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Viewing Antonia Showering

Above Antonia Showering

The Wick Culture - Omit, Antonia Showering 2020

Above Omit, Antonia Showering 2020

Above Antonia Showering

Above Omit, Antonia Showering 2020

26 January — 5 March 2022
Timothy Taylor, London
https://timothytaylor.com/exhibitions/antonia-showering/

If you haven’t yet heard of Antonia Showering, you soon will. The London-based painter, who counts Katy Hessel and Sofia Mitsola among her friends, has long been a favourite of the art glitterati but is poised for widespread acclaim thanks to her first solo show at Timothy Taylor in London.

Showering’s dreamlike compositions explore the emotional experience and the ephemeral nature of memory. ‘Paint allows me to record the cycles of time,’ she says. ‘I want to recreate intimate, universal moments drawn from my own experiences, desires and worries, but painted with enough ambiguity for the viewer to recognise something from their own realities in the work.’

Using dense, inky brushstrokes, Showering builds her canvases layer by layer. The resulting compositions are filled with coded storylines, cryptic symbols and figures she calls ‘the people I love or have loved’. Head on over and you’ll soon see what the hype’s all about.

Viewing Salon

Above Juan Arango Palacios

The Wick Culture - Emanuel de Carvalho, ALL THAT CRASH STUFF, 2021 (detail)

Above Emanuel de Carvalho, ALL THAT CRASH STUFF, 2021 (detail)

The Wick Culture - Juan Arango Palacios, Jungle Study 4, 2021 (detail)

Above Juan Arango Palacios, Jungle Study 4, 2021 (detail)

The Wick Culture - Kiki Xuebing Wang, Procession, 2021

Above Kiki Xuebing Wang, Procession, 2021

Above Juan Arango Palacios

Above Emanuel de Carvalho, ALL THAT CRASH STUFF, 2021 (detail)

Above Juan Arango Palacios, Jungle Study 4, 2021 (detail)

Above Kiki Xuebing Wang, Procession, 2021

13 January — 12 February 2022
Guts Gallery at The Sunday Painter, 117-119 South Lambeth Road, London
https://gutsgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/-salon/

Guts Gallery has made its name championing underrepresented and emerging artists from London and beyond. In keeping with its founding mission, this exhibition brings together eight rising stars exploring new frontiers in contemporary painting.

Works by London-based Emanuel de Carvalho and Jack Jubb will be shown alongside those by Kiki Wang and Preston Pavlis. You’ll also encounter works by the Japanese artist Motoko Ishibashi, whose practice boldly addresses notions of power, gender, the body and selfhood.

Unlike the traditional salon hang, the exhibited works are pushed to the outer edges of the gallery space, prompting the viewer to consider each work as a unique entity. If you’re looking to discover hot new talent, add Salon to your weekend to-do list immediately.

Viewing Old Masters, Modern Masters: Drawings from the Hussey Bequest

The Wick Culture - Paul Nash, Wittenham, 1935

Above Paul Nash, Wittenham, 1935

The Wick Culture - John Piper, Chichester Cathedral from the Deanery, 1975

Above John Piper, Chichester Cathedral from the Deanery, 1975

The Wick Culture - John Scarlett Davis, Interior of St. Sulpice, Paris, 1836

Above John Scarlett Davis, Interior of St. Sulpice, Paris, 1836

Above Paul Nash, Wittenham, 1935

Above John Piper, Chichester Cathedral from the Deanery, 1975

Above John Scarlett Davis, Interior of St. Sulpice, Paris, 1836

12 January — 10 April 2022
Pallant House, Chichester
https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/old-masters-modern-masters/

In celebration of its 40th anniversary in 2022, Pallant House in Chichester is showing a small but significant collection of rarely displayed drawings from its founding collection, the Hussey Bequest. Assembled by the Rev’d Walter Hussey, Dean of Chichester Cathedral, the collection spans the 16th to 20th centuries, with a strong focus on Renaissance works.

Old Master drawings and British landscapes by Thomas Gainsborough and John Robert Cozens will be shown alongside a group of beautiful set and costume designs for the Ballets Russes. One of the undoubted highlights of the show will be Head of an Eagle (c.1527-28), an ink drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Giulio Romano, who was the chief assistant of Raphael. Also worthy of note is Jean Antoine Watteau’s Etude de Quatres Personnages, avec Deux Femmes Assises (1708), which Hussey bought on the advice of his friend Henry Moore.

This bijou exhibition offers a rare chance to see some of the extraordinary ‘hidden secrets’ housed at Pallant House. Never has there been a better time to hop on a train south.