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Viewing Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman: Duets at Teaspoon Projects

The Wick Culture - Premiums, Royal Academy 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Premiums, Royal Academy 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

The Wick Culture - Sweet Nothings, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Sweet Nothings, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

The Wick Culture - Another Country Is Possible, 2025. Premiums I, Royal Academy of Arts, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Another Country Is Possible, 2025. Premiums I, Royal Academy of Arts, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

The Wick Culture - Our Lady’s Church of Assumption, 2025. Premiums I, Royal Academy of Arts, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Our Lady’s Church of Assumption, 2025. Premiums I, Royal Academy of Arts, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

The Wick Culture - Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman: Duets, Teaspoon Projects. Image courtesy of Studio Adamson

Above Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman: Duets, Teaspoon Projects. Image courtesy of Studio Adamson

Above Premiums, Royal Academy 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Sweet Nothings, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Another Country Is Possible, 2025. Premiums I, Royal Academy of Arts, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Our Lady’s Church of Assumption, 2025. Premiums I, Royal Academy of Arts, 2025. Photographer Andy Keate

Above Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman: Duets, Teaspoon Projects. Image courtesy of Studio Adamson

Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman: Duets

Teaspoon Projects
15 – 24 May 2025

Something a little bit different: a pop-up show by two friends who inspire each other, organised by Teaspoon Projects and curated by Gigi Surel and Mariana Lemos. Artists Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman share a close friendship and ongoing dialogue that informs their practices in different ways. This exhibition explores intimacy, and how that friendship, and who you’re close to, shapes who you are and what you create.

Both artists are concerned with storytelling through expressive use of their materials, though with very different outcomes. Gurung-Russell Campbell’s sculptural installations of knotted jute rope and flags, entangled with family photographs, are acts of labour and love that create a web of stories, past, present and future all strung together, complex and beautiful. Coleman, meanwhile, makes images by an equally intensive process, using materials like dye, bleach, pigment and rust, to transform fabrics into patchwork canvases, visual representations of these converging narratives.

Many great artists have formed fruitful and intense friendships throughout history and this exhibition is as much about the tension and dialogue, often private, that takes place around a practice, a reminder that artworks are never made in a vacuum.

Viewing Rankin: Faik Off at Annroy Studios

Above Rankin, Faik Off

The Wick Culture - Rankin, Faik Off. Image courtesy of Rankin

Above Rankin, Faik Off. Image courtesy of Rankin

The Wick Culture - Viewing Rankin: Faik Off at Annroy Studios

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Above Rankin, Faik Off

Above Rankin, Faik Off. Image courtesy of Rankin

Rankin: Faik Off

Annroy Studios
9 – 18 May 2025

Continuing London Photo Week, head to Annroy Studios until Sunday to see a special Rankin exhibition, Faik Off, interrogating the role of human creativity in the age of AI. Rankin has produced a series of AI-generated images and texts that each provoke ambivalent questions about artistic authorship and machine learning.

Rankin – celebrated as one of the UK’s leading photographers and one of the founders of Dazed & Confused magazine – has always been a pioneer in the visual realm. This latest exploration involved full immersion into the AI world, getting acquainted with software such as MidJourney and ChatGPT.

After nine months experimenting with these tech tools and delving deeper into the possibilities and problems with them, Rankin also produced a 420-page publication, also available to browse at the show. It’s a critical, and at times emotive look at AI.

Viewing Frieze New York at The Shed

The Wick Culture - Frieze New York 2025. Image courtesy of Frieze

Above Frieze New York 2025. Image courtesy of Frieze

Frieze New York

The Shed
7 – 11 May 2025

The international event of the art world week is Frieze New York, returning to The Shed in Manhattan from 7th to 11th May with sixty-five of the world’s leading contemporary art galleries, as well as a myriad of special projects and satellite events taking over the city.Christine Messineo, director of Frieze New York and Frieze Los Angeles, promises: “dynamic voices that shape today’s art world engage with the best and the brightest in New York City’s rich cultural landscape. The result is an experience that deepens one’s understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art.”

The Wick is particularly looking forward to this year’s Focus section, twelve exhibitors from around the world present solo shows by emerging artists, led by New York-based curator and writer Lumi Tan – the woman behind the traveling amusement park, Luna Luna. Focus this year includes sublime textiles by Citra Sasmita, the Balinese artist currently exhibiting at the Curve at the Barbican.

In a similar vein, also noteworthy are artists from the Americas, such as Pia Camil (presented by both OMR and Instituto de Visión), Claudia Alarcón, Maria Nepomuceno and Beatriz Milhazes (presented by Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel), revealing environmental connections expressed through community-making, with nods to inherited ancestral making practices.