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Viewing Rose Wylie at David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Rose Wylie, Henry Triangle, 1996. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Above Rose Wylie, Henry Triangle, 1996. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Rose Wylie, Nebuchadnezzar's Dream, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Above Rose Wylie, Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

The Wick Culture - Rose Wylie, Lilith and Gucci Boy, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Above Rose Wylie, Lilith and Gucci Boy, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Above Rose Wylie, Henry Triangle, 1996. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Above Rose Wylie, Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Above Rose Wylie, Lilith and Gucci Boy, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner

Rose Wylie: When Found becomes Given

David Zwirner
April 3—May 23, 2025

The inimitable British painter Rose Wylie returns to London this week with her latest body of works, going on show at David Zwirner. Jennifer Higgie describes Wylie’s world as “not neat” but embodying something “very human”, and it is this chaotic, exuberant, vitality that makes Wylie so unique as an artist.

In this exhibition, titled ‘When Found becomes Given’, new and recent canvases and multipanel works blur the realms of the personal, symbolic, and historical—inhabiting real and imagined timelines, confusing our sense of any linear chronology (much like life itself). Colourful and witty, these paintings reveal Wylie’s recent formal interest in composition. Depicting apparently disparate things and often referencing history, contemporary culture and dreams, these paintings appear to hum and whir with their own wonderful rhythms.

This show is a taster of what is to come at the Royal Academy of Arts next year, when Wylie will have a major solo exhibition across the main galleries.

Viewing Secrets of the Thames at the London Museum

The Wick Culture - Lead badges (1300–1500) go on display at London Museum Docklands’ Secrets of the Thames exhibition. Image courtesy of London Museum

Above Lead badges (1300–1500) go on display at London Museum Docklands’ Secrets of the Thames exhibition. Image courtesy of London Museum

The Wick Culture - The neck from a stoneware bottle with a bearded face known as a Bartmann bottle 1500s – 1600s. The bearded face decorating the neck lies half-buried on the foreshore. Image courtesy of Alessio Checconi and London Museum

Above The neck from a stoneware bottle with a bearded face known as a Bartmann bottle 1500s – 1600s. The bearded face decorating the neck lies half-buried on the foreshore. Image courtesy of Alessio Checconi and London Museum

The Wick Culture - Mudlark Monika Buttling-Smith searches the foreshore. Image courtesy of London Museum

Above Mudlark Monika Buttling-Smith searches the foreshore. Image courtesy of London Museum

Above Lead badges (1300–1500) go on display at London Museum Docklands’ Secrets of the Thames exhibition. Image courtesy of London Museum

Above Mudlark Monika Buttling-Smith searches the foreshore. Image courtesy of London Museum

Secrets of the Thames

London Museum
15 Apr 2025 – 1 March 2026

The London Museum’s crowd-pleasing new exhibition takes as its subject the life vein of the capital, the River Thames, and all the traces of lives that have passed along it. Featuring more than 350 objects found on the river bed – a practice called mudlarking, when items are collected when the tide recedes, twice a day – this fascinating collection gives an account of the city like no other.

Mudlarking is an historical scavenging practice dating back to the 18th century, when Londoners collected items to sell – often a means of survival, but nowadays is a niche hobby. This London Museum show is the first ever exhibition devoted to it. Artefacts uncovered date back to the Roman era, and represent shifts in trade and commerce, everyday life and culture in the city.

Many of the long lost treasures tells mysterious and ominous stories, giving a fresh perspective on London and its life in the past and present, from a 500-year-old knitted Tudor hat, a dagger, and a set of false teeth from the 18th century, to an old poison bottle and an ivory sundial.

Viewing Transposition by The Balvenie x Samuel Ross at Historic Foundry in Milan

The Wick Culture - TRANSPOSITION Samuel Ross x The Balvenie. Photo courtesy of Francesco Stelitano

Above TRANSPOSITION Samuel Ross x The Balvenie. Photo courtesy of Francesco Stelitano

Above TRANSPOSITION Samuel Ross x The Balvenie. Photo courtesy of Francesco_Stelitano

Above TRANSPOSITION Samuel Ross x The Balvenie. Photo courtesy of Francesco Stelitano

Above TRANSPOSITION Samuel Ross x The Balvenie. Photo courtesy of Francesco_Stelitano

TRANSPOSITION by The Balvenie x Samuel Ross

Historic Foundry, Milan
April 8 – 11, 2025

Among The Wick’s highlights of Milan Design Week is Dr Samuel Ross MBE’s collaboration with The Balvenie, on view at the Historic Foundry in the Isola District. Ross and his studio, Atelier SR_A, have created an immersive sculptural environment, a dynamic reimagining inspired by half a century of stories drawn from The Balvenie Fifty Collection.

Ross is known for his celebration of craft and exploration of form, combining fashion, industrial design and fine art, and this installation considers aspects of hospitality, described by Ross as “a collision between two worlds. Between the elements and the man made. Between craft and industry.”

TRANSPOSITION is a site-specific and sensory work featuring light, mist and sound, with copper sculptures encasing vertical rivers installed throughout the building – a bold visual ake on whiskey production. A copper bar has been installed to serve The Balvenie expressions, with specially designed glassware crafted for the occasion. The experience of the space, they say, will change the way you taste. We can’t wait to try it.