Archives: Exhibitions

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

Curated by Helen Adams and inspired by her book ‘Fine Art Textiles’, the show brings its pages to life in the gallery. Work includes Cayce Zavaglia’s intricate stitched portraiture, Ian Berry’s striking denim installations, vibrant knitting and embroidery by the legendary Kaffe Fassett, and bold, playful creations from the queen of yarn bombing, Magda Sayeg.

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
Cayce Zavaglia

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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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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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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.

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

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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.

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Curated by Liminal Gallery, Between Waking and Wanting brings together the work of four artists, Maud Whatley, Fipsi Seilern, Emma Richardson and Chloe Bonfield, each of whom explores the subtle strangeness of interior life: its rituals, its erotic charge, its mythologies, and its moments of psychological slippage.

The exhibition is concerned with the in-between. It evokes a state where the body may be still, but the mind is elsewhere, half-sleeping and half-reaching, moving through dream logic, memory, and longing.

Maud Whatley’s works are like storyboards, drawing inspiration from the uncanny dreamscapes of mid-century cinema. Fipsi Seilern’s intricate drawings on untreated wood conjure the atmosphere of dream fragments. Emma Richardson’s large-scale paintings engage with psychology, transcendence, and female desire, while drawing on the intensity of Baroque painting. Chloe Bonfield’s painted figures appear suspended mid-thought, caught within intimate yet unplaceable landscapes.

Together, these works form a conversation about the textures of mental life, where images flicker without resolution, longing persists, and meaning remains just out of reach. Between Waking and Wanting invites us to dwell in these uncertain moments – not to decode them, but to feel their charge.

About Liminal Gallery

Proving that scale is no barrier to impact, Liminal Gallery is the UK’s smallest bricks-and-mortar contemporary gallery. Based in Margate, Liminal challenges the status quo with a bold and inclusive programme, platforming diverse and resonant voices from across the UK and Ireland. 

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Gesture and Being brings together new work from six recent graduates of Royal College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art: Anna Curzon Price, Gala Hills, Katja Farin, Mia Wilkinson, Poppy Critchlow and Qian Zhong. All working within the realms of figurative painting, these artists use their practice to challenge inherited narratives and expectations ascribed to gender, the body and the self. Together, they champion a self-expression that is free and fluid, presenting figures that are unstable, performative, dreamlike, or defiantly unruly. 

These artists reflect on how our personal narratives are often in flux with our internal dialogues, external interactions and our environment. Exploring interior worlds – psychological, emotional or symbolic – as much as physical ones, they consider how we are seen, staged and felt within both private and public realms. Domestic interiors, mythical spaces, imagined utopias and everyday moments become sites where tension and connection coexist, and where the body becomes an active, renewed force.  

Despite the playful and vivid use of colour, undertones are often unsettling. These paintings are layered with complex feeling, exploring themes of anxiety, vulnerability and discomfort. The environments presented here are both tender and confrontational, humorous and uneasy, where representation is not fixed but continually negotiated, and where the figure emerges as something porous, potent, and profoundly alive. 

Participating artists: Anna Curzon Price, Gala Hills, Katja Farin, Mia Wilkinson, Poppy Critchlow, Qian Zhong

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Domestic Relics gathers eight artists whose work excavates the tender, unstable terrain of memory as it is held within the spaces, gestures, and objects of daily life. In this exhibition, the home becomes both setting and metaphor: a site where the past lingers in fabric folds, handwritten fragments, staged poses, and the quiet rituals that scaffold identity.

Across painting, sculpture, and hybrid forms, each artist offers a way of seeing the domestic not as ordinary, but as a living archive, one that preserves, distorts, conceals, and sometimes invents the stories we inherit. Together, these artists form a dialogue about what remains: the residues of physical experience, the subtle reorganising of the past through the present, and the uneasy- but-beautiful ways in which personal history becomes myth.

Participating artists: Theo Bardsley, Lee Cameron, Luna Sue Huang, Jennifer Jones, Matt Macken, Yejin Oh, George Richardson, Justin Tsui. 

Curated by Nick JS Thompson & Benjamin Murphy of Delphian Gallery, the artist-run, nomadic gallery and arts platform. 

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Beat the winter blues with boredom-busting art and activities inspired by our current major exhibition, The Long Now. Explore the exhibition, and then let your creative juices flow with this series of accompanying workshops. Suitable for children of all ages and led by Saatchi Gallery’s Learning team.

Register for a 30-minute slot between 11am – 3pm by clicking ‘Book Now’.

You do not need a ticket to The Long Now to attend, however you can visit the exhibition on the same day by booking a ticket in advance here. 

Explore chance in the process of making. Make art without worrying about perfection, and allowing experimentation into the mix.

In this workshop, we will take inspiration from works of art and make collages that reflect us. Things that we like, that we find interesting – lines, colours and shapes that create our inner landscape.

In this workshop participants will have a look in reflections in art history and contemporary art and will have the opportunity to play with mirrors and make experimental drawings by observing reflections of objects. They will also be doing symmetrical paper cutting, and experimental prints inspired by the Rorschach test.

Saturday 14 March – Trompe L’Oleil Workshop

This workshop is inspired by the artists in the show like Gavin Turk and Dan Colen, who make art that “tricks the eye’’, making it look different than what it is or is made from.

These workshops are free of charge, with a suggested donation amount of £5. If you wish to support our charity, we would greatly appreciate a donation so we can continue to make art accessible to all. Select the donation price when booking, or donate in person at the Gallery.