Matt Carey-Williams is marking his solo foray with a curatorial project after leaving Victoria Miro with two concurrent shows, or “Episodes”, as he calls them. Bump at No.9 Cork Street spans the generations and techniques to explore the diversity of contemporary painting by the likes of Rob & Nick Carter, Ana Benaroya and Sara Birns. As the curator explains: “‘Bump’ revels in the texture and nuance of contemporary painting, from the muscular, starry amazonians of Ana Benaroya, through the bourgeois disquiet of Marc Dennis, to the visceral abstraction of Savannah Marie Harris. Contemplating the past and heralding the future, ‘Bump’ will serve as a model for future Episodes at different spaces around the world.”

Scene I: Glen Pudvine, Mug saw him inaugurate his permanent space at 12 Porchester Place last month. We’ll be watching closely as Carey-Williams shakes up the London art scene…