{"title": "ALFRED JANES (1911-1999) – Paintings and constructions 1930s – 1980s, from the Artist’s Estate", "start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Abbott and Holder Ltd", "address": "Museum Street 30, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/still-life"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings and constructions by Alfred Janes (1911-1999), spanning his career from the 1930s to the 1980s, with all works coming from the Artist's Estate. It celebrates the forthcoming publication of the first monograph on the artist, Ceri Thomas' 'Alfred Janes, Maker of Pictures'. The show traces Janes' changing styles, from meticulously executed still lifes of the 1930s through experimental works of the late 1950s and 1960s to 1980s works that repurposed earlier paintings. A private view takes place on the opening Thursday from 6 to 8pm, and the exhibition continues until Saturday 7th November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/alfred-janes-1911-1999-paintings-and-constructions-1930s-198-85568/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9023f716bb3313fcc291e10b64cd243104c0d2b86f71be9542afd70389b15a45-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-22T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Abbott and Holder Ltd", "address": "Museum Street 30, London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Allen Jones: In Town Tonight", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/pop-art"], "description": "\"Allen Jones: In Town Tonight\" is a solo exhibition of new and earlier work by the artist Allen Jones, presented at the London gallery Gazelli Art House during Frieze Week. Jones, a British artist born in Southampton in 1937 and a defining figure of British Pop Art, has worked for more than six decades in painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. The exhibition pairs substantial new work made between 2024 and 2026 with significant pieces from across his career, centring on his investigation of the human figure, performance and the relationship between image and object. At its heart is a new series of shaped canvas paintings whose intense green, yellow and red evoke a theatre, where spotlights pick out performers' bodies observed from opera boxes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/allen-jones-in-town-tonight-41426/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/052305c89a511ba53538c97eb7960d9a52e17c4a9b34c81495894611c5736a5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "L.S. Lowry RA (1887-1976) An Exhibition and Book Launch", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Crane Kalman Gallery", "address": "Brompton Road 178", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by L.S. Lowry RA held to mark the publication of the 4th edition of 'L.S.Lowry: A Biography' by Shelley Rohde. The gallery shows works spanning the artist's career, from early portraits and scenes to landscapes and industrial views. It also recalls the gallery's long friendship with Lowry, beginning when he bought a picture at its second exhibition in 1949.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ls-lowry-ra-1887-1976-an-exhibition-and-book-launch-35462/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37eed4bbf4d5996078e07fa6b3287bd447e50e8062432dbe12d4e2df0386a0e1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Alchemies: May Cockcroft, Nour Malas, Sarah Martin-Nuss", "start": "2026-11-13T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by three emerging abstract artists, presented at Victoria Miro's London Gallery II as part of its Miro Presents programme. The title Alchemies refers to the ancient practice tied to artistic making, here bringing together fresh approaches to material, perception and form. May Cockcroft builds and excavates layered surfaces of plaster, chalk, marble dust and charcoal inspired by the coastline of her native Cornwall; Nour Malas creates richly coloured, emotionally charged canvases rooted in personal and collective history; and Sarah Martin-Nuss works across painting, performance and sound, layering oil and pastel marks that seem to shift like light and sound waves. The show runs from 13 November 2026 to 23 January 2027.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/alchemies-may-cockcroft-nour-malas-sarah-martin-nuss-40109/", "official_url": "https://www.victoria-miro.com/exhibitions/684/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fbf01f8ef3a6aa0fe6f97a761501f41309fba92a56e80fc7f5f9ab15456e6ce5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Thursday Late: Still Life, Then and Now", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free with general admission; pay what you can for local residents; drawing workshop £14 / £10 for Ea", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=42001AQJJQTSKLLKMRKNHHDRNVHRLPNPB", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/painting/still-life"], "description": "An evening late-opening at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery built around the theme of Still Life, from past to present, during the final days of the exhibition Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons. Pitzhanger's Director Rebecca Lyons leads a guided tour tracing Still Life from seventeenth-century Dutch painters to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern painters through the lens of Woods's works. Annabel Johnson leads a relaxed drawing session inspired by the flowers and objects in Clare Woods's paintings, with materials provided and all levels welcome. Some parts of the evening require separate tickets, including the drawing workshop, which has limited capacity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thursday-late-still-life-then-and-now-38066/", "official_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/thursday-late-still-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4203136752e4d80497d917d315825ba28d003b8569000d74c57b361b7f42b496-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Jandyra Waters: A Life in Painting", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cecilia Brunson Projects", "address": "3G Royal Oak Yard, Bermondsey Street, SE1 3GE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by the Brazilian artist Jandyra Waters, showing works from the 1960s to the early 2000s. It is the first solo show in London dedicated to Waters (1921–2025), a singular figure in Brazilian post-war abstraction who remained independent of both Concrete and Neo-Concrete art. Her paintings trace an evolving language of colour, form and space, where hard-edged geometry is set in motion by overlapping planes, tilting shapes and vivid colour. A Life in Painting pays tribute to an artist who kept painting for nearly seven decades and published three volumes of haiku.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jandyra-waters-a-life-in-painting-69633/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/879751e8c4c15b577da41b4c33f0a17e346131cc52aa01ed464de9347f72161b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ian Davenport: Reflections", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Waddington Custot Galleries", "address": "Cork Street 11-12, W1S 3LT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'Reflections' is a survey exhibition of paintings and drawings spanning the late 1980s to the present. It celebrates the career of artist Ian Davenport (b. 1966), showing early experimental pieces made after he graduated from Goldsmiths college alongside the Puddle Paintings for which he is best known. The exhibition marks his 11th solo exhibition with the gallery since his debut show in 1990, and traces his process-led approach, from Erased Lines and Watering Can Drawings to poured colour lines and recent splatter paintings. It is accompanied by a new publication with essays, reviews and a conversation with his brother, writer Philip Davenport.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ian-davenport-reflections-42787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a313a11d67eea50f265f4ecca04f3c41ccc46794999d7e37d20afb4ee1b83c68-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Role-Play – Caroline Yates and Arthur Neal NEAC", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "155a gallery", "address": "Lordship Lane 155a", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Role-Play: Caroline Yates and Arthur Neal NEAC is a two-person exhibition of paintings at 155a Gallery. Caroline Yates shows ostensibly abstract works in which forms emerge through the act of painting itself, with gestural marks, scumbled passages and collaged elements hinting at horses, figures and objects. Arthur Neal's paintings move between abstraction and representation, with figures, beaches and interiors built from abstracted, almost geometric forms. The exhibition brings the two artists' shared language of paint into a conversation about the unstable threshold between representation and abstraction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/role-play-caroline-yates-and-arthur-neal-neac-34606/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/428f796a8f0c6ce21a36b8bd42f84dfc388c586faa886beeb1d840b5afb9cc9a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Jane Price and James Tweedie RGI Field Days", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Thompson's Gallery", "address": "Seymour Place 3, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "http://www.thompsonsgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/155-jane-price-and-james-tweedie-rgi-field-days/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/landscape-painting"], "description": "\"Jane Price and James Tweedie RGI: Field Days\" is a two-person exhibition of paintings by Jane Price and James Tweedie RGI. Both artists explore the shifting character of the landscape through light, colour, and composition: Price's work is driven by atmosphere and an intuitive response to nature, while Tweedie's paintings balance observation with structure, giving familiar scenes a subtly imaginative edge. The show includes Price's new series \"Silent Language\", which turns from landscape to the relationships between people and body language, exploring gesture, connection, and unspoken communication, alongside Tweedie's oil paintings that depict the real world with a stroke of the surreal. Price's works are characterised by delicate yet contrasting colour and pattern with a collage-like quality, while the mostly self-taught Tweedie, who began his art career in 1972 and lives and works in Glasgow, fills each painting with a sense of mystery, like that of a dream.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jane-price-and-james-tweedie-rgi-field-days-79117/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd9e7d59b7f7f18aa618e7b84291d71365eaa235cb8a4f77350af535374e065b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1920 \"Character Changed\"", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Philip Mould", "address": "Pall Mall 18-19, SW1Y 5LU London", "price": "Free to all | No booking required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by the Bloomsbury painters Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and Roger Fry, shown at Philip Mould & Company and titled after Virginia Woolf's declaration that 'on or about December 1910 human character changed.' It gathers works from the painters' most radical decade, when Roger Fry's 1910 Post-Impressionist exhibition first showed British audiences Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse. Drawn mainly from private collections, it includes Vanessa Bell's Portrait of Duncan Grant (1915), shown publicly for the first time, Duncan Grant's Still Life in the Garden Room at Charleston (c.1918) and Roger Fry's Poinsettias in a Vase (c.1915). The exhibition is free to all with no booking required, and runs alongside Tate Britain's Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant: Inside Bloomsbury, to which Philip Mould & Company is lending works.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-bloomsbury-group-1910-1920-character-changed-76743/", "official_url": "https://philipmould.com/exhibitions/67-the-bloomsbury-group-1910-1920-character-changed-an-exhibition-of-works-by/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd1c2646f9fb4dfec77fd5ca585ca0ef86ecc028b49efd3b794099fc5925b9f9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "R. B. Kitaj: From Fragments 1958–1975", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Piano Nobile", "address": "Portland Road 129", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings, drawings and collages by R. B. Kitaj, tracing how the American-born artist worked from fragments in the first half of his career. It shows how he gathered source material such as film stills, old book illustrations and thumbnail images from art historical scholarship, and turned these into new images dense with juxtaposition and ambiguity. Spanning 1958 to 1975, it includes significant large-scale paintings and collages, some of which even incorporate torn-up reproductions of his own works. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated publication with new research into his bricolage technique.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/r-b-kitaj-from-fragments-19581975-37738/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4e15c07b850a14f3d925eb1c70a086a58b4f7f2e25bb1ada683ffe44ae55705c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Colin Self: Unseen", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Frith Street Gallery", "address": "Frith Street 60, W1D 3JJ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "Colin Self: Unseen is a major exhibition of works by the British artist Colin Self, his first London retrospective since 1986, presented across two floors at Frith Street Gallery. Curated by writer and curator Ian Collins, it brings together rarely seen pieces from public and private collections alongside the first showing of 365: A Journey in that direction, a multi-media installation of 365 wall-based works ongoing since the year 2000. The show spans painting, drawing, printmaking, collage, sculpture and ceramics, opening with works on war and militarism and reflecting the artist's sense of living on the edge between peace and war, city and country. Turning 85 this year, Self has had a seven-decade career described as a humane, playful response to threats of annihilation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/colin-self-unseen-36200/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/89de7a9e96cb36fe839db998f40745d4fbe74e54d1e67475245223c9692a61ba-1200.webp"}, {"title": "John Byrne: Blurred Boundaries", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Fine Art Society", "address": "New Bond Street 148, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of painted furniture by artist John Byrne, shown alongside a group of paintings, drawings and prints by him and by artists in his collection. Byrne follows a long tradition of artist-painted furniture, from folk art to the Bloomsbury group, decorating functional household objects. His recurring painted oak leaf adorns a mid-century cabinet, portraits appear of his companions Thistle the house rabbit and Misha the dog, and an autumnal tree sheds its leaves like confetti across wardrobe doors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-byrne-blurred-boundaries-39191/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dfd55dd2c7410c20249e8f938a5ea1246e860051120e38ca45ee49636fad3bc9-1200.webp"}]}