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Viewing Banking on Banksy

The world’s most elusive artist gets a new exhibition at Red Eight Gallery, the first contemporary art gallery in the Square Mile. Located in The Royal Exchange, it champions established and emerging artists, including Boogie Moli, Adel Dauood and Lisa Thomson, and offers secondary market works by such celebrated names as Keith Haring, Harland Miller and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The gallery’s buzzy debut show, Banking on Banksy, presents some of Banksy’s most popular prints such as Girl with Balloon and Happy Choppers alongside one-off works and signed editions. Among the works up for grabs are Flower Thrower, No Ball Games and Christ with Shopping Bags. Prices start at a hefty £25,000, but happily you can visit for free.

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Dates
25 August 2022 — 15 September 2022

Doing Hospital Rooms: Like there is hope and I can dream of another world

Here’s your chance to see contemporary art making a difference. Currently installed across Hauser & Wirth’s London gallery is a major exhibition showcasing the work of arts and mental health charity Hospital Rooms. It is part of a new three-year long partnership with the charity to support their vital work in NHS mental health services.

Founded by artist Tim A Shaw and curator Niamh White, Hospital Rooms aims to radically transform the face of mental health care in the UK and beyond by bringing meaningful creative opportunities to those with severe and enduring mental health diagnoses.

‘We have been long-standing supporters of Hospital Rooms,’ says Hauser & Wirth Partner Neil Wenman. ‘Having seen the impact of their work in NHS mental health inpatient units across the country, we firmly believe that art plays an important role in changing lives and providing joy and dignity to stimulate and heal.’

You’ll see new works by Mark Titchner, Harold Offeh and Michelle Williams Gamaker that have been created in collaboration with people with lived experience of mental health services. Also featured is a new recorded composition created by the National Opera Studio in collaboration with students at the Springfield Hospital Recovery College.

Taking place on the final day of the exhibition is a live fundraising auction, featuring works by Julian Opie, Amy Sherald and Giles Deacon, among others. A little out of reach? Stay tuned for the new limited-edition release from Avant Arte x Hauser & Wirth in support of Hospital Rooms.

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Dates
19 August 2022 — 14 September 2022

Viewing New Mythologies II

This bijou exhibition features 11 contemporary artists working across painting, drawing and mixed-media who use mythology, symbolism and allegory to examine the urgent socio-political issues facing society today.

Jakob Rowlinson juxtaposes medieval motifs — think heraldry, coats of arms, and folktale — with BDSM aesthetics to explore gender, sexuality, and masculinity; while Charlotte Edey draws on science fiction and magical realist tropes to create surreal worlds that address notions of race, class and gender.

You’ll also see work by Tristan Pigott, Mary Herbet and Natalia González Martín, whose diptych Los Enamorados, Resolución En Dos Partes (2022) borrows iconography from the 15th century Ghent Altarpiece by Jan van Eyck.

Shown together, they present a radical look at the human condition and ask important questions about our world today. With a new space set to open in September, Huxley-Parlour is one for your autumn agenda.

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Dates
19 August 2022 — 17 September 2022
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