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Viewing:  Jodie Carey upends sculptural traditions at Bishopsgate

British artist Jodie Carey’s towering, highly textured sculptures are transforming the glass atrium of 100 Bishopsgate as part of Brookfield Properties’ Beyond the Matrix exhibition series, giving a platform to female artists. Produced in partnership with The Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA), the two shows pair an artist and a curator (Eve Miller of Edel Assanti, in this instance).

Carey draws on making skills with a feminine past in her sculptures. “Juxtaposing crafts traditionally associated with women allows me to make work that offers a counterpoint to the traditional idea that sculpture needs to be heavy, solid, carved or cast, but instead can be sewn or woven, made by women and created in places outside the studio,” she explains.

Next up will be Amelia Bowles in September, in a show curated by Mille Jason Foster of Gillian Jason Gallery. Both artists explore the relationship between space, mass and materiality in works that will be beautifully offset by their glass surrounds.

Viewing  Cristina de Miguel’s melting figures at Almine Rech

Bodies melt and morph in the wild, gestural paintings of Spanish artist Cristina de Miguel. There’s a delicious streak of risk to the works in her solo show, Dissolving, at Almine Rech, created by applying acrylic on to wet surfaces. It’s as if she is letting go, freeing the body from its rigid confines and allowing it to distort as it pleases. The result is highly expressive works that radiate their own energy. The physicality of the paint itself also comes to the fore.

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Dates
29 February 2024 — 06 April 2024

Viewing  Collect brings together a feast of the handmade at Somerset House

Collect, the annual fair for contemporary craft and design, celebrates its 20th edition this week with a bumper crop of 40 international galleries representing more than 400 artists at Somerset House. It’s a textural feast, featuring museum-quality pieces handmade in ceramics, glass, lacquer, textiles, wood, metal, paper, resin, corn-starch and more.

Each object – from vessels and furniture to wall hangings and art jewellery – has a story to tell. Among our highlights are textile works by Juan Arango Palacios and and Talia Ramkilawan, exploring queerness and memories; collaborative ceramic vessels by father and daughter duo Chris and Freya Bramble-Carter, in which faces emerge from ocean-like glazes; and glass shipwrecks by James Devereux

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Dates
01 March 2024 — 03 March 2024
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The Wick Culture - Yeonjoon Yoon, Gavin Poole, Conrad Shawcross, Tristram Hunt at UMBILICAL

Happenings Conrad Shawcross: UMBILICAL at Here East

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The Wick Culture - Gallery view of the 2025 Summer Exhibition
Photo: © David Parry/ Royal Academy of Arts

Happenings RA Summer Party

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The Wick Culture - Katy Wickremesinghe at Dulwich Picture Gallery

Happenings Rachel Jones at Dulwich Picture Gallery

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The Wick Culture - Katy Wickremesinghe at Dulwich Picture Gallery

Happenings Rachel Jones at Dulwich Picture Gallery

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The Wick Culture - The Weston Collections Hall at V&A East
Storehouse, including over 100 mini
curated displays ‘hacked’ into the ends
and sides of the storage racking. Image by Hufton + Crow for V&A

Happenings V&A East Storehouse

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The Wick Culture - Shezad Dawood

Happenings Chain of Hope at Saatchi Gallery

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