Archives: Exhibitions
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.
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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.
The exhibition runs until 12 May and will reopen on 23 May until 8 June.
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POST//FUTURE is an exhibition that explores the consequences of unchecked progress in a fractured and fragile world.
This heterogenous collection features works that delve into the haunting potentialities of the future—visions shaped by the inability or unwillingness to address urgent issues in the now. Creating allusions to iconic works of speculative literature and film—such as George Orwell’s 1984, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale—this exhibition explores not just the future, but our present moment.
The exhibition features a diverse range of media, from conceptual art and photography to installations and multimedia. Each piece invites viewers to contemplate the consequences of societal complacency and unaddressed change. The works showcase various interpretations of a fractured present, and a fragile future. The artists, using metaphor, allegory, and raw imagery, challenge us to reflect on our choices today, as these echoes of tomorrow may soon become reality.
Curated by Benjamin Murphy and Nick JS Thompson of Delphian Gallery, POST//FUTURE presents a thought-provoking dialogue about the fragility of our future. It underscores the urgency of action—whether in politics, technology, social justice, or environmental conservation—before we fall into a world shaped by the mistakes we refuse to acknowledge today.
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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.
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 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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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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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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★★★★★ “Every image contains some kind of magic.” – The Guardian
★★★★★ “A triumph… just a small selection of the breadth of talent and vibrancy across the African diaspora, and it shines in allowing both the photographers and their respective subjects to speak their own truth.” – The Upcoming
AS WE RISE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE BLACK ATLANTIC is an exciting exhibition of photographs from African Diasporic culture. Organised by Aperture and curated by Elliott Ramsey, the exhibition showcases work by Black artists from Canada, United States, Great Britain, The Caribbean, and the African Continent.
The exhibition celebrates the expansive sensibility of the works in the Wedge Collection, Canada’s largest privately-owned collection committed to championing Black artists, established by Dr. Kenneth Montague in 1997. Centring the familial alongside the familiar, the exhibition embraces concepts of community, identity, and power, and recognizes the complex strength, beauty, vulnerability, and diversity of Black life. The exhibition features such established names as Horace Ové, James Barnor and Gordon Parks, as well as emerging talents such as Texas Isaiah and Arielle Bobb-Willis.
AS WE RISE: PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE BLACK ATLANTIC, selections from the Wedge Collection, is organized by Aperture and curated by Elliott Ramsey.
The accompanying book, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021), a 184-page catalogue and As We Rise: Sounds from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2023), a limited-edition vinyl record, both published by Aperture, are available to purchase in the Gallery Shop and through Saatchi Store Online.
About Elliott Ramsey
Elliott Ramsey is Curator of The Polygon Gallery in Vancouver, Canada. Ramsey holds a Master of Arts in Comparative Media Arts (2015) from Simon Fraser University. Ramsey is an alumnus of the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Professional Alliance for Curators of Colour, and has sat on numerous panels, advisories, and art juries including the Sobey Award, VIVA Award, Portfolio Prize, and Capture Photography Festival, among various other committees.
About Dr Kenneth Montague, the Wedge Collection
The Wedge Collection was started in 1997 by Dr. Kenneth Montague to acquire and exhibit art that explores Black life. In addition to the Wedge Collection, Montague founded Wedge Curatorial Projects, a non-profit arts organization that helps support emerging Black artists. A Toronto-based art collector, Montague has been a member of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Board of Trustees since 2015 and has served on the African acquisitions committee at Tate Modern, London, as well as on the Photography Curatorial Committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. He is also a Trustee of the Aperture Foundation, and a past member of the jury for the Scotiabank Photography Award, Canada’s largest photography prize. In 2016, Montague received an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University, Toronto.
About Aperture
Established in 1952, Aperture is a non-profit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide. From its base in New York, Aperture connects global audiences and supports artists through its acclaimed quarterly magazine, books, exhibitions, digital platforms, public programs, limited-edition prints, and awards. Aperture champions photography’s vital role in nurturing curiosity and encouraging a more just, tolerant society.
