Archives: Exhibitions

This May, Saatchi Gallery presents an immersive garden installation at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show, featuring new works by contemporary multimedia artist Anthony James. The installation features three artworks: Crystal 001, 60” GSD, and 80” GSD which aim to spark a dialogue about our connection to, and understanding of, natural forms such as crystals. The works highlight their healing power and invite viewers to find their inner peace.

James, who trained at St Martin’s College, created the glass and steel works harnessing the power of LED lights and two-way mirrors to create optical illusions of infinite light reflections. The garden design provides an opportunity for calm contemplation among the shade of the trees, allowing visitors to be physically traverse the garden via a meadow pathway.

Anthony James reflects on the process behind the pieces, “Crystallisation happens when molecules gather together as they attempt to become stable. I took this concept found in nature and used computer programming to mimic naturally forming polycrystalline shapes. This allowed an organic digitisation which parallels crystals formation, even allowing for external influences to cause variations.”

James’ intricate process juxtaposes high technology and ethereal magical realism. James’ work connects us all to the natural world and explores the concept of infinity through this interactive and contemplative installation.

Saatchi Gallery’s Partnerships Director, Laura Uccello: “We are delighted to participate in this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show and share Anthony James’ timely installation with the show’s visitors. We believe the show is a unique platform for contemporary art to reach new audiences and our hope is that the work will prompt a conversation about our relationship with the environment.”

This installation will be on view at stand number RHW281, located on the major show thoroughfare Royal Hospital Way. The garden is designed by RHS Gold award-winning garden and landscape designer Rae Wilkinson MSGD.

Following the success of the 2021 RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show, The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) and Saatchi Gallery have partnered for the second time to present the RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show in 2022.

Entries for the show have been through a meticulous pre-selection process, where the scientific accuracy, technical skill and aesthetic appeal of the work is reviewed by an expert judging panel prior to the show opening, with artists and photographers awarded RHS Gold, Silver-Gilt, Silver and Bronze medals, as well as a series of special awards including ‘Best Botanical Art Exhibit’ and ‘Judge’s Special Award’.

In 2022, a diverse range of subjects will be presented by participants ranging from plants that have grown in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami to Rosulate Violas found at the height of the Andes Mountains. In addition, native British trees and hedgerow plants will complement illustrations of beautiful garden flowers. Anatomical drawings reveal the structure and form of some of our garden favourites, alongside explorations of the ecological and economic significance of many familiar fruits and flowers.

New photography entries include stereographic panoramas from various locations in the Hampshire New Forest and macro photography capturing the details of tiny Holly Parachute fungi. Flat lay photography of winter garden buds examines how different plants flourish, with multiple entries exploring rainbow themes across image series.

Former Gold medal winning exhibitors will also show their work alongside artists participating in the 2022 exhibition for the first time.

The show is a highlight in the calendar of the RHS Lindley Library, complementing its extensive collection of botanical artworks, photographs and illustrations which include more than 30,000 works.

Admission

From £5, concessions available; under 10s go free (T&Cs apply); Saatchi Gallery & RHS Members go free.

Saatchi LATES (open until 9pm): Tickets from £5; Free for Saatchi Gallery Members.

List of Exhibitors

Photographers
John Shepherd, Libby Ellis, Tracy Calder, Konrad Cox, Jacki Rosin, Mark Lunn, Joseph Shaffery, Sanjay Dinker Jani, Sonia Letourneau, Paul Mitchell, Alan Bousfield, Kevin Dutton, Ian Gilmour, Kaylie Mountford, Christine Adams, Robert Neale Bryant, Emma TS Robinson

Botanical Artists
Andrew Carr, Annie Chen, Hyunjin Cho, Georgia Danvers, Catherine Day, Melinda Edstein, Margaret Fitzpatrick, Jane Goodson, Julia Groves, Maureen Hallahan, Yoko Harada, Jackie Isard, Rui Jiang, Mitsuko Kurashina, Yolande Muschamp, Irina Neacsu, Nigel Pickering, Hye Woo Shin, Shirley Slocock, Wendy Smith, Pamela Taylor, Susan Tomlinson, Julie Whelan

About the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) was founded in 1804 and is the UK’s largest gardening charity.

The RHS vision is to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place via its inspirational gardens and shows, science research and advisory, extensive library collections and far-reaching education and community programmes. With over 600,000 members the RHS also shares its horticultural knowledge and expertise with millions of people every year through its website and publications.

In 2021, the RHS launched its Sustainability Strategy, committing to be net positive for nature and people by 2030. The supporting RHS Planet-Friendly Gardening Campaign will continue to harness the power of the UK’s 30 million gardeners to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis.

We are solely funded by our members, visitors and supporters.For more information visit:

RHS Registered Charity No. 222879/SC038262

About Riverstone

Riverstone has launched its first two prime London developments for over 65s in the vibrant enclaves of Kensington and riverside views at Fulham. Designed with a choice of lifestyle options and community in mind, quality of life and well-being sits at the heart of the Riverstone experience. To learn more about Riverstone Kensington: visit and Riverstone Fulham: visit

Saatchi Gallery presents LA-based and British-born artist Anthony James alongside the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show.

Square Roots (Gallery 4) features James’ renowned ‘Birch Tree’ series along with ‘Lightfield’, an array of twelve interconnected cubic structures. The inside surfaces are lit with LED lights containing two-way mirrors reflecting endless flat surfaces to create an optical illusion encouraging inward and outward reflection. The series is made up of several variously sized, vertical light boxes containing the barks of birch trees.

Using birch trees, mirrors, glass, metal, and fluorescent LED lights, James presents a sculptural series associated with magical symbolism, resulting in the illusion of an endless birch forest. By containing what is colossally vast into the infinitesimally small, the sculptures lead visitors into a meditative and limitless space to reveal the shared containment of nature – manifesting an individual’s journey ‘through the woods.’

Infinite and mesmerising, the twelve cubes featured in the gallery space are connected via ethernet cables and controlled by one computerised ‘brain’ enabling them to mimic the interconnecting root structure of a birch tree forest.

About the Artist

Anthony James (b. 1974) is a multimedia visual artist concerned with the unity of consciousness across nature and the cosmos. Growing up in London during the vibrant 70’s and 80’s directly inspired his continuing search for order and developed his minimalistic and formalist working practice to explore the paradox of life and death through dazzling sculptures.

Square Roots is open to the public in Gallery 4 from the 9 – 29 April 2022. Admission is free.

Art After Dark

Our doors stay open late until 9PM, with exhibitions ‘RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2022’ and ‘Anthony James: Square Roots’ on view.

Discover the best botanical artwork and garden photography by global artists, all competing for an RHS Medal. Highlights of this year’s edition include: intricate botanical drawings of Rosulate Violas growing from the heights of the Andes Mountains; plants that have grown in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Tsunami, and macro photography of micro fungi.

Presented alongside the main exhibition, ‘Square Roots’ in Gallery 4 features LA-based artist Anthony James’ infinite and mesmerising installations – ‘Birch Tree’ series and ‘Lightfield’, leading visitors into a meditative space to reveal the shared containment of nature.

Walk-ins welcome. Prebooking advised.

Wednesday 13 April
Thursday 21 April
6PM: RHS Curator-led tour by Charlotte Brooks (Art Curator) & Sian Tyrrell (Photography Curator and Head of Horticultural Information)

Some additional exhibitions may also be on display on our Ground and Lower Ground Floor galleries.

Members receive 2 drinks tokens, Saatchi Store discounts, and additional benefits.

Galleries are open to the public for extended hours from 10am to 9pm.

Exhibition Supporters

Riverstone, delivering exceptional London living for people over 65, is proud to support the 2022 RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show in partnership with Saatchi Gallery.

About the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS)

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) was founded in 1804 and is the UK’s largest gardening charity.

The RHS vision is to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place via its inspirational gardens and shows, science research and advisory, extensive library collections and far-reaching education and community programmes. With over 600,000 members the RHS also shares its horticultural knowledge and expertise with millions of people every year through its website and publications.

In 2021, the RHS launched its Sustainability Strategy, committing to be net positive for nature and people by 2030. The supporting RHS Planet-Friendly Gardening Campaign will continue to harness the power of the UK’s 30 million gardeners to help tackle the climate and biodiversity crisis.

We are solely funded by our members, visitors and supporters.For more information visit:

RHS Registered Charity No. 222879/SC038262

About Riverstone

Riverstone has launched its first two prime London developments for over 65s in the vibrant enclaves of Kensington and riverside views at Fulham. Designed with a choice of lifestyle options and community in mind, quality of life and well-being sits at the heart of the Riverstone experience. To learn more about Riverstone Kensington: visit and Riverstone Fulham: visit

The Bob Marley One Love Experience makes its global debut at London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery for a limited ten-week exhibition this February. This unique experience will showcase unseen Marley photographs and memorabilia whilst immersing audiences on a journey through his lifestyle, passions, influences, and enduring legacy. Fans will venture through the exhibition, greeted by different elements of Bob Marley’s multi-faceted life. The One Love Music Room will commemorate Bob Marley’s achievements through accolades and giant art installations. A multi-sensory experience can be discovered in the One Love Forest, and at the heart of the exhibition fans will be able to honor and rejoice in Marley’s musical catalogue at the Soul Shakedown Studio – a live listening experience. The Beautiful Life area will allow fans to delve deeper into Marley’s other personal joys, from football to family, whilst the Concrete Jungle and Fan Art Exhibition will be anchored by world famous artworks by Mr. Brainwash. Audiences will then be able to discover The Next Gen Room celebrating Bob’s family and legacy through the next generation.

Discover and celebrate one of the world’s most beloved and unifying musical and cultural figures in this unique exhibition.

Cedella Marley, CEO of Bob Marley group of companies says “We’ve been wanting to launch a Bob Marley touring exhibit for many years and we’re thrilled to see it come to life and debut in London, which had a very special place in Daddy’s heart. The experience can be enjoyed by all generations and we look forward to continuing to spread Daddy’s music and message to the globe”

The Bob Marley One Love Experience is produced by Terrapin Station Entertainment in conjunction with the Marley family with Senbla serving as local producer and promoter.

For more information, visit & follow @bobmarleyexperience on Instagram and Facebook.

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Seojung Art Center presents Rooted Island, a solo show of Korean artist Lee Choun Hwan. The exhibition illuminates the artist’s ongoing explorations of the Korean landscape, and the land of where Lee himself settled. With the title ‘Rooted Island’, Lee alludes to his hometown, the ‘island’ of Wando, and simultaneously the Korean ‘island’ where the artist has taken root – a peninsula with blocked connections to the continent.

The works on display are tied together by their demonstration of Lee’s life-long endeavour to explore his roots, using this as the main subject matter in his artistic practice. The exhibition presents the transition of various materials used in Lee’s earlier works, tracing his development of expressive methods adopted throughout his practice.

In his Mood of the Mountain series, Lee reflects on his experience of climbing the famous mountains of Korea, where he encounters Beopjeong, a novelist and monk known for the Musoyu (Non-Possession spirit) – marking a turning point in Lee’s career, and what led to The Moon Jar series. Lee emphasises the contrast between subjects against the backdrop of Obangsaek (the traditional Korean colour scheme).

Through The Moon Jar, Lee explores the complete immersion of Musoyu, resulting to a complete elimination of the subject and an abstractness of being. It is through this interaction that Lee begins his search for his origins. In the Light+Grain series, which showcases the moonlit sea of his hometown, Lee begins to express his personal enlightenment. Through abstraction, Lee uncovers his discovery of his hometown origins, painting a portrait of the Korean landscape and its beauty.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lee Choun Hwan (b.1956), who was born in a small Korean island, Wando, grew up with beautiful landscape. Lee started painting spontaneously after learning calligraphy in ink from his grandfather. The artist’s affection for his hometown led to the respect of the nature and Korea. This exhibition presents works by Lee, who had devoted himself to ink painting for more than 20 years, created with an application of the Western painting style for the first time.

ORGANISATION

Rooted Island is curated by Tae Young Kil, and presented by Seojung Art Center

America in Crisis will bring together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s till today. Organised by Saatchi Gallery, the exhibition is curated by Sophie Wright, Gregory Harris from Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and LA-based photographer and academic Tara Pixley.

America in Crisis was a ground-breaking group initiative originally conceived in 1969 to assess the state of the nation. This Magnum Photos project was led by American photographer Charles Harbutt and Lee Jones, then Magnum’s New York bureau chief. This group project turned a critical eye on the U.S at a time of great social, political and cultural change, and examined key events in 1968 leading up to Nixon’s inauguration. The 2022 exhibition at Saatchi Gallery will create a dialogue between the original historical photographs from the 1969 Magnum project and new works produced five decades later, by diverse contemporary practitioners, during another tumultuous time in America.

Revisiting and updating this exhibition creates a unique dialogue between leading photographers from 1968, such as Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt and Mary Ellen Mark, and the works of 2020 contemporaries, such as Kris Graves, Balazs Gardi, Zora J Murff, Sheila Pree Bright and Stacy Kranitz. The exhibition highlights the themes present in both eras, confronting the myth of American exceptionalism with the reality of current events.

The original America in Crisis project was conceived not only as an exhibition and publication but as an experimental film and installation. In keeping with the interactive presentation of the original project, the 2022 exhibition will include an immersive and interactive installation that speaks to contemporary image consumption.

Featured Artists

Historical Photographs by
Bruce Davidson,Burk Uzzle,Burt Glinn,Charles Harbutt,Cornell Capa,Constantine Manos,Elliott Erwitt,Eve Arnold,Hiroji Kubota,Marc Riboud,Mary Ellen Mark,Paul Fusco,Roger Malloch,Wayne Miller

Contemporary Photographers
Anastasia Samoylova, Balazs GardiDustin Chambers, Eli Reed, Gabriella Demczuk, Gabrielle Lurie, Gregory Halpern, Hannah Yoon, Jessica Phelps, Josue Rivas, Kennedi Carter, Kris Graves, Kristine Potter, Leah Millis, Matt Black, Natalie Keyssar, Paul D’Amato, Peter Van Agtmael, Philip Montgomery, Robert Cohen, Rose Marie Cromwell, Sheila Pree Bright, Stacy Kranitz, Todd Heisler, Verónica G. Cárdenas, Zora J Murff

SPECIAL THANKS

Magnum Photos and Kummer & Hermann

Saatchi Gallery collaborates with curators to select works direct from the studios of artists in order to present a range of diverse & experimental artworks to a larger audience.

Synthesis brings together a multifaceted and impressive collection of works by an exciting heterogenous group of artists.

Artists featured in Synthesis are:
Hawazin Alotaibi
Solanne Bernard
Camilla Bliss
Vilte Fuller
Harriet Gillett
Taru Happonen
Melissa Kitty Jarram
Kaitlin Johnson
Jo Kitchen
Linda Linko
Alexi Marshall
Emily Moore
Kemi Onabule
Llinos Owen
Rhiannon Salisbury
Valerie Savchits
Amba Sayall-Bennett
Julie-Ann Simpson
Ellie Wang
Salomé Wu
A Group Show Curated by Delphian Gallery

Art After Dark: Our doors will stay open late until 9PM, with our exhibition ‘America in Crisis’ on view.
Explore over 120 seminal works by 40 leading American photographers, exploring decades of social change in the US from 1960s until today.

“This absorbing exhibition leaves you stupefied by the crisis that’s beginning.” – The Guardian

“Honest & thought-provoking imagery from those who are actually embedded in the stories.” – PORT Magazine

“Striking.” – CNN Style
“Thoroughly recommend. Hard-hitting.” – Nick Curtis, Evening Standard
Some additional exhibitions may also be on display on our First & Second floor galleries.

FRIDAY 18 MARCH, until 9PM

Walk-ins welcome. Prebooking advised.

Admission is free for our Members. Members also receive 2 drinks tokens, Saatchi Store discounts, and additional benefits.

Galleries are open to the public for extended hours from 10am to 9pm.