Chrismas 2022

In London

Tate Galleries

TATE MODERN

Cezanne wowed the art world: see his masterpieces up close and discover why.

Andrew says: this is the single most important show to see this winter.

Cezanne was a formative influence on 20th Century and Pre War modernist easel painting. You will learn a lot from this and, it will stay with you as an experience

MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ

Tangles of thread are amass to form towering monuments in this breathtaking exhibition.

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TATE BRITAIN

LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE

Come face-to-face with the captivating imagined subjects of these mysterious paintings.

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Andrew says: a limited style or exhuberant painting that is made at speed. You might enjoy this show which divides the pundits and the critics. Big paintings of figures. Big brush strokes. Take your pick.

HEW LOCKE

Wander through the parade in all its majesty before it marches out of Tate Britain!

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Andrew says: An impressive installation in the middle of the Duveen Galleries, the imposing Neo Classical central section of Tate Britain. See here

ART NOW

Rosie Hastings and Hannah Quinlon

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/rosie-hastings-and-hannah-quinlan

Andrew says: these two artists are hot and trendy now. They had a show in London last year which was influential and spotted by the Director of the Tate. This show is the reward for that work. Images of strong women and quotes from popular culture are staged as stilted Renaissance frescos.

The Hayward Gallery

Strange Clay - Andrew says: large survey show of artists who choose to work in clay and ceramics. Some of it is very good and some, not so much. What you will like will depend on your point of view and what you think sculpture or ceramics can be. It is certainly interesting and there is plenty to see and to think about

Review: https://www.ceramicsnow.org/exhibitions/strange-clay-ceramics-in-contemporary-art-at-the-hayward-gallery-london/

Gallery Page: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/strange-clay-ceramics-contemporary-art

The National Gallery

Lucian Freud: New Perspectives

Until 22 January 2023

Andrew says: Major show of a famous and favourite English painter (painted the Queen, Kate Moss and a host of other famous and unknowns). If you like treaditional figure and portrait painting then you will like this. Critics talk about his reduction of the human figure to 'a lump of meat psychology' and an unpleasant mysoginy . Definitely worth seeing if you have never seen his work before.

Gallery page: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibition-lucian-freud-new-perspectives

Winslow Homer: Force of Nature

Until 8 January 2023

Andrew says: 19th century American illustrative painter who traveled to the North British shores to paint strong women and also went to the Caribbean to paint the implication of colonial dispossession. The painting style is winning and the watercolours are spectacular

Gallery Page: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/winslow-homer-force-of-nature

Discover Manet & Eva Gonzalès

Until 15 January 2023

Andrew says: Manet was a genius and this painting has been in the national gallery collection for some time, but who was Eva, and who were the other women artists of the day? Were they marginalised and suppressed? What do you think of their work and should more women artists have a more prominent position when we look back at different periods of art history? A thoroughly interesting and rewarding show with lots of good painting.

The Serpentine Gallery

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag: States of Oneness

Serpentine South Gallery

7 October 2022 - 29 January 2023

An exhibition by Sudanese artist Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, whose work intertwines the earthly and the spiritual.

Gallery Page: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/kamala-ibrahim-ishag/

Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds

An exhibition of pioneering artist Barbara Chase-Riboud charts over seven decades of her innovation in sculptural technique, exploring memory, history and power through monumental sculptures and works on paper.

Gallery Page: https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/barbara-chase-riboud-infinite-folds/

The Courtauld Institute

Permanent Collection of early modern, Impressionist and Post Impressionist art featuring: Cezanne, Monet, Degas, Gauguin, Seurat, Morisot and Manet (including the bar at the Folies Bergere). As well as Oskar Kokoshka and Cecily Brown

There is also a travelling show of Gothic Art: Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism, 14 Oct 2022 – 8 Jan 2023

On the South Coast

Eastbourne - The Towner

See here for more details - https://townereastbourne.org.uk/whats-on

Brewers Towner International

15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023

The second Brewers Towner International, an open call exhibition of contemporary visual art, returns to Towner Eastbourne, featuring both British and International artists.

Ayo Akingbade Duette

15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023

Ayo Akingbade presents a duo of films: 55 Days (2022) and Red Soleil (2021). These works reflect the aspirations and ambitions of an emerging artist navigating the challenges and opportunities of daily life.

Living (12a)

2 to 15 December

Bill Nighy gives a wonderfully sensitive performance in Oliver Hermanus’s (Moffle) Living, a poignant, deeply felt film of tremendous grace.

Hastings Contemporary

CARAGH THURING

8 October 2022 – 12 March 2023

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MAKING WAVES

8 October 2022 – 12 March 2023

PENNY MCCARTHY – CLOUD FALLS IN LOVE WITH MORTAL

8 October 2022 – 12 March 2023

Chichester - Pallent House

Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water

12 November 2022 until 23 April 2023

Sussex has a unique sense of place. Its distinctive chalk-cliff coastline and the rolling hills of the South Downs have inspired artists for centuries. From some of our greatest landscape artists like Constable and Turner to contemporary artists working in the area today, this exhibition lets you discover Sussex as a place of creativity, exploration, retreat and alternative lifestyles.

Whether it’s William Nicholson’s beautiful, sparse paintings of the Downs, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell’s colour-drenched depictions of the pond at Charleston, or Lee Miller’s photographs of the farms around her house, this wide-ranging exhibition, which encompasses print, sculpture, photography and digital works, will show you Sussex as you have never seen it before

Gallery page: https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/sussex-landscape-chalk-wood-and-water/

Anne Desmet: Kaleidoscope

22 October to 5 February 2023

This is a FREE exhibition located in our Print Room on the ground floor. No need to book a ticket, unless you wish to visit the rest of the Gallery as well.

What does looking at the world through the lens of a kaleidoscope reveal? Fractured, abstract images, unexpected patterns and beautiful symmetry. Looking at her existing work in this way inspired artist and wood engraver Anne Desmet R.A. to think afresh about ideas of time and change.

Anne Desmet uses print to depict the evolution of urban landscapes, from ancient cities like Rome, to London and New York. The aspirations of humanity run through her work. She explores themes of transformation, with her dramatic use of light and shade showing the effects of time on architecture.

To create this new series, many first seen at Pallant House Gallery, Desmet used her wood-engravings and linocuts to make kaleidoscopic collages. Her approach was intuitive, seeing where one image may lead to the next. New collages evolved almost spontaneously. They evoke hot-air balloons, Towers of Babel, imaginary worlds and modules for sustainable living. The works allow the viewer to look at architecture from an entirely new angle.

Printmaker Anne Desmet RA was only the third artist to be elected to the Royal Academy for this medium. Desmet studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and London’s Central School of Art and Design. She was awarded a scholarship at the British School in Rome in 1989 and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. Desmet has had over 40 solo shows. This includes five major museum exhibitions in the UK and overseas. Her works are widely represented in national and international public and private collections.