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Viewing Colour at Tristan Hoare

The Wick Culture - Leila Bartell, Colour, Tristan Hoare. Image courtesy of Tristan Hoare Gallery.

Above Leila Bartell, Colour, Tristan Hoare. Image courtesy of Tristan Hoare Gallery.

The Wick Culture - Colour, Tristan Hoare. Image courtesy of Tristan Hoare Gallery.

Above Colour, Tristan Hoare. Image courtesy of Tristan Hoare Gallery.

Above Leila Bartell, Colour, Tristan Hoare. Image courtesy of Tristan Hoare Gallery.

Above Colour, Tristan Hoare. Image courtesy of Tristan Hoare Gallery.

Colour

Tristan Hoare Gallery
27 February – 29 March, 2025

Colour is of course one of the most salient and important aspects of the visual arts – yet colour is far from a universally understood experience. Artists through the ages have adapted colours to make bold expressions and statements about the world, but this new group show pinpoints the period of Color Field movement in the 1950s and its influence on contemporary colourists.

Curated by Flora Hesketh and Omar Mazhar, this exciting exhibition acknowledges the way various cultural understandings of colour can change the meaning of an artwork, including 27 artists from different continents, from the very established (Bridget Riley, Ellsworth Kelly, Howard Hodgkin) to a new generation of artists engaging with colour in different ways (such as Leila Bartell, recently featured on The Wick).

Full of wonder, luster and awe, this exhibitions charts the symbolic significance of colours and the immense evocative power they possess. The possibilities are endless. As Bridget Riley once put it: “If you can allow colour to breathe, to occupy its own space, to play its own game in its unstable way, it’s wanton behaviour, so to speak. It is promiscuous like nothing.”

Viewing Pascal Sender: Happy Hour at Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - Pascal Sender, Rollanada, 2025. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Above Pascal Sender, Rollanada, 2025. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - Pascal Sender, Micela, 2025. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Above Pascal Sender, Micela, 2025. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - Pascal Sender, PleasureHunter, 2024. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Above Pascal Sender, PleasureHunter, 2024. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Above Pascal Sender, Rollanada, 2025. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Above Pascal Sender, Micela, 2025. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Above Pascal Sender, PleasureHunter, 2024. Photo courtesy of Pascal Sender and Saatchi Yates

Pascal Sender: Happy Hour

Saatchi Yates
6 March – 11 April 2025

Pascal Sender, a former student of Peter Doig and a graduate of the RA school, is becoming increasingly recognisable for his mind-boggling, complex figurative paintings of contorted, surreal figures and everyday scenes: in one painting, a figure scoots along the road, while in another a bodybuilder postures for a selfie. Sometimes the image is as straightforward as a man waiting for a bus – but Sender makes every moment unforgettable.

This is the Swiss artist’s second solo show at Saatchi Yates, following his debut in 2020. This new body of work focuses on recreation in a digital age, hybrid figures that appear to be part mechanical, and seem to speed along with an intense velocity, on scooters, skates and jet skis.

Sender takes this expression even further in his paintings by introducing the Pascal Sender app, hand coded by the artist, through which his works become animated with Augmented Reality as three dimensional forms. The app can be downloaded and the paintings viewed through your phone – adding another fascinating dimension to this innovative artist’s practice.

Watch our interview with Sender to find out more about the exhibition.

Viewing Homesick at the Sarabande Foundation

The Wick Culture - Bex Massey, Tom. Photo courtesy of Bex Massey and Sarabande Foundation

Above Bex Massey, Tom. Photo courtesy of Bex Massey and Sarabande Foundation

The Wick Culture - Semin Hong, Tale of Home, 2024. Photo courtesy of Semin Hong and Sarabande Foundation

Above Semin Hong, Tale of Home, 2024. Photo courtesy of Semin Hong and Sarabande Foundation

The Wick Culture - Jia Xi Li, Unmatched, 2024. Photo courtesy of Jia Xi Li and Sarabande Foundation

Above Jia Xi Li, Unmatched, 2024. Photo courtesy of Jia Xi Li and Sarabande Foundation

Above Bex Massey, Tom. Photo courtesy of Bex Massey and Sarabande Foundation

Above Semin Hong, Tale of Home, 2024. Photo courtesy of Semin Hong and Sarabande Foundation

Above Jia Xi Li, Unmatched, 2024. Photo courtesy of Jia Xi Li and Sarabande Foundation

Homesick

Sarabande Hertford Road
5 – 12 March 2025

Sarabande Foundation’s annual celebratory exhibition to mark International Women’s Day is always a highlight at this time of year, bringing together resident artists from the Foundation’s studios. This year’s exhibition presents eleven Sarabande artists in an exhibition exploring notions of ‘home’.

Titled Homesick, the show considers the way home may be something in constant flux, a state of perpetual building and rebuilding, not a fixed idea or place. Conversations about home in relation to queerness, nomadism, and post-humanism naturally break with conventional interpretations of the domestic space and its artistic representation, sparking new conversations.

Highlights include Kasia Wozniak’s wet plate collodion photographs, dreamy and otherworldly contemplations of nostalgia and time, Bex Massey’s paintings of everyday objects and items drawn from childhood, reflecting on how our surroundings reflect values – or might hijack them – and Helena Lacy’s beautiful ceramic pieces, which look to nature for grounding.