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Every week, I lead a small group to explore London’s vibrant art scene through gallery visits, museum exhibitions, artist talks, and guided discussions. We visit everything from major museum shows to lesser-known spaces, offering fresh perspectives on contemporary art.
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Wednesday 18 February – 11 AM Visit of Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies at Somerset House – book here
Tuesday 24 February – 11 AM Exclusive viewing of Bonhams upcoming auction focusing on textile – book here
Thursday 26 February – 12:15 PM Introductory talk to the exhibition Turner and Constable at Tate Britain – contact me for more information
Saturday 28 February – 3 PM Introductory talk to the exhibition Turner and Constable at Tate Britain – contact me for more information
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Previous discussions around exhibitions and previous visits
Over the last two years, I have organised immersive cultural trips to some of the world’s most vibrant cities, including :
Serpentine Gallery – Peter Doig : House of Music exhibition
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Our tour explored Peter Doig’s House of Music exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, featuring his most recent work painted in Trinidad, where the artist lived for nearly 20 years until 2021. The show marks a striking synthesis of Doig’s twin passions—painting and music—turning the gallery into an immersive listening space where rare analogue speakers broadcast tracks from the artist’s own vast vinyl and cassette collection while his vibrant canvases surround you.
What made this exhibition special is the way music and visual art intertwine. Here he literally brings those sounds into dialogue with his paintings. The space feels warm and communal, inviting visitors to sit, reflect, and let the rhythm of sound and colour shape their experience.
A striking motif throughout the show is the lion, particularly the Lion of Judah, which appears in several large-scale canvases set against Trinidadian urban backdrops.
Doig’s use of colour is likewise compelling—lush, evocative palettes of deep greens, vibrant pinks, burnt oranges and radiant blues saturate his canvases.
Art-historical references also thread through the work. In some lion compositions, figures and gestures subtly echo Caravaggio’s dramatic chiaroscuro and narrative intensity, while other passages—especially the vivid, sun-washed hues—recall the fauvist colours of Matisse’s work in Collioure, where colour itself seems to sing.
Artangel – Visit of The Story of Fixity: Noémie Goudal
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We discovered The Story of Fixity by Noémie Goudal as an immersive exploration of landscapes caught between reality and illusion. Through photography and large-scale installations, Goudal stages natural environments that appear stable at first glance but gradually reveal their artificial construction. The exhibition unfolds like a visual narrative in which time seems suspended, questioning our desire to fix the world into images while nature itself remains in constant transformation. By blending real sites with carefully built sets, the artist invites us to reflect on perception, memory, and the fragile balance between permanence and change.
Serpentine Gallery – Guiseppe Penone and Arpinta Singh exhibitions
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Our tour featured a captivating visit to the Serpentine Gallery, exploring the works of Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone and Indian painter Arpita Singh. We admired Penone’s beautiful sculptures, wall drawings, and installations, reflecting on the increasing relevance of his focus on observing and preserving nature. Singh’s paintings offered a rich dialogue between Hindu mythology, Bengali folk culture, and urgent contemporary issues, including references to Guantanamo Bay. This tour sparked thoughtful discussions on the intersection of art and nature in Penone’s work, and on history, culture, and social consciousness in Singh’s.
Discussion around Hiroshige artist of the open road exhibition at the British Museum
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In connection with the exhibition at the British Museum, we explored the significance of Hiroshige, the 19th-century Japanese master of prints. Our discussion covered the cultural and historical context of the Edo period in which he worked, how he revolutionised printmaking, and his profound influence on Post-Impressionist artists such as Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec.
Rachel Jones: Gated Canyons at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
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We discussed Rachel Jones’s exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gated Canyons. Jones creates bold, visually striking paintings using oil stick and pastel on unstretched linen, employing vibrant colours and gestural mark-making that provoke instinctive emotional responses. Her starting point for the new works was a 17th-century Flemish painting, Pieter Boel’s Head of a Hound. A central motif throughout the exhibition is the mouth—serving as an entry point into instinct, identity, and the interior self.
A discussion about Corps et Âmes & Celeste Boursier Mougenot at the Bourse de Commerce
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Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection at the Courtauld Institute
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We discussed the Courtauld Gallery’s exhibition, Goya to Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Collection—a rare and beautifully intimate display of 25 nineteenth-century European artworks brought from Winterthur’s Am Römerholz, many of which were shown in the UK for the first time. The show began with Goya and Théodore Géricault before unfolding a remarkable journey through Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, featuring works by Manet, Cézanne, several luminous Renoirs, Monet, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec.
What sets this exhibition apart is not merely the star quality of the works selected by the Swiss collector and patron, but the intimate dialogue they create with the Courtauld’s collection, offering thematic and emotional echoes between the artistic visions of these two major collectors and philanthropists.
Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo at the Royal Academy
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We discussed Astonishing Things: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, an exhibition at the Royal Academy, which revealed a lesser-known facet of the celebrated writer—his visionary work as a visual artist. The exhibition brought together around 70 drawings, showcasing Hugo’s remarkable ability to move seamlessly between literature and visual art with extraordinary imagination and emotional intensity. We explored how drawing became a parallel creative outlet for Hugo, particularly during periods of political exile and personal upheaval. Using unconventional materials such as ink, soot, coffee, and even fingerprints, Hugo created haunting, atmospheric works that often evoke dreamlike or Gothic landscapes, mysterious architecture, and turbulent seas.
Exclusive meeting with German photographer Elger Esser on the occasion of his exhibition at Flowers Gallery, London
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We discussed on Esser’s ambition to create “timeless photographs—ones that can age well, far from being datable” and how he shapes images that feel suspended in time, hovering between past and present. Through his use of silver‑plated copper plates and Diasec mounting techniques, Esser blends historical photographic processes with modern innovation, resulting in works that shimmer with diffused light and poetic resonance. In our conversation, we reflected how these “internal landscapes,” as Esser calls them, are not just topographies but emotional terrains—inviting pause, introspection, and a deep meditative connection between sky, sand, and memory.
Discussion around Grayson Perry’s exhibition at the Wallace Collection
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Our discussion delved into Grayson Perry’s Delusions of Grandeur at the Wallace Collection, where the British artist engaged in a playful dialogue with the museum’s masterpieces.
Perry introduced a fictional persona, Shirley Smith—an outsider artist from East London who claimed to be the rightful heiress to the Wallace Collection.
Through this imagined genealogical lens, we explored Perry’s reinterpretations of historical works such as The Swing by Fragonard, examining themes of authenticity, class, and the role of art in shaping personal identity. The exhibition offered thought-provoking insights infused with humour, inviting us to reconsider the narratives embedded in artworks and the institutions that preserve them.
Discussion around the exhibition of Noah Davis at the Barbican
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Our discussion on the Barbican’s retrospective of Noah Davis offered a poignant exploration of his evocative paintings, which often blend figuration and abstraction to depict Black life with both realism and dreamlike qualities. We delved into recurring themes in his work, such as a sense of loneliness, the use of beautiful colour palettes, and the infusion of magic into everyday scenes.
Drawing comparisons to artists such as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Caspar David Friedrich, we examined how Davis’s compositions evoke a sense of stillness and contemplation. Despite his untimely passing at the age of 32, Davis’s legacy endures—reflecting his deep engagement with art history, painting, and the representation of the African American experience, both as an artist and as a curator.
Photographers Gallery: Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily & Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage
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We explored two exhibitions that showcase photography’s power to transcend documentation.
Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily presented the work of the Italian photographer who captured the brutal reality of life under Mafia rule from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Her images harnessed photography as a form of social justice—documenting terror with compassion and reminding us that even in tragedy, life persists.
Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage celebrated the singular vision of the American photographer (1932–2013), a pioneering artist who transformed fashion imagery into haunting, poetic art. Turbeville’s approach turned photography into a tactile, subjective medium—revealing how memory and emotion can be conveyed through layered, manipulated surfaces.
Both artists defied expectations—Battaglia as a courageous witness on the frontline, Turbeville as a poetic innovator—each expanding the boundaries of what photography can be.
Discussion around the exhibition of Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism at the Royal Academy
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In this session, we explored how Brazilian art evolved in the first half of the 20th century—from artists influenced by European Cubism, German Expressionism, and Fauvism, such as Anita Malfatti (1889–1964), to the emergence of a distinct Brazilian artistic identity. This shift was exemplified by figures like Rubem Valentim (1922–1991), whose work fused Afro-Brazilian religious symbolism with modernist abstraction.
These two artists—among ten featured in the exhibition—framed a rich dialogue on national identity, decolonial aesthetics, and Brazil’s unique contribution to modern art. Their work helped lay the foundations for the influential Neo-Concrete movement that followed shortly afterwards.
Discussion around Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery
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On the occasion of this landmark exhibition at the National Gallery, we explored the intense final two years of Van Gogh’s life—an extraordinarily prolific period during which he produced over 200 paintings. We discussed how Van Gogh described himself as a poet, seeking to move beyond realism to express inner emotion through colour and form.
Themes of the exhibition included the role of nature and the garden as a sanctuary and a space for contemplation, especially during moments of emotional turmoil. We reflected on how Van Gogh transformed everyday subjects into deeply symbolic and expressive works—some marked by his mental health struggles, others radiant with joy and vitality.
Key works such as The Lover (Lieutenant Milliet), The Poet (Eugène Boch), The Poet’s Garden, the iconic Sunflowers, La Berceuse (The Lullaby), The Olive Trees, Starry Night over the Rhône, and scenes from the asylum at Saint-Rémy revealed how Van Gogh moved beyond literal representation to infuse nature and daily life with imagination, symbolism, and spiritual depth
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In our engaging discussion, we explored how Lygia Clark (1920–1988) transformed her practice from mid-1950s geometric abstraction to immersive, participatory art by the early 1970s. As a key figure in Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, Clark moved beyond the limitations of rigid abstraction—embracing direct physical interaction and dissolving the boundaries between artwork and participant.
The exhibition traced her evolution through early paintings and studies, followed by her groundbreaking Bichos—hinged sculptures designed to be physically manipulated by viewers. As her work progressed during a politically turbulent era in Brazil, Clark increasingly prioritised interaction over static form. Initially, this interaction was individual and playful; later, it became collective and therapeutic, with large-scale group works such as Elastic Net (1974) and Corpo Coletivo (1970).
Discussion around Electric Dreams: Art and Technology before the Internet at Tate Modern
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Our discussion circled around how artists in the pre-internet era imagined and responded to emerging technologies—not just as tools, but as collaborators in the creative process. From Harold Cohen’s AARON, an early AI drawing machine, to immersive light installations by Otto Piene and Carlos Cruz-Diez, the exhibition revealed a world where analog circuits and CRT screens sparked digital dreams. We were struck by how playful, tactile, and at times poetic the works felt—especially in contrast to today’s sleek, algorithmic interfaces. The interactive nature of many pieces blurred boundaries between viewer and machine, prompting reflections on our current relationship with technology and how early pioneers anticipated both its promises and its uncanny power. Afterwards, we visited Anthony McCall exhibition, also shown at the Tate Modern.
Visit of Edward Burtynsky : Extraction / Abstraction at the Saatchi Gallery
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The title Extraction / Abstraction says it all. Burtynsky’s photography captures in extraordinary detail the extraction of natural resources across the globe—yet these sweeping aerial vistas simultaneously seem to belong to the realm of abstract painting. In many shots, especially in the Abstraction section, industrial landscapes dissolve into patterns and colors that evoke modernists like Paul Klee—or perhaps even Jean Dubuffet with his raw, textural approach to art brut. For example, Salt Ponds #1, Near Fatick, Senegal (2019) radiates vibrant egg‑yolk yellows and lush greens that could easily be mistaken for an abstract painting rather than a salt-harvesting site.
Studio visit with Liane Lang
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Liane Lang is a German-born, London-based artist known for her multidisciplinary practice that explores themes of history, memory, and representation, particularly through sculpture, photography, and printmaking. Educated at Goldsmiths and the Royal Academy Schools, Lang frequently engages with monuments, statues, and classical casts, recontextualizing them with humor and critical insight—often incorporating materials like silicone and organic matter to question power, legacy, and gender. Her work has been widely exhibited across Europe, and is held in major collections including MoMA, the V&A, and the Royal Academy of Arts, which elected her as a member in 2025.
Meeting with the artist Anastasia Loupoukhine on the occasion of her London exhibition with Randle Fine Art
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Anastasia Lopoukhine is a Franco‑Russian artist based in New York whose richly detailed pen, ink, charcoal, and collage drawings are infused with both intensity and a wry sense of humour. Often inspired by personal memories and historical fragments, her work functions like snapshots or unfinished narratives—quirky, surreal vignettes where characters and everyday scenes become portals into a broader, imaginative world. Her background in etching gives her lines an unflinching commitment: mistakes remain visible, embraced as part of the creative journey.
