler, Nick Knight, Kior Ko, Jan Sebastian Koch, Irene Küng, Yayoi Kusama, Wole Lagunju, Caroline Larsen, Rebecca Louise Law, David Lebe, Laura Letinsky, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Brigitte Lustenberger, Mari Mahr, Martin Maloney, Ann Mandelbaum, Tony Matelli, Margaret Mellis, Sophie Mess, Ally McIntyre, Anastasija Michailova, Andrew Millar, Banita Mistry, Carmen Mitrotta, Abelardo Morell, William Morris, Alphonse Mucha, Vik Muniz, Galina Munroe, Takashi Murakami, Winifred Nicholson, Jesse Pollock, Janet Pulcho, Stormy Pyeatte, Marc Quinn, Dan Rawlings, Marcel Rickli, Catriona Robertson, Almudena Romero, Paul Rousteau, Andrew Salgado, Frederick Sander, Viviane Sassen, Thirza Schaap, Schiaparelli, Helene Schmitz, Martin Schoeller, Megan Seiter, Amy Shelton, Ann Shelton, David Shrigley, Niki Simpson, Chieska Smith, Paul Anthony Smith, Leonard “Soldier” Iheagwam, Rudolf Steiner, Holly Stevenson, Florent Stosskopf, Daniel The Gardener, Rebecca Thomas, Mimei Thompson, Miriam Tölke, VOYDER, Robert Walker, Tim Walker, Tom Wesselmann, Vivienne Westwood, Jo Whaley, Jess Wilson, Emma Witter, Kasia Wozniak, Nadirah Zakariya, Christina Zimpel, Victoria Zschommler, Andrew Zuckerman

Curatorial project partners include:
Chelsea Physic Garden, Cinema Poster Gallery, The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP), Marimekko, Mary Quant Limited, Sanderson Design Group including Morris & Co., William Morris Gallery

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This spring, join us for art after dark!

On selected Fridays, Saatchi Gallery LATES will offer workshops, guided classes and creative activations along with access to all two floors and nine major gallery spaces of FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE; featuring large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design. 

LATES tickets include:

  • Entry to FLOWERS – FLORA IN CONTEMPORARY ART & CULTURE
  • Entry to all current Ground Floor Shows
  • Bar open to 8:30pm
  • Drawing classes, workshops and creative activations, with basic materials and guidance from the Learning Team provided, plus special guests 

Dates and details below: 

28 February: Garden to Garment

Tattooed Life Drawing with our Learning Team

For this session, tattooed models Musa and Aura will show off their amazing body art for participants to respond to through drawing. These poses will be held for both short and long periods, with direction and support provided by the Saatchi Gallery Learning team. Open to all levels, materials will be provided for those attending. 

Susan Beech: A Petal Unfolds – Paper Flower Making Workshop

Susan Beech is a paper artist and founder of A Petal Unfolds, specialising in the making of paper flowers and botanicals. In this drop-in paper flower workshop, you will explore working with premium crepe paper and be guided by Susan through some of the techniques of making your own beautiful paper poppy. These unique pieces will be cut, intricately manipulated, folded, cut and stretched to create realistic, complex botanical forms, encompassing the gestures and essence of the plant’s individuality. 

Scentschool™ by Floral Street

Join British independent and sustainable brand Floral Street fragrances for a Scentschool™ masterclass with Founder Michelle Feeney. During the session you will learn fun-facts about their fine fragrances, explore the science behind the scents and smell sustainably sourced hero ingredients. All in a fun-filled Floral Street way and powered by flowers. 

Bar
Kindly supported by NEAT and generously stocked with Diviners Distillery Outlier GinFortified White VermouthThe Pathfinder and 40FT Brewery.

14 March: Awakening the Senses

28 March: Pop Art & Printmaking – A Spring Celebration

11 April: Beyond the Bloom

2 May: Botanical Bodies 

Themes and activities will include Valentine’s Day love letter writing, a LFW-inspired block printing workshop, Pop Art printmaking sessions, costumed life-drawing, and a tarot card reading class. Check back soon for more info! 

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BLAST showcases new works by Dominic Beattie as the artist explores materiality in painting with a view to creating a new visual language inspired by 20th Century geometric abstraction.
 
Dominic Beattie is an abstract painter, sculptor and curator who lives and works in London and Spain. His work is based upon Modernist principles, specifically ideas of innovation and experimentation with abstraction, and an emphasis on materials, techniques and processes. Beattie’s current output is concerned with the development of unique patterns and an exploration into the materiality of painting.  Beattie has recently exhibited his work at Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy, JGM Gallery and Fold Gallery. In 2023 he won a prize in the Otero Baena painting competition in Bueu, Galicia and in 2015 he won the UK/Raine prize for painting. 

Narratives of Identity brings together the work of four recent art graduates: Qinyao Dai, Hsin Hwang, Shayla Marshall and Jahnvi Singh, whose art delves into the intricacies of identity, storytelling, and narrative. Each artist explores these themes through unique perspectives and media, weaving personal and collective experiences into compelling visual and conceptual forms.

Through painting, sculpture, photography, and mixed media, these four artists invite us to examine how our personal narratives and histories can shape our understanding of the self and society. Their works reflect on the multifaceted nature of identity, highlighting the intersections of culture, memory, and belonging.

In this space, narratives unfold — some intimate and autobiographical, others expansive and universal — encouraging viewers to consider their own roles as storytellers and participants in the ongoing dialogue of identity. Together, these artists demonstrate the power of contemporary art in capturing the complex stories that define who we are and how our journeys continue to grow. 

Good Eye Projects is an artist residency programme founded in 2022.

Embodying the artist-led ethos and community orientation of London’s vibrant emerging and early-career art scene, GEP hosts three residency iterations per year at their West London location, providing six artists per edition with free studio space in which to create. Alongside, GEP organises regular studio visits with insightful industry professionals; gallery visit days to some of London’s most exciting small and mid-sized spaces; and end-of-residency exhibitions to spotlight each artist’s output.

Artists for GEP’s Summer and Autumn residencies are selected via a free-to-enter Open Call process, moderated by a panel of art-world insiders. The Spring iteration features selected artists as part of GEP’s gallery collaboration initiative, with artists previously invited on behalf of Pipeline, Soup, Sherbet Green, Night Café, PM/AM, San Mei and curator Josephine-May Bailey.

Since launching, GEP has supported over 40 artists, and has presented off-site collaborations with Christie’s and Collective Ending HQ. GEP is now pleased to present a group exhibition of the artists included on their Autumn 2023, Spring 2024 and Summer 2024 residency iterations at Saatchi Gallery.

Good Eye Projects Artistic Director:
Anna Woodward (Artist & Organiser)

Good Eye Projects Business Development Director:
Scott Franklin (Art Collector & Founder of Property Guardian Protection LTD)

Good Eye Projects Selection Panel:
Hector Campbell (Co-Founder & Director, Soup Gallery)
Marie-Claire Thijsen (Head of Sale & Associate Specialist, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Christie’s)

 

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BEERS London presents Barndommens Drømme (Childhood Dreams) by Jack Kabangu in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery. Here the African/Danish artist explores the inaccuracy of memory and the opacity of dreams.

Kabangu’s work is naturally investigative of psychological states, which is countered by his gutsy, gestural, freeform approach to artmaking. With his instantly recognizable style and a recurrent face/visage motif, Kabangu’s work is meant to speak to inexpressible desires and primordial human emotions.

For millennia, artists and thinkers have explored similar themes. Herodotus wrote about dreams; the ancient Greeks believed dreams foretold the future; and the history of art is populated with centuries of religious paintings (be they interpreted literally or metaphorically); to the Surrealists who preoccupied themselves with the subconscious.

Kabangu is similarly keen to investigate this illusory world. His richly applied surfaces suggest his desire to “go back in” and re-evaluate psychological states that fall outside of language or representation. Through his deep hues and surprising colour schemes, as well as his technique, which adopts a rigorous and impasto approach, we can almost sense Kabangu’s desire to plunge back into a fantastical world to illuminate his waking practice.

Presented by BEERS gallery. 

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BEERS London presents A Moment to Myself, a solo exhibition by Nigerian artist Deborah Segun in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, which questions how the internal self reflects the natural world.

“I began listening to how I responded to nature,” she writes, “and used that to create harmony between environment, body, and a further understanding of myself.”

Consideration of ‘self’ in relation to nature has been an enduring theme, but it wasn’t until the German Romantic movement of the late 18th century, along with the invention of modern philosophy that these ideas gained traction. While we may innately know exposure to the natural world is beneficial, modern research is constantly proving its positive effects on our creative, physical, and empathetic selves.

For Segun, the natural and the bodily have coalesced. “Mother Earth” becomes anthropomorphized: a restful body suggests a curving hillock; a sharp limb refers to our difficult terrain; a peaceful colour scheme alludes to sensations we experience before bodies of water. The works present quietude, joy, and even melancholy, as Segun invites us for a moment of mindfulness and reflection.

Presented by BEERS gallery. 

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M&C Saatchi Group and Saatchi Gallery reveal the six global winners of the Art for Change Prize 2024, an international art initiative open to artists working in the first five years of their career. This year’s prize challenged emerging artists worldwide to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues through the theme ‘Tomorrow’ing: Visions of a Better Future.’

With a grand prize of £10,000, the competition offers a platform for artists to envision solutions for a brighter tomorrow and showcase their work at Saatchi Gallery.

This year saw a 56% increase in entries, with 4,667 submissions from 140 countries, and over 53% coming from developing nations across Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania. The six selected winners, representing Mexico, Hong Kong, Australia, Spain, Morocco, and the UK, will present works that explore critical issues such as humanity’s relationship with the Earth, the impact of industry on sustainability, and the hopes and fears for future generations.

The winning artworks span a variety of media including painting, photography, video, and mixed-media installations. Through their art, the winners highlight urgent global issues, offering creative solutions and raising awareness about the challenges of our times.

2024 Art for Change Prize Regional Winners:

Americas: Paola Boyance (Mexico)

Asia: Wincy Kung (Hong Kong)

Australia & New Zealand: Jo Mellor (Australia)

Europe: Ana Monsó (Spain)

Middle East & Africa: Hiba Baddou (Morocco)

UK: Lulu Harrison (UK)

Each winner will receive £2,000, and one overall winner—set to be announced at the exhibition launch on 28 November—will take home an additional £8,000.

The winners were selected by a distinguished panel of business and creative leaders from M&C Saatchi Group, along with esteemed guest judges from the arts and creative sectors.

All the winning artworks will be on display at Saatchi Gallery from 29 November, 2024 – 26 January, 2025 in Gallery 3.

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ADAPTATION, the first major survey of works by contemporary American photographer Anastasia Samoylova. Curated by Taous R. Dahmani, this exhibition presents works from five of Samoylova’s most significant series: ‘Landscape Sublime’, ‘Image Cities’, ‘FloodZone’, ‘Floridas’, and ‘Breakfasts’. The exhibition features compelling video work previously unseen in the UK.
In ADAPTATION, Samoylova directs her frank and curious gaze at evidence of the environment adapting to human intervention and, correspondingly, at our social and political reluctance to respond to a rapidly changing planet. Her subjects – often pastel-hued, doused in refracting light and darkened by impenetrable shadow – speak to this push and pull. Viewers are lured to take a closer look; subtly challenged to consider the ways in which we are encroaching on the environment and alerted to the danger of denial.
 

ADAPTATION has been produced by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis/Paris/ Lausanne in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, London.

About Anastasia Samoylova
Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-born American artist who alternates between observational photography and studio practice. In 2024, her exhibition, ‘Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans,’ will be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Recent exhibitions include C/O Berlin, Fundación MAPFRE, George Eastman Museum, Chrysler Museum of Art, and V&A Dundee. Samoylova’s work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Perez Art Museum, Miami; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Publications include FloodZone (Steidl, 2019), Floridas (Steidl, 2022), and Image Cities (Fundación Mapfre, 2023). 
 
About Taous R. Dahmani
Dr Taous R. Dahmani is a London-based French, British and Algerian art historian, writer and curator specializing in photography. Dr Dahmani curated the 2022 Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d’Arles in France, showcasing her keen eye for emerging talent. In October 2024, she will curate two themed group exhibitions at the Jaou Photo Biennale in Tunis, Tunisia. The following month, she will unveil a solo exhibition of SMITH at NOUA in Bodø, Norway. Her writing is featured in photobooks published by Loose Joints, Textuel and Chose Commune, as well as in prestigious magazines like The British Journal of Photography, FOAM, GQ, Aperture, Camera Austria and 1000 Words Magazine. She has delivered talks at renowned institutions including Tate, the Getty Research Institute, the Barbican, Le Bal, and La MEP.
 
About the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP)
An independent non-profit organization, The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (FEP) produces unique and influential museum-quality photography exhibitions and circulates them around the world. The Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography (Minneapolis/ Paris/ Lausanne) aims to enlighten, delight, and inspire people around the world through the presentation of photography exhibitions, publications, related online content, symposia, lectures, and other forms of educational events and materials. Founded in 2003, FEP is based in Minneapolis, a city with a vibrant tradition of support for the arts. The organization has achieved substantial results in its first two decades, with shows travelling to 35 countries on 4 continents, and with catalogues produced in many different languages.
 
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