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Viewing Luke Edward Hall: 300,000 Kisses

The Wick Culture - Luke Edward Hall, In Praise Of Imperfections, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, In Praise Of Imperfections, 2023

The Wick Culture - Luke Edward Hall, It's Tough Being a Gigolo, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, It’s Tough Being a Gigolo, 2023

The Wick Culture - Luke Edward Hall, Aristophanes on Love, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Aristophanes on Love, 2023

The Wick Culture - Luke Edward Hall, Don't Feed The Horses, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Don’t Feed The Horses, 2023

The Wick Culture - Luke Edward Hall, Gays For Democracy, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Gays For Democracy, 2023

The Wick Culture - Luke Edward Hall, Pausanius On Love III, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Pausanius On Love III, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, In Praise Of Imperfections, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, It’s Tough Being a Gigolo, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Aristophanes on Love, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Don’t Feed The Horses, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Gays For Democracy, 2023

Above Luke Edward Hall, Pausanius On Love III, 2023

Luke Edward Hall: 300,000 Kisses
No.9 Cork Street, Mayfair

3 – 18 November 2023

Queer love in the ancient world gets long overdue attention at No.9 Cork Street this month in Luke Edward Hall’s solo show 300,000 Kisses, presented by The Breeder. The artworks are taken from the Penguin book of the same name – a series of suppressed or forgotten queer tales on love, desire and affection, written by the poet Sean Hewitt.

Hall’s vibrant and lyrical paintings give contemporary life to classical iconography, showing the vulnerability, beauty and the eroticism of the male body. Dreamlike and romantic, yet psychologically charged, these are works that seduce.

Viewing Mat Collishaw at Kew Gardens

The Wick Culture - Installation view of Mat Collishaw's Albion at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

Above Installation view of Mat Collishaw’s Albion at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

The Wick Culture - All Fathomless Others, by Mat Collishaw

Above All Fathomless Others, by Mat Collishaw

The Wick Culture - Every Sweet Endowment, by Mat Collishaw

Above Every Sweet Endowment, by Mat Collishaw

Above Installation view of Mat Collishaw’s Albion at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art

Above All Fathomless Others, by Mat Collishaw

Above Every Sweet Endowment, by Mat Collishaw

Mat Collishaw: Petrichor
Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew Gardens

20 October 2023 – 7 April 2024

Nature’s Enigma Unveiled. Explore the captivating art of Mat Collishaw as it graces Kew Gardens this month. ‘Petrichor’ unfolds in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, where new creations intermingle with his existing works, inspired by the wonders of the natural world.

From plants that dine on insects to digital hybrids and an animated ancient oak, Mat’s eerie realm blurs art and nature’s boundaries using art history and AI. Don’t miss his zoetrope magic, where light breathes life into still sculptures, turning them into fluttering birds amid blooming blossoms. Welcome to the mesmerising world of Collishaw. It’s a fine place to hang out.

Viewing David Hockney at the National Portrait Gallery

The Wick Culture - Self Portrait (detail; 2022), David Hockney. Collection of the artist. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson; © David Hockney

Above Self Portrait (detail; 2022), David Hockney. Collection of the artist. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson; © David Hockney

The Wick Culture - Harry Styles, May 31 2022. David Hockney. Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson/© David Hockney

Above Harry Styles, May 31 2022. David Hockney. Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson/© David Hockney

The Wick Culture - Lucie-Lune Lambouley and Louis-Martin Lambouley (2022). David Hockney. Copyright © David Hockney, 2022

Above Self Portrait (detail; 2022), David Hockney. Collection of the artist. Photo: Jonathan Wilkinson; © David Hockney

Above Harry Styles, May 31 2022. David Hockney. Photograph: Jonathan Wilkinson/© David Hockney

David Hockney: Drawing From Life
National Portrait Gallery, St. Martin’s Place

2 November 2023 – 21 January 2024

David Hockney’s “Drawing From Life” ran for just 20 days at the National Portrait Gallery in 2020 before it was cut short due to the pandemic. Don’t miss the next iteration, bolstered by over 30 new portraits of the friends and visitors to his Normandy studio between 2021 to 2022. Even Harry Styles is rendered in Hockney’s deceptively simple, yet confident hand, sporting a striped cardigan and pearls.

Among the original sitters were his mother, Celia Birtwell, Gregory Evans, Maurice Payne and the artist himself, all drawn with a rare intimacy and familiarity. This is Hockney the draughtsman at his very best.