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Ecstasy
Emily Hunt 1 - 31 May 2025 Sim Smith is proud to present Ecstasy , Emily Hunt's second solo exhibition with the gallery, opening Thursday, 1st of May. In this exhibition, Hunt focuses on female artists who practiced magick while remaining deeply devoted to their artistic pursuits. The underlying thread of the exhibition is the search for... Read more -
Shake the cloud from off your brow
Gillian Ayres, Max Bainbridge, Max Boyla, Tim Garwood, Caroline Jackson 20 Mar - 19 Apr 2025 We are proud to announce the group exhibition Shake the cloud from off your brow, bringing together five British artists including the pioneering abstract painter Gillian Ayres CBE RA (1930 – 2018), Max Bainbridge, Max Boyla, Tim Garwood and Caroline Jackson. The exhibition looks to British art history, its radical... Read more -
All Those Nickel Wishes Cast as Spells
Cato 13 Feb - 15 Mar 2025 Sim Smith is pleased to announce All Those Nickel Wishes Cast As Spells , a solo exhibition by London based multidisciplinary artist and musician, Cato. This ambitious exhibition will showcase new large-scale works, charting his practice to this point whilst following his technique as it expands, propelling his painting forward... Read more -
Through The Wrong End Of A Telescope
Jonathan McCree 9 Jan - 8 Feb 2025 We are delighted to announce Jonathan McCree’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, Through The Wrong End Of A Telescope . Continuing McCree’s investigation of and fascination with exploring lived experience in the body, painting and sculpture open up in this exhibition, where time no longer progresses in a linear... Read more -
One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night
Anna Calleja 21 Nov - 21 Dec 2024 Sim Smith is proud to announce Anna Calleja’s first solo exhibition in the UK, One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night . This exhibition is an ode to the female experience, the contradictions within sexuality, bodily autonomy and queerness that challenge traditional conventions and expectations of the female... Read more -
Back To The Sky
Daisy Parris 8 Oct - 9 Nov 2024 Back To The Sky is an exceptional exhibition by Daisy Parris, a body of work made in their Somerset studio between 2022 and 2024. The use of light in the paintings in this exhibition is unparalleled in Parris’ practice to date. There is an extraordinary luminosity that beams through dense,... Read more -
This Place
Caroline Jackson 12 Sep - 5 Oct 2024 Sim Smith is delighted to announce Caroline Jackson’s first UK solo exhibition, This Place . The exhibition is an exploration of the artist’s intuition and investigation of paint, soaking, dripping and blurring through many forms. The nature of the paintings allow for a subject to emerge only to submerge again,... Read more -
Tender Buttons
Corri-Lynn Tetz 28 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Tender Buttons is Corri-Lynn Tetz’s first UK solo exhibition. Corri-Lynn Tetz is a Canadian artist whose practice concentrates on the female figure, with imagery taken from a collected archive of found imagery and personal photographs, to create indulgent, dream-like painted scenes that capture the vulnerabilities, enactments, and clichés of femininity.... Read more -
Loud It Up
Tim Garwood 16 May - 15 Jun 2024 The exhibition continues Garwood’s exploration of the rich possibilities of painting through diverse aesthetic strategies and materials that have become synonymous with his practice including glass, glitter, jute and lace. The paintings in this exhibition mark a moving on, or rather a moving through, his painterly language with the inclusion... Read more -
Always Love
Kate Groobey 21 Mar - 20 Apr 2024 Sim Smith is delighted to announce Always Love , Kate Groobey's third solo exhibition with the gallery, opening on the 21st of March. Kate Groobey’s latest painting and performance series Always Love reflects on what we can do in personally and politically heartbreaking times, and finds the answer is always... Read more -
Sea Monsters & Highballs
Tom Schneider 22 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 Sea Monsters & Highballs is Tom Schneider’s first solo exhibition in 25 years and the first in the UK. This exhibition sets out to investigate the history and practice of a painter once forgotten- one of the great artistic voices of Chicago, who honed his technique back in the 1990’s.... Read more -
All The Land Is Spoken For
Kemi Onabulé 11 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 Sim Smith is delighted to present All the Land is Spoken For, the second solo show with the gallery by British artist Kemi Onabulé. The exhibition explores our relationship to our environment, as consumers of a seemingly unending resource. Across the paintings in the exhibition, Onabulé traverses superficially magical forests... Read more -
Stellatundra
Phillip Allen, Hannah Beerman, Michiel Ceulers, Martin Creed, Tim Garwood, Marie Hazard, John Hoyland, Hilda Kortei, Sadie Laska, Chris Martin, Jonathan McCree, Yasmine Robinson. Curation by Tim Garwood. 23 Nov - 16 Dec 2023 Sim Smith is delighted to announce STELLATUNDRA, a vibrant, career spanning exhibition of intergenerational artists exploring material dexterity and possibility in abstraction. Curated by gallery artist Tim Garwood the exhibition features work by Phillip Allen, Hannah Beerman, Michiel Ceulers, Martin Creed, Tim Garwood, Marie Hazard, John Hoyland, Hilda Kortei, Sadie... Read more -
Crystal Radio Geist
Emily Hunt 19 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 Sim Smith is delighted to announce Emily Hunt's first UK solo show, Crystal Radio Geist. Hunt explores the history of witchcraft, the persecution of women, propaganda texts and the relevance of these topics for various communities in society today. Crystal Radio Geist will include ambitious new ceramic installations and elaborately... Read more -
Looking Like Fire
Anna Calleja, Sarah Faux, Jenna Gribbon, Kate Groobey, Norman Hyams, Lisa Ivory, Karyn Lyons, Juanita McNeely, Kemi Onabulé, Florence Peake, Lydia Pettit, Corri-Lynn Tetz 20 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 Sim Smith is proud to present Looking Like Fire , the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s newly expanded space. This exciting group exhibition includes some artists represented by the gallery, some who have contributed to the exhibition programme previously and others that the gallery is pleased to be working with... Read more -
Hannah Lees & Laurence Watchorn
24 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 Sim Smith is pleased to present an exciting two-person exhibition by British artists Hannah Lees and Laurence Watchorn. Working across painting and sculpture the artists reveal layers of unknowing and open-endedness, exploring our relationships to our environment, both past and present and removing context to allow more freedom for ideas... Read more -
Echoecho
Jonathan McCree 29 Apr - 4 Jun 2023 For this exhibition McCree's earlier cardboard sculptures are referenced in sand-cast aluminium arrangements hung onto the walls of the gallery, where the forms are echoed in wall painting and paintings on sheet aluminium. The new sculptures see shapes that McCree has worked with before metamorphosed; blown up, simplified, exaggerated in... Read more -
Dreams are my Reality
Aneta Kajzer 4 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 An orange duck wearing a bright blue wig floats on a moonlit pond. Or does it? Two stretchy arms wrap themselves around a tall green cup. Or do they? Aneta Kajzer’s paintings play with the limits of our perception. Recognisable forms and figures suggest themselves amid her lines, swirls and... Read more -
Add More Fuel To Your Life
Max Boyla 14 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 Across a cosmos of personal and cultural hauntings, Max Boyla's, Add More Fuel to Your Life , creates space for the viewer to consider the role of the artist, the malleability of symbols, and the dimensional limitations of perception. Through the reappropriation of images used to communicate romantic mythologies of... Read more -
Sabrina
Gillian Ayres, Tracey Emin, Pam Evelyn, Caroline Jackson, Francesca Mollett, Katy Moran, Victoria Morton, Daisy Parris, Hayley Tompkins, Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Curation by Russell Tovey. 19 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 In the decades following the inception of Abstract Expressionism, the movement expanded and regenerated in waves, with each phase bringing new artists, concepts, and perspectives. Although this style remains closely associated with the post-war New York avant-garde art scene, its reach spread beyond borders, and it is within the dynamic... Read more -
Female Stallion
Kate Groobey 8 Oct - 5 Nov 2022 Sim Smith is proud to present Female Stallion , Kate Groobey's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition develops across large oil paintings, accompanying performances and film. The protagonist of these works, Groobey's wife, the writer and poet Jina Khayyer is not only the beating heart of this show... Read more -
Arcadia
Kemi Onabulé 3 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 The drama, pleasure, and impossibility of arcadia is ubiquitous in art history. A quest for utopianism is always somewhat tethered to the ability to imagine and represent a multitude of worlds. Kemi Onabulé experiments with arcadia as an aesthetic and political concept - testing its limits and pertinence to contemporary... Read more -
SUPERPOWER
Karyn Lyons, Aimée Parrott, Allison Schulnik 18 Jun - 16 Jul 2022 Allison Schulnik's animation Moth cycles through metamorphosing symbols that are as fluttering and fragile as the titular insect's wings. Created with washy gouache on paper, her moth does more than shapeshift from caterpillar to cocoon to nocturnal flame-seeker. Wing markings become eyes and nipples and nurturing flowers suggest liquid human... Read more -
Horatiu Boldor
Tim Garwood 7 May - 11 Jun 2022 While the technique of reverse-glass painting has a deep tradition in Byzantine and central European religious and folk art, it has had strikingly little presence in modern or contemporary painting. How so? The medium's sheer clarity of colour and flawlessness of surface probably seemed to lack something of the essential... Read more -
Prospect and Refuge
Group Exhibition 12 Mar - 9 Apr 2022 I: Landscapeness What is landscape? Such a simple question brings to mind two patently obvious answers. First, places-the particular landscapes of accumulated subjective experience. Those images that show the shape of the world, held in memory. Take for example the walk to school, little legs transport you, your eyes and... Read more -
I see you in everyone I love
Daisy Parris 15 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 Poetry has the capacity - to quote Adrienne Rich - 'to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is renaming.' There is... Read more -
Wild Horses
Group Exhibition 20 Nov - 18 Dec 2021 BAR ALON, BEATRIZ GLEZSA, KATE GROOBEY, YANMEI JIANG, CHANTAL JOFFE, ANETA KAJZER, EMMA KOHLMANN, FLORENCE PEAKE, JURGA RAMONAITE, MAYAN TOLEDANO, AVIYA WYSE. CURATED BY BAR ALON AND SIM SMITH. Bodies existing together in a space is an experience that has recently become fraught and foreign. In a time when we... Read more -
Fairy Painting
David Surman 9 Oct - 6 Nov 2021 Surman's is a practice of storytelling; one with many plots and subplots. There are heroes, heroines, villains, ghosts, and their presence ripple out in seemingly disparate directions. Unsurprisingly, with a background in film, the subjects that populate his paintings have an implicit narrative momentum, within his own life and within... Read more -
Agnès V. par Jenna G.
1 - 29 May 2021 New works by American painter Jenna Gribbon with imagery from the iconic French artist Agnès Varda. In 1958, Agnès Varda was walking around the somewhat insalubrious rue Mouffetard, in Paris' Latin Quarter. She was pregnant with her daughter and carrying a hefty camera. The streets were dirty and crowded. Varda... Read more -
High Folly
Jonathan McCree 4 Feb - 20 Mar 2021 The Art of Possibility 'You can proceed according to a set program or you pick individual possibilities according to your personal taste. After all, there's enough of them. Don't worry if you're never 'done,' because the re-combination could proceed in perpetuity without ever becoming boring.' — Charlotte Posenenske Without possibility... Read more -
because because because because because
Ian Gouldstone 7 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Tuesday I spoke to Ian about his new installation. The first thing he talked about was a quote from Diane di Prima's poem 'Rant': THE ONLY WAR THAT MATTERS IS THE WAR AGAINST THE IMAGINATION ALL OTHER WARS ARE SUBSUMED IN IT Thursday Notes on because because because because because... Read more -
Start Again
Kate Groobey 10 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 'I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows of unheard songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of luminous torrents that I could burst -- burst with forms much more beautiful than those which are put up in frames and sold for a... Read more -
New Raw Green
Group Exhibition 18 Jul - 15 Aug 2020 Carl Anderson, Matijia Bobičić, Jonathan DeDecker, Sigrid Holmwood, Emily Hunt, Gibson / Martelli, Anthony Miler, David Surman, Thom Trojanowski, Aviya Wyse. Curated by David Surman. There is a shared assumption for those in the business of selling pictures that green isn't good for trade. Speculations on the evils of green... Read more -
Star-Studded Canopy
Daisy Parris 11 Jun - 11 Jul 2020 Pain does not frighten me as long as it is an enrichment but I am so afraid to use my strength for nothing... — Louis Bourgeois, diary entry, 1938. Generosity is one means by which we orient and navigate within our relationships and life. Present thinking points to the idea... Read more -
Abroad From Earth
Tim Garwood 6 Feb - 12 Mar 2020 The English language is rich in sea-words. I refer here to the signs passed from weary lips to fascinated ears across Britain’s long history of maritime labour. The world lived on water is a world unto itself, but when a place is so defined by its coasts, those words find... Read more -
A Snake Without A Head Is Just A Rope
Sebastian Hammwöhner, Vojtěch Kovařík, Dan Mandelbaum, Stefan Rinck 7 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 FEATURING: Sebastian Hammwöhner, Vojtěch Kovařík, Dan Mandelbaum, Stefan Rinck. In the early years of our 21st Century so much appears to have changed—technologically, sociologically, politically. Across cultures, inherent structures from the recent past of modernity, including of course the production of art are found inadequate, and often at times simply... Read more -
Sirens
David Surman 13 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 After the Age of Innocence 'Just as the painter touches his painting, so, it may be imagined, does the painting touch him. The fundamentally reciprocal dimension of touch encourages us to consider the painting itself as the agent of the process, and to imagine how this interactive object behaves rather... Read more -
Trophy
Sandra Lane, Bradley Wood 13 Jul - 10 Aug 2019 FEATURING: SANDRA LANE, BRADLEY WOOD Trophies have a dark past: in ancient warfare, all over the world, a trophy was anything plundered, severed or stolen from the defeated and deceased. A scalp, a skull, an arm or a leg would do nicely as a gruesome display of victory and macho... Read more -
They Catch Feelings, I Catch Bodies
Jenna Gribbon, Aneta Kajzer, Kemi Onabule, Anne Ryan 6 Jun - 6 Jul 2019 Featuing: JENNA GRIBBON, ANETA KAJZER, KEMI ONABULE, ANNE RYAN. They Catch Feelings, I Catch Bodies and You Watch Who are you? English language only knows one you . It's written in lower case and it's short form is the letter U. It can be you or the person that reads... Read more -
What Kind of Spirit Is This?
Group Exhibition 2 May - 1 Jun 2019 Featuring: MATIJA BOBIČIĆ, TIM GARWOOD, KATE GROOBEY, ALY HELYER, DOPPEL KIM, SANDRA LANE, JONATHAN MCCREE, DAISY PARRIS, MAÏA RÉGIS “I want to speak about bodies changed into new forms.” Ovid, The Metamorphoses At thirteen minutes “Misty” is the longest track on the tenth studio album “50 Words For Snow” by... Read more
