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Viewing Cato at Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - Same again Mr Smith?, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above Same again Mr Smith?, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - The Loop, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above The Loop, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - Famous Ray's, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above Famous Ray’s, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - The Old One, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above The Old One, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

The Wick Culture - Mrs Night, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above Mrs Night, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above Same again Mr Smith?, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above The Loop, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above Famous Ray’s, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above The Old One, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Above Mrs Night, 2025. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates

Cato

Saatchi Yates
13 November 2025 – 11 January 2026

Step into Saatchi Yates in St James’s this week where the gallery presents a new solo exhibition by Cato — the London-based, Brighton-born painter also known as Toby Grant. Spanning barbershops, diners, home interiors and music-filled studios, the canvases test a gentle, yet powerful, re-imagining of Black communal life. Cato doesn’t simply document reality — he constructs intimate, imaginative spaces populated by figures drawn from his South London orbit.

Technically, the works combine airbrush softness with painterly clarity, often exaggerating hands or heads to amplify gestures, mood and emotion. Hues are saturated, figures glow — expressions freeze into moments of stillness that feel cinematic in their clarity. In one painting, a barber-shop scene captures a sense of ritual: reverent, communal, as though the chairs and mirrors are altars to memory and identity. In another, musicians rehearse in a cramped studio — paintbrushes, canvases, even a dusty Picasso book on a table hint at art history and legacy, rooting the everyday in both personal and universal context.

With each scene, Cato invites visitors to inhabit spaces — imagined, remembered, and re-envisioned — where Black London life is visible, dignified, and full of quiet resonance.

Viewing Art Basel: Miami Beach at Miami Beach Convention Centre

The Wick Culture - Art Basel Miami Beach. General Impressions. Courtesy of Art Basel

Above Art Basel Miami Beach. General Impressions. Courtesy of Art Basel

The Wick Culture - Installation view of 'Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime)' by Stephanie Syjuco in Catharine Clark Gallery in 2016. © Stephanie Syjuco. Courtesy of the artist; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.

Above Installation view of ‘Neutral Calibration Studies (Ornament + Crime)’ by Stephanie Syjuco in Catharine Clark Gallery in 2016. © Stephanie Syjuco. Courtesy of the artist; Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York.

The Wick Culture - Sunil Gupta, 'The Party' from the series Exiles, 1986-1987. Courtesy of the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery

Above Sunil Gupta, ‘The Party’ from the series Exiles, 1986-1987. Courtesy of the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery

The Wick Culture - Maxwell Alexandre, Sem título [Untitled], 2025. Photograph by Julia Thompson.

Above Maxwell Alexandre, Sem título [Untitled], 2025. Photograph by Julia Thompson.

The Wick Culture - Chinyee, Untitled, 1987. Courtesy of Alisan Fine Arts

Above Chinyee, Untitled, 1987. Courtesy of Alisan Fine Arts

Above Art Basel Miami Beach. General Impressions. Courtesy of Art Basel

Above Sunil Gupta, ‘The Party’ from the series Exiles, 1986-1987. Courtesy of the artist and Vadehra Art Gallery

Above Maxwell Alexandre, Sem título [Untitled], 2025. Photograph by Julia Thompson.

Above Chinyee, Untitled, 1987. Courtesy of Alisan Fine Arts

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

Miami Beach Convention Centre
December 5 – 7, 2025

The doors open to Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 open once again this week, transforming Miami Beach into a global cornucopia of contemporary art, commerce and culture. This year’s edition (held at the Miami Beach Convention Centre from December 5–7) is being touted as the largest and most diverse edition yet, with 287 galleries from 44 countries and territories participating.

Among the fair’s highlights this year are the curated sectors dedicated to a wide spectrum of creative voices — from established masters to emergent talents, and from historical rediscoveries to cutting-edge digital experiments. The core Galleries sector coexists with dynamic Zones like Meridians (under the theme “The Shape of Time”), the forward-thinking Zero 10 (devoted to digital-era art), as well as the Nova, Positions and Survey sectors, showcasing new galleries, solo debut works, and experimental practices.

This broad curatorial ambition reflects a fair aiming to reshape what art fairs can be — more inclusive, more global, more responsive. In addition to traditional paintings and sculptures, visitors will find large-scale installations, immersive digital media, ecological and conceptual art, and cross-generational dialogues. But Art Basel of course is not just about what unfolds inside the Convention Centre — it’s part of a larger city-wide programme of events throughout Miami Beach, Wynwood, the Design District and beyond — hotels, public spaces, museums and even street corners become canvases, galleries, and exhibition sites. It promises to reflect the art world’s ongoing transformation, while offering a vivid, high-stakes snapshot of where contemporary art may be headed next.

Viewing After Nature at Proposition

The Wick Culture - After Nature at Propositions

Above After Nature at Propositions

After Nature

Proposition Bethnal Green
21 Nov 2025 – 14 Feb 2026

After Nature comes to Proposition’s Bethnal Green gallery from CLOSE gallery Somerset, a re-contextualisation of the group exhibition curated by Ben Tufnell, bringing together long-established masters of land and environmental art such as Richard Long and David Nash alongside a younger generation of artists looking to renegotiate humanity’s place in a fragile ecology.

Originally displayed in a rural setting at CLOSE gallery in Somerset, After Nature engaged in a quiet dialogue with its wild surroundings. There, sculptures, earthy pigments, and natural materials echoed the landscape outside. Now transplanted into the heart of London, in one of the world’s most urbanised environments, those same works strike a different — possibly even more urgent — chord.

Some pieces draw on raw natural processes: Long’s dramatic mud works, or sculptures and drawings made with ash, dust or recycled pigments; others imagine new relationships between species and spaces — for example, installations that evoke the perspective of pollinators or experiments in ecological re-awakening. At a moment when climate crisis and biodiversity loss are no longer abstract concerns but daily reality, After Nature becomes a gesture of resistance and reflection. Through its earthy materials and delicate forms, the exhibition speaks to what has been lost — but also points toward what might still be reclaimed.