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David Piddock: Urban Myths II
Gallery 8, 8 Duke Street, St. James, London SW1Y 6BN 24 - 29 March 2025 David Piddock walks his viewer through many miles of London’s buildings, unfolding a map of rich architectural variety, both high and low rise. Flying, falling and dancing through this man-made geometry, painted with exquisite precision, is his cast of mythical characters: Cupid and Psyche, Venus, Apollo and Daphne. As if... Read more -
After The Flood
David Surman 3 - 28 March 2025 After the Flood is an exhibition of new paintings by the London-based British artist David Surman. Surman’s bold, vital, subtly-affecting images of animals, are infused with elements of personal memory, anthropomorphic projection, ancient mythology, and the subversive aesthetics of cuteness. Two intrepid mules climb a mountain as the sun goes... Read more -
Singing of Mount Abora
Fons Van Laar 3 - 27 February 2025 London Singing of Mount Abora is the first UK solo exhibition by Dutch painter and ceramicist, Fons Van Laar. Presenting a cross-section of the artist’s distinctive oeuvre between 2004 - 2025 - from ceramic vases and miniature sculptures to glazed plates and oil paintings on panel - the installationcelebrates the rich... Read more -
Biophilia
Jim Naughten 6 January - 1 February 2025 London Jim Naughten’s new exhibition of enhanced and manipulated photographic images interrogates our vital, if often strained, relationship with the Natural World. Deploying an AI imaging tool, together with his own stock of images of historic dioramas, Naughten refashions the familiar, creating images of animals that are, by turns, unsettling and... Read more -
Immerse
Jason Shulman 19 November - 22 December 2024 London British artist Jason Shulman’s work encompasses sculpture, photography, painting and film, often incorporating scientific experimentation. Five years ago, he took up swimming in his local pool, the London Fields Lido. Soon he was swimming regularly every day, moving in a medium other than air. This began to have a profound... Read more -
The Museum of Found Objects
Reniel Del Rosario 15 October - 9 November 2024 London The Museum of Found Objects (MOFO) is coming to Britain for the first time. In honour of its inaugural installation in London, the Museum will be including some British-found objects alongside its permanent collection. The Museum Director, ‘Ron de Solace’, will be on hand to give personal tours of the... Read more -
Saudades
Esther Nienhuis 15 October - 15 November 2024 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will be showing seven new works by the Dutch artist, Esther Nienhuis. They form part of her acclaimed and ongoing Saudade series. Saudade - the title of many of Nienhuis’ paintings - is a Portuguese word that lacks a direct English translation. It suggests, though,... Read more -
Becoming
Margaret Lansink 1 - 12 October 2024 London Margaret Lansink's work is created around a strong signature of aesthetic, poetic and minimalistic images that convey a powerful emotional message. This is substantiated by her usage of intuitive photography, creating imagery that presents an open and honest reflection of her emotions, doubts, reflections or struggles in life. Shot as... Read more -
Works on Paper
Morten Lassen 23 September 2024 - 3 March 2025 New York The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Works on Paper, a new exhibition of paintings by Danish abstract artist, Morten Lassen. The display marks the third instalment of the gallery's ongoing collaboration with award-winning American fashion designer Billy Reid. In his painterly process, Lassen allows form to evolve organically, without prior... Read more -
To Everything There Is A Season
Emma Haworth 30 August - 28 September 2024 London Multiple-award-winning artist, Emma Haworth, paints the shared outdoors, from urban parks and squares to beaches, countryside and woods. Haworth captures moments where nature collides with everyday human activity - picnics, dog walks, strolls, hikes, swims – with the precision of Bruegel’s The Fall of Icarus , a picture immortalised in... Read more -
Family: Artists From Utopia
8 July - 31 August 2024 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Family: Artists from Utopia. In advance of the forthcoming retrospective of the pioneering Aboriginal artist, Emily Kam Kngwarrey, this historic survey exhibition brings together a collection of previously unseen works produced over the past three decades by artists from the remote Central Desert community... Read more -
Yalpirakinu
Adrian Jangala Robertson 30 May - 5 July 2024 Songlines XXXVI opens with Yalpirakinu, an exhibition of new work by the Australian aboriginal artist, Adrian Jangala Robertson (b.1962). Adrian Jangala Robertson is an artist with Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists: a supported art studio in central Australia for First Nations artists living with disability. Here, Robertson finds his expression through... Read more -
Meditations on Repetition
Richard Nott 9 May - 1 June 2024 I find all this transporting. Stabilising. Shutting out the shouty, divisive and rather ugly world we find ourselves in at the moment. I realise, given my many years of looking, and many years of confronting diverse wonders, all I want at this stage is to make a rectangle of modest,... Read more -
behold your heart: Dante Biennial
Inspired by Dante Alighieri 9 March - 28 April 2024 London Following our exhibition Inferno in 2022, the first of the gallery's biennial exhibitions inspired by the life and writings of Dante, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is proud to present behold your heart, the second of such Dante-inspired exhibitions. Read more -
We are everything all the time always
Aboriginal sculpture reflecting the cycle of life and death 2 January - 28 February 2024 London This is an exhibition about a place, a space for spirits, and about objects that connect us with the spiritual dimensions of life. The impetus for the creation of the aboriginal art works in this exhibition was to seek solace and confirmation through ceremony, and to acknowledge the importance of... Read more -
Be still and know that I am here
Louise Sturgis 16 November - 16 December 2023 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Be still and know that I am here, an exhibition of paintings by Louise Sturgis. ’The paintings in this show are about my return to a landscape that I have felt rooted in and inspired by all my life. They are an attempt to... Read more -
the end of all our exploring
Ashley Amery 7 October - 12 November 2023 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents the end of all our exploring , the second solo exhibition at the gallery by American-born, London-based artist Ashley Amery. In her new body of work, Amery creates large-scale gouache paintings of lush, imaginary landscapes, dense with colour, light, flowing water, and botanical forms.... Read more -
Happenstance
Jerry Jeanmard 21 September 2023 - 20 September 2024 New York Happenstance : an exhibition of new collages by Jerry Jeanmard, mounted by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery as part of their on-going collaboration with Billy Reid, New York. Houston-based artist Jeanmard deploys a diverse array of found vintage papers - ephemera from high and low culture, and from the round... Read more -
Unspoken
Morten Lassen 2 - 30 September 2023 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Unspoken , a new exhibition of works on canvas and paper by Danish abstract painter Morten Lassen. Unspoken exemplifies Lassen's unique, process-driven approach to painting. In a conscious effort to untether from the whir of the digital age, the artist works slowly, over time,... Read more -
Still Motion
Jason Shulman 20 July 2023 - 30 November 2024 Miami The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery: Little Havana Project Jason Shulman Still Motion Private View: 20 July 2023 The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Little Havana Project presents Still Motion , an exhibition of new work by the British artist Jason Shulman. Featuring a series of long-exposure photographs of critical moments of... Read more -
Filia
Avital Sheffer 8 - 29 July 2023 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Filia ,the second solo exhibition at the gallery of work by Israeli ceramicist Avital Sheffer. Filia celebrates Sheffer's life-long engagement with the multi-faceted strands of Middle-Eastern iconography, history, language and mythology as deep sources for the forms and surfaces of her exquisite sculptural vessels.... Read more -
Fitzrovia Arts Festival
11 - 17 June 2023 London The Fitzrovia Arts Festival is a remarkable thing. In the heart of one of the greatest cities in the world the community of Fitzrovia has come together to create an incredible event. Entering its seventh edition, the Fitzrovia Arts Festival celebrates the rich artistic past and present of London’s beloved... Read more -
Just So
Sophie Walbeoffe 3 - 26 May 2023 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Just So , a new exhibition of paintings by Kenyan-based artist Sophie Walbeoffe. The great theme of Walbeoffe's art is the Natural World: wild animals in their familiar habitats. Born in South Devon, well-travelled in India, and now living in Kenya, Walbeoffe brings an... Read more -
Eremozoic II
Jim Naughten 1 - 25 March 2023 London An exhibition by British photographer Jim Naughten, in collaboration with the Jane Goodall Institute UK. Naughten's works features large-scale images of animals and birds, exploring themes of ecology and the natural world. Read more -
They Are Not Windows
Luke White 4 - 25 February 2023 London They Are Not Windows is the first solo exhibition by photographer, Luke White, at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. The exhibition challenges ideas about the documentary aims of the photograph. In his most recent body of work Luke White experiments with large-format black-and-white analogue photography and digital collage techniques. The... Read more -
Gathered Together: paintings from Yuendumu
Group Show 1 - 25 February 2023 London The Aboriginal art centre in Yuendumu is one of the longest established Aboriginal-owned art centres in Central Australia. The exhibition, Gathered Together: Paintings from Yuendumu , at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, features recent work by artists from Yuendumu. It is over thirty years since the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery... Read more -
Pink Party!
Mersuka Dopazo in collaboration with Felipe, Guzmán, Ignacio and Nicolás Dopazo 12 - 28 January 2023 London Pink Party! is an exhibition of paintings by the Spanish artist, Mersuka Dopazo, and her children. Inspired by vintage comic book illustrations, these vibrant works present a familiar cast of characters, and offer a window onto the imaginative world of the artist's five children: spotty aeroplanes fly over striped cats... Read more -
Eye of the Sun
Ilma Savari 5 November - 30 December 2022 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery proudly presents an exhibition of Omie tapa barkcloth - or noige - made by Papua New Guinean artist, Ilma Savari. Read more -
Echo Echo
John Holcomb 1 - 29 October 2022 London John Holcomb’s new exhibition of paintings inspired by the mould-breaking, proto-Pop, ‘Echoes’ series created during the 1920s by British artist Walter Sickert (1860-1942). Exhibited at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery October 2022 Read more -
All the Lonely People, Where Do They All Come From?
Jerry Jeanmard 3 - 30 September 2022 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents an exhibition of new collages by the Houston-based artist, Jerry Jeanmard. In his most recent series, Jeanmard conjures his playfully subversive figures from vintage papers and ephemera with an assured yet beguiling lightness. His new exhibition brings together an arresting cast of characters: a... Read more -
Las Hondas Guatemaltecas
The Malleson Collection 14 July - 21 October 2022 London Dr. Andrew Malleson owns the largest collections of Guatemalan slingshots in the world. He began growing his collection of slingshots (or, las hondas Guatemaltecas) in 1970 on a trip to Guatemala to bring medical supplies to remote villages. Since then, he has fastidiously collected hondas on annual trips to Central... Read more -
Love Letter
David Frazer 6 June - 5 July 2022 London Nick Cave's 2001 song Love Letter is one of the great ballads of its era. Recently, it has been the inspiration behind a series of images by renowned Australian printmaker, David Frazer. The prints have received Nick Cave's enthusiastic endorsement. This exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack art gallery, brings together... Read more -
Woodland
Roy Wright 27 April - 28 May 2022 London Roy Wright's latest exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery conjures up - in a series of large-scale charcoal drawings - the great oaks, birches and chestnut trees of the English countryside.In these new works the artist has drawn inspiration from the bold design choices of Japanese woodblock prints. Read more -
Flower Garden
Hepzibah Swinford 2 - 30 April 2022 London Hepzibah Swinford's subject is flowers. For her third solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery however Swinford has sprung out of her characteristic vases (though they still abound) and into the garden. Read more -
Spotlight on: Tilemachos Kyriazatis
4 February - 7 March 2022 Kyriazatis’s latest series of paintings balances and contrasts two of the great motifs of his native Athens – classical temples and modern shipping. These are images resonant with meaning.
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Mapping China
Living in the Reform Era 11 January - 1 February 2022 Since the Chinese economic reform and ‘opening-up’ in 1978, China has risen from a backward agricultural country to a modern industrial country. In the past four decades, what has happened in China seems to be a difficult question to answer. Even the Chinese who have lived through this period are... Read more -
Life in Lockdown
Andrew Barrow 10 December 2021 - 2 February 2022 London Andrew Barrow creates collages rich with narrative and wit. For his new show at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, Barrow brings together paper works he has created over the last eighteen months of lockdown. These images pull together found papers from everyday life to form unlikely narratives. A Fisherman's Friend... Read more -
Doomed and Famous
Adrian Dannatt 10 December 2021 - 8 January 2022 London From Jenny Holzer to Henry Moore , from Patrick Procktor to Michael Wishart, from Duncan Grant to Hugo Guinness , from the arrestingly contemporary to the unexpectedly classic, Doomed and Famous brings together a gloriously personal selection of works from the collection of writer, critic, curator (and one-time child star)... Read more -
Pear, Fig, Pomegranate
Sophie Charalambous 6 November - 4 December 2021 London This is Sophie Charalambous’s first solo exhibition with the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. It brings together recent paintings and monoprints inspired by distinct Mediterranean flora, which connect the artist to the landscape of her paternal family. Read more -
San: Contemporary Art of the African Bushmen
Group Show 9 - 30 October 2021 London Major survey exhibition of African Bushmen art at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
Mankerrnge Bim (New Paintings)
Joe Guymala 9 - 30 October 2021 London Joe Guymala is an acclaimed artist from Manmoyi, a remote aboriginal community in Western Arnhem Land. This exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is his first solo show in the UK. Read more -
Sylvain Lefebvre: Sauvage
30 April - 29 May 2021 London In his new exhibition, Sauvage, the French artist, Sylvain Lefebvre, invites us to save ourselves on a journey through the dreamlike oceans and untamed forests of his imagination. It is a world of light-filtered deeps and dense tree- canopies, inhabited by magnificent beasts: benign whales and enigmatic octopuses; the stately... Read more -
Land Marks
Barbara Macfarlane 6 March - 17 April 2021 London Land Marks is a major exhibition of new work by the British landscape-painter, Barbara Macfarlane . It includes atmospheric plein air depictions of the French and English countryside, together with distinctive map-like representations of London, Paris and other great cities of the world, which approach the challenge of landscape from... Read more -
Wandering Places
Ashley Amery 30 January - 27 February 2021 London Wandering Places is Ashley Amery's first solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, London. Read more -
Spotlight On: Laurence Jones
13 - 26 January 2021 Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a Spotlight Feature on young British artist Laurence Jones. The current paintings continue the exploration of his ground-breaking How To Live in Los Angeles series. Derived from first and second-hand photographic images of L.A, the images fix reimagined modernist interiors and the distant cityscape in... Read more -
Human Seasons
Emma Haworth 14 November 2020 - 9 January 2021 London In her latest London exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery Emma Haworth explores the changing seasons - of life and nature - in the setting of the contemporary urban realm. Read more -
Mindscapes
Morten Lassen 3 October - 7 November 2020 London Danish abstract artist, Morten Lassen at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Marking Out The Territory: Six Australian Printmakers
Group Show 8 August - 26 September 2020 London Inside Marking Out The Territory, an exhibition by Australia’s leading contemporary printmakers including Hertha Kluge-Pott, David Frazer and GW Bot at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Springtime
Group Show 9 April - 31 May 2020 London Inside Springtime, an exhibition by contemporary artists such as Rose Blake, Nyarapayi Giles, Mersuka Dopazo and Pauline and Emma Wangin at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Yellow River
Ye Xue 10 March - 10 April 2020 London Inside acclaimed Chinese artist Ye Xue's first exhibition in the UK at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
The Hypatia Collection
Nikoleta Sekulovic 28 January - 21 February 2020 London Inside Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery's exhibition of paintings from The Hypatia Collection, an innovative collaboration between artist Nikoleta Sekulovic and furniture company Viaduct. Read more -
Show Me The Picture
Jim Marshall 6 - 24 January 2020 London Inside Show Me The Picture, an exhibition of works by celebrated photographer Jim Marshall at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Once Upon a Time
Phil Shaw 1 - 25 January 2020 London Inside an exhibition of works by artist Phil Shaw, to coincide with his Once Upon a Time box-set, at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Priceless
John Holcomb 9 December 2019 - 9 January 2020 Miami Inside an exhibition of works by Kansas-based artist John Holcomb at the Rebecca Hossack Miami Project'. Read more -
Touch
Holly Zandbergen 12 November - 10 December 2019 London Inside Touch, an exhibition of new paintings by New Zealand-based artist Holly Zandbergen at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
Erotica Requires a Feather
Liza Campbell 4 November - 23 December 2019 London Inside an exhibition of artworks by Scottish-born London-based artist Liza Campbell at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Part of Me
Mersuka Dopazo 1 - 29 November 2019 London Inside an exhibition by Spanish-born Bali-based artist Mersuka Dopazo at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
How to Live in Los Angeles
Laurence Jones 1 October - 2 November 2019 London Inside How To Live In Los Angeles, an exhibition by London-based artist Laurence Jones at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
Terra Profunda
Avital Sheffer 1 October - 2 November 2019 London Inside Terra Profunda, an exhibition of works by internationally-renowned, Australian-based ceramic artist Avital Sheffer at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
I know some painters that use green. They’re all cowards.
Ivo Morrison 2 - 29 September 2019 London Inside painter Ivo Morrison’s second solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Spirits of the Sea: Crossing the Horizon
Anne Penman Sweet 2 - 29 September 2019 London Inside Spirits of the Sea: Crossing the Horizon, an exhibition of works by artist Anne Penman Sweet at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Some Sunny Day
Group Show 26 July - 30 August 2019 London Inside Some Sunny Day, an exhibition celebrating the joys of summer at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London, featuring artists such as Emma Haworth, Ashley Amery and Toby Burrows. Read more -
Songlines XXXI: Wing
Group Show 1 July - 30 August 2019 London Inside the 2019 edition of Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery's annual exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art, Songlines, featuring aboriginal artists such as Janice Murray, Juliette Nampijinpa Brown and Jane Mervin. Read more -
Strong
Carla Kranendonk 13 May - 24 July 2019 London Inside an exhibition by leading aboriginal artist Carla Kranendonk at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
102 Cups
Aaron Murray 1 May - 12 June 2019 London Inside 102 Cups, an exhibition by America-based ceramicist Aaron Murray at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Tidying Up
Richard Nott 28 November 2018 - 12 January 2019 London Inside the first exhibition of paintings by British artist and former fashion designer Richard Nott at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Travelling Souls
Anne Penman Sweet and Tilemachos Kyriazatis 20 - 30 November 2018 London Inside Travelling Souls, an exhibition depicting sea faring vessels by British-born artist Anne Penman Sweet and Greek-born artist Tilemachos Kyriazatis at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Songlines XXX: Adnyamathanha Yarta
Group Show 8 October - 24 November 2018 London Inside the 2018 edition of Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery's annual exhibition of Australian Aboriginal art, Songlines, featuring aboriginal artists such as Damien Coulthard. Read more -
OCEANIC: Land and Sea; Gods and Men
Group Show 24 September - 25 November 2018 London Inside Oceanic, an aboriginal art exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, featuring works by Pacific Ocean artists such as Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Mathias Kauage and Dennis Nona. Read more -
Tracks
Esther Nienhuis 4 - 29 September 2018 London Inside Tracks, an exhibition of new works by Dutch artist Esther Nienhuis at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
I Even Got Scared Once or Twice
Ivo Morrison 2 - 31 July 2018 London Inside I Even Got Scared Once or Twice, artist Ivo Morrison’s first solo exhibition in the UK, at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
SING SWIM OK MOON
Rose Blake 31 May - 30 June 2018 London Inside British artist Rose Blake's second exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Limbo
Morten Lassen 31 May - 30 June 2018 London Inside an exhibition of works by Danish abstract painter Morten Lassen at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Aether
Nikoleta Sekulovic, NYC 17 May - 9 June 2018 Inside artist Nikoleta Sekulovic's sold out first solo show at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London in 2017. Read more -
City
Group Show 3 - 26 May 2018 Inside City, a mixed-show exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, featuring interpretations of modern city by five artists: Alasdair Wallace, Phil Shaw, Tyrone Layne, Barbara MacFarlane and Emma Haworth. Read more -
Gorgeous
Barbara Hoogeweegen and Maria Torroba 3 - 26 May 2018 London Inside Gorgeous, a joint exhibition featuring two innovative portrait-artists, Madrid-based Maria Torroba and London-based Dutch painter Barbara Hoogeweegen, at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Springtime Selection
Group Show 5 - 28 April 2018 London Inside Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery's springtime 2018 exhibition, featuring works by contemporary artists such as Jon Doran, Emma Howarth, Hepzibah Swinford and Patricia Cain. Read more -
The Chicken Before The Egg
Mexican Artisan Collective 26 March - 28 April 2018 London Inside Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery's exhibition of handmade Chicken Basket artworks by the Mexican Artisan Collective from Oaxaca, Mexico. Read more -
The Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2018
Finalists' Exhibition 15 - 26 March 2018 London Inside an exhibition featuring short-listed finalists of The Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2018 at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Arrivals
Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón 7 March - 1 April 2018 Inside Arrivals, the second New York exhibition by collaborative Spanish artists Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón, by Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
Constellations
Sheila Clarkson 1 March - 2 April 2018 London Inside Constellations, the second exhibition of pastel drawings by British draughtsman Sheila Clarkson at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
Odalisque
Carla Kranendonk 28 February - 24 March 2018 London Inside aboriginal artist Carla Kranendonk's first solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London in 2018. Read more -
Precious Cargo
Tilemachos Kyriazatis & Anne Penman Sweet, NYC 7 February - 4 March 2018 Inside Precious Cargo, an exhibition by British artist Anne Penman Sweet and Greek artist Tilemachos Kyriazatis at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
My Bright New Boots Squeaking into the White World
Emma Haworth 31 January - 24 February 2018 London Inside an exhibition featuring works by oil painter Emma Haworth at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London. Read more -
Herd
Tracy Lee Griffith 31 January - 24 February 2018 London Inside artist Tracy Lee Griffith's first solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in 2018. Read more -
The Reader
Phil Shaw 8 - 27 January 2018 London Inside an exhibition of bookshelf prints from ground-breaking British digital-printmaker Phil Shaw's Shelf Obsession collection at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery in London in 2018. Read more -
Charted Ground
Barbara Macfarlane, NYC 3 January - 4 February 2018 Charted Ground is a solo exhibition of new paintings by British artist Barbara Macfarlane. Macfarlane's abstracted works take their form and subject matter from maps - in this case, maps of London, New York, Paris and Venice - and make of their familiar shapes something startling and new. Not simply... Read more -
Aletheia
Nikoleta Sekulovic 29 November - 22 December 2017 London Aletheia - the Greek philosophical term that defines ‘unveiling, uncovering, the Greek notion of Truth Nikoleta Sekulovic creates in the tradition of Odalisque portraiture, and yet by choosing to paint mothers, she redefines her subject as both parent and muse. The female form is depicted in a muted palette, devoid... Read more -
Spiritual Garden
Hyojin Park 29 November - 22 December 2017 London South Korean artist Hyojin Park’s 'Spiritual Garden' series is defined by multiple tensions. Borrowing from the still life tradition, she begins each work by arranging flowers and foliage in antique porcelain and bronze vessels in her studio. The stillness of these sculptural displays is then disturbed, as Park throws high-pigment... Read more -
Shiver
Emma Haworth, NYC 18 November - 22 December 2017 Shiver is an exhibition of winter paintings by British artist Emma Haworth. A painter of the urban scene, Haworth's oil on linen compositions are built from her meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life. Her work distils the telling, individual detail - a crunch of footsteps... Read more -
Clay Body Suspiro de Tiempo
Lucy Casson 2 - 25 November 2017 London 'I am inspired by observations of people and animals, memories mixed with stories and imaginings. Animals and people merge, and everyday scenes and situations are populated with creatures. They represent us, with their busy everyday dramas.' - Lucy Casson Clay Body is a new exhibition by British artist Lucy Casson,... Read more -
Millefolia
Roy Wright and Patricia Cain 1 - 25 November 2017 London Millefolia is a two-person exhibition which presents contrasting approaches to the intricacies of the natural world. Draughtsman Roy Wright uses charcoal on paper to create forensically precise images of trees. Depicting the veins in each leaf, the close-up texture of the tree bark, Wright's mark-making defines the underlying rhythms that... Read more -
Dark Matter
Group Show, NYC 17 October - 5 November 2017 Dark Matter is a group exhibition curated for New York's Halloween season. The selection of artists will include British draughtsman Sheila Clarkson, who will be represented by her monochrome pastel on paper depictions of the play of light in forest settings. She will be joined by Queensland painter Allyson Reynolds,... Read more -
There's A Party on a Thursday in a Forest Near You
Liza Campbell, Lucy Temple and Sarah Hiscox 11 - 21 October 2017 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a three-person exhibition of recent work by mid-career London artists Liza Campbell, Lucy Temple and Sarah Hiscox. All three artists are united by their revival of traditional materials and techniques, and their striking re-definition of their subject matter for a contemporary context. Liza Campbell... Read more -
Flowerbomb
Hepzibah Swinford 11 - 28 October 2017 London A self-taught painter, Hepzibah Swinford's subject is flowers. These are not explored within the context of a garden, but imagined into voluptuous arrangements in antique vases and set against a scheme of psychedelic patterns. In all their endless diversity, Swinford's bouquets draw on contrasts of colour and texture. The daughter... Read more -
Shelf Obsession
Phil Shaw 26 September - 28 October 2017 London Dr Phil Shaw is a ground-breaking British digital-printmaker, who creates hyper-real images of great formal elegance and conceptual richness. His distinctive bookshelf prints interrogate the changing place of the printed word in a digital age, and the transfer of meaning through inter-textuality. This September, the gallery will be launching Shelf... Read more -
I Sit in the Blue of the Hills
Holly Zandbergen 6 - 30 September 2017 London 'A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.' – Elaine de Kooning Holly Zandbergen's landscape paintings, whilst reflecting on particular moments in the natural world, are also informed by a sense of the present moment, its changeability and possibility.... Read more -
Harvest Moon
Alasdair Wallace, Hepzibah Swinford and Katherine Virgils - NYC 5 September - 8 October 2017 Harvest Moon marks the turning of the season with a three-person exhibition of paintings, works on paper and sculpture by Hepzibah Swinford, Alasdair Wallace and Katherine Virgils. Self-taught Hepzibah Swinford's subject is flowers. Rather than referencing garden spaces, Swinford imagines her blooms into voluptuous arrangements in antique vases, setting each... Read more -
Odyssey
Tilemachos Kyriazatis 23 August - 23 September 2017 London 'Ships represent the endless human quest.' - Tilemachos Kyriazatis The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of oil paintings by Greek artist Tilemachos Kyriazatis. Encompassing eight canvases depicting ships at port, Kyriazatis builds up oil paint in textured layers, drawing upon gestural plein air sketches that he... Read more -
Images of Selfhood
Group Show 16 August - 2 September 2017 London Portrait: Images of Selfhood brings together a selection of artists exploring faces and facets of character. A new artist to the gallery, Dutch-born Carla Kranendonk's portraits are informed by her travels to West Africa and combine vivid brushwork with fabric and hand-embroidered collage, as well as photographic elements. As disparate... Read more -
Grey Areas
Group Show, NYC 4 August - 3 September 2017 The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery NYC presents a selection of black, white and grey works hung in salon style, exploring the elusive nature of 'grey areas'. Western and Indigenous Australian artworks will be shown in tandem, with tone and form creating unexpected unions and points of contrast. Many of the... Read more -
Songlines XXIX: Desert Country
Group Show 8 July - 12 August 2017 London Continuing its twenty-ninth season of exhibiting indigenous Australian art in London, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will present a group exhibition of works on linen from the Australian central desert. Employing an aerial perspective to create mytho-poetic maps, the 15 paintings forming the exhibition represent the features of the artists'... Read more -
Botanica
Emily Filler, NYC 6 July - 1 August 2017 Toronto-based artist Emily Filler weaves together painting, printmaking and photography in her ‘painterly collages’. Featuring a new series on paper and larger-scale works on canvas, Botanica brings together panels of color, meticulous patterning and floral elements. Dense mark-making contrasts with airy clouds of transparent color and screen-printed florals reveal themselves... Read more -
Songlines XXIX: A Celebration of Bark Paintings
Group Show 1 June - 12 August 2017 London To celebrate twenty-nine years of exhibiting indigenous Australian art in London, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents an exhibition of seventeen bark paintings from the Northern Territory, which were completed between the 1960s and 1990s. It is only in the last fifty years that people have painted in ochre on... Read more -
Float
Allyson Reynolds 1 June - 1 July 2017 London Shells, beetles, glass bottles, feathers, seed pods, keys. The paintings of Queensland artist Allyson Reynolds, with their menagerie of natural textures, seem to draw on the still life tradition of arranging everyday objects into a formal whole. Each painting evokes the cluttered worktop of the natural historian’s study, a Wunderkammer... Read more -
Integrated
Morten Lassen, NYC 1 June - 2 July 2017 In his latest series of paintings, Danish artist Morten Lassen explores the interplay between the digital and the natural worlds. Through over thirty layers of oil and aerated paint, he brings together monochromes blushed with blues and pinks, electric neons, organic scratches and scribbles and loosely-worked graffito lines. Whilst his... Read more -
Berceuse
Christian Thompson 1 - 24 June 2017 London To celebrate twenty-nine years of exhibiting Aboriginal art in London, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery hosts a sound and video installation by contemporary Indigenous Australian artist Christian Thompson. In Berceuse, which from French translates to a 'lullaby', Thompson performs the gesture of a re-imagining of his traditional language, Bidjara -... Read more -
Water: A Necessary Ecology
Group Show, NYC 4 - 28 May 2017 'It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension; where the soul of everything living, begins; where I am indivisibly this and that; where I experience the other in myself.' - Carl Jung As mist or ice, a wave or brook, a bowl full of goldfish, a... Read more -
Jardín de Papel
Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón 4 - 27 May 2017 Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón see their works as a ‘travelogue from unexpected territory’. The Spanish artists create large-scale collages using fabric and hand-made, natural papers. These specialist textures are sourced all over the world directly from the craftsman, from locations such as Italy and Spain. Often densely patterned, the... Read more -
Night Works
Laurence Jones 4 - 27 May 2017 London Emerging artist Laurence Jones is fascinated by processes of figuration, and how painterly devices can be used to construct a narrative. His first solo exhibition in London, Night Works is a collection of several major paintings focusing on hyper-modern dwelling spaces, which Jones re-imagines as settings taut with a sense... Read more -
Water
Group Show 6 - 29 April 2017 London 'It is the world of water, where all life floats in suspension; where the soul of everything living, begins; where I am indivisibly this and that; where I experience the other in myself.' - Carl Jung As mist or ice, a wave or brook, a bowl full of goldfish, a... Read more -
Lemon Cheese Cake is Nice
Group Show 6 - 29 April 2017 The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery on Mott Street presents a group show of new works from its stable of rising and established international artists. New Zealander Rob Tucker will be represented by a collection of major new still lifes, which experiment further with texture by making use of matte and... Read more -
Soliloquy
Toby Burrows 2 March - 1 April 2017 London “Soliloquy is a poetic study of form, an organic creation of images in-camera using traditional studio techniques, theatrical sets and underwater choreography. Captured from a vertical viewpoint, the photographs are non-reliant on image manipulation for atmospheric effect. By diffusing the water with a natural pigment, the clarity of the lines... Read more -
Landmark
Barbara Macfarlane 1 March - 1 April 2017 London Barbara Macfarlane's works take their form and subject matter from maps - in this case, maps of London and New York - and make of their familiar shapes something startling and new. Not simply just about the city plans they depict, her creations are about juxtaposition of colour, mark-making and... Read more -
Outside
Group Show 2 - 26 February 2017 Following the gallery's exhibition at the prestigious Outsider Art Fair New York, the Mott Street gallery will host an exhibition of artists working outside of the established art scene. The display will centre on Aboriginal paintings and fibre works, including natural ochre paintings by Lloyd Kwilla and baskets from Arnhem... Read more -
Florilegium
Emily Filler 1 - 25 February 2017 London Emily Filler is a collector – of patterns, colours, images and natural textures. In a process she describes as ‘painterly collage’, Filler's gathering eye and hand are strongly present in each canvas. Precise dotting and checkered borders are juxtaposed with photographic transfers of herbaceous tendrils, blocks of primary colour and... Read more -
Janus
Group Show 19 January - 25 February 2017 London Opening the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery's 2017 exhibition programme is Janus , a group show which showcases the gallery's diverse representation of alternative media. Spanning both the Conway Street and Charlotte Street galleries, the display will juxtapose contrasting textures. Canadian sculptor Ross Bonfanti will be represented by his concrete and... Read more -
The Art of Observation
Group Show, NYC 13 December 2016 - 17 January 2017 “When I go to an exhibition, I’m almost as interested in the people looking around as in the work itself. I keep a little sketchbook on me so I can remember day to day narratives that I see around me.” – Rose Blake The Mott Street gallery’s December exhibition celebrates... Read more -
Ache the Good Ache
Alasdair Wallace 1 December 2016 - 14 January 2017 London Scottish painter Alasdair Wallace's richly-layered work is suffused with the surrealism of the everyday, portraying worlds filled with odd juxtapositions. Painting urban fringes, his parklands and skylines initially seem familiar. And yet, through unexpected details, each setting becomes a dreamscape as much as a landscape. His latest exhibition is resonant... Read more -
Wilderness
Group Show 1 - 23 December 2016 London “We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” –... Read more -
The Land
Group Show 1 - 23 December 2016 London To coincide with Charlotte Street’s Wilderness: Reading the Landscape exhibition, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a special collection of Aboriginal paintings from Yuendumu. Ideal as Christmas gifts, the canvases each measure 30 x 30 cm. They depict the desert from above, its sacred sites and waterholes. Each reveals the... Read more -
Autumn Light
Group Show, NYC 10 - 30 November 2016 The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery on Mott Street presents a new exhibition for the fall which celebrates texture and pattern. Spanish artists Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón will be represented by their large-scale collages, which bring together batik fabrics and natural papers with pigments and resin. Also utilising resin, New... Read more -
Eponine
Jet Shenkman 10 - 15 November 2016 London Since the establishment of her galleries in Fitzrovia in 1988, Rebecca Hossack has championed the individual and the innovative. Curating ground-breaking exhibitions of contemporary art, she has redefined the parameters of an art gallery as both a space and a concept. Hossack’s galleries were the first in Europe to exhibit... Read more -
Heads Above
Nancy Josephson 2 - 26 November 2016 London ‘I have spent large portions of my life embellishing my surroundings. Integrating the spiritual and the form and having those things talk to one another is central to my work.’ - Nancy Josephson Nancy Josephson creates intricate sculptures and decorative objects inspired by her spiritual affiliation with Haitian Vodou traditions.... Read more -
Help! I Need Somebody
Iain Nutting 2 - 26 November 2016 London Former assistant to Turner Prize winning sculptor Antony Gormley, Iain Nutting’s reclaimed scrap metal works question the division between urban materials and natural territories. His latest exhibition focuses on endangered animals – orangutans, komodo dragons, spix macaws - with the colours and finish of each sculpture's materials as they are... Read more -
The Infinite Lightness of Being
Katherine Virgils 5 - 29 October 2016 London ‘Six years ago, I stumbled upon a semi-derelict early nineteenth-century temple in Jodhpur known as the Mahamandir, built by the Maharaja Man Singh (1803 - 43) for his Nath guru. I was amazed to find every inch of the sanctum covered with beautifully detailed miniature paintings, illustrating sublime figures of... Read more -
Recent Work
Dione Verulam 5 - 29 October 2016 London 'I am inspired by moments, for example riding in the Pyrenees in the footsteps of the Duke of Wellington or watching a shepherd in Rajasthan. Then there is searching for truffles in Italy or a seaside holiday in Cornwall. For many years we enjoyed holidays in Scotland and the hills... Read more -
Concrete
Ross Bonfanti 5 - 29 October 2016 London Toronto-based Ross Bonfanti's sculptures subvert Pop disposability with personal pathos. Taking found soft toys, Bonfanti destabilises their initial cushioned appearance by re-imagining them in concrete, studding them with nails, nuts and screws. Evocative of modernity and urbanity, his sculptures are nonetheless nostalgic, hearkening back to childhood innocence and play. Despite... Read more -
Ben's House: Cafe @ Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery
19 September 2016 - 13 April 2017 London Having drunk a lot of fine teas and held a lot of happy meetings at Ben's House, Rebecca Hossack and local coffee shop owner and grocer Ben became firm friends. Rebecca, who first opened her Fitzrovia art galleries in 1988, became Ben's first port of call when looking for a... Read more -
Very Like a Whale
Sylvain Lefebvre 7 September - 1 October 2016 London French painter Sylvain Lefebvre sees himself as an explorer of his own personal universe, an ‘imaginary wanderer in search of new lands’. His highly-anticipated second exhibition in London reveals worlds between reality and imagination. A tiger runs through the pastel streets of Belsize Park, an impossibly large marbled whale coils... Read more -
Title
Rob Tucker 7 September - 1 October 2016 London For New Zealander Rob Tucker, paint is a sculptural medium. His works are constructed from layers of colour finished with surfboard resin, as everyday objects are huddled together to create new form. Planes of tone build up the background, suggestive of depth. And yet, replacing shading and contouring with bold... Read more -
The Classics
Group Show, NYC 2 September - 1 October 2016 London To coincide with the London gallery's exhibition of Rob Tucker's paintings, which are on view at Conway Street from the 7 September to 1 October 2016, the Mott Street gallery will display a collection of his works. Based in New Zealand, Tucker uses oil and resin on board with graphite,... Read more -
August Days
Emma Haworth 8 - 27 August 2016 London Throughout August, the gallery on Charlotte Street will display a new collection of watercolours by London painter Emma Haworth. The series explores the ebb and flow of British summertime in both town and country, focusing on London's parks from various perspectives, as well as coastal views. The exhibition will also... Read more -
Summer on Mott Street
Group Show, NYC 22 July - 28 August 2016 The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery on Mott Street presents a group exhibition of international artists to celebrate the Summer. New Zealander Rob Tucker will be represented by his oil and resin paintings, joined by Esther Nienhuis' Saudade series - oil on canvas works which seek to negotiate the metaphorical boundary... Read more -
Jumu: Artists of Fitzroy Crossing
Group Show 14 July - 6 August 2016 London ‘Painting brings my country up closer, true, it brings it closer to me.’ – Jukuna Mona Chuguna There are many desert words for waterhole in indigenous Australia. Every natural feature that can hold water, even if fleetingly, gets its own term. In the arid country of the Great Sandy Desert,... Read more -
Summertime
Group Show 5 July - 27 August 2016 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a Summer group exhibition of paintings, digital prints, mixed media works and sculpture. The display will include new collage and textile work by Spanish artists Mersuka Dopazo and Teresa Calderón, as well as a new collection by Glaswegian painter Anastasia Lennon. Phil Shaw will... Read more -
Summertime
Group Show, NYC 3 June - 2 July 2016 To celebrate the coming of Summer at Mott Street, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents an international group show, featuring works on paper and canvas as well as digital prints and sculpture. Coinciding with his London exhibition, a selection of Morten Lassen 's paintings will be on display. Using oil... Read more -
Interference
Morten Lassen 1 June - 2 July 2016 London In his latest collection, Interference , Danish painter Morten Lassen continues to explore the interplay between the digital and the natural worlds. Yet rather than suggesting tension at their point of collision, he visualises a more harmonious fusion between the two states. Through rich layers of oil and aerated paints,... Read more -
Imagine
David Whitaker 1 June - 1 July 2016 London In 1965, whilst studying together at the Royal Academy Schools, two artists - David Whitaker (1938 - 2007) and David Inshaw - collaborated on a single painting. This proved a pivotal moment for each of them. Whitaker realigned his practice from figurative art to abstraction and op art. Inshaw made... Read more -
New Work
Pine Feroda 4 - 28 May 2016 London Pine Feroda is the collective name used by five British artists, who come together to create large-scale, dramatic woodblock prints. Their first solo exhibition in London, Pine Feroda will present several major woodcuts inspired by the extraordinary coast of North Devon, with its rugged forms and brooding colours. The works... Read more -
Paper People
Jerry Jeanmard 4 - 28 May 2016 London Louisiana-born Jerry Jeanmard's artistic process is one of intellectual freedom and improvisation, as whimsical as the characters he creates. From his collection of found papers, he plays around with forms, patterns and compositions, letting a figure grow organically before fixing it in place. An established interior designer, Jeanmard feels that... Read more -
No Hard Feelings
Ross Bonfanti, NYC 15 April - 15 May 2016 Canadian sculptor Ross Bonfanti uses concrete, hardware materials and found children’s toys to create sculptures that subvert Pop disposability with personal pathos. Redefining their sumptuous bodies and studding them with nails and screws, Bonfanti deliberately retains the toys’ fluffy seams, their felt noses and their glass eyes. The sculptures stand... Read more -
To Spring
Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery 15 April - 28 May 2016 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a group exhibition of works by the gallery's stable of artists, to celebrate the arrival of Spring. The display features mixed media on linen works by British painter Laurence Jones, a woodcut from artist collaborative Pine Feroda ahead of their May exhibition at the... Read more -
Migrating Artefacts
Rebecca Jewell 6 - 30 April 2016 London ‘ Rebecca Jewell has always worked out of two very distinct, almost contradictory, traditions – that of the analytic classifier and recorder on the one hand, and, on the other, the holistic maker of poetic visual images.’ – Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries Magazine Having read Social Anthropology at the University of... Read more -
The Gilchrist-Fisher Award 2016
Finalists' Exhibition 3 - 23 March 2016 London The Gilchrist-Fisher Award is a biennial art prize established in 1987 in memory of art-lover Alasdair Gilchrist-Fischer, who lost his battle to cancer at the age of twenty-four. The prestigious award, supported by Johnnie Boden and the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, is open to all artists of any nationality under... Read more -
Gather Ye Rosebuds
Group Show 9 February - 24 March 2016 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery anticipates the coming of Spring with a group exhibition of international artists. Robert Bradford’s flower dogs are joined by oil on Belgian linen work from Australian artist Anne Middleton, in turn complemented by Hepzibah Swinford’s folk-inspired bouquet paintings. Jackie Case presents a selection of graphite... Read more -
Outside or In
Nancy Josephson, NYC 22 January - 28 February 2016 To coincide with their presentation at this year’s Outsider Art Fair (January 21-24, Metropolitan Pavilion), the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents Outside or In , an exhibition of works by celebrated self-taught artist Nancy Josephson. Josephson creates intricate sculptures and decorative objects inspired by her spiritual affiliation with Haitian Vodou... Read more -
An Everywhere of Silver
Sheila Clarkson 6 - 30 January 2016 London ‘I draw the light emerging from the dark. The image is already on the paper, unseen, and I reveal parts of it. Like a sculpture emerging from a piece of marble, the drawing emerges from the paper.’ – Sheila Clarkson Sheila Clarkson’s observations of light in the natural world are... Read more -
Christmas on Mott Street
Group Show, NYC 17 December 2015 - 19 January 2016 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery on Mott Street celebrates Christmas with a group show of works from our stable of artists. ‘Bookshelf’ prints from British printmaker Phil Shaw, which interrogate the changing place of the printed word in a digital age, will be accompanied by the painterly works of Sylvain... Read more -
20 x 15: The Postcard Show
Group Show 1 - 24 December 2015 London To celebrate the Christmas season, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of 20 x 15 cm works by our stable of national and international artists. Ideal as Christmas gifts, the works will deck the walls on draped string, in keeping with festive traditions. On show will... Read more -
Leisure Studies
Andy Dixon, NYC 13 November - 16 December 2015 Andy Dixon paints with Bosschaert’s Belgium, affectations from Matisse and Rousseau and motifs from Veronese Renaissance Italy all at play by his easel. And yet, these historical influences are expressed with refreshing contemporaneity. Recently relocated from Vancouver to New York, Dixon approaches his elite subject matter with shocking hues and... Read more -
Crazy Town
Laura Jordan 7 - 28 November 2015 London A brilliant draughtsman who works in pencil, pen, watercolour, collage, print and glitter, Jordan is inspired by the greatest cities across the globe. She studied at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design and is qualified in Graphic Design at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. Exhibiting... Read more -
Resurgam
Petra McCarthy 3 - 28 November 2015 London Petra McCarthy is a master of expressionistic, abstract traditions. Yet her colourful, gestural brushwork challenges conventions of mark-making. Applying layers of paint with organic spontaneity to a conventionally stretched canvas, she then seals the paint against its surface with a perspex panel. Selected areas of the canvas impress upon the... Read more -
Now I am an Artist
Rose Blake 7 - 31 October 2015 London Rose Blake is an illustrator. And she is also an artist. Her work constantly challenges the notion that the two practices must be kept separate, that an illustration cannot resonate with meaning once parted from its text accompaniment in the same way that a painting can stand alone. Choosing vast... Read more -
The Love That Remains
Esther Nienhuis, NYC 7 October - 9 November 2015 Dutch-born Esther Nienhuis regards the desire to be elsewhere as the essential characteristic of her work. Her paintings pivot on the moment at which Fernweh (desire for unknown) and Heimweh (desire for known) become inseparable. She seeks to expose the symbolic thresholds that distinguish the here and now from alternative... Read more -
Fools Paradise
Andrew Barrow 6 - 31 October 2015 London ‘Brilliant…they certainly make interesting reading.’ - Ken Dodd, on Andrew Barrow's collages. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for his comic masterpiece The Tap Dancer , writer and artist Andrew Barrow creates collages which are like books. They are rich with stories and connections. In each kitsch assortment of stamps, train... Read more -
Tracked
Morten Lassen, NYC 8 September - 6 October 2015 'My paintings can be seen as an abstract expression of the chaos inherent in both physical and digital tracks, as well as a snapshot of the air which surrounds us.' - Morten Lassen In ‘Tracked’ , Morten Lassen probes further the collision between the digital and the natural charted in... Read more -
Nocturne
Helen Flockhart 2 September - 3 October 2015 London In a verdant clearing, a leopard assails a white stallion, whose muscles pulsate with the light of a luminous moon. In another scene, a woman holds an expectant palm to a flitting hummingbird, as lush vines and orchids engulf her frame. And a peacock cries to a crazed red sun,... Read more -
The Classics
Group Show 5 - 31 August 2015 London A mixed summer exhibition, featuring recent works from London-based artists Phil Shaw and Laura Jordan, as well as Anna Barlow's ceramic ice cream sculptures, Anastasia Lennon's latest paintings and Roy Wright's London Eye from Centrepoint . A mixture of new and classic works, paintings by Queensland artist Allyson Reynolds will... Read more -
Short Stories
Julio Alan Lepez 16 July - 22 August 2015 London ‘My work is focused on the human figure. There is always a body, a face. That is the excuse, the starting point. A basis of portraits and poses upon which to experiment. And in the process, to tell a small story. I work almost exclusively in oil and charcoal, painting... Read more -
Mott Street in July
Group Show, NYC 15 July - 2 September 2015 London Mott Street in July is a summer exhibition which features work by a variety of longstanding artists and new favorites. This show embodies a summertime atmosphere with its playful and witty pieces. Anna Barlow creates hyper-real sculptures of ice creams in states of change. As they drip and ooze, their... Read more -
Close Up
Aaron Kasmin 1 July - 1 August 2015 London Aaron Kasmin creates images of great formal elegance: spare, hard-won, miniature in scale but full of quiet power. He works with coloured pencil and chalk on paper. His favored motifs are everyday objects. From crumples of patterned linen to the sheen of a jug rim, the speckles on a pebble... Read more -
Poker Face
Holly Frean, NYC 10 June - 13 July 2015 'Poker Face is an exhibition for anyone susceptible to the allure of playing cards, multiple images, humour, Picasso, chickens, dogs and British royals. The process of drawing and painting many versions of a single figure helps me make sense of my chosen subject matter.' - Holly Frean Characterised by oblique... Read more -
Please Touch!
Pablo Bruera 3 June - 11 July 2015 London 'Eppur si muove! But it moves! Craft mechanisms in harmonic balance invite handling, search and play. Links are made within scientific models explaining the movement of planets. Science and research involve games. Learn to play and learn whilst playing. These sculptures are toys. When handling parts, new harmonies arise: unexpected... Read more -
Gates of Paradise
Anne Middleton 28 May - 27 June 2015 London Drawing upon the Classical, Romantic and Baroque artistic traditions that flourished in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, Anne Middleton creates fastidiously rendered depictions of the natural world on soft grey Belgian linen canvases. As if gazing down a microscope, the Australian artist illuminates the tiny hairs on a... Read more -
The Art of Illusion
Group Show, NYC 6 May - 8 June 2015 T he Art of Illusion is an exhibition which showcases work by different artists who play with the viewer’s visual and sensory experience through the magic in their work. Perception and Illusionism are two of the most longstanding traditions in art, yet each of these artists bring these visual aspects... Read more -
Photographs of the Burrup Peninsula
Askin (Ric) Morrison 21 April - 30 May 2015 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents an exhibition of work by Victoria-based photographer Askin (Ric) Morrison, which focuses on the troubled relationship between the man-made and the natural in Western Australia's Burrup Peninsula. The selection of photographs includes salt-pan stretches, rock formations, flora and fauna, urban fringes and industrial development.... Read more -
Tracks: Land and Landscape in Aboriginal Art
Group Show 20 April - 1 August 2015 London ‘If we in London know more about Australian Aboriginal art than we did a few years ago, then it’s probably due to the efforts of Rebecca Hossack.’ (Tim Hilton, The Guardian ) To coincide with The British Museum ’s Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilization , exhibition (23 April – 2 August... Read more -
Closely Observed
Aaron Kasmin, NYC 8 April - 3 May 2015 Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is proud to present Aaron Kasmin: Closely Observed , a solo show featuring small coloured pencil works by Aaron Kasmin. The exhibition will commence with an opening reception, featuring the artist, on Wednesday, April 8 from 6-8pm and will close on May 3, 2015. Aaron Kasmin... Read more -
Todo Sirve
Edgardo Rodriguez 1 - 30 April 2015 London Born in Argentina in 1942, Edgardo Rodriguez' art is driven by repossession and sustainability. In a meticulous model of recycling, Rodriguez transforms the process of decay for waste materials, namely plastic bottles, redefining them as aesthetic products and building blocks for decorative sculpture. This conversion process has special value for... Read more -
The Days of Wine, Roses, and You
Hepzibah Swinford, NYC 11 March - 5 April 2015 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present Hepzibah Swinford: The Days of Wine, Roses, and You , a solo show featuring works by British painter Hepzibah Swinford. The exhibition will commence with an opening reception on Wednesday, March 11, 2015 and will close on April 5, 2015. This will be... Read more -
Reflections at Abbot's Pool
Group Show 28 February - 28 March 2015 London A group show of gallery artists, debuting new works by Laura Jordan, Emma Haworth's seascapes and Sheila Clarkson's pastel studies. Read more -
This Scepter'd Isle
Dione Verulam 9 February - 7 March 2015 London 'One of the Gorhambury Group tutors said to me that artists should respond to what they know and love best. In my case, this has been my family, Gorhambury, the house and the land, Scotland, country sports and adventurous travel. And of course the Gorhambury Group tutors have been very... Read more -
City to City
Barbara Macfarlane 4 February - 8 March 2015 Following two sold-out shows in New York and London, this will be Barbara Macfarlane’s third solo show with Rebecca Hossack Gallery. The exhibition will feature old favorites from her previous cityscape works, including Manhattan and Paris, and new perspectives on Venice and Brooklyn. The artist borrows from the methods of... Read more -
90th Birthday Exhibition
Joan Dannatt 19 - 31 January 2015 London Joan Dannatt has been making art for more than 80 years. Her first solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery will showcase works such as prints made at the precocious age of eight in 1933 as a book for her father, as well as surprisingly sophisticated linocuts both in... Read more -
Souvenirs from the Mundane
Jackie Case, NYC 14 January - 1 February 2015 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to announce an exhibition of small-scale pencil drawings by Australian artist Jackie Case. On view from January 14th to the 1st of February, 2015, the exhibition will feature fifty portrait-style drawings, depicting Case’s unusual and striking subjects with wit, charisma, and incredible detail. This will... Read more -
Contemporary Cave Painting
Thomas Allen 7 January - 21 February 2015 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents the first solo exhibition from CASS Prize winner and Threadneedle Prize finalist Thomas Allen. Inspired by the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing, the exhibition will be both active and interactive. Blacking out the gallery and re-inventing it as a ‘contemporary cave’, Allen will work... Read more -
From Nests to Nets
Rebecca Jewell, NYC 10 December 2014 - 11 January 2015 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is pleased to announce From Nests to Nets an exhibition of new work by British artist Rebecca Jewell, whose passion for studying and cataloguing birds and feathers continues in her latest body of work. In the exhibition, From Nests to Nets , Jewell shines a light on... Read more -
Christmas Exhibition
Group Show 1 - 24 December 2014 London To celebrate the festive season, we have curated a mixed show of gallery artists. Read more -
Double Dog Dare
Peter Clark 12 November - 7 December 2014Mott Street, New York
Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present Double Dog Dare , a solo exhibition featuring new works by British collage artist Peter Clark. Incorporating found and vintage papers - postcards, sheet music, postage stamps, newspaper clippings, maps, and other fragments of historical record - Clark's mixed media creations have won... Read more -
Flowers4U
Hepzibah Swinford 12 - 29 November 2014 London A self-taught painter, Hepzibah Swinford grew up in London and in a rural Scottish house with a beautiful rose garden, surrounded by Oriental art and by the pictures of her mother, the artist Dora Holzhandler. Primarily a flower painter, Hepzibah's artistic voice – marked by sparkling delicacies and inspired by... Read more -
Paintings and Photographs
Derren Brown 7 - 29 November 2014 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents an exciting exhibition from an illusionist who has turned away from the paranormal to explore and celebrate the richness of the everyday. After a two-year break, Derren Brown has created a new series of portraits in his unmistakable style. Many aspects of his work... Read more -
Mapping
Barbara Macfarlane 5 - 29 November 2014 London Barbara Macfarlane is a landscape painter. Through her work she has always striven to depict – and to reveal – the essence of ‘land’. In large-scale paintings on hand-made paper - using watercolour, oil-paint, ink and mark-making - she makes sense of the land’s shape, its boundaries, its character, its... Read more -
They Came to a Hill which was all of Gold
David Forster 22 October - 8 November 2014 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents the first London exhibition of the 2013 Sunday Times Watercolour Competition winner David Forster. For Forster, every landscape is a text to be read; every brush stroke is as much an interpretation as a record. His canvases become the meeting point between the documentary... Read more -
Copyright not infringed: From Batman to Bullwinkle
Andrew Mockett 20 October - 3 November 2014 London Andrew Mockett’s art is inspired by icons of modern day mass-media. Keeping true to the materials of consumerism, by printing on cardboard and paper, he nonetheless defies the practices of mass-production that his subject matter so typically represents. Using intricate and time-consuming linocut, woodcut and screen-printing techniques to create large-scale,... Read more -
The Edge of the Woods
Karen Nicol 15 October - 9 November 2014Mott Street, New York
Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present The Edge of the Woods , a solo exhibition featuring new works by British textile artist Karen Nicol. In her newest series of mixed media creations, Nicol pushes the bounds of her practice through the inclusion of fine jewelry and pearls, collaged photographic... Read more -
The Garden of Arcadia
Song-Nyeo Lyoo 8 - 18 October 2014 London South Korean—born Song-Nyeo Lyoo reflects her decadent paradisal subject matter in the richness of materials that she uses. An intricate, multistage process brings together ink, watercolour and gold powder on rice paper, silk and wooden board. Through this, she creates scenes of an imagined Buddhist heaven, where frivolity reigns and... Read more -
Surrounded
Morten Lassen 8 October - 1 November 2014 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a vibrant portfolio of Danish-born Morten Lassen’s abstract canvases. The Copenhagen-based artist’s creations are characterized by an expressive immediacy that results from his working on many canvases at a time without the use of preparatory sketches or plans. Each work emerges organically within a... Read more -
The Luxury of Observing Luxury
Andy Dixon 8 - 19 October 2014 London Andy Dixon’s unconventional use of colour challenges the parameters of his romantic, refined subject matter, breaking down its idealism to reveal alternative narratives and aspects. Informed by the great masters of the past- Rousseau, Matisse, Picasso- the Canada-based artist approaches aristocracy with grunge, shocking hues and a daring attitude to... Read more -
Worrwurr
Judy Manany & Megan Yunupingu 17 September - 4 October 2014 London Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of Worrwurr (Owl) carvings by Elcho Island artists, Judy Manany and Megan Yunupingu. The exhibition, which is to be held in September 2014, will showcase a distinctly contemporary approach to traditional techniques of carving, and embellishing milk wood with natural... Read more -
People, Places, Things
Andy Dixon, Rebecca Rebouché, Anna Valdez, NYC 17 September - 12 October 2014 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to introduce Andy Dixon, Rebecca Rebouché, and Anna Valdez in: People, Places, Things , opening on September 17, 2014 at 262 Mott Street. This will be the inaugural exhibition for these artists at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, and their first showing in New York. The... Read more -
Saudade
Esther Nienhuis 3 - 27 September 2014 London Dutch-born Nienhuis regards the desire to be elsewhere as the essential characteristic of her work. Her paintings pivot on the moment at which Fernweh (desire for unknown) and Heimweh (desire for known) become inseparable. She seeks to expose the symbolic thresholds that distinguish the here and now from alternative realities... Read more -
People Watching
Sherry Karver 3 - 27 September 2014 London Karver uses photography, story telling, photo montage and hand painting with oil glazes to evoke a sense of mystery and intrigue. Karver manages to accurately capture the hidden curiosity within us all by observing crowds, analysing strangers, and carefully noting personal details to unravel a stranger’s story. ‘My current series... Read more -
Grass
Yvonne Mills-Stanley 6 - 30 August 2014 London Queensland-based artist, Yvonne Mills-Stanley has been exhibiting her work for over 30 years both nationally and internationally. Concentrating on colour, movement and structure, Mills-Stanley endeavours to convey the rhythmic and spiritual qualities that she finds in grass, a dominant theme within her work. Dialogue is integral to her paintings; she... Read more -
Year of the Horse
Group Show 30 July - 30 August 2014 London Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery presents a vibrant exhibition exploring the majesty of the horse in a variety of thought-provoking contexts. Showcasing a complete portfolio of our gallery artists, the exhibition celebrates the animal across a broad mixed media canvas. From Robert Bradford’s 6ft soft toy sculpture recalling childhood memories of... Read more -
Fowl Play
Holly Frean 22 July - 28 September 2014Anthropologie
131- 141 Kings Road
London SW3 4PW
'Chickens are spectacular, theatrical creatures,' says Holly. 'Consider their extraordinary faces and baggy accessories - all ostentation and swank! I paint the same subject many times over to see how many differences I can generate. Formal shifts, subtle - and not so subtle - shifts in colour, the angle of... Read more -
Under Pressure
Ross Bonfanti, NYC 16 July - 11 August 2014 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present Under Pressure , a solo exhibition of new works by Ross Bonfanti, featuring sculptures that explore the pressures of adult life within the context of reimagined childhood toys. These discarded teddy bears and stuffed animals, found in the thrift shops and markets of... Read more -
Body Painting
Emma Hack 25 June - 2 August 2014 London Adelaide-based artist, Emma Hack, has been exhibiting extensively throughout Australia since 1999. Through a combination of painting on canvas, body painting and studio-based photography, Emma's works evoke a rich array of visual narrative and magical realism. The reaction new viewers have to Emma's work is usually one of intrigue. Drawn... Read more -
A Desert Cowboy in London
Jimmy Pike 25 June - 30 August 2014 London Rebecca Hossack Gallery will be presenting a retrospective of paintings and drawings by Jimmy Pike (1940-2002), a celebrated Aboriginal painter from Fitzroy Crossing in Western Australia. Pike's work - like most Aboriginal painting- is concerned with the land, its sacred history and its present use. Jimmy Pike's work is known... Read more -
The Philatelist
Piers Bourke, NYC 11 June - 2 July 2014 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present Piers Bourke: The Philatelist , a solo exhibition featuring new works by British artist Piers Bourke. The exhibition will commence with an opening reception on Wednesday, June 11 from 6-8pm in the gallery at 262 Mott Street. Bourke's works play with space and... Read more -
Patterns of Change
Frank Hyder 4 - 21 June 2014 London Having built a diverse body of work for over more than 40 years, Frank Hyder's artistic practice is deeply rooted in the study of natural history and otherworldly experiences. His pieces exude light, vitality, and an Eden threatened by modernity. Inspired by extensive travels through South America, Hyder's koi fish... Read more -
Up Close
Juno Gemes & Michael Aird 28 May - 10 June 2014SECOND FLOOR
Juno Gemes and Michael Aird are hosting the exhibition 'Up Close' at the end of May until 6th of June at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. Read more -
The Banshee and the Moon
Tallulah Rendall 28 - 31 May 2014 London Tallulah launches her album 'The Banshee and the Moon' at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery on Conway Street on the 28th May. Read more -
Let Me Out I Haven't Finished Yet
Phil Shaw 25 May - 6 July 2014THE ARTWORKS 1830 GALLERYSHAW LANE, HALIFAXPhil Shaw's retrospective show at The Artworks 1830 Gallery is his first solo show in his home county of Yorkshire for 40 years. The gallery is set in the glorious and historic Grade II listed Industrial Textiles Mill at Shaw Lodge, Halifax and provides a unique space in which to... Read more -
Cacti & Tropical Hibiscuses Make Ambiguous Table Arrangements
Rob Tucker, NYC 14 May - 6 June 2014 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present Rob Tucker: Cacti and Tropical Hibiscuses Make Ambiguous Table Arrangements, a solo show featuring new works by New Zealand based artist Rob Tucker. The exhibition will commence with an opening reception on Wednesday, May 14 and will close on June 6, 2014. A... Read more -
Inevitable
Barbara Hoogeweegen 7 - 24 May 2014 London Barbara Hoogeweegen's new work explores relationships and disconnections between people. Inevitable focuses on children leaving home, her themes revolving around childhood, longing, nostalgia and time passing. The paintings themselves are hung in found, second hand frames. Hoogeweegen works from the photographs she has taken of her subjects and so engages... Read more -
Rare Vagrants and Accidentals
Alasdair Wallace, NYC 16 April - 7 May 2014 Born in Glasgow in 1967, Alasdair Wallace grew up on the border between city and countryside. The world of his childhood was one of tower blocks silhouetted against distant hills, where the glare of a street lamp might suddenly illuminate a fox, where abandoned domestic appliances hung in the branches... Read more -
Remix
Peter Clark 1 April - 3 May 2014 London Peter Clark's eighth exhibition with the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, REMIX, will display a collection of collages alongside Clark's latest work using watercolour. Clark's addition of watercolour to his repertoire is the result of a stroke that he had less than a year ago. Whilst recovering, Clark mentioned the bouquets... Read more -
Spring
Emma Haworth 31 March - 3 May 2014 London 'Haworth's rigorous structure recalls late-medieval, early-Renaissance compositions - think of Piero di Cosimo, for instance…. High praise, indeed, but not excessive, I think.' - Frank Whitford, The Sunday Times Spring is Emma Haworth's seventh solo exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. It explores Haworth's fascination with the seasons, using... Read more -
Afterglow
Frank Hyder, NYC 19 March - 9 April 2014 Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is proud to present Frank Hyder: Afterglow , a solo exhibition featuring new works by Philadelphia-based artist Frank Hyder. The exhibition will commence with an opening reception on Wednesday, March 19 from 6 - 8pm in the gallery at 262 Mott Street. Concurrent with his solo... Read more -
Gilchrist Fischer Award
Finalists Exhibition 6 - 29 March 2014 London The Gilchrist-Fisher Award is a biennial prize established in 1987 and open to all artists under the age of thirty whose work deals with the broad theme of Landscape. Although originally instituted as a painting prize, work is now accepted in all media except video and installation. There is a... Read more -
In Another Life
Anastasia Lennon 24 February - 15 March 2014 London 'I am painting a persistent feeling, that cannot be adequately explained in words, of timelessness, a mistrust of reality as we know it. I want to interpret life, not as a sequence of events, but as a collection of memories that have a kind of universality. I am building this... Read more -
Undercover
Emma Hack, NYC 19 February - 12 March 2014 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present Emma Hack: Undercover , a solo retrospective exhibition featuring works by Australian artist Emma Hack. Having gained international renown for her collaboration with Gotye on the music video for his Grammy-winning 'Somebody That I Used To Know ,' Hack continues to push the... Read more -
Too Many Green Teas Consumed Daily is Just Too Healthy
Rob Tucker 13 February - 1 March 2014First Floor
Rob Tucker is a young New Zealand painter. His compelling images of ships and kitchen appliances - at once bold and playful - have already won international acclaim. He has exhibited with great success in the US, Asia, Australia and the UK. In 2012 he was featured at Art Melbourne... Read more -
ArtGemini Prize
Finalists Exhibition 23 January - 8 February 2014 London The Rebecca Hossack Gallery is hosting the inaugral ArtGemini Prize , and the winners have been announced. A public choice prize of £500 will also be awarded. Voting is open to exhibition visitors until the 7 February. The prize aims to promote creativity and excellence in the visual arts, with... Read more -
Talking Tree
Alasdair Wallace 16 January - 22 February 2014 London Born in Drumchapel on the western edge of Glasgow in 1967, Alasdair Wallace grew up on that unfixed and unsettling margin between the modern city and the countryside that surrounds it. The world of his childhood was one of tower-blocks silhouetted against the distant hills, where the sodium-glare of a... Read more -
Christmas Gift Ideas
Group Show 17 - 24 December 2013 London A specially selected range of artworks, ideal for those for whom only a one-of-a-kind present will do. Including specially comissioned pieces by Rebecca Jewell, Holly Frean and Karen Nicol, all are available to view at our Charlotte Street Gallery. Read more -
Storytelling
Ross Bonfanti and Phil Shaw, NYC 15 December 2013 - 12 January 2014 Rebecca Hossack Gallery is proud to present 'Storytelling,' an exhibition featuring works by Ross Bonfanti and Phil Shaw. In place of a formal opening, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is partnering up with arts and culture quarterly Works and Days for an event on Sunday, December 15 from 4-7PM. The event will... Read more -
Scale
David Farrer 4 December 2013 - 11 January 2014 London The Rebecca Hossack Gallery has long had a tradition of supporting Western artists who demonstrate the utmost originality in their chosen media, of which British sculptor, David Farrer, is no exception. Farrer has a strong interest in nature and the environment, stemming from time spent in Africa. For his major... Read more -
Silver: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
Group Show 3 December 2013 - 11 January 2014 London The Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery opened in Fitzrovia, Central London, twenty-five years ago. Since 1988 it has grown to become one of the most innovative and respected galleries in the Contemporary Art World - with two exhibition spaces in London and a third in New York. SILVER is a specially... Read more -
Mapping
Barbara Macfarlane, NYC 13 November - 9 December 2013 In the summer of 2012 Barbara was asked to submit work for 'Londinium' a mixed exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London to celebrate the city as host of the Olympics. Barbara exhibited 3 large paintings which were based on a map from 1588 by William Smith which combines a... Read more -
Singerie
Karen Nicol 7 - 30 November 2013 London Private View : Thursday 7th November from 6:30pm at 28 Charotte Street Karen Nicol's new exhibition is a Singerie , the French word for 'monkey trick.' Singerie is a genre that was first found in the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and made hugely popular in 18th Century French Rococo art,... Read more -
The Reaping
Klaus Enrique, NYC 16 October - 6 November 2013 Rebecca Hossack Gallery NYC is proud to present Klaus Enrique: The Reaping , a solo show featuring works by New York based artist Klaus Enrique. A series of photographic portraits, Enrique's creations complicate and investigate notions of the ephemeral. Utilizing materials such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, and animal remains, Enrique... Read more -
Australia: People and Places
Group Show 19 September - 29 November 2013 London To coincide with the major exhibition of Australian Art at the Royal Academy, London, this autumn, the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is mounting a survey show of modern Australian art celebrating the land and the people of the great southern continent. In Australia, man stands in a special and peculiar... Read more -
Retrospective Part II: Waters of the Nile
David Whitaker 7 July - 10 September 2013 London David Whitaker (1938-2007) was a British abstract painter fascinated by the optical effects of colour. Over the course of a career that spanned five decades he pursued this fascination with inspired commitment, producing a wonderfully rich and substantial oeuvre. Whitaker was one of the first British artists to have a... Read more -
Mott Street in July
Group Show, NYC 7 - 31 July 2013 During the month of July, RHG NYC will be exhibiting our annual summer group show inspired by the famously evocative Rodgers and Hart song 'Manhattan'. We will be showcasing pieces by some of our most beloved artists including Karen Nicol, Rob Clarke, Roy Wright, Kate Jenkins, Phil Shaw, Ian Penney,... Read more -
Owl, Boy, Gun
Ilona Szalay 3 - 21 July 2013 London Ilona Szalay was born in 1975 in Beirut and is now based in London. She studied at Oxford University and Byam Shaw, University of the Arts. Ilona Szalay's paintings trace a path through a world of conflict and power play, a place of rigid hierarchy and fierce competition. Using a... Read more -
Circus Dwellers
Ross Bonfanti, NYC 7 - 30 June 2013 In this new series, celebrated artist Ross Bonfanti extends the playfulness of hisConcreature sculptures, a series of cement sculptures derived from well- worn and discarded toys. Mined from local thrift shops, these stuffed animals are manipulated to create altered visions that redefine and renew their purpose while maintaining their former... Read more -
Recent Works
Willie Landels 5 - 29 June 2013 London Willie Landels is an artist, half Italian half Scottish, who has contributed hugely to the visual culture of this country over the past sixty years. As a star graduate of the Brera school of art in Milan, he was commissioned to make a huge mobile for the Festival of Britain... Read more -
Timeless Voyages
Sylvain Lefebvre 30 May - 29 June 2013 London 'The sea…if you knock on her door, you will see that if she lets you in, you will never leave again. We go back a long way, the sea and me, and these ships draw us together. Maybe this is why, when I am with her, I never feel alone.... Read more -
Australian Artists Month
Group Show, NYC 13 - 31 May 2013 During the month of May, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Mott Street, will be showcasing some of the most reputable and rising stars in Australia's contemporary art world, including David Bromley, Emma Hack, Toby Burrows, Perran Costi as well as phenomenal Aboriginal artists, Lloyd Kwilla, Reggie Hoosan and the late Norman Kingsley.... Read more -
Gates of Paradise
Anne Middleton 2 - 31 May 2013 London Gates of Paradise is a significant body of work researched and developed over the past 3 years. It marks a major development in Anne's dedicated fifteen-year artistic exploration of the natural form, and embraces both traditional and contemporary artistic techniques to explore broader environmental issues through the tactile beauty of... Read more -
Spring Collection
James Farrelly 1 - 31 May 2013 London James Farrelly is an American painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. His artistic vision, however, was formed by his upbringing and long residence in Rome. A sun-flooded, laconic Mediterranean sensibility pervades his art. The boldness of Farrelly's colour choices and the daring simplification of his forms, recall the mythic... Read more -
Elsewhere
Esther Nienhuis, NYC 17 April - 5 May 2013 Curiosity for the unknown and a desire to be elsewhere are central themes in the work of the Dutch artist Esther Nienhuis (1977). She is fascinated by the human condition in which Heimweh (longing for the known) and Fernweh (longing for the unknown) intertwine. In her paintings for the exhibition... Read more -
A New World
Morten Lassen, NYC 7 - 31 March 2013 With his new series of abstract paintings, Morten Lassen is striving to bring together our natural world with our digital world. These two worlds have been steadily merging into one, as social media and digital communication are becoming, for better or for worse, our primary means of communication with our... Read more -
60th Birthday Antarctica Exhibition
Garlinda Birkbeck 6 March - 15 April 2013 London 'I was with Garlinda Birkbeck in Antarctica. While I was trying to capture the dazzling but pitiless nature of this last great wilderness for a novel, Oblivion , she was doing the same for this exhibition. I think her work is extraordinary. She manages to capture the very essence of Antarctica... Read more -
The Art of Ampilatwatja
Group Show 4 - 30 June 2012 London We are delighted to be celebrating the work of the Artists of Ampilatwatja in our twenty-fourth annual Songlines exhibition. The Aboriginal community of Ampilatwatja, 330 kilometers from Alice Springs in the heart of Australia’s Northern Territory, is home to barely 500 people. It is also home to a wonderfully vital... Read more -
The Way We Live Now
Maria Clemen, NYC 28 March - 22 April 2012 Maria Clemen is a Scandinavian artist (born in Sweden and raised in Denmark) who works in London. A print-maker and collagist, she combines her media to create works that are both lyrical and subversive. Clouds of butterflies cut from discarded betting-slips and old lottery tickets hint at the fragility, and... Read more -
Borroloola
Group Show 13 July - 13 August 2011 London Borroloola is a small town of about 900 people located on the McArthur River, approximately 960 kms southeast of Darwin. Representing artists from four different language groups, Yanyuwa, Garrawa, Mara and Gurdanji, the Waralungku Arts Centre, Aboriginal owned and controlled, has been around since 2003. The Yanyuwa and Marra are... Read more -
Ark
Iain Nutting 4 - 28 May 2011 London Welcome to ARK, an exhibition of welded steel sculptures by the artist Iain Nutting. ARK is a title which Iain has chosen firstly to reflect his belief in the importance of the conservation of animals and of the natural environment, and secondly as a reflection of the collection of artistic... Read more -
Hailans to Ailans: Contemporary Art of Papua New Guinea
Group Show 16 September - 17 October 2009 London Hailans to Ailans (meaning “Highlands to Islands” in Tok Pisin) is a two-part international exhibition presenting contemporary artists from Papua New Guinea (PNG). These artists create work in various styles and media engaging the vibrant cultural interplay transforming PNG society as it rapidly modernizes while seeking to preserve its ancient... Read more -
Songlines XXI: Paintings from Utopia
Group Show 2 - 31 July 2009 London Utopia is a region in central Australia, around 300 km north east of Alice Springs, named after the cattle station established in the area in the 1920s. After a successful land claim, the region was handed back to the Anmatyerr and Alywarr people as Aboriginal freehold land in 1979 and... Read more -
Tapalinga
Jean Baptiste Apuatimi 25 June - 31 July 2009 London This is the first international exhibition of the renowned Tiwi-islander artist Jean Baptiste Apuatimi. Born in 1940 at Pirlangimpi on Bathhurst Island off Darwin, Apuatimi is a member of the March Fly skin group, a custodian of the Buffalo Dance ceremony, and one of the most senior artists in her... Read more -
Whistling Ducks
Janice Murray 1 - 24 June 2009 London Janice Murray (b. 1966) lives at Milikapiti, Melville Island, and has been an exhibiting member of Jilamara Arts & Crafts Association since 1995. In this time she has become widely regarded not just for her paintings, but also for her prints, which she has been making since early print workshops... Read more -
Atham-Areny Story
Angelina Pwerle 30 July - 30 August 2008 London Born in 1952 on the Utopia cattle station in the arid desert region north-east of Alice Springs, Angelina Pwerle is now recognized as one of the leading artists of the Aboriginal Central Desert tradition. Her work is held in many public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia,... Read more -
Undiscovered
Lloyd Kwilla 7 June - 21 July 2008 London 'There is a strong rhythmic and free painterly quality in the works of 27- year old Aboriginal artist Lloyd Kwilla that is rarely seen in the medium of ochre. Swirls of browns, from light sand-colour to deep chocolate edged by white, meander, in gently curved lines cutting like a rover... Read more -
Sesserae
Dennis Nona 14 July - 2 September 2006 London The spectacular printmaking of Torres Strait Island artist Dennis Nona is described by the Australian critic Nicholas Rothwell as 'the most intriguing work to be seen in the northern capital.' (referring to Darwin for Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award in 2005). Inspired by the rich traditions of... Read more -
Ilkurlka: The Art of the Spinifex People
Group Show 17 September - 22 October 2005 London The Spinifex People say ‘Kapi ninti’ , which translates roughly as, ‘We know the water’. And in their harsh desert environment, knowing where the water holes are is essential to life. Such knowledge, to a large extent, forms the basis of the aboriginal concept of ownership - or custodianship -... Read more -
Wandjina
Group Show 1 - 31 July 2004 London The first exhibition in London to explore the powerful Aboriginal myth of the Wandjina - the sky spirits associated with weather. All Aboriginal art is basically utilitarian. This is particularly so with paintings and carvings; over and above their decorative interest these are tangible representations of the sacred mythological past... Read more -
My Country
Barney Ellaga 7 June - 24 July 2004 London Senior Alawa community lawman and artist Barney Ellaga was born around 1939 in the Minyerri region of the Northern Territory. His work consists of soft lines of colour, each representing both the physical and spiritual character of the country. With paintings held in the collections of the National Gallery of... Read more -
Ikuntji - Stories from the Red Lands
Group Show 7 June - 4 July 2004 London The Ikuntji women painters are internationally recognised for their visual presentation of traditional histories, using a highly contemporary form that allows 60,000 year old stories to be accessed by the modern world. Known for their incredible use of colour, their paintings tell the stories of hunting for goanna, gathering bush... Read more -
Yilpinji: Love, Magic & Ceremony
Group Show 1 - 31 August 2003 London This exhibition explores the visual tradition relating to yilpinji, the love magic practiced by the Warlpiri and Kukatja people of the central and western deserts of Australia. While a rich tradition of love songs, poetry, drama and other literature exists in the English language, this exhibition demonstrates clearly that the... Read more -
Dream Traces
Group Show 22 April - 24 May 2003 London aboriginal art Read more -
The Artist's Eye: An Exhibition of Aboriginal Art curated by David Bromley
Group Show 17 June - 20 July 2002 London Over the last 30 years the contemporary art scene in Australia has been dominated by the emergence and extraordinary growth of the Aboriginal art movement. A whole new artistic tradition - albeit one with its roots reaching back many millennia - has been established. It has achieved an international profile,... Read more -
Milky Way Dreaming
Malcolm Jagamarra 9 August - 8 September 2001 London Malcolm Jagamarra’s Milky Way Dreaming incorporates the intricate dot paintings of the Warlpiri people from the Lander River in Western Australia. His paintings have evolved from sacred songs and dances of the Warlpiri people including the Snake, Goanna, and Milky Way Dreaming. Malcolm Jagamarra is considered one of Australia’s most... Read more -
Gelam Ngzu Kazi: Dugong My Son
Group Show 9 August - 8 September 2001 London Gelam Ngzu Kazi - Dugong My Son, showing at the Charlotte Street Gallery, is the first exhibition of work by the indigenous people of Moa Island in the Torres Strait. These intricate linocut prints record the island's special creation stories. Gelam Ngzu Kazi is the name the elders have given... Read more -
Daily Life in Ngukurr
Sambo Barra Barra & Amy Johnson 6 September - 2 October 1999 London Sambo Barra Barra is one of the great originals of the Aboriginal art movement. His style is immediately recognizable and instantly engaging. Barra Barra is one of the senior artists from Ngukurr in central north Australia. Of all the Aboriginal communities, Ngukurr is perhaps the most artistically vital and diverse.... Read more -
Warlimpirrnga and Walala Tjapaltjarri: Tingari Cycles
Group Show 2 August - 4 September 1999 London In 1984, an extraordinary event occurred. A lost tribe, of about a dozen Pintupi Aboriginals was discovered, living in the remote wilderness of the Gibson Desert on the border between Western Australia and the Northern Territory. They were still carrying on their traditional nomadic way of life, a way of... Read more -
Yolnu: Bark Paintings and Prints from Yirrkala
Group Show 28 June - 31 July 1999 London The artistic traditions of the Yolnu people of northeast Arnhem land are amongst the richest in aboriginal Australia. The comparative inaccessibility and fecundity of the whole Arnhem Land peninsular has fostered the continuity and integrity of aboriginal life and culture there. Nevertheless, although the traditional iconography of the Yolnu –... Read more -
Balgo Hills
Group Show 16 September - 14 October 1996 London These paintings are by the Warlayirti artists who live in three communities: Balgo, Mulan and Billiluna. Balgo itself is situated about 250 kilometers northwest of Alice Springs. This is an area where the vast expanse of the Western Desert to the south meets the rugged sub-topical Kimberley to the north.... Read more -
Stripe: Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya Tula
Group Show 12 August - 7 September 1996 London Stripe reveals some of the extraordinary diversity of contemporary Aboriginal Art. Too often commentators assume that Aboriginal painting is confirmed to the distinctive 'dot and circle' style - by which it first became known. This is not the case. There are many different styles, motifs and symbols. The stripe is... Read more -
Songlines XIV: Ochre
Group Show 10 July - 2 September 1995 London The Gija artists of Turkey Creek in the East Kimberley region of Australia look beneath the surface or skin of the country to the bones, or structure, which determine the compositional rhythm of their world. This is hill country, dense with spiritual associations, which fill the artists' eye and mind.... Read more -
Ngangkaya (Healing) Stones: Walpiri paintings from Lajamanu
Group Show 6 - 31 August 1991 London The Lajamanu Aboriginal Community is situated on the edge of the Tanami Desert, midway between Alice Springs and Darwin, in the traditional country of the Gurindji people. The paintings on show at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery from 6 - 31 August are unlike any other Aboriginal paintings ever created.... Read more -
Artworks
T. Torao 1 - 28 July 1989 London Japanese artist T. Torao delves into the depths of our collective unconcious in his series of monoprints at the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. His crumbling archetypical figures are built up with the help of a random selection of images collected from journals like the National Geographic Magazine. T. Torao then... Read more -
The Things People Do To Parrots
Graham Fransella 15 May - 10 June 1989 London Well known Australian artist Graham Fransella opens his first London solo show at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery. His artworks depict a parrot with outstretched wings and body curiously shaped like a boomerang. Fransella's character goes through a series of indignities inflicted on him by some extremely active humans cavorting around... Read more -
Very Like A Whale
Adam Bricusse 13 April - 13 May 1989 London Adam Bricusse is a 25 year old artist who has graduated from Merton College, Oxford, two years ago, following a one-year foundation course at St Martin's School of Art. 'Very Like a Whale' at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery is his first solo show in London. Bricusse's ice-cool oil paintings reflect... Read more -
Positions for Night and Day
Colin Johnstone 9 November - 10 December 1988 London Colin Johnstone's 'Positions for Night and Day' runs from November 9th to December 10th 1988. The exhibition title is inspired by the writings of Thomas Hill, one of the first of the great English tradition of gardeners, who emphasised the importance of where and at what time of the day... Read more -
Papunya Tula: Paintings of The Dreaming
Group Show 22 June - 30 July 1988 London Contemporary Aboriginal art has received great critical acclaim, particularly that of the Papunya Tula School, now widely regarded as one of the unique visual expressions of the 20th century. After exhibitions in Paris, Cologne and New York, these extraordinary artists are having their first comprehensive showing in Britain. The phenomenon... Read more -
Angel of History
Stephen Masterson 14 April - 13 May 1988 London Stephen Masterson's 'Angel of History' is the second exhibition at Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery, opened in March 1988 and it is Masterson's first one-man show. Masterson likes to think of his works as 'Trojan Horses', which hold the viewers by their aesthetic qualities and then draw them into consideration of... Read more -
Heart of Oak
Paul Moriarty 6 March - 17 May 1988 London Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery opens in March 1988 at 35 Windmill Street with Paul Moriarty's exhibition 'Heart Of Oak'. As the title suggests, Moriarty aims at painting the essence of Englishness, depicting English country mansions and exploring the traditional English painting subjects of the dog or the horse. The artist... Read more
