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The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia 2017
June 9, 2017The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia is the UK’s largest and most established art and antiques fair, taking place annually in June at London’s iconic Kensington Olympia Exhibition Centre. Celebrating its 45th year in 2017, The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia is recognised as one of the most prestigious and... Read moreOpen -
London Original Print Fair 2017
May 3, 2017Held at the Royal Academy of Arts, the 32nd London Original Print Fair will take place from 3rd - 7th May. The Redfern Gallery will be situated on stand 36. Fair dates and times Wednesday 3rd May (Preview Evening): 17.30-20.30 Thursday 4th May : 10:00-21:00 Friday 5th May: 10:00-22:00 18:00-22:00... Read moreOpen -
Norman Dilworth: Time and Tide at Redfern Gallery
March 1, 2017There's something really gratifying about looking at a well-conceived shape in art. The artist Ellsworth Kelly is a good example; his shaped canvases, often derived from found objects or sections of photographs, are refined so that they present the perfect shape to hold a specific colour. Norman Dilworth's Around and... Read moreOpen
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WILLIAM GEAR (1915-97)
March 1, 2017Andrew Lambirth's William Gear, which accompanied the exhibition 'William Gear 1915-1997: The Painter that Britain Forgot', is by far the most ambitious book yet published on this notable Scottish painter (Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, 18 July - 31 August 2015; Edinburgh, City Art Centre, 24 October 2015 - 14 February... Read moreOpen -
Patrick Procktor: Works on Paper
February 12, 2017Rating: In 1967 David Hockney gave his friend Patrick Procktor a box of watercolours. It was a eureka moment for this flamboyant English painter, who embraced the medium with a skill and facility unsurpassed in his generation. It began a time of sell-out shows for Procktor, who seemed to... Read moreOpen -
Poet of the Trellis: On the need to revive William Gear's reputation
February 10, 2017William Gear belongs to that select group of artists whose work has been the subject of debate in the House of Commons. In 1951 the Arts Council purchased a number of works from different artists, including Lucian Freud and Ivon Hitchens, for the Festival of Britain Exhibition, paying £500 each.... Read moreOpen
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London Art Fair 2017
January 17, 2017The 29th edition of the London Art Fair, annually launching the art world's new year, is taking place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, from 17th - 22nd January. The Redfern Gallery will be situated on stand 20. Fair dates and times Tuesday 17 January: VIP Preview : 3pm –... Read moreOpen -
Arnold Van Praag at 90 | The Redfern Gallery, London
December 23, 2016Timelessness in painting, poetry, performance, music, and playwriting is found in works that emphasize the human condition devoid of date-specific events and artifacts. When Pina Bausch raised her hand and touched her face while stumbling to collide with chairs in Café Müller, Bausch was inherently expressing what Edvard Munch composed... Read moreOpen -
David Tindle RA: A Retrospective review – lush yet spectral
November 20, 2016Unless you live there, or close by, Huddersfield isn’t particularly easy to reach. The journey by train from Wakefield can take up to 40 minutes, the puttering two-carriage engine that works this route no match at all for the town’s magnificent neoclassical station. But never mind. Who cares about bad... Read moreOpen
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David Tindle RA: A Retrospective
November 12, 2016Huddersfield Art Gallery plays host to a free exhibition by Huddersfield born figurative painter David Tindle presenting a 60 year overview of his life and work. David Tindle RA is amongst the most renowned British figurative painters of his generation. Born in Huddersfield in April 1932, he held his first... Read moreOpen -
Paul Jenkins
October 27, 2016This exhibition focuses on a specially chosen group of canvases by internationally acclaimed American artist Paul Jenkins (1923-2012), including large-scale works, as well as the compelling and mysterious black and red Oracle triptych. Paul Jenkins is as much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation as with... Read moreOpen -
Art and Antiques Fair at Olympia
June 8, 2016The Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia is the UK’s largest and most established art and antiques fair, taking place from 28th June - 3rd July at London’s iconic Kensington Olympia Exhibition Centre. The Redfern Gallery will be situated on stand C15 . Fair dates and times Tuesday 28th: 11am-7pm Wednesday... Read moreOpen
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Pierre Skira: New Pastels
March 18, 2016Pierre Skira (b.1938) is one of the most distinguished living exponents of the medium of pastel with his own unique forms and colours. He was born in Paris, the son of the renowned Swiss publisher Albert Skira who worked with many of the leading European artists of the 20th Century... Read moreOpen -
The Art of Love
February 12, 2016Normally I’d run a mile from a romance-themed show opening just before Valentine’s Day, but the range and sheer quality of works brought together in Pure Romance at the Redfern Gallery transcend the cheesiness of its timing. There’s an abundance of boys, ballet and bosky landscapes which span from Christopher... Read moreOpen -
The Buck Stopped Here: Romance rules at the Redfern Gallery
February 12, 2016Normally I’d strenuously avoid any romance-themed show opening just before Valentine’s Day, but the range and sheer quality of works brought together by curator Ian Massey transcend the cheesiness of its timing. Boys, ballets and bosky landscapes span fr om stage designs for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, made by Christopher... Read moreOpen
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Danny Fox on Nostalgia, Sleaze and Mythological Painting
November 19, 2015How often, in contemporary culture, do we see artists who are permitted to exist publicly without being confined to the claustrophobic elitism of the art world? The stern structures dictating what a successful art career is now are so pre-formed to a fashionable hierarchy, that artists who work outside of... Read moreOpen -
The Exhibition: From the 60s on
June 24, 2015Having been reluctant to exhibit his work for decades, now, as he turns 80 this year, Neil Stokoe is showing paintings for the first time. From the 60s On at The Redfern Gallery, in Mayfair's Cork Street, marks an important moment in his career as he presents previously unseen large-scale... Read moreOpen -
Pass Notes: Brian Rice
February 10, 2014Everything you need to know about the iconic painter: Conor Mullan gives us the lowdown on rediscovered swinging 60s London painter Brian Rice. Who is Brian Rice? A 1960s abstract painter and scenester who lived with Derek Boshier, hung out with The Rolling Stones, The Who and David Hockney and... Read moreOpen
