Top 5 exhibitions in London
Posted on March 22, 2016
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Happy Easter from all of us at Curious Duke Gallery! Enjoy your long weekend and get out of the house with these exhibitions.
Due to popular demand, we have extended this exhibition until 31 March.
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Marmite Art prize runner up Kate Knight’s artwork showcases the beauty of endangered animals in all their gold leafed glory. Working across large-scale watercolours, and biro drawings Knight lavishes exquisite details on an American kestrel, a Brown billed Sicklebill and a queen bee to name a few. Knight is heavily influenced by the history of the baroque and rococo art movements, that she layers onto modern issues such as climate change and the animals that are endangered as a result. Knight has brought forward associations with prosperity and mirth from the Baroque period to alleviate these forgotten animals.
Curious Duke Gallery
173 Whitecross Street, London EC1Y 8JT
Open Thursday 11:30-6:30, Friday closed, Saturday 12-4, Sunday &Monday closed, Tuesday & Wednesday 11:30-6:30.
Nearest station: Old Street and Barbican
Free
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers
British photographer Martin Parr curates Strange and Familiar an exhibition of how international photographers from the 1930s onwards have captured the social, cultural and political identity of the UK. From social documentary and portraiture to street and architectural photography, the exhibition celebrates the work of leading photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Frank and Garry Winogrand.
Now- 19 June
Barbican Centre
Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
Open Saturday –Wednesday 10-6, Thursday & Friday 10-9
Nearest stations: Moorgate & Barbican
Tickets £12, concessions available. Book here .
30/30
Mike Bartlett and Enzo Marra both make paintings of galleries, paintings of people, paintings of shows and inevitably paintings of paintings. Sounds complicated, I know, but pay a visit and you’ll be rewarded. Observer and viewer become the viewed as both of the artists look at the scene behind the everyday ‘going to see a show’.
Now- 16 April
Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 4QN
Open Friday & Saturday 12-6
Nearest station: Cambridge Heath
Free
Opening this week! Books, Camera, Ubu
Artists Franciszka and Stefan Themersons were both partners and collaborators, from 1928 until they both died in 1988. Here Camden Arts Centre takes us through their diverse practice that encompassed painting, photography, film, theatre design, literature, concrete poetry, publishing and illustration. Through each of these mediums, the artists looked at issues such as freedom, language and ultimately the human condition. Acclaimed as the most important experimental filmmakers in pre-war Poland, they were driven by a dedication to defy convention, avoiding repetition of expression through continual experimentation.
24 March- 5 June
Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Rd, London NW3 6DG
Open Tuesday – Sunday 10-6, Wednesday 10-9
Nearest stations: Finchley Road and Hampstead Heath Underground
Free
Fancy leaving London for a few hours?
The Jupiter Incident
Brighton based artist Mark Charlton brings us the third instalment of his space travel inspired exhibitions. The Jupiter Incident tracks the fictitious journey of the artists’ B-12 Module.
24 March-6 April
Gallery 40
40 Gloucester Road, Brighton BN1 4AQ
Open daily 11-6
Free
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Written by Curious Duke Gallery blogger Sinéad Loftus.
Lover of all art and fluffy cats.