London, UK (April, 2026) — Botanical art and photography from around the world will be presented at Saatchi Gallery this summer as the annual RHS exhibition returns for a sixth year.

The RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show in partnership with Saatchi Gallery, taking place from 19 June to 2 August 2026. Staged across three galleries, the best in contemporary botanical art and photography is presented by exhibitors from across the world. This year sees former medal winners returning alongside first-time exhibitors.

Showcasing an incredible diversity of botanical subjects from the vibrant wild plants that emerge after wildfires in northwest England, to the colourful mushrooms that grow in Japan — fungi seen growing on woodland walks in Cornwall, to the abundant wildflowers of protected nature reserves of Jeju Island off the coast of Korea and the endangered endemic limestone fynbos found only in South Africa’s Grootbos, to the knotty roots of well-loved garden-grown varieties at home – there is an abundance of illustration and photography to intrigue and delight.

This year’s photography exhibition presents a series of portfolio works exploring plants, gardens and natural landscapes, with photographers using close observation and technical skill to reveal the character, detail and diversity of the plant world. Subjects range from intimate studies of succulents and sunflowers to wider views of gardens and natural habitats from across the UK and beyond.

Charlotte Brooks, RHS Art Curator, said: “We are seeing more and more artists exploring themes of plant ecology in their gardens as well as protected landscapes further afield. Plants, in all shapes and sizes, offer a way of sharing in and learning about the importance and beauty of our natural environment. The artists and photographers in this year’s show are not only responding to the challenge of attaining technical excellence, but they are also creating a sense of wonder for the natural world.” 

All of the artworks submitted have undergone a meticulous reviewing process by an expert judging panel and assessed on aesthetic appeal, scientific accuracy and technical skill. Once on display, the artists compete for an RHS medal – Gold, Silver-Gilt, and Bronze, as well as a ‘best in show’ award, namely Best Botanical Artwork, Best Botanical Art Exhibit, Best Portfolio Photography Exhibit, Best Single Image and Judges Special Award.  The public will once again have the opportunity to vote in the People’s Choice award via the RHS website.

The Show contributes to a long legacy of botanical art collecting and display by the RHS, and complements the work of the RHS Lindley Collections, which holds more than 30,000 botanical paintings and heritage photographs.

The RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show will be open to the public from 19 June – 2 August 2026 at Saatchi Gallery, London. Tickets from £6 are available to purchase at saatchigallery.com, RHS Members and Saatchi Gallery Members go free.

The show is supported by

For more information about the RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show visit: www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-london-shows/rhs-botanical-art-and-photography-show

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DATES AND OPENING HOURS 

Winners announced: 18 June 

Open to the public: 19 June – 2 August 2025

Opening Hours: Monday – Sunday: 10AM – 6PM (last admission: 5.20PM)

ADMISSION

Free entry for RHS and Saatchi Gallery members, on production of a valid membership card Pre-booking is not required. Entry is also free for The Sun and The Moon ticket holders.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Join the discussion about the exhibition online at: #RHSSaatchiGallery

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ORGANISATION

The RHS Botanical Art 2026 judging panel secretary is Charlotte Brooks, Art Curator at RHS Lindley Library and the RHS Photographic Competition judging panel secretary Claire Allnutt.

SCHOOL VISITS & COMMUNITY GROUPS

With the generous support of our Gallery Patrons, for each major exhibition there are opportunities to engage with creative projects and workshops whether that be in-gallery, virtually, in the classroom or at home. For more information visit saatchigallery.com/learning and to book your group contact [email protected] | +44(0)20 7811 3087

About the RHS 

We’re the UK’s gardening charity, helping people and plants to grow. 

Our mission is to be there on people’s lifelong journey with gardening – to bring happiness, health, stronger communities and a thriving natural world. 

With 220 years of experience, we support gardeners of all ages with expert advice, community and schools projects, scientific research, professional qualifications, our five RHS Gardens, and events including the iconic RHS Chelsea Flower Show. 

For more information visit www.rhs.org.uk.   

RHS Registered Charity No. 222879/SC038262 

ABOUT SAATCHI GALLERY

Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts over 5,000 schools visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019 Saatchi Gallery became a charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.

For more information visit www.saatchigallery.com

Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

Saatchi Gallery Registered Charity No. 1182328

• Occupying two floors and nine major gallery spaces, the exhibition presents artworks, installations and archival material exploring how the Sun and the Moon have shaped art, science, belief and imagination across cultures and over centuries
• Featuring the large-scale installation Helios by British artist Luke Jerram
• Immersive installations include Massless Suns and Dark Suns by the international art collective teamLab
• Showcasing works by both established and emerging artists across a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, fashion, textiles, photography, film and installations
• The exhibition follows FLOWERS – Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture (2025) as the second in a series of exhibitions surveying how the natural world inspires creativity across art and culture

LONDON, UK (April 2026) — This summer, Saatchi Gallery presents The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial, a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful and enduring phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity and belief throughout human history and across different cultures. Supported by headline sponsor Cazenove Capital, the exhibition opens to the public on 5 June and runs until 8 September.

Occupying two floors of the Gallery and spanning nine major exhibition spaces, the show presents artworks, installations, and objects that reveal how artists have responded to the Sun and the Moon. From ancient mythologies and early cosmologies to contemporary art and popular culture, the exhibition explores the profound influence these celestial bodies continue to have on human imagination. 

This exhibition follows the immensely popular FLOWERS – Flora in Contemporary Art and Culture (2025) as the second in Saatchi Gallery’s series surveying how the natural world inspires creativity across artistic disciplines. Drawing on themes connected to the patterns of nature, The Sun and The Moon invites visitors to consider familiar symbols in unexpected ways.

Paul Foster, Saatchi Gallery Director comments, “In 2026 we are reflecting in wonder at objects in the sky that we too often take for granted but which represent amazing and beautiful essentials to all life on Earth. Artists working today are as influenced and inspired by these bodies as those who have created works throughout human history. The exhibition is designed to be an uplifting celebration of the world and solar system in which we live.”

Building on its headline sponsorship of FLOWERS, Cazenove Capital returns as headline sponsor of The Sun and The Moon, continuing its partnership with the Gallery in support of ambitious and culturally significant exhibitions. Cazenove Capital is a leading provider of personalised wealth management services to ultra‑high‑net‑worth and high‑net‑worth clients, family offices, trusts and charities.

Dominic Emmerson, Deputy Chief Executive at Cazenove Capital comments, “Saatchi Gallery is a place where art, ideas and audiences come together in a way that is both inspiring and inclusive. By supporting artists and the wider creative ecosystem the Saatchi Gallery significantly strengthens the UK’s art culture, bringing together both local and international audiences.

At Cazenove Capital, our commitment to culture and philanthropy is rooted in the belief that supporting ideas, creativity and communities helps to create lasting positive impact. The Sun and The Moon exhibition is a compelling exploration of how creativity shapes our understanding of the world and we’re delighted to support this.”

The exhibition unfolds as a journey through a complete 24-hour cycle, moving from dawn through daylight and then into the depths of the night. Each gallery reflects on a period of the day and explores different stories associated with the Sun and the Moon. Themes explored include mythology, ritual, timekeeping lunar exploration and spirituality, revealing how these celestial bodies shape our daily lives and culture. 

Works by Patrick Caulfield, Barbara Hepworth and Sinta Tantra introduce the exhibition before the journey begins at Dawn, which includes works exploring how early cultures rationalised the Sun and Moon as deities and cosmic forces. These celestial bodies were woven into myths and belief systems as symbols of power, presented here through historical artefacts ranging from the Sol Invictus Celtic Bust dated between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, to a faithful replica of the Nebra Sky Disc, alongside works by contemporary emerging artists such as Sunju Jin, Jai Khanna and Lian Zhang. 

The second room, The Sun Rising, then reflects on how the sun structures our sense of time and rhythm, shaping the cycles of seasons, agriculture and everyday ritual. At its centre is Darcey Fleming’s Totem — a sculpture crafted from baling twine previously used by farmers, and referencing traditional celebrations connected to the land — presented amongst works by John Titchell, Sigrid Holmwood, Zak Ové and Sky Glabush.

At the height of the day, Zenith considers our bodies’ relationship with the sun, exploring our fascination with sunlight, warmth, the rituals of sunbathing and summer culture. Works by Hannah Frank, Dindga McCannon, Otto Piene, Sam Riley, Jim Lambie and Yinka Ilori appear alongside vintage travel posters and fashion objects including swimsuits, fans and eyewear. At its centre, Bryony Ella’s My Body is a Sundial invites visitors to consider the body not only as a record of solar time but also as a focus of solar intensity. Layers of embodied paintings are suspended between transparent panes held within a metal frame, ‘encasing memories of summers past and present’. 

Setting Sun captures the emotional symbolism of a retreating sun, as artists explore themes of beauty, transformation and reflection through landscapes, symbolic imagery, and references to alchemy and astrology. Works by Michael Rothenstein and Peter Doig are presented alongside first edition tarot cards designed by Pamela Colman Smith in 1909. A key feature is Nancy Holt’s 1978 film Sun Tunnels, a twenty-six-minute work documenting the creation of Holt’s eponymous earthwork in the Great Basin Desert, Utah. The installation consists of four concrete cylinders arranged in an X formation across the landscape, each 18 feet long and 9 feet in diameter, perforated with constellations of small apertures that project patterns of light within the tunnels.

At the centre of the exhibition visitors encounter Helios, a monumental six-metre sculpture of the Sun by artist Luke Jerram. The internally illuminated spherical installation features detailed imagery of the Sun’s surface compiled from photographs by astrophotographer Dr Stuart Green and NASA observations, with guidance from solar scientist Professor Lucie Green of University College London. Presented at an approximate scale of 1:230 million – where each centimetre represents around 2,300 kilometres of the Sun’s surface – the work allows visitors to safely experience the extraordinary texture of our nearest star, revealing sunspots, spicules and vast solar filaments in remarkable detail.

Combining solar imagery, subtle lighting and an immersive sound composition by Duncan Speakman and Sarah Anderson, Helios offers a powerful encounter with the celestial body that sustains life on Earth while reflecting on the Sun’s enduring presence in culture, mythology, and human imagination.

Jerram comments, “I am delighted that my newest touring artwork Helios is going to be a centrepiece of the Sun and Moon exhibition at Saatchi Gallery. This will be the first time it has been displayed in a major UK art gallery. As well as highlighting the science of the Sun, I hope that the artwork will inspire awe and wonder and prompt visitors to consider the importance of the sun in all our lives; for light, warmth, energy for our planet and how our nearest star has inspired culture and religion throughout history, all around the world.” 

The second half of the exhibition commences with a transition into night. Evening switches our attention to the Moon and its role in science and imagination, exploring its phases, its observation through history and its enduring presence in literature, photography, and science fiction. This chapter includes works by Paul Nash, Dora Maar, Ellie Davies and Christopher Le Brun. Saad Qureshi’s large-scale split moon will be suspended from the ceiling. 

The following gallery, Walking on the Moon, reflects on humanity’s obsession with reaching the moon and what might be found there. The presentation of works focuses on the cultural impact of the Apollo missions and the lesser-known stories behind space exploration, including the contributions of craftswomen and designers who helped make the missions possible. At its centre is Moon Landing, a collaborative work by Margo Selby and composer Helen Caddick, combining an original score with a large textile installation. The work celebrates the technical possibilities of weaving and the shared languages of mathematics, colour and rhythm found in both music and textiles. The gallery also features work by Aleksandra Mir, alongside the complete Lunar Voyage woodcut series by Tom Hammick. 

The penultimate chapter, Midnight, delves into the Moon’s long association with folklore, magic, and dreams, exploring themes of myth, mysticism and the ‘witching hour’, featuring works by Paula Rego, George Wallace Jardine, Joseph Wright of Derby, Joan Miró and Marguerite Carnec.

The exhibition concludes with the Darkest Hours chapter, featuring both Massless Suns and Dark Suns and Massless Sun and Surface of the Sky by the internationally renowned collective teamLab. These immersive works present spheres of light and darkness that appear to take form in space, yet have no physical substance. Shaped by light, environment and perception, they invite reflection on the nature of existence. 

teamLab comments, “We are honoured to be part of this group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London. For teamLab, a previous exhibition held at this gallery in 2015 holds profound significance. The exhibition, featuring artworks such as Flutter of Butterflies Beyond Borders, became the origin that led to teamLab Borderless.

This time we will exhibit artworks from our “Cognitive Sculpture” series, which appear only in the human world of perception. The materials are light and the environment. And the subject of its creation is the viewer’s own body and perception. The spheres cannot exist on their own – its existence is a phenomenon created in relation to its environment. The phenomenon created by the environment is shaped for the first time by the dynamic body and perception of the viewer, becoming a sculpture in their cognitive world.

The boundaries of the artwork are ambiguous, and its existence is inseparably continuous with the environment and perception.”

At a moment when many are reflecting on our relationship to the natural world, The Sun and The Moon invites visitors to look upward and reconsider these familiar presences in our sky, bringing together art, science, and myth to explore how they influence the ways we understand the world around us.

Saatchi Gallery Lates will take place on 19 June, 24 July, 21 August, 4 September and more dates to be announced, featuring drawing classes, workshops, and creative activations.

Tickets from £13 are available to book online from 15 April 2026 at saatchigallery.com. Members go free. 

Featured artists include:

Curatorial project partners include: Royal Museums Greenwich, The Salisbury Museum, The Atlantis Bookshop

Read more about Cazenove Capital’s sponsorship here: Saatchi Gallery – The Sun and The Moon | Summer 2026

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For all press enquiries, please contact +44 (0) 20 7811 3091, or:

Niamh Elain, Marketing & Press Executive, [email protected]

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Dates

Media preview: 4 June 2026

Open to the public: 5 June 2026 – 8 September 2026

Saatchi Lates: 19 June, 24 July, 21 August, 4 September and more dates to be announced

Spaces

The Sun and The Moon will occupy both the first and second floors of the Gallery.

Admission

This is a ticketed exhibition. Walk-ins are welcome but pre-booking is advised. Tickets can be booked online from 15 April 2026 at saatchigallery.com. Tickets start at £13.

Images

Press images can be obtained via our press page: www.saatchigallery.com/press. By using the images, you acknowledge and accept the terms and conditions found on our website. These images can only be reproduced to illustrate a review or criticism of a work or report as defined by section 30 (i) and (ii) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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School visits & Community groups

With the generous support of all our patrons, for each major exhibition, there are opportunities for students and community groups to engage in creative projects and workshops. For more details, visit http://www.saatchigallery.com/learning or call +44 (0) 20 7811 3087.

About Saatchi Gallery

Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019 Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.

www.saatchigallery.com

Registered Charity Number: 1182328 | Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

About Cazenove Capital

Cazenove Capital, a subsidiary of Schroders plc and a major FTSE 100 company, is a leading provider of personalised wealth management services to ultra- high-net-worth and high-net-worth clients, family offices and trusts. As well as discretionary and advisory investment services, we offer wider wealth management services such as advice on philanthropy and impact investment, wealth planning, cash management, deposit-taking and lending.

As the UK’s largest manager of charitable assets, our charity team provides a range of specialised services to a wide range of endowments, foundations and other charity clients. We also work in partnership with financial advisers to provide discretionary fund management to their clients.

Cazenove Capital is a subsidiary of Schroders plc, a major FTSE 100 company. The Schroder family still own a significant percentage of the company, having founded it over 200 years ago. This enables us to take a long-term view and to continue investing in our people, systems and services to deliver the high standards that we set of ourselves and that our clients expect of us.

For more information on our ultra-high and high-net-worth business in the UK, please visit www.cazenovecapital.com. 

About Luke Jerram

Luke Jerram’s multidisciplinary practice involves the creation of sculptures, installations and live art projects. Living in the UK, but working internationally since 1997, Jerram has created a number of extraordinary art projects which have excited and inspired people around the world. Since his career began Jerram has had almost 1,000 exhibitions around the world.

Jerram is known worldwide for his large-scale public engagement artworks that capture the public’s imagination. Experienced by more than 40 million people worldwide, his ‘Museum of the Moon’ artwork has toured India with the British Council, been presented at the Commonwealth Games in Australia and was exhibited in Aarhus, Denmark for the European Capital of Culture.

Luke Jerram lives in Bristol UK with his wife and two children.

www.lukejerram.com

About teamLab

teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective. Their collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. Through art, the interdisciplinary group of specialists, including artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world, and new forms of perception.

In order to understand the world around them, people separate it into independent entities with perceived boundaries between them. teamLab seeks to transcend these boundaries in our perceptions of the world, of the relationship between the self and the world, and of the continuity of time. Everything exists in a long, fragile yet miraculous, borderless continuity.

www.teamlab.art 

London, February 2026 – Saatchi Gallery presents Textile Art Redefined, an exhibition exploring 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.

Exhibition highlights include Ian Berry’s Secret Garden, a captivating installation crafted entirely from recycled denim. A site‑specific work by Magda Sayeg, the pioneer of yarn bombing, is at once playful and quietly poignant. 

Colour, texture, and materiality resonate throughout the exhibition. Kaffe Fassett showcases his signature vibrancy of bold colour and pattern expressed through knit and stitch. Kenny Nguyen presents an epic three metre silk work, unfolding in a rich spectrum of shades, while Benjamin Shine offers his serene tulle portraits, each meticulously shaped from a single piece of fabric.

These vivid works are a contrast to the calming intricate monochrome sculptures by Caroline Burgess and octogenarian artist Simone Pheulpin. Newly created works for the exhibition include two pieces by Signe Emdal, whose sensory woven forms celebrate the natural beauty and inherent fragility of fibre. Anne von Freyburg presents a richly textural work that reinterprets the spirit of Fragonard, and Deniz Kurdak’s stitched piece reimagines traditional blue and white chinoiserie.

Helen Adams, founder of Textile Curator, works exclusively within the field of textile art with the aim to ‘wake the world up to contemporary textile art’. Although the medium has not always occupied a prominent place in the public eye, artists have continued to push its boundaries with dedication and vision. This exhibition not only gives textile art a platform, it opens the dialogue of what textile art can be.

Full list of 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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Location: Gallery 4, Ground Floor

Admission: Free, with a suggested donation of £3

Open to the public: 10 April – 10 May 2026

Hours: 10AM–6PM (last admission 5.30PM)

ABOUT SAATCHI GALLERY

Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.

Registered Charity Number: 1182328

Address: Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

[email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7811 3091 | www.saatchigallery.com

London, February 2026 – Saatchi Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by London-based British-Malaysian-Chinese artist Caroline Wong. Titled Girls Who Devour and open to the public with free entry in Gallery 2 (Ground Floor)  from 27 March to 6 May 2026, this exhibition brings together three interconnected bodies of Wong’s work: 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. 

Yet this celebration of appetite is marked by tension. In Hungry Women, where imagery draws from mukbang livestream culture, eating becomes simultaneously pleasurable and performative – a spectacle shaped by the demands of visibility in the digital age. Acts of consumption oscillate between intimacy and exhibition, nourishment and labour, suggesting that eating can function as a means of survival within economies of attention and platform capitalism. The works therefore interrogate the ambivalent space between empowerment and objectification, agency and vulnerability.

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. The works foreground communal female spaces in which friendship, intimacy, and emotional nourishment converge through shared acts of consumption, unafraid of the gaze of others, suggesting a form of empowerment grounded in togetherness.

Across the exhibition, Wong’s tactile mark-making mirrors the immediacy of eating and touching. She produces sensorially evocative images that reinforce excess as a vital aesthetic modality woven into the very fabric of girlhood.

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

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Location: Gallery 2, Ground Floor

Admission: Free, with a suggested donation of £3

Open to the public: 27 March – 6 May 2026

Hours: 10AM–6PM (last admission 5.30PM)

ABOUT CAROLINE WONG

Caroline Wong (b.1986 Ipoh, Malaysia) is a British-Malaysian-Chinese artist based in London. Wong graduated with an MA in Fine Art from City and Guilds of London Art School in 2021. She also obtained a Diploma in Contemporary Portraiture from The Art Academy in 2018. Awards include the Drawing Room Biennial Bursary Award (2021), The Society of Women Artists Derwent Art Prize (2018), and the Liberty Specialty Markets Art Prize (2018). She was also selected for the Castello San Basilio residency, Pisticci, IT (2023). Selected solo exhibitions include: Girls who Devour, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2026); Picnics and Parties, Belenius, Stockholm, SE (2024); A Many-Splendoured Thing, Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, US (2023); Artificial Paradises, Soho Revue, London, UK (2022); and, Cats and Girls, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: The Power of Small Things, Soy Capitán, Berlin, DE (2025); Myths, Dreams, and New Realities, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2025); It’s the End of the World, Let’s Dance, Ames Yavuz, Singapore, SG (2025); You Were Bigger than the Sky, You Were More than Just a Short Time, Gallery Belenius, Stockholm, SE (2023); In the Land of Cockaigne, Quench Gallery, Margate, UK (2022); and, Drawn Out, Drawing Room, London, UK (2021).

ABOUT SAATCHI GALLERY

Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current 70,000 square feet space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.

Registered Charity Number: 1182328

Address: Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

[email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7811 3091 | www.saatchigallery.com

Anna Liber Lewis | Spectral Interference

Saatchi Gallery, Gallery 1, Ground Floor 27 March – 6 May 2026
Presented by Hannah Payne Art

Saatchi Gallery announces Spectral Interference, a major solo exhibition by London-based painter Anna Liber Lewis, presented by Hannah Payne Art, bringing together a new body of work that represents a rupture to her earlier grid-based works. The new works embrace abstraction as a site of risk, embodiment, and perceptual instability.

Across paintings of varying scale, Liber Lewis leaves behind the grid and their earlier line work. Structure is still present, not as a fixed system, but as a generative structure – that can be disrupted, softened, or pushed to breaking point. The new paintings have evolved through cycles of editing and return: surfaces are 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 new body of work is an interest in high-stakes painting – the ongoing tension between abstraction and figuration, structure and the body, control, and risk. Influenced by disparate artists such as Helen Frankenthaler and Carroll Dunham, Liber Lewis approaches abstraction as a physical, confronting act, where the mark carries memory, effort, and jeopardy. Gesture operates not as expressive excess but as a record of decision-making, endurance, and doubt.

Liber Lewis, comments: “This body of work comes from a place of risk and continual revision. Painting feels easier now, not because it’s resolved, but because I’m more willing to let go of control. I’m interested in how painting holds the body – how it changes, resists, and carries memory over time. The process depends on being both in control and out of control. It comes from repetition, and from a mental and physical agility: staying limber, warm, and ready for anything.”

Spectral Interference at Saatchi Gallery, brings together a significant group of new and recent works, including paintings such as Embodied Other, My GRB Afterglow, and Very Rare Picture of Earth II, alongside a number of large-scale canvases shown publicly for the first time. Presented at a pivotal moment in Liber Lewis’ career, this exhibition represents her most ambitious institutional presentation to date, following her recent inclusion in the group exhibition Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London at Saatchi Gallery (2024).

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Exhibition details

Anna Liber Lewis
Spectral Interference
27 March – 6 May 2026 Saatchi Gallery, Gallery 1, Ground Floor
Presented by Hannah Payne Art

Private View
Friday 27 March 2026, 6.30–8.30pm – ticket holders to Saatchi Lates or by invitation only.

Image credit: Anna Liber Lewis, Embodied Other, Oil on canvas, 200 x 150 cm. Image courtesy of the Artist and Hannah Payne Art. Photo by Benjamin Deakin.

Anna Liber Lewis (b.1977) lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA from Central Saint Martins in 2001 and was the 2013 recipient of the Genesis Foundation Scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art, gaining an MFA in 2015. She was awarded the Moich Abrahams Prize for Most Innovative Work at The London Group Century Open (2013) and received both the Griffin Arts Prize and the Young Contemporary Talent Prize, supported by the Ingram Collection, in 2017.

Her first solo exhibition took place at Elephant West in 2019, commissioned by Elephant Magazine, and explored a call-and-response relationship between music and painting. This marked the beginning of an ongoing creative collaboration with Four Tet (Kieran Hebden), developed through long-term dialogue between sound and image and later realised through the project Muscle Memory and the EP Anna Painting.
This was followed by a second solo show at The Lightbox, Woking where she was asked to respond to a piece from the Ingram Collection; she chose a work by Eileen Agar. Group exhibitions include Landscape Portrait: Now and Then; Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from the Ingram Collection; WIP at Camden Arts Centre Studio. Recent solo exhibitions include Dazzle Camouflage (solo), Benjamin Parsons × Hannah Payne Art (2023); Group exhibitions include Forms, Galarie pcp, Paris, On the Calculation of Volume, Gerald Moore Gallery (2024) SHAPE SORTER, Marie Jose Gallery, Fragmented Realities, Reflex Gallery, 2022, Amsterdam, Can You Hear It?, Cooke Latham Gallery, London (2022); Life Is Still Life, curated by Naomi Polonsky, The Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge (2022); Sign Systems, Unit London (2022); two-person show, Between the Lines – New Paintings by Anna Liber Lewis and Dominic Beattie, Meakin + Parsons in partnership with Hannah Payne, Oxford (2022). She has shown widely in the UK and Europe, and her work is held in numerous private collections.

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. Hannah Payne Art champions artists at pivotal moments in their careers, supporting the development and presentation of ambitious new work through thoughtfully curated exhibitions and public-facing programming.

Enquiries: [email protected] / +44 (0)7867871823

ABOUT SAATCHI GALLERY
Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current 70,000 square feet space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history.

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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. 

Featured artists and their Instagram handles:

Anna Curzon Price @annacurzonprice

Gala Hills @galamadesomething

Katja Farin @katjafarinatja

Mia Wilkinson @mia__wilkinson

Poppy Critchlow @poppycritchlowstudio

Qian Zhong @q_nzhong

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Dates and Opening Hours

Open to the public: 18 February – 30 March 2026

Hours: 10 AM – 6 PM (last admission 5.30 PM)

Admission to this exhibition is free, with a suggested donation of £3.

ABOUT SAATCHI GALLERY

Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current 70,000 square feet space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history. 

Registered Charity Number: 1182328

Address: Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

[email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7811 3091 | www.saatchigallery.com

Good Eye Projects returns to Saatchi Gallery with a group exhibition of artists from their Autumn 2024, Spring 2025, and Summer 2025 residency iterations. 

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, Neven Gallery, San Mei and Iris Projects.

Good Eye Projects 2026 at Saatchi Gallery will feature works by participating residency artists: 

Autumn 2024: DaddyBears, Lily Bunney, Harriet Gillett, Freya Fang Wang, Derrelle Elijah, Amelie Peace

Spring 2025: Mark Burch, Sofia Clausse, Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Sonya Derviz, Parham Ghalamdar, Amelie Mckee

Summer 2025: Rachel Mortlock, Leon Scott-Engel, Xinyu Han, Elleanna Chapman, Lulu Wang, Lau Yee Vanessa Fong

Since launching, GEP has supported 60 artists, and has presented off-site collaborations with Christie’s, Collective Ending HQ and Saatchi Gallery. In 2025, GEP introduced its Project Partners Program that welcomed patrons Tom Leahy and Gigi Surel to the GEP team, alongside Reece Jones joining the Selection Panel.

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 & Specialist, Post-War & Contemporary Art, Christie’s); Reece Jones (Artist and Mentor)

“The residency at Good Eye Projects enabled me to develop large scale ambitious work supporting me with a dedicated studio space accessible 24/7 for a total of four months. I really enjoyed the studio visits they organised with gallerists, curators and collectors: this pushed me to further professionalize my practice and reflect on my process. I now feel part of a wider network as they actively expand and collaborate with different institutions and would highly recommend applying for the programme.”

– Amelie Mckee, Spring 2025 Resident placed on GEP partnership with Sherbet Green Gallery

“Alongside the generous studio spaces and regular studio visits, the studio community at Good Eye Projects was a real highlight for me during the residency. It felt like stepping back into a similar studio environment to that of art school, where you’re surrounded by other artists all supporting one another and helping push each other’s ideas forward. As artists we spend a lot of time working on our own, so stepping back into a more communal environment felt like an injection of new energy, giving each other regular feedback and learning from the varied practices. I felt this helped push the work I wanted to make when entering the residency forward in new directions, and has given me lots to think about moving forward. Having now left the residency, I still feel this community is very present, with all the artists remaining in touch across different residency cohorts, and being invited to engage within various events/trips on the current residency too.”

– Leon Engel-Scott, Summer 2025 Resident

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Dates and Opening Hours

Open to the public: 29 January – 1 March 2026

Hours: 10 AM – 6 PM (last admission 5.30 PM)

Admission to this exhibition is free, with a suggested donation of £3.

ABOUT GOOD EYE PROJECTS

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 spaces; and end-of-residency exhibitions to spotlight each artist’s output.

[email protected] | Instagram: @goodeyeprojects | www.goodeyeprojects.com

ABOUT SAATCHI GALLERY

Since 1985, Saatchi Gallery has provided an innovative platform for contemporary art. Exhibitions have presented works by largely unseen young artists, or by international artists whose work has been rarely or never exhibited in the UK. This approach has made the Gallery one of the most recognised names in contemporary art. Since moving to its current 70,000 square feet space in the Duke of York’s Headquarters in Chelsea, London, the Gallery has welcomed over 10 million visitors. The Gallery hosts thousands of school visits annually and has over 6 million followers on social media. In 2019, Saatchi Gallery became a registered charity, beginning a new chapter in its history. 

Registered Charity Number: 1182328

Address: Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, King’s Rd, Chelsea, London SW3 4RY

[email protected] | +44 (0) 20 7811 3091 | www.saatchigallery.com

PEUGEOT, in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, is delighted to announce DYSPLA as the overall winner of the inaugural Artist of the Future Prize 2025 – a new award celebrating innovation in digital art across the UK and Europe.

Selected from more than 1,000 entries and ten outstanding finalists, DYSPLA has been awarded the title Artist of the Future 2025, receiving a prize valued at £10,000 – comprising £5,000 in cash and a £5,000 media package designed to elevate their artistic profile.

Their winning project, DYSPLA_disabled (2024), is a modular collection of 11 sociological digital sculptures and poems created in collaboration with disabled communities across England. Developed during a residency at Arbeit Studios, the work employs structured-light 3D scanning to construct intimate digital vignettes of disabled bodies and lived experiences.

DYSPLA explores the expressive potential created by the technological limits of structured-light scanning. As each sculpture rotates and accompanying poems are read, fractures and gaps created by the scanning process become sites of heightened beauty and meaning. These shards of structured light capture and reveal what is often unseen:

“The disabled experience predominantly means you are acutely aware of the intricacies of one’s body; the experience is internally loud, externally shunned. Holistic presentation is an essential component to artistically expressing the disabled experience, and innovative technologies expand and elucidate the unseen and previously hidden.”

The work was selected for its strength of storytelling and its breakthrough approach to digital sculpture, redefining how digital technologies can be used to capture, interpret, and expand lived experience.

With Innovation as its central theme, the Artist of the Future Prize 2025 honours artists who push the boundaries of creativity, harness technology in new ways, and invite audiences to experience digital art through fresh perspectives.

For PEUGEOT, innovation defines its commitment to pioneering electric mobility and visionary design. For Saatchi Gallery, it reflects the mission to support artists who challenge convention and expand how we think about art and society.

The 2025 shortlist featured exceptional artists working at the forefront of contemporary digital practice:

• Edd Carr
• Filip Haglund
• Sally Smoker
• Lenar Singatullov
• Patchworks Collective – Charlotte Foster, Rehan Moazzam Khan, Yujia Cai, Karstin Naes & Matthew Chan
• AMIANGELIKA
• James David Freeman
• Isolda Milenkovic
• DYSPLA
• Lucy Ellis

The works were selected by a distinguished judging panel spanning the worlds of art, culture and design: Matthias Hossann, Design Director, PEUGEOT; Dominic Harris, British Artist; Darren Styles OBE, Publisher of Attitude Magazine and Rolling Stone UK; Paul Foster, Director, Saatchi Gallery; and Katherine Benson, Exhibition Programming Manager, Saatchi Gallery.

The Artist of the Future Prize 2025 exhibition is open from 25 November 2025 – 11 January 2026 and is free to enter for all visitors. Coinciding with the Gallery’s 40th anniversary celebrations, it also highlights PEUGEOT’s role as Principal Patron.

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ABOUT PEUGEOT

PEUGEOT offers the widest EV lineup of any European mainstream brand, covering all needs from urban cars to commercial vehicles. The French charisma, the driving sensations and the Designed to last constitute the brand values of PEUGEOT. Established in over 140 countries, PEUGEOT sold almost 1.1 million vehicles worldwide in 2024. Already the leader in electric B-segment and LCV vehicles in Europe, PEUGEOT is now offering a complete lineup of 12 models, of which nine are Passenger cars and three LCVs. PEUGEOT offers 8-year/100,000-mile PEUGEOT CARE coverage on the battery and the vehicle of all its core electric passenger cars for complete peace of mind. PEUGEOT products incorporate the latest technology, showcased by the Panoramic i-Cockpit and ChatGPT® on board across the entire range. PEUGEOT is also committed to educating younger generations by supporting initiatives, such as Born Free and Under The Pole, to bring them closer to nature. Furthermore, PEUGEOT’s passion for performance and innovation is showcased through the PEUGEOT 9X8 Hypercar, which competes in the World Endurance Championship (WEC), including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

PEUGEOT, in collaboration with Saatchi Gallery, is pleased to announce the ten finalists shortlisted for the inaugural Artist of the Future Prize 2025 – a new award celebrating innovation in digital art across the UK and Europe.

Selected from over 1,000 entries, the finalists will present their work in an exhibition at Saatchi Gallery from 25 October. The overall winner will be revealed on Friday 21 November 2025, receiving the title of Artist of the Future 2025 and a prize valued at £10,000 – comprising £5,000 in cash and a £5,000 media package designed to elevate their artistic profile.

With Innovation as its central theme, the Artist of the Future Prize 2025 spotlights artists who push the boundaries of creativity, harness technology in new ways, and invite audiences to view digital art through fresh perspectives.

For PEUGEOT, innovation defines its commitment to pioneering electric mobility and visionary design. For Saatchi Gallery, it embodies the mission to support artists who challenge convention and expand how we think about art and society.

The shortlisted artists are:

• Edd Carr
• Filip Haglund
• Sally Smoker
• Lenar Singatullov
• Patchworks Collective – Charlotte Foster, Rehan Moazzam Khan, Yujia Cai, Karstin Naes & Matthew Chan
• AMIANGELIKA
• James David Freeman
• Isolda Milenkovic
• DYSPLA
• Lucy Ellis

The works were selected by a distinguished judging panel spanning the worlds of art, culture and design: Matthias Hossann, Design Director, PEUGEOT; Dominic Harris, British Artist; Darren Styles OBE, Publisher of Attitude Magazine and Rolling Stone UK; Paul Foster, Director, Saatchi Gallery; Katherine Benson, Exhibition Programming Manager, Saatchi Gallery.

Katherine Benson, Exhibition Programming Manager at Saatchi Gallery comments: “The finalists’ work highlights not just technical skill, but also extraordinary depth of imagination, offering exciting glimpses into the evolving language of digital creativity.”

 Matthias Hossann, Design Director at PEUGEOT adds: “We saw many exciting and innovative entries, but the finalists’ work is a culmination of the very best, cutting-edge digital art. By incorporating new technologies and techniques, the finalists have pushed the boundaries of digital art and PEUGEOT is proud to support and promote the next generation of emerging talent.”

 The Artist of the Future Prize 2025 exhibition is open from 25 November 2025 – 11 January 2026 and is free to enter for all visitors. Coinciding with the Gallery’s 40th anniversary celebrations, it also highlights PEUGEOT’s role as Principal Patron.

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PRESS CONTACTS

Steve Fahey – Head of Public Relations

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ABOUT PEUGEOT

PEUGEOT offers the widest EV lineup of any European mainstream brand, covering all needs from urban cars to commercial vehicles. The French charisma, the driving sensations and the Designed to last constitute the brand values of PEUGEOT. Established in over 140 countries, PEUGEOT sold almost 1.1 million vehicles worldwide in 2024. Already the leader in electric B-segment and LCV vehicles in Europe, PEUGEOT is now offering a complete lineup of 12 models, of which nine are Passenger cars and three LCVs. PEUGEOT offers 8-year/100,000-mile PEUGEOT CARE coverage on the battery and the vehicle of all its core electric passenger cars for complete peace of mind. PEUGEOT products incorporate the latest technology, showcased by the Panoramic i-Cockpit and ChatGPT® on board across the entire range. PEUGEOT is also committed to educating younger generations by supporting initiatives, such as Born Free and Under The Pole, to bring them closer to nature. Furthermore, PEUGEOT’s passion for performance and innovation is showcased through the PEUGEOT 9X8 Hypercar, which competes in the World Endurance Championship (WEC), including the 24 Hours of Le Mans.