Past
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Laced With Dust
Group Exhibition 2 May - 7 June 2024 Inspired by novelist Sheila Heti’s recently published book, ‘Alphabetical Diaries’ (2024), LACED WITH DUST brings together five artists whose practices centre around memory, using Heti’s experimental text as a curatorial springboard to question the structure, affect, and nuances of memorialisation. Featuring five UK-based painters, the exhibition invites viewers to consider... Read more -
MEGA Art Fair, Milan
10 - 14 April 2024 Coinciding with Milan Art Week 2024, MEGA was founded by BeAdvisors Art Department and Mattia Pozzoni Art Advisory together with Fabio Lucarelli and Burro Studio. Taking place in the Scalo of Porta Genova, MEGA aims to become a space for gathering and forging new connections with artists, galleries and curators. Read more -
MAKING KIN
Group Exhibition 14 March - 11 April 2024 Inspired by multispecies feminist theorist Donna Haraway’s book, ‘Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene’ (2016), the exhibition brings together practices which utilise storytelling to explore ways of reimagining humanity’s relationship with the earth and its inhabitants. Taking up Haraway’s invitation to “stay with the trouble” by “making... Read more -
The Blush Upon Her Cheek
Group Exhibition 25 January - 22 February 2024 Drawing from Restoration Court painter Sir Peter Lely’s Windsor Beauties (1660s), a set of eleven portraits depicting ladies of the court of King Charles II, the exhibition sees a trio of contemporary artists examine the problematics entrenched in the cultivation and appreciation of beauty. Read more -
Now Introducing 2023
Group Exhibition 15 November - 14 December 2023 Since inception, STUDIO WEST has been committed to platforming early career artists and helping them to build successful professional careers. In 2022, we established the ‘NOW Introducing’ Open Call + Art Prize in line with this core principle. Inviting applications from any artist currently studying on, or recently graduated from,... Read more -
Gardening on Borrowed Time
Group Exhibition 21 September - 20 October 2023 Almost 30 years after the legendary artist, activist and filmmaker’s untimely death from AIDS-related illness, the exhibition celebrates an aspect of the eternal legacy of a trailblazing talent taken too soon: a vivacious garden cultivated against all odds in the harsh desert-land of Romney Marsh in Dungeness, Kent. Read more -
The Angel in the House
Group Exhibition 22 June - 20 July 2023 Taking John Everett Millais' intricate painting The Bridesmaid (1851) as its starting point, the exhibition seeks to ignite a transhistorical discussion centring around notions of femininity in the context of domestic space. Read more -
Artist Portraits
Brynley Odu Davies 5 - 31 May 2023 Artists featured in the project include: Abigail Robertson, Adebayo Bolaji, Aimee Melaugh, Alex Giles, Alexander James, Alfie Rouy, Alia Hamaoui, Alice Bloomfield, Allan Gardner, Andras Nagy-Sandor, Andrea Cryer, Andrea Gomis, Ania Hobson, Anna Choutova, Anousha Payne, Ariane Heloise Hughes, Arthur Timothy, Ash McKean, Benjamin Murphy, Billy Bagilhole, Billy Fraser, Bobbye Fermie, Brian Mountford, Caitlin Flood-Molyneux, Callum Eaton, Cameron Stewart, Casper White, Catherine Repko, Cathy Tabbakh, Cece Philips, Cecilia Reeve, Charlotte Archer, Charlotte Edey, Christian Ovonlen, Christian Quin Newell, Ciaran Harper, Clara Chu, Connie Harrison, Connor Kawaii, Conor Murgatroyd, Corbin Shaw, Curtis Holder, Daisy Parris, Dan Hollings, Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw, Danny Romeril, David Iain Brown, David Paton, Douglas Cantor, Eimear Nic Roibeaird, Elsa Rouy, Favour Jonathan, Fergus Polglase, Fern Lucia O'Carolan, Flora Lawrence, Florence Hutchings, Georg Wilson, Grace Mattingly, Hannah Lim, Harley Roberts, Harry Hugo Little, Holly Halkes, Hongxi Li, Hugo Harris, Hugo Hutchings, Igor Moritz, Imogen Allen, Ines Fernandez de Cordova, Jack Whitelock, Jacob Littlejohn, Jaffar Aly, Jake Garfield, James Owens, Jamiu Agboke, Jane Rainey, Jim Brook, Jimmy Hyde, Joe Warrior-Walker, Jonathan Conlon, Jonathan McCree, Joy Yamusangie, Kai Ohlsen, Kate Burling, Kemi Onabule, Ken Nwadiogbu, Kim Booker, Liam Bradley, Lily Kemp, Llain Wire, Louise Giovanelli, Luisa Me, Madi Marcantonatos, Marcus Aitken, Marcus Nelson, Mari Catrin Phillips, Maria Mahfooz, Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy, Maya Shoham, Megan Rea, Michaela McManus, Miranda Forrester, Molley May, Molly Hankinson, Natalia Gonzalez Martin, Nettle Grellier, Niall McLaughlin, Nicole Coson, Nina Silverberg, Noorain Inam, Ntiense Eno-Amooquaye, Olivia Sterling, Oriele Steiner, Peter Carrick, Peter Doyle, Phoebe Jordan Cowley, Preslav Kostov, Rachel Stanley, Rafa Silvares, Rafał Zajko, Rayvenn Shaleigha D’Clark, Rebecca Gilpin, Robert Leuan de Haan, Rosa Roberts, Rose Electra Harris, Rowan Rosie, Ryan Hawaii, Salomé Wu, Sam Hutchinson, Sam Nowell, Samuel Bassett, Selby Hi, Shannon Bono, Shaqúelle Whyte, Sholto Blissett, Sola Olulode, Sophia Bharmal, Sophia Campbell, Sophie Vallance Cantor, Stephen Anthony Davids, Sunyoung Hwang, Theo Bardsley, Tim Garwood, Tom Ribot, Tom White, Trackie McLeod, Tristan Buckland, Valerie Savchits, Victoria Cantons, Will Harman, Xu Yang and Zayn Qahtani. Read more -
SKIN DEEP
Group Exhibition 10 March - 5 April 2023 The works on show examine the body as a vessel through which we interface with the external world and as a blank slate onto which our experiences are irreversibly inscribed. Through various renderings of skin texture and surface, we are reminded of our corporeal fragility - we witness the porousness... Read more -
Catharsis in the Flame
Lydia Makin 13 January - 11 February 2023 Since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2020, she has gained rapid recognition for her immense, expressive and spell-binding abstract paintings. Her powerful new series offers a mischievous meditation on the notion of catharsis, considering it both as an idea which may be depicted visually and as... Read more -
NOW Introducing 2022
Group Exhibition 11 November - 10 December 2022 Since inception, STUDIO WEST has been committed to platforming early career artists and helping them to build sustained professional careers; in this vein, the 'NOW Introducing' Open Call + Art Prize was devised to spotlight and support the artists we believe are the future of London's contemporary art scene.... Read more -
Ground Work
Group Exhibition 14 September - 13 October 2022 The pieces on show are thematically united by the artists' collective commitment to working in three dimensions and their mutual interest in ideas of form, matter, tension, physical force, and substantial transformation. Combining the industrial and solid with the fragile and decaying, the artists in this exhibition speak to us... Read more -
Fancy a Bite?
Group Exhibition 15 June - 6 July 2022 In FANCY A BITE? themes emerge surrounding our complex relationships to food, domesticity, nostalgia, and cultural heritage. Through installation, ceramic sculpture and painting, the exhibition encourages the viewer to delve into each artists' unique relationship with food, and consider the silent politics at play in the everyday act of eating.... Read more -
As Seen By Me
Anthony Laurencin and Roland Lawar 6 - 26 May 2022 The show brings together paintings and sculptures by two British artists Roland Lawar and Anthony Laurencin. The exhibition title, taken directly from Lawar’s writing, speaks to the central themes of each artists’ practice: perception, personal interpretation, lived experience, and materiality. On the recommendation of Bolanle Tajudeen, STUDIO WEST became familiar... Read more -
16 Branches High
Karolina Albricht 11 March - 8 April 2022 Thematically the pieces on show are a continuation of Albricht's investigation of both formal and metaphysical concerns including colour, space, the body, movement, and gesture. The exhibition title comes from the lyrics of Nick Cave and The Bad Seed’s 'Spinning Song'. The phrase ‘16 Branches High’ has been pasted up... Read more -
The Reality In Whytch You Create
Group Exhibition 14 January - 17 February 2022 The exhibition explores reality in an expanded sense, drawing on dreams, subconscious experience, and myths. The artists separately create surreal depictions of space, unusual characters and new assemblages of images which disorient and challenge the veracity of our experiences. Largely through painting, accompanied by Wu's sound and video work, each... Read more -
Tomorrow Will Be the Most Beautiful Day of Your Life
Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang 10 November - 15 December 2021 Studio West is proud to present its inaugural exhibition, Tomorrow Will Be The Most Beautiful Day Of Your Life, displaying new works by artist couple Victoria Cantons and Xu Yang. This will be their first show as a duo, presented in celebration of their creative and personal collaboration. Cantons and Xu share a studio and work in conversation, questioning how art operates as a redeeming medium and addressing themes of uncertainty, identity and the female gaze. The exhibition is unique in that it shows work of two artists who are intensely bonded, known for creating depictions of one another and working in unison.
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