Past
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Time Future
In collaboration with Antichità Alberto Di Castro 11 October - 16 November 2024 TIME FUTURE looks at how the past still impacts the work of contemporary practitioners, and how memory is one of the great creative triggers. The works in the exhibition, whether they were made five hundred years ago or yesterday, all reinvoke or reinvent memories and artistic practices. Displayed alongside the... Read more -
PHOTOGRAPHS
Susan Derges, Joakim Eskildsen, Garry Fabian Miller, Samuel Fosso, Leila Jeffreys, Sandra Kantanen, Anni Leppala, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Edgar Martins, Santeri Tuori 12 September - 5 October 2024 Read more -
RALPH FLECK
26 June - 17 August 2024 Ralph Fleck (born1951, Freiburg, Germany) lives and works in Freiburg and Soller. Formerly Professor of Painting at the Nuremberg Academy his work is represented in many public collections including the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung Munich; Kunsthaus Zürich; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg. In 2015 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg.
As a student Ralph Fleck had a teacher who insisted that nothing was unworthy of being painted. It is a credo he has stuck with, creating his own painterly language which involves movement between moments of close observation and of objective distance.
Every inch of a painting’s surface is important to him and each is painted with the same absorption and intensity. It is vital that the brush marks are both raw and immediate. When he paints flowers , or a city, it is the idea of flowers or a city; something of their essence, rather than their particularity, that is captured in paint. However intuitive a painting may appear, its journey is rarely haphazard, but part of a process of looking and a continuing dialogue with the material of paint.
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Blue: the pursuit of the heavenly colour
17 April - 8 June 2024 Takashi Arai · Sue Arrowsmith · Pierre Bergian · Celine Bodin · Susan Derges · Ralph Fleck · Laila Tara H · Andrzej Jackowski · Leila Jeffreys · Ken Kiff · Nina Murdoch · Ornulf Opdahl · David Quinn · Ciara Roche · Santeri Tuori The chase for blue is... Read more -
Diana Matar - My America
7 March - 13 April 2024 'In a world where millions of pictures are taken each day, I still believe photographs can contain meaning; they can become evidence of things not seen or heard... if, as I believe, to photograph is a desire to know something deeply and beyond the surface, I must be quiet to... Read more -
Tono - Forests Afar
Daguerreotypes by Takashi Arai 26 January - 2 March 2024 Surrounded by sacred mountains in the afterglow, every dusk in Tono is forlorn. It is a feeling that has nothing to do with the loneliness of the city or the solitude of being thrown out into the nightless city. At the time of day, when silky and dense darkness seeps... Read more -
Winter Exhibition
Takashi Arai, Sue Arrowsmith, Pierre Bergian, Celine Bodin, Susan Derges, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Leylâ Gediz, Tiff Hunter, Leila Jeffreys, Andrzej Jackowski, Sandra Kantanen, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Nina Murdoch, Jorma Puranen, David Quinn, Santeri Tuori 8 December 2023 - 10 January 2024 Read more -
Time Future
In collaboration with Antichità Alberto Di Castro, Rome - Italy 1 December 2023 - 20 January 2024 Location: Alberto Di Castro, Piazza di Spagna 5, Rome Co-hosted by Alberto Di Castro and Purdy Hicks Gallery TIME FUTURE looks at how the past still impacts the work of contemporary practitioners, and how memory is one of the great creative triggers. The works in the exhibition, whether they were... Read more -
Divine Narratives
Alice Maher and Celine Bodin 26 October - 2 December 2023 DIVINE NARRATIVES brings together the works of Alice Maher (born 1956, Co. Tipperary) and Celine Bodin (born 1990, Louviers, France). Alice Maher’s series of drawings in watercolour and pencil, Women in Ecstasy, looks at female saints in ecstasy as depicted by many painters over the centuries. Zoning in on their... Read more -
Meadow
Sandra Kantanen 21 September - 21 October 2023 The Meadow series is photographed in different European locations: left over spaces in between housing in villages and on the outskirts of small towns, where nature has been allowed to flourish undisturbed. ‘I found these places by wandering around and observing, stopping and looking very closely. The Meadow is... Read more -
The Flower Show
Takashi Arai, Nobuyoshi Araki, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Ralph Fleck, Tom Hammick, Pat Harris, Tif Hunter, Charles Jones, Sandra Kantanen, Kathrin Linkersdorff, Gideon Rubin, Keith Tyson 21 July - 18 September 2023 Whether symbols of love, sensuality, beauty, innocence, diversity, death, transience or the course of life, all of these artists have shared a mutual fascination for the flower. Choosing to render the flower as a subject, their works raise crucial questions about life and art – each with their own method... Read more -
Immediate Nature
Santeri Tuori 21 June - 18 July 2023 ‘Tuori’s works document time as well as documenting our approach to nature. One might say that his positioning, repeatedly photographing ever-changing natural elements from the same angle, is portraiture of the elements as well as portraiture of the photographer himself.’ Birta Gudjonsdottir. In the making of the recent works from... Read more -
Missing Cat
Leylâ Gediz 19 May - 17 June 2023 Showing her work for the first time in London since her graduation from the Slade School of Fine Art and Goldsmiths College, the Lisbon-based Turkish artist presents a group of recent paintings under the title Missing Cat. Stray cats are very common in Lisbon, but even more so in her... Read more -
The wound is the place where the light enters
Leila Jeffreys 6 April - 13 May 2023 “My new exhibition is called ‘The wound is the place where the light enters’, which is a line from a Rumi poem. The poem speaks to the fact that pain reveals and helps us cherish what truly matters. We can only mourn what we deeply love. The fires that tore... Read more -
Family Trees
Tessa Traeger 2 March - 1 April 2023 Tessa Traeger’s newest exhibition Family Trees (Purdy Hicks Gallery, 2 March - 1 April) reimagines the history of Boughton House in Northamptonshire, combining old and new in her landscape and portrait photographs alike. Invited to photograph the ancient lime tree avenues in the park at Boughton, Traeger seamlessly blends paintings... Read more -
They could hear a faraway thunder
Jorma Puranen 1 - 25 February 2023 They could hear a faraway thunder, Jorma Puranen’s forthcoming exhibition at Purdy Hicks Gallery (1 – 25 February), continues his long-term work, re-animating the history and legacy of Arctic explorations. In ́narrating the North ́ Puranen often uses archival sources and different techniques of re-photography, exploring and visualizing relations of... Read more -
Light Up My Sky
Sue Arrowsmith 11 November 2022 - 21 January 2023 New paintings by Sue Arrowsmith Read more -
Drawing 1990 - 2022
Gillian Ayres, Olga Chernysheva, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Mark Francis, Laila Tara H, Waqas Khan, Marcia Kure, Elizabeth Magill, Nina Murdoch 7 October - 5 November 2022 Drawings is a collaborative venture combining two exhibitions that have been timed to coincide: British Drawings 1890-1990 at Sotheran’s, and Drawings 1990-2022 at Purdy Hicks Gallery. Both shows emphasise the importance of drawing to artists of the last 120 years. Although many of the artists have used myriad other art... Read more -
HERE AND ELSEWHERE
CÉLINE BODIN | SUSAN DERGES I ANNI LEPPÄLÄ | DIANA MATAR | JORMA PURANEN | GIDEON RUBIN | BETTINA VON ZWEHL 8 September - 1 October 2022 Coalescing around ideas of portraiture and abstraction, history and memory, revealing and concealing - the artists in this exhibition portray the figure in ways that are discrete and indirect, delicate and tender. An exploration of the relationship between painting and photography, the exhibition brings together work by photographers Céline Bodin,... Read more -
Painting
8 July - 3 September 2022 RALPH FLECK / PAT HARRIS / ANDRZEJ JACKOWSKI / DAVID QUINN Read more -
Pierre Bergian
8 June - 6 July 2022 Pierre Bergian (born 1965, Bruges, Belgium) studied Art History and Archaeology, which, together with his fascination for architecture, inform his work. Making use of architectural components in his paintings of interiors, he explores space, light and structure. In his recent works on paper the walls are the focus, filled with... Read more -
Kathrin Linkersdorff
Fairies 6 May - 4 June 2022 KATHRIN LINKERSDORFF (born 1966, Berlin) trained as an architect. Influenced by extensive travelling and working in Japan she became fascinated by traditional Japanese culture. She went on to study Japanese ink wash painting and the aesthetic concept of wabi- sabi with its appreciation of beauty in nature that is imperfect,... Read more -
LAILA TARA H
duck duck goose 1 - 30 April 2022 So you found your pair. You know… your partner, your forever friend, your pet, your favourite object, your home - I mean these all in the literal sense. Your lightbulb went “ding!’ You’re beginning to understand ageing - not that you’re acutely aware of your future but more-so that a... Read more -
SAMUEL FOSSO
70'S Lifestyle 3 - 26 March 2022 Samuel Fosso (born 1962, Cameroon) opened his photographic studio in Bangui, Central African Republic, at the age of 13. During the day he ran a commercial studio, photographing the local residents, while at night he turned his studio into a theatrical set to create highly performative black and white self-portraits.... Read more -
Eye on Nature
27 January - 28 February 2022 Sue Arrowsmith,. Susan Derges, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Pat Harris, Leila Jeffreys, Sandra Kantanen,. Claire Kerr, Eeva Karnhu, Ornulf Opdahl, Jorma Puranen, Santeri Tuori, Bettina von Zwehl Read more -
Andrzej Jackowski & Ørnulf Opdahl
25 November - 22 December 2021 Purdy Hicks Gallery is delighted to present new paintings by Andrzej Jackowksi and Ørnulf Opdahl, whose work share luminosity and the magic of light. Andrzej Jackowski’s (born 1947, Wales) work is largely autobiographical, based on his early childhood memories, recollections of a family history in Poland and the... Read more -
Susan Derges
Floating 22 October - 20 November 2021 We are pleased to present two new series of work by Susan Derges: River Taw and Ocean Flowers. In both subject matter floats above the ground of the rock pool or river bed in shadows and coloured forms. River Taw Over twenty years ago Susan Derges began her... Read more -
David Quinn
Stookeen 16 September - 9 October 2021 Purdy Hicks is pleased to present a new exhibition of paintings by Irish artist David Quinn. 'Although they look like paintings, I see my pieces both as drawings and objects. It's as important to me how they look from the side as from the front. The quality of the surface... Read more -
Nordic Light
7 Photographers from The Helsinki School: Joakim Eskildsen, Sandra Kantanen, Eeva Karhu, Anni Leppälä, Jorma Puranen, Anna Reivilä, Santeri Tuori 2 July - 31 August 2021 Nordic Light is unique: the exhibition explores what it is like to live in almost endless daylight during the summer months and limited light during the winter. We have chosen seven artists from several generations, all trained at the Aalto University of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, whose work... Read more -
Leila Jeffreys
HIgh Society 4 - 26 June 2021 High Society is the result of more than five years of planning and commitment; a pledge to making the impossible possible. It began when I noticed how a flock of native Australian budgerigars look like leaves on a tree. Looking closer I saw individuals, couples, and families – a secret... Read more -
Jonathan Delafield Cook
Close to home 29 April - 29 May 2021 Paper. Scissors. Stone. Feather-charcoal. Surely they aren’t compatible? In the hands of Jonathan Delafield Cook a stick of carbonised willow deftly conjures the very weight and texture of the lightest of feathers. The Dürer of the lump of coal, via his chosen medium you look into the soul of animate... Read more -
Diana Matar
Tête à Tête 13 - 21 April 2021 In May 2019, I was offered an Artist's Residency at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, which holds an extensive collection of Greek and Roman antiquities. In the Museum, I studied works by artists who, centuries earlier, had represented the human form. Personalities portrayed in mosaics excavated from Pompeii and... Read more -
Takashi Arai
1000 Days / 1000 Mirrors 21 October - 8 December 2020 In a world rapidly turning towards the digital in every aspect, Takashi Arai is one of the world’s few remaining photographers who choose to express their artistic vision with the daguerreotype silver plate photographic process. Rather than a nostalgic replication of an obsolete method, Arai recognises the strengths of the... Read more -
Ralph Fleck & Claire Kerr
5 September - 3 October 2020 Purdy Hicks is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Ralph Fleck, and new paintings and drawings by Claire Kerr Read more -
Rebooting Nature
9 July - 2 September 2020 For years artists, along with scientists, have been showing us the world is changing. Some are brimming with ideas about how it should change while others just share the way they look at nature. The recent lockdowns around the world have put everything on hold except nature. In one sense... Read more -
Santeri Tuori
Water Lilies and Forests 16 June - 4 July 2020 Read more -
Eeva Karhu
Finding the Path Within 17 January - 19 February 2020 Read more -
Ørnulf Opdahl
New Paintings 22 November - 20 December 2019 Read more -
Risham Syed
3 October - 9 November 2019 Read more -
Pierre Bergian
New Paintings 5 - 28 September 2019 Read more -
Drawing a New World
Mireille Blanc, Yifat Bezalel, Olga Chernysheva, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Marcel Dzama, Nilbar Gures, Andrzej Jackowski, Claire Kerr, Marcia Kure, Alice Maher, Marko Maetamm, Ciprian Muresan, Pavel Pepperstein 21 June - 31 August 2019 Read more -
Sandra Kantanen
Landscapes 10 May - 15 June 2019 Read more -
Céline Bodin
Light of Grace 4 April - 4 May 2019 Read more -
Chan-Hyo Bae
Jumping Into 8 March - 1 April 2019 Read more -
Bettina von Zwehl
The Followers 1 February - 2 March 2019 Read more -
Susan Derges
Soul of the Underground 22 November 2018 - 26 January 2019 Read more -
Edgar Martins
Destinerrance 12 October - 10 November 2018 Read more -
Ralph Fleck
New Paintings 6 - 29 September 2018 Read more -
Leila Jeffreys
Ornithurae 6 July - 24 August 2018 Read more -
Tom Hunter
Figures in a Landscape 8 - 30 June 2018 Read more -
Jonathan Delafield Cook
New Drawings 11 May - 4 June 2018 Read more -
Sue Arrowsmith
We Could Dream this Night Away 12 April - 7 May 2018 Read more -
Anna Reivilä
Nomad 8 March - 7 April 2018 Read more -
David Quinn
New Paintings 9 February - 5 March 2018 Read more -
Santeri Tuori
Time Is No Longer Round 11 January - 5 February 2018 Read more -
Andrzej Jackowski
A Space in the Dark 23 November - 22 December 2017 Read more -
PARTED
Parted: A Love Story 2 October - 14 November 2017 Read more -
HYBRID
Nilbar Güreş, Marcia Kure, Alice Maher, Sally Smart 7 - 25 September 2017 Read more -
SMALL
6 July - 2 September 2017 Read more -
Claire Kerr
What Else Do I Believe In? 5 May - 5 June 2017 Read more -
Michael Porter
Vanitas 7 - 29 April 2017 Read more -
Five Finnish Photographers
Ulla Jokisalo, Sandra Kantanen, Milja Laurila, Anna Reivilä, Santeri Tuori 10 March - 3 April 2017 Read more -
Pierre Bergian
New Paintings 10 February - 4 March 2017 Read more -
Joakim Eskildsen
Nordic Signs and The Roma Journeys 13 January - 4 February 2017 Read more -
Charlotte Verity
New Paintings 23 November - 23 December 2016 Read more -
Jorma Puranen
Shade into Shade 21 October - 17 November 2016 Read more -
Alice Maher
The Glorious Maid of the Charnel House 21 September - 15 October 2016 Read more -
Jonathan Delafield Cook
By Design 9 June - 5 July 2016 Read more -
Diana Matar
13 May - 6 June 2016 Read more -
Ørnulf Opdahl
15 April - 9 May 2016 Read more -
Felim Egan
18 March - 12 April 2016 Read more -
Awoiska van der Molen
12 February - 12 March 2016 Read more -
Anna Maria Schönrock
Explorer 12 February - 12 March 2016 Read more -
Leila Jeffreys
Bird Love 15 January - 6 February 2016 Read more -
Susan Derges
Under the Moon 20 November - 22 December 2015 Read more -
Sue Arrowsmith
Whisper from the Shadows 2 - 31 October 2015 Read more -
Ralph Fleck
4 - 28 September 2015 Read more -
Ola Kolehmainen
5 - 29 June 2015 Read more -
Pierre Bergian
1 - 30 May 2015 Read more -
Sally Smart
The Choreography of Cutting 27 March - 25 April 2015 Read more
