{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Transforming: the Complete Works 2009–26", "start": "2026-05-13T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rob and Nick Carter", "address": "Bathurst Street 5A, W2 2SD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/moving-image"], "description": "Transforming: the Complete Works 2009–26 is a current exhibition of moving paintings by Rob and Nick Carter. Since 2008 the artists have translated static masterpieces into moving paintings, a slow art of durational looking, with works held by the Mauritshuis and the Städel Museum. After an eight-year break, this new cycle uses human-guided AI as a painterly material, curated frame by frame like a digital brush. The works celebrate artists who investigated light and form through repetition, from Monet's London fog and Kandinsky's visual music to Anna Ancher's interiors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transforming-the-complete-works-200926-41944/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2db7585c435cce36277c90e9f9398ed4c5ac57a2a8c7570639a7b4c00b0c57cb-1200.webp"}, {"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. The show is presented by Alon Zakaim Fine Art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clive-head-simultaneously-real-69494/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf08f0c958d7c379952836e031163cd17ea73e06f92bd33cd3201a5f56b4946-600.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": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Art Centre", "address": "", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free, drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund. Over three years the centre worked with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, including Sidings Community Centre and The Hive, on iterative creative processes without defined outcomes. The exhibition brings together installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections from those involved, with projects led by artists including Shepherd Manyika, Sam Williams, Sara Heywood, Eva Jonas, Nancy Allen, Lydia Paulett and Maymana Arefin. It offers an insight into the work of artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-60157/", "official_url": "https://camdenartcentre.org/whats-on/process-makes-practice", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.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": "SURFACE TENSION BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Brown Fine Arts", "address": "Brook's Mews 12, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "SURFACE TENSION: BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s is an exhibition at the Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in London. It examines how a small group of British painters survived and even flourished in '90s Britain, when the art world was dominated by the conceptual hegemony of the YBA movement with figures like Hirst, Emin, Whiteread and Lucas. Working apart, these painters arrived at strikingly common ground: a shared preoccupation with surface, gesture and the physical act of painting, shaped by the cultural pressures and siege mentality of their age.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/surface-tension-british-painting-in-the-1990s-41029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d57c224a153fe41a4bb43fcb42e95fd9fa5ccd1310c7bd1c5ee32cb35af9e832-1200.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": "https://www.cranekalman.com/exhibitions/66/works/artworks-10256-laurence-stephen-lowry-a-corner-shop-1943/", "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": "Darkness Never Lasts – Collective Drawings", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£200", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of collective drawings made in monthly open sessions at the gallery, where participants drew with charcoal on large sheets of paper while electronic music played. Behind it are the gallery's residency with musician Cos Chapman, whose live improvisation guided the sessions, and visual artist and performer Jo Roberts, presiding in her role as The Librarian. The drawings move from dark masses surrounding human figures and despairing hands toward coloured, hopeful forms, and the works reflect the suffering of the Palestinian people and a wish for a peaceful, equalitarian solution. Each selected drawing is sold at the same price of £200, with half of the proceeds donated to Medical Aid for Palestine, a scheme that has so far raised £8,500.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/darkness-never-lasts-collective-drawings-36564/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10fc6918b15c0f711f3d6bd048c28baef1ffc29dd6683f255292becf580241fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Process Makes Practice", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Camden Arts Centre", "address": "Arkwright Road 52, NW3 6DG London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "community"], "description": "Process Makes Practice is a free drop-in exhibition at Camden Art Centre marking the culmination of a three-year programme supported by The Mildred Fund, working with artists and young people in the local area. Over three years Camden Art Centre ran long-term programmes with seven artists, two schools and two community groups, embracing iterative creative processes without defined outcomes or expectations. The exhibition features installations, artworks and documentation alongside reflections on the projects from those involved, offering insight into artists at the forefront of engagement practice and the creativity of young people in Camden. A Sharing Day on 29 October 2026 from 2–6pm offers workshops by some of the artists involved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/process-makes-practice-73862/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/67e8e3729b3ecdace538eb998057d839179d6d3d0a837bcf53d5a361a67bbfb5-2000.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": "Royal Oak Yard, SE1 3GD 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": "White Cube x RA", "start": "2026-10-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/prints"], "description": "A free selling display of limited edition prints by Royal Academicians, shown in the Academicians' Room and the Belle Shenkman Bar in the Keeper's House, with artworks available for sale. The Royal Academy of Arts has partnered with White Cube, a contemporary art gallery founded in 1993 by Jay Jopling, curating the display together. It features seven- and ten-colour lithographs by Michael Armitage inspired by Ousmane Sembène's films and Kenyan cave paintings, a portfolio of four polymer-gravure etchings by Tracey Emin revisiting her Margate childhood, and meditative lithographs by Antony Gormley on the body in space. Sales support the artists, the RA and its Schools.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/white-cube-x-ra-38257/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ff2b9129a37a3e0babf9b60bf7c0986896a08b981219f94554e0c89ded8cd65-600.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": "Van Gogh 'Sunflowers': Experiments in watercolour: with Will Dowden founder of Lilian May Studio", "start": "2026-11-02T17:15:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "£75", "price_from": "75.00", "price_to": "75.00", "tickets_url": "https://my.nationalgallery.org.uk/13670/14141", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor"], "description": "A hands-on watercolour workshop at the National Gallery exploring Vincent van Gogh's use of colour in his 'Sunflowers'. It is led by Will Dowden, founder of Lilian May Studio, a family business making artist supplies with traditional techniques. Participants follow Van Gogh's palette from Nuenen to Paris and Arles with a guided paint-along, a prepared sketch and a pigment dot card, with all materials provided. The ticket includes a welcome drink, entry to the Members Mixer, and finished artworks to take home.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/van-gogh-sunflowers-experiments-in-watercolour-with-will-dow-74471/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/workshop-van-gogh-sunflowers-experiments-in-watercolour-with-will-dowden-founder-of-lilian-may-studio-02-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/29da35bf1c6c78f1391414def7637170ff9d02c32275b6131a109ab4063c13e9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Painting the Sea: Water, Reflections & Shadows in Watercolour", "start": "2026-10-30T10:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Watercolour Society", "address": "", "price": "£125/ £115 Early Bird Discount", "price_from": "125.00", "price_to": "125.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor"], "description": "A watercolour workshop at the Royal Watercolour Society's gallery on Whitcomb Street, teaching how to paint the sea and sky. Led by artist Cesc Farré, it covers techniques for depicting water, reflections, light and atmosphere. Through demonstrations and step-by-step guidance, participants learn to paint crashing waves, shimmering reflections, transparency and shadows, plus wet-on-wet techniques for skies. It is suitable for those with a basic understanding of watercolour.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/painting-the-sea-water-reflections-shadows-in-watercolour-42001/", "official_url": "https://www.royalwatercoloursociety.co.uk/events/208/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e7b84e98c1bb388ae753cc910ebf185917d8193c6acce75b5fd65983e651988-2000.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"}]}