{"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", "dates": [{"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", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The 90s: Art and Fashion", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Tate Britain", "address": "Millbank, SW1P 4RG London", "price": "£22 / Free for Members; £20 Concessions; £5 for Tate Collective", "price_from": "22.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.tate.org.uk/ticket/date?cgid=375284", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history"], "description": "The 90s: Art and Fashion is an exhibition at Tate Britain exploring a decade of bold creativity and rebellious spirit that changed the face of British culture. 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Organised by Tate Britain in collaboration with Charleston, it explores the pair's creative partnership of more than 50 years and their legacy as core members of the Bloomsbury Group. Over 300 works are on show, including portraits, still lives, landscape paintings, ceramics and textiles, plus a restaging of the artists' studio relocated from their Sussex home, Charleston. The exhibition also traces the group's commitment to lives of freedom and radical experimentation, which shaped art, literature and societal thought in Britain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vanessa-bell-duncan-grant-inside-bloomsbury-38884/", "official_url": "https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/vanessa-bell-and-duncan-grant", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0504dcb22ff839476bff9223ce57dbf2322c8a487006a725be8687562f7301a7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Between the Breath", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-02T00:00:00Z", "place": "Art Hub Studios", "address": "Stanley Street", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "\"Between the Breath\" is a group show of fine art at Art Hub Studios, a venue run by artists for artists. Sixteen artists are behind it, among them Andrew Rogers, Helen Cass, Romina Belda and Yuxi Zhong. The exhibition explores moments between movement and stillness, productivity and pause, focusing on experiences of waiting, drifting and being suspended between the present and a future that has not yet arrived. All are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/between-the-breath-69517/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d6f9e841818aba8e219fcc0b3194b0e81daa3fe6616b26416b22d5529ef712be-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Escalate Entropy", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Elements Gallery London", "address": "Lower Clapton Road 26, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "Escalate Entropy is a group art exhibition whose private view runs on the evening of 11 November and continues until 4 December. Six artists — Justin Brown, Ross Chisholm, Thomas Crane, Andy Jackson, Robert Orchardson and Tom Walker — shared a studio in Deptford while studying at Goldsmiths College London between 2004 and 2007, in a building since demolished for luxury apartments. The show recreates that vanished studio through interior and architectural features, re-presents artwork from 2004–2007 and shows new work within this re-collection context. The works exist between a recollected workplace and a gallery space, a temporary material re-collection of artists from a ghost space.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/escalate-entropy-43240/", "official_url": "https://angus-hughes.org/Escalate-Entropy", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fd84e5127c58b73ef720d6f4349754e2c33d80c188501bf55251decf02791024-1200.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": "Fail We May, Sail We Must : Exhibition", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-08-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "The Brown Collection", "address": "Bentinck Mews 1, W1U 2AF London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "Fail We May, Sail We Must is an exhibition at The Brown Collection spanning six centuries of works that reveal themselves on a second look. It is curated by British artist Glenn Brown and his husband and museum co-founder Edgar Laguinia. The show presents ninety historic and contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and ceramics, including spliced collages, double images and deceptive figures. Unfolding thematically across the museum's four floors, it features artists such as Salvador Dalí, George Condo, John Stezaker, Fiona Rae and Rebecca Warren.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fail-we-may-sail-we-must-exhibition-39023/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a555ab6b56a81eafb9f4b6dd903a4f88b6d357e4eea3bb435381e4676c470cf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Guildhall Art Gallery", "address": "Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE London", "price": "Pay What You Can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tapinlondon.com/event/regulars-14xxodp/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art/tapestry"], "description": "'Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now' is an exhibition at Guildhall Art Gallery celebrating tapestry as a vibrant and evolving art form of the 21st century. Created in collaboration with Dovecot Studios, it brings together more than 20 artists, with works made through collaborations between Dovecot's master weavers and leading artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare, Tania Kovats, Alberta Whittle, Rachel Maclean, Hurvin Anderson and Farshid Moussavi, alongside major new commissions. Presented to coincide with the Bayeux Tapestry's landmark return to the UK for the first time in almost 1,000 years, it invites visitors to rethink what tapestry can be and explore its continuing relevance today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition-37555/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2bd1f5acd97f097608e6c31cae9c62a91b0a88ccbe3f16bc28298c43ee73a56a-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": "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": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain", "start": "2026-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-06-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Austrian Cultural Forum", "address": "Rutland Gate 28, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art", "history"], "description": "Together on this Island: Émigré Art Networks in Britain is a display telling the stories of émigrés, most of them Jewish, who came to Britain in the 1930s and 40s seeking refuge from the Nazis. It is presented with material from Tate Library and Archive as part of the Émigré Art Archives Project, funded by the Marie-Louise von Motesiczky Charitable Trust. The display shows how artists, art dealers, writers and teachers who fled Nazi Europe contributed to artistic culture in Britain. Highlights include rarely seen works by Oskar Kokoschka, Kurt Schwitters, Jankel Adler, Josef Herman, Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Franciszka Themerson.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/together-on-this-island-emigre-art-networks-in-britain-40982/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d9662628da0faeda8bfa42d871d13ccb32aa335ce4bebe99477fcc3cdb18dc39-1200.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": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/process-makes-practice-sharing-day-tickets-2002624928069?aff=oddtdtcreator", "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": "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": "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": "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": "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": "The Glorious 19th Century", "start": "2026-10-20T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Chris Beetles Gallery", "address": "8 & 10 Ryder Street, St James's, London SW1Y 6QB", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting", "history/19th-century"], "description": "An art exhibition titled The Glorious 19th Century, showing works from the nineteenth century, including watercolours and paintings by artists such as J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Helen Allingham, Edward Lear and Thomas Rowlandson. It is held at Chris Beetles Gallery, an art gallery on Ryder Street in St James's, London, which presents the works with their artists and prices, some pieces already sold. The exhibition runs from 20 October to 7 November 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-glorious-19th-century-76452/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}]}