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Viewing Donna Huddleston: Company at White Cube Mason’s Yard

The latest in a series of exhibitions Inside the White Cube, organised since 2011 at White Cube to showcase work by artists not represented or previously exhibited by the gallery, is Donna Huddleston: Company. Though she has presented her drawings to the public before – including at the Drawing Room in 2019 – this solo exhibition is the first time Huddleston has ever shown paintings, revealing a suite of new large-scale acrylic works.

Huddleston’s background is in set and costume design, and this becomes apparent in her approach, where drawing characters and their clothing is the beginning of rich and exploratory worlds, creating a sense of play and possibility, stylistically influenced by the technical drawings she used to do at theatre design school, graphic, flat and meticulously constructed fabulations. The scale of the figures Huddleston has made for Company also ventures into new ground; this time she’s worked at life size, so the figures feel present in the room. Though they touch on references taken from film, theatre, literature and classical painting, the characters are difficult to pin down to a time or place, inviting projection and imagination.

They might also be seen as self-portraits of the artist, to an extent. “When you paint figures there’s always an element of yourself in them.” Huddleston has said. “There’s an element of yourself in everything. I do find my face can appear in some pictures. I’m physically feeling the figure as I paint them – their posture, their stance, their composition. So I think naturally I place myself into them.”

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Dates
06 September 2024 — 28 September 2024

Viewing Unlimited Festival 2024 at Southbank Centre

Unlimited Festival – founded in 2013 – is a multi-artform, perspective-shifting festival showcasing outstanding dance, performance, comedy, music, poetry and visual art by disabled artists. The packed four day programme taking place at the Southbank Centre includes a free exhibition of a new commission for Unlimited by photographer Suzie Larke. Larke spent three years making the work in collaboration with individuals and mental well being groups. Larke says of the project: ‘The essence of belonging is like the invisible thread that weaves through the fabric of our mental wellbeing. It’s not just a fleeting desire or a passing fancy; it’s a fundamental need within us. When we feel connected, valued, and accepted by others, it nourishes our sense of self-worth and contributes significantly to our overall happiness.’


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Dates
04 September 2024 — 08 September 2024

Viewing Your Mind is Now An Ocean at Pilar Corrias

This beautiful group show titled Your Mind is Now an Ocean at Pilar Corrias – including artists Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Keren Cytter, Sophie von Hellermann, Manuel Mathieu, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, and Julião Sarmento – explores the ocean’s significance in art, as a subject and symbol signalling the sublime and the unconscious.

Immerse yourself in Keren Cytter’s short film Ocean (2014), where the show gets its title. As the characters lives seem to unravel, the ocean seems to offer comfort and solace. Elsewhere, works Manuel Mathieu explore paints watery interactions with the surface of the canvas, leading the artist to contemplate conceptual ideas about disappearing and the ephemeral, while Mary Marsden hints at the sea in oil paintings rendered with sparse marks.

We also love the episodic series of minimal, restrained line drawings Koo Jeong A made to record experiences, both literal and imagined, of swimming and walking within a landscape, fragments that evoke natural surroundings – craggy cliffs or jutting rocks – that also speak to the feeling of being alone and open to the elements. Your Mind is Now An Ocean offers an unexpected and poetic look at an subject with ancient roots in art, timely without being corny. Take a dip before it closes at the end of the week.

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Dates
31 July 2024 — 30 September 2024
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