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Viewing Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years at Royal Scottish Academy

The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage, 2025 and Ferns, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage, 2025 and Ferns, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Wool Runner, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool Runner, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Elm leaves held with water to fractured bough of fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 29 October 2010, 2010, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Elm leaves held with water to fractured bough of fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 29 October 2010, 2010, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

The Wick Culture - Viewing Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years at Royal Scottish Academy

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The Wick Culture - Andy Goldsworthy, Wool. Hung from fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 6 August 2015, 2015, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool. Hung from fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 6 August 2015, 2015, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Oak Passage, 2025 and Ferns, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool Runner, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

Above Andy Goldsworthy, Wool. Hung from fallen elm. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 6 August 2015, 2015, archival inkjet print. From Fallen Elm, 2009–ongoing. Courtesy of the Artist

Andy Goldsworthy | Fifty Years

Royal Scottish Academy
26 July – 2 November, 2025

If you’re Edinburgh for the fringe this summer, be sure to also make a stop at the Royal Scottish Academy to see Andy Goldsworthy’s largest and most ambitious indoor exhibition ever – a rare opportunity to see a conventional show by the Scottish artist best known for his works that exist only temporarily made with clay, stones, reeds, branches, snow and ice.

Fifty Years includes more than 200 works, with wow-factor site-specific installations that have earned the exhibition five-star reviews. There are also drawings, documentations and films that span the Scottish artist’s influential five-decade career to date, tracing works he has made everywhere from the Artic Cirlce to the Queensland rainforest to the streets of London.

The show reveals the many facets to Goldsworthy’s unique practice and approach to creating and viewing art, and our fraught and precious relationship with the natural world and animals. “We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So, when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.

Viewing Sincerely, The Summer Group Show 2025 at Sarabande

Above Giulia Grillo

Above Camila Barvo

Above Christian Hiadzi

Above Francoise

Above Shannon Swinburn

Above Giulia Grillo

Above Camila Barvo

Above Christian Hiadzi

Above Francoise

Above Shannon Swinburn

Sincerely, The Summer Group Show 2025

Sarabande Foundation
31 July – 5 September 2025

The Wick always looks forward to the Sarabande Foundation’s annual summer showcase, where twenty of the artists currently in residence in their studios across their Haggerston and Tottenham sites present the work they have made over the past year.

Sarabande Foundation is the late, legendary designer Alexander McQueen’s non-profit, and supports visual artists and designers in several ways: through funding places for young artists to study, studio spaces, and a programme of exhibitions and events. Their studios offer young and emerging artists an opportunity to experiment and research at the beginning of their career. Many of their former artists in residence go on to become major international names.

This year the showcase is split into two three week group shows: The first part To: will run from 31 July to 15 August, followed by the second From:, taking place from 19 August to 5 September. Expect a range of media and extraordinary, original work.

Viewing A Day the Seaside at Oliver Projects Gallery

The Wick Culture - Eileen Cooper RA, Hopeful Travellers, 2023

Above Eileen Cooper RA, Hopeful Travellers, 2023

The Wick Culture - Archie Franks, 99, 2024

Above Archie Franks, 99, 2024

The Wick Culture - Gavin Lockheart, A Grand Plan, 2021

Above Gavin Lockheart, A Grand Plan, 2021

Above Oliver Projects

Above Eileen Cooper RA, Hopeful Travellers, 2023

Above Archie Franks, 99, 2024

Above Gavin Lockheart, A Grand Plan, 2021

Above Oliver Projects

A Day at the Seaside

Oliver Projects Gallery
18 July – 16 August, 2025

High summer is upon us, and this week’s The Wick List is inspired by the seaside. First up is this group show in East Dulwich. A Day at the Seaside brings together artists from different generations: Sikelela Owen RA, Archie Franks, R&F Mo, Alice Macdonald, Gavin Lockheart, Ruth Dupré and the late Jeffery Camp RA among them, curated by the brilliant Eileen Cooper, Royal Academician and former Monday Muse at The Wick.

“I have always made work about the sea” Cooper said of the show. “Although the title for this group exhibition has a light and playful touch, the artists – who include Royal Academicians and others who I have known since they were at art school – will bring their own experience and imagery to the subject’s atmosphere, resulting in a joyful collection of works which respond to the theme in a variety of ways.”

The show marks the inaugural show at Oliver Projects new permanent home in south-east London, after years operating nomadically and via their online shop, with the ambition to make discovering and collecting contemporary art feel easy. All the works included in this show are priced at under £3,000.