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Viewing Lisa Brice: Bar Games (1992 – 2023)

Visit Sadie Coles HQ on Bury Street and witness the career span of South African artist Lisa Brice. Working shrewd reinterpretations of femininity in both high and low culture, Brice layers and dethrones its art historical and contemporary archetypes in two singular works that span her career.

In response to famed works like Manet’s “A Bar at the Folie Bergère”, the paintings debate the double-edged aura of provocative allure and the traditional views of femininity in the context of the 1990s. The exhibition intends to critique objectified femininity and empowering women, offering a fresh perspective on contemporary and historical womanhood.

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Dates
02 June 2023 — 08 July 2023

Viewing Summer Exhibition 2023

In case you’ve missed it (and the question would be, how?!) Piccadilly is awash with art for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. On its 255th edition, renowned British artist David Remfry RA takes the reins as the exhibition co-ordinator, delving into the theme “Only Connect” from E.M. Forster’s novel “Howards End,” a phrase intended to capture the transformative potential of genuine emotional connection.

Encounter towering sculptures by Phyllida Barlow RA, a dramatic draped installation by fashion designer Richard Malone, a witty painting by comedian Joe Lycett and a room curated by Champion Tim A Shaw. An impressive 1,614 works are on display from both early career and established artists, including household names such as Tracey Emin RA, Hew Locke RA, Barbara Walker RA, and Gavin Turk, alongside previous Spotlight’s Lindsey Mendick, Caroline Walker, and Bobbye Fermie.

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Dates
09 June 2023 — 20 August 2023

Viewing Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins

In the quiet and reflective halls of Victoria Miro in Islington, experience the Chris Ofili’s latest body of work, ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’. Seven paintings created over six years, the works explore the notion and complexities of ‘sin’. Raised as a Roman Catholic, Ofili had long wanted to work through the themes and associations surrounding sin, seeing it as the generating principle for kick-starting the process of self-interrogation and knowledge. For Ofili, sin and reflection go hand in hand and, although not autobiographical, the series represents a spectrum of transgressive behaviours, with each painting taking a slightly different approach where one sin might become more dominant.
 
For Ofili, it felt like the right subject: for the time and for these times.’ Be transported into a spiritual realm where humans and mythical creatures coexist amidst magnetic forces of attraction and disgust and sit in the silence of introspection as Ofili delves into notions of the human condition. With an angel on one shoulder and maybe a little devil on the other, come and play in ‘The Seven Deadly Sins’.
 

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Dates
02 June 2023 — 29 July 2023
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