{"title": "Philip Williams: Child's Play", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T17:00:00Z", "place": "Highgate Gallery", "address": "Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, London, N6 6BS, United Kingdom", "price": "Free event.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings, prints and objects by Highgate based artist Philip Williams. His works interpret widely recognisable artistic imagery to present a refreshing, often child-like, take on these common tropes. Combining a variety of painting conventions and techniques, his works offer a lively re-imagining of familiar artistic traditions. 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Her work is rooted in observation and drawing, and since moving to the Surrey Hills in 2021 after thirty years in London she has drawn inspiration from the ancient trees and trackways of that landscape. The exhibition features pieces from before and after this move, showing the shift in focus of her work from town to country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/town-and-country-74842/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f97c45c60d041937fc2c5b8509a891c851f8a0934543955358f6cdc0f3f9333c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dominic Myatt: Scree Slope", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Dominic Myatt: Scree Slope\" is a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings on canvas at Gazelli Art House. The artist behind it is Dominic Myatt, born in 1993 in Leicester, a multidisciplinary artist inspired by visual fragments of everyday life and the energy of the city. His works show recognisable objects such as lamps, horses, hands and spoons as dark line drawings hovering over gestural patches of colour, riffing on the idea of animated cartoons. Full of playful humour alongside unease and threat, the paintings invite the viewer into a game of looking and deciphering.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dominic-myatt-scree-slope-41427/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25e4f1f7ef8d261e49f91df70fad329a9f2a11d411a6249c3f082c21b33ec9ec-1200.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", "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. 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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": "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", "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": "Khalif Tahir Thompson: Send in the Clowns", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Victoria Miro Gallery", "address": "Wharf Road 16, N1 7RW London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new paintings by Khalif Tahir Thompson, presented at Victoria Miro's London gallery and the gallery's first solo presentation of his work since announcing his representation. Thompson, who was born and is based in Brooklyn, paints vibrant domestic scenes full of texture and pattern that portray the everyday lives of his subjects, both individually and collectively. The show takes its title from the 1973 Stephen Sondheim ballad famously sung by Sarah Vaughan, and reflects, in the artist's words, the ways we use humour to mask vulnerability and respond to tragedy. He describes the exhibition as a love letter to his younger self, his journey as an artist and Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/khalif-tahir-thompson-send-in-the-clowns-40107/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cf7af2288c136f106537822d4180a7b34725428da2aa653b5deda418fc5d05d9-1200.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, "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": "Low Life", "start": "2026-10-15T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "James Freeman Gallery", "address": "Upper Street 354, N1 0PD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "nature/animals"], "description": "Low Life is an exhibition about animal instincts, mischief, otherness and rebellion. It presents work by two contemporary artists, Derrick Guild and Katrin Moye. Katrin Moye is a ceramic artist in Nottingham whose sculptures and glazed works take inspiration from nature's rebels and troublemakers, such as a drunken raccoon, a mole, pigeons and stubborn weeds. Derrick Guild is a Scottish artist whose paintings make surreal, playful connections across the European art canon, using animal portraiture and added lover's eyes to probe the animal instincts that lie beneath the human surface.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/low-life-36715/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9e958e4cd71e49d7be1d72e75550596c2f4b05ce3f40a9fa2f4c1aef60be991-2000.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, "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": "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", "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": "Fresh takes: Art in 10 minutes", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "National Gallery", "address": "London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A short 10-minute lunchtime talk at the National Gallery, part of the monthly Fresh takes series. The speaker is Tia Grant, an alumnus of the Gallery's Articulation initiative, which helps young people aged 16–19 build research and presentation skills and invites them to give 10-minute talks on works of art. She revisits her talk on Pietro Longhi's painting A Fortune Teller at Venice, offering fresh perspectives on the Venetian scene and the stories and mysteries at its heart. The free session is open to everyone in Room 33.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-78901/", "official_url": "https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/fresh-takes-art-in-10-minutes-06-11-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/15a4b3b848068842b10d27a72b1c00c686328c296192a483295f5a0837b53e58-2000.webp"}]}