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Viewing After Nature at CLOSE Gallery

The Wick Culture - Magnus Hammick, Reflection 4, April 2025. Courtesy the artist and CLOSE.

Above Magnus Hammick, Reflection 4, April 2025. Courtesy the artist and CLOSE.

The Wick Culture - Richard Long; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.

Above Richard Long; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.

The Wick Culture - Alastair and Fleur Mackie, Stack, 2024-2025, Archival Pigment Print, 60 x 90 cm. Courtesy the artists.

Above Alastair and Fleur Mackie, Stack, 2024-2025, Archival Pigment Print, 60 x 90 cm. Courtesy the artists.

The Wick Culture - Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker: iFADDiPqc5HU3KiFxjBEuG (Pollinator Vision, Early Summer), 2025. Courtesy the artist.

Above Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker: iFADDiPqc5HU3KiFxjBEuG (Pollinator Vision, Early Summer), 2025. Courtesy the artist.

The Wick Culture - Nissa Nishikawa, FOR HER, 2020, Saggar ceramic, 74cm circumference. Courtesy the artist.

Above Nissa Nishikawa, FOR HER, 2020, Saggar ceramic, 74cm circumference. Courtesy the artist.

Above Magnus Hammick, Reflection 4, April 2025. Courtesy the artist and CLOSE.

Above Richard Long; Courtesy Lisson Gallery.

Above Alastair and Fleur Mackie, Stack, 2024-2025, Archival Pigment Print, 60 x 90 cm. Courtesy the artists.

Above Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Pollinator Pathmaker: iFADDiPqc5HU3KiFxjBEuG (Pollinator Vision, Early Summer), 2025. Courtesy the artist.

Above Nissa Nishikawa, FOR HER, 2020, Saggar ceramic, 74cm circumference. Courtesy the artist.

After Nature

CLOSE Gallery
13 September – 25 October, 2025

Head to the captivating Somerset village of Hatch Beauchamp this week to see CLOSE gallery’s newly opened group exhibition, After Nature. Curated by Ben Tufnell, the show explores art made with nature in mind – inspired by its forms, materials and systems, contemplating how to address its infinite mysteries, cycles and inevitable transience.

The show traverses generations, from esteemed sculptors such as Richard Long and David Nash, both celebrated internationally for their evocative use of natural materials, to younger artists including Aimee Parrott, whose paintings and prints capture impressions of the non-linear movements of nature with breathtaking tacility, and new work by Fred Sorrell, whose research-based, abstract compositions evolve from colour studies made ‘in the field’ tracing the sensory experiences of the environment and its unique rhythms through the visual.

Also on view are Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s works simulating the perspective of bees and other pollinators, and Nissa Nishikawa’s ceramics fired with materials sourced from the surrounding landscape. Together – and especially potent against the rural setting surrounding the gallery – the works become a rallying call for environmental and ecological justice, addressing the complexities and fragility of our world, increasingly menaced by political decisions by major world leaders. After Nature invites audiences “to consider how contemporary art can offer new ways of seeing, sensing and engaging with the natural world at a time of urgent ecological change.”

Viewing Chelsea Arts Festival

The Wick Culture - Chelsea Arts Festival

Above Chelsea Arts Festival

Chelsea Arts Festival

Multiple venues
19 – 21 September 2025

The latest addition to the Autumn culture calendar is Chelsea Arts Festival, a four-day celebration of “modern storytelling for London”, rooted in the specific local history and heritage of Chelsea, by Country & Townhouse. The inaugural programme takes place across several venues and public spaces, including Sloane Square, Royal Court Theatre Cadogan Hall, the Saatchi Gallery and includes emerging talent, experts and leaders from diverse disciplines, including dance, theatre, music, literature and the visual arts.

Among the highlights is Friday’s Blue Plaques Talk, with Sir Stephen Fry, photographer Dennis Morris, journalist Lyse Doucet OBE and award-winning author Kathryn Hughes in conversation about the legendary figures commemorated in Chelsea’s most iconic Blue Plaques. Meanwhile at Saatchi Gallery, Zandra Rhodes (former Monday Muse at The Wick) will be in conversation with Daniel Lismore about fashion and identity. In addition to talks, live music is taking place all weekend at the Sloane Square bandstand, with plenty of activities and special family friendly performances and screenings, as well as painting workshops hosted by Art Play.

Not to be missed: The Wick’s very own founder Katy Wickremesinghe interviews author curator Ekow Eshun about Black Earth Rising, his latest fascinating publication, a research through more than two hundred artworks that illuminates the intersections between environmental justice, contemporary art and colonialism. The talk takes place at 12.15pm on Saturday, 20th September at the Saatchi Gallery.

Viewing Dulwich Picture Gallery Sculpture Garden

The Wick Culture - Dulwich Picture Gallery, Carmody Groarke, ®Johan Dehlin

Above Dulwich Picture Gallery, Carmody Groarke, ®Johan Dehlin

The Wick Culture - Rob and Nick Carter, Bronze Oak Grove, 2021

Above Rob and Nick Carter, Bronze Oak Grove, 2021

The Wick Culture - Li Li Ren, To Find a Way Home, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Sherbert Green, London. Image by Graham Turner

Above Li Li Ren, To Find a Way Home, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Sherbert Green, London. Image by Graham Turner

The Wick Culture - Dulwich Picture Gallery Sculpture Garden. Image by Graham Turner

Above Dulwich Picture Gallery Sculpture Garden. Image by Graham Turner

The Wick Culture - ArtPlay Pavilion, Dulwich Picture

Above ArtPlay Pavilion, Dulwich Picture

The Wick Culture - Carmody Groake, ArtPlay Pavilion view. Courtesy Carmody Groake

Above Carmody Groake, ArtPlay Pavilion view. Courtesy Carmody Groake

Above Dulwich Picture Gallery, Carmody Groarke, ®Johan Dehlin

Above Rob and Nick Carter, Bronze Oak Grove, 2021

Above Li Li Ren, To Find a Way Home, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Sherbert Green, London. Image by Graham Turner

Above Dulwich Picture Gallery Sculpture Garden. Image by Graham Turner

Above ArtPlay Pavilion, Dulwich Picture

Above Carmody Groake, ArtPlay Pavilion view. Courtesy Carmody Groake

Dulwich Picture Gallery: Sculpture Garden

Dulwich Picture Gallery
Open now

The final stop on our trio of sensational sculptural offerings in the capital this week is the newly opened Sculpture Garden at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Across three acres surrounding the gallery, visitors will find a series of sculptures that will delight, surprise and shed new light on the gallery’s collection and grounds.

The Lovington Sculpture Meadow provides solace and serenity, designed by leading land architect Kim Wilkie, and resplendent with various species. Taking over a field at the south side of the gardens and free to access, it includes a growing forest of 130 Oak, Wild Service and Elm trees, and a plaited land artform, inspired by the Girl at the Window, the 17th century painting by Rembrandt held in the gallery’s collection.

Equally unmissable is Harold Offeh’s Hail the New Prophets, an mythological spaceship, based on jazz musician Sun Ra’s mothership. Encouraging all ages to play, this whimsical and wonderful interactive sculpture is sure to be among visitor’s favourites for years to come.