{"title": "CLIVE HEAD: SIMULTANEOUSLY REAL", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Alon Zakaim Fine Art", "address": "Cork Street 27, W1S 3NG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new and recent paintings and drawings by a contemporary British artist, shown across two floors of a Cork Street gallery. Its heart is a series of eight large-scale paintings, alongside drawings, works from his Visionary Series and complementary works from the gallery. Together they offer an insight into Clive Head's evolving approach to painting, revealing the processes, themes and visual connections underpinning his work. 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It is her fifth show with the gallery, and the paintings come together from parallel thoughts and observations of lives lived in different parts of the world. Granger takes inspiration from observing people and places far from her rural English life, finding parallels across East and West while exploring colour and the effects of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-granger-parallels-35487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72911c94c4e6679df579b12e6660e1e9dba4d52a82379c1edbb786d61cf71c46-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Metamorphic Form In Art", "start": "2026-11-05T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T15:00:00Z", "place": "Imperial College London", "address": "Exhibition Road, SW7 2AZ London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A free one-hour seminar titled Metamorphic Form In Art, open to all with advance registration. The speaker is the British artist Clive Head, who first made his name as a realist painter. He will discuss how his recent figurative paintings resist a single, stable reading, and how these ideas relate to representation, perception and pictorial structure. He will also consider historical and contemporary artists whose work uses transformation, ambiguity and visual doubleness, placing his practice in a longer tradition of images that challenge what we see.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/metamorphic-form-in-art-74045/", "official_url": "https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/211983/metamorphic-form-in-art/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c959168b9ae7ca26fb13e5c8f4742cce2d62cfe75713eb8ffdcd0da0813f5fc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition: Painted Faces", "start": "2026-10-25T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "Exhibition: Painted Faces is the debut solo exhibition of theatrical portraits by Clare Williams, shown in the Visitors' Book Café Bar at Woolwich Works. Drawing on 40 years of working in theatre, the portraits explore a world of artifice where costume and a painted face allow a new story to be told. Williams paints quickly and instinctively onto wooden panels without preliminary sketches, 'becoming' each character before reducing, rebuilding and reconstructing the work over a long process. The paintings are available for sale at the café/bar counter, with prices ranging from £95 to £995.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-painted-faces-40353/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bccd3f3bea14d58ffa58e35db604f2e0e51799f2567023b0dc67052daf149ce9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Johnny Depp 148 New Bond Street", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Halcyon Gallery", "address": "New Bond Street 29, W1S 2RL London", "price": "Price On Application", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Halcyon Gallery presents the first major UK exhibition of original artworks by Johnny Depp. The show offers a personal journey through the imagination of a lifelong storyteller, moving from tangled blooms to psychological portraits, via the shadowy depths of nostalgia and fantastical figures, unfolding through light and darkness.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/johnny-depp-148-new-bond-street-41470/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e118216743f0db911fc3055276e64b6e8df4fec3f7dc427a089174b769c053a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Studio", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Massimo De Carlo", "address": "South Audley Street 55, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "The Studio is a solo exhibition of paintings by the American painter Jonathan Gardner at a London gallery. He takes the artist's studio as his subject: rooms within rooms and paintings within paintings, built from memory, imagination and art history. The flat, clean rooms with colour laid down in blocks nod to Matisse and Magritte, while landscapes with rivers and desert scenes open spaces of solitude. Beneath the art-historical poise, the exhibition holds something like hope shadowed by unease at a deliberate, painterly distance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-studio-41680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e028b4fa2074ea7ca08e23bd838fd3d70465d1e7057b4ba7f18128d37392ecd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CACHE a group show", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-25T00:00:00Z", "place": "Elements Gallery London", "address": "Lower Clapton Road 26, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "CACHE is a group exhibition presenting ten contemporary painters. The artists each have a distinct working method but share an interest in memory, both as part of their process and as a subject. The private view runs 6-9pm, and the exhibition continues until 25 November, Friday to Sunday from 12 to 6pm. The participating artists are Sharon Beavan, Alison Boult, Helen Burgess, Richard Burton, Gethin Evans, Maud Hewlings, Atsuhide Ito, Leon Pozniakow, Ben Risk and Jenny Smith.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/cache-a-group-show-43239/", "official_url": "https://angus-hughes.org/CACHE-A-group-show", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c739bd7aae5865b86c912da986159353a6d0a5a08d916b504ef05d319b8e16b1-2000.webp"}, {"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": "Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons", "start": "2026-07-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "£14 Standard, £7 Students, free for Members and Under-16s", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition called Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons, showing 29 new and recent paintings, collages and prints made over the last four years. The artist Clare Woods draws on flowers, still life and the natural world, including plants seen through glass at Kew Gardens and roses inspired by George Orwell's garden. Her works move between abstraction and figuration, mixing vibrant wet-look oil paint with reflections on time, absence and death. The exhibition fills the rooms and galleries of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-woods-garden-without-seasons-38059/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4605e92ebf31b43e0e9d259a7bc802af008e2bd05df0ea0cd90085f8b70b946e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.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": "Bright Lights, Big City", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Portland Gallery", "address": "3 Bennet Street", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of acrylic paintings by artist Lachlan Goudie, showing London's landmarks and nightlife from Piccadilly Circus to Tower Bridge at twilight. Goudie says that after decades in London he still feels like a stranger there, and that he has tried to express the city's energy, colour and daily drama in these paintings. The show, titled Bright Lights, Big City, is presented by Portland Gallery in St James's.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bright-lights-big-city-63965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/588500d6b13a7c872ff0ac94ac62d7ed04461016ca3e7c1a3dd091b593d92511-1200.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=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "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": "Painting the French Riviera at the Royal Academy", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy", "address": "Burlington Gardens 6, W1S 3ET London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/books/bookshop/exhibition-catalogues/painting-the-french-riviera-exhibition-catalogue", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modern-art"], "description": "The exhibition \"Painting the French Riviera\" shows how the French Riviera inspired and supported the rise of modern art, with more than 160 works including paintings, sculpture, books, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s. It is held by the Royal Academy, which selected 15 original vintage travel posters from AntikBar for the show, displayed in Gallery 9. The paintings include works by Cezanne, Monet, Picasso, Bonnard, Signac, Matisse and Klein among others, plus a video of Le Train Bleu produced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The exhibition is on in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027, open Tue-Thu and Sun 10am-6pm, Fri and Sat 10am-9pm.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-at-the-royal-academy-40956/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d58d3e524301624dc10977659e6e91e6936d452da4e4d6cf04267ad6146ae315-2000.webp"}, {"title": "DIRECTOR'S SELECTION | October 2026", "start": "2026-10-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Everard Read", "address": "Fulham Road 80, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/contemporary-painting"], "description": "DIRECTOR'S SELECTION | October 2026 is a group exhibition of largely South African artists running at the Everard Read gallery in London. The gallery presents artists with diverse backgrounds who share a commitment to contemporary storytelling and craft. The artworks grapple with contradiction, spirituality, and the natural world, with artists confronting the dichotomies around us through figuration and abstraction, blending humour and sensitivity. Featured names include Shany van den Berg, Aron Demetz, Deborah Bell, Alessandro Papetti, Norman Catherine, Lucinda Muge, Ricky Burnett, Maja Marx and John Murray.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/directors-selection-october-2026-36033/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b6f5393b2c4e44cf9e68d1a7a977169f3510082df5c7324b902be90823b884f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hill Drawings by Melvyn Robinson", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cecil Sharp House", "address": "Regent's Park Road 2, NW1 7AY London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings called \"Hill Drawings\" is shown at Cecil Sharp House, with free entry. The artist behind it is Melvyn Robinson, and the works draw on the style and landscapes of chalk hill figures. His paintings use a drawing style inspired by hill figures such as the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset and the Uffington White Horse in Berkshire, along with other Celtic, Viking, and Anglo-Saxon sources, while depicting contemporary landscapes. The paintings are accompanied by poems and folksongs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hill-drawings-by-melvyn-robinson-60504/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Painting the French Riviera", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "£24–£26 (£26.50–£28.60 with donation)", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "26.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.royalacademy.org.uk/events/ex-painting-the-french-riviera", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism"], "description": "\"Painting the French Riviera\" is an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Main Galleries at Burlington House, running from 2 October 2026 to 31 January 2027. It is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art. The exhibition tells the story of how the Côte d'Azur dazzled modern art's great innovators, showing how its radiance roused painters such as Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir and Klein, as well as giants of literature, cinema and fashion. It brings this to life through more than 160 works, including paintings, sculpture, travel posters and film, from the 1870s to the 1960s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-french-riviera-38251/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c0b576fb358580072257c9aa9dc3f50bca487966f691271b1834a7e363828fc1-600.webp"}]}