Exhibitions

Simryn Gill: Shelter

Curated by Catherine de Zegher 20 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 London Opening: Friday, 20 September | 6-8pm In-conversation with Simryn Gill, Catherine de zegher & Mark Rappolt : Saturday, 21 September | 2-4pm RSVP Catherine de Zegher: Simryn Gill shell shelter sphere From the silverfish lodging in a book with worm holes to the protective birdhouse in Vegetation (2016), from... Read more

Penny Slinger

Exorcism: Inside Out 3 Jul - 7 Sep 2024 London Private View: Tuesday, 2 July | 6pm “We have many works that follow The Hero's Journey, but how many that track that of the Heroine? This journey of the embodied soul is not sexist; we all, male and female alike, need to discover who we are. It is like a... Read more

Erin Manning

100 Acres 31 May - 22 Jun 2024 London As a part of London Gallery Weekend How big is the forest? It is the forest of the world. It is infinite. It twists around as a snake swallows its own tail and has no end and no beginning. No one has seen its farthest dimension.' - Annie Proulx, Barkskins... Read more

Fathi Hassan

I can see you smiling Fatma 9 Apr - 25 May 2024 London Private View: 9 April | 6pm Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition with Edinburgh-based, Egyptian born artist, Fathi HASSAN (b. 1957, Egypt), marking the gallery's representation of the artist. Showcasing a new body of paintings and a site-specific wall painting, this will be Hassan's first exhibition... Read more

Alexis Hunter: 10 Seconds

Curated by Natasha Hoare 6 Feb - 28 Mar 2024 London Private View: 6 February | 6pm ‘…I set up the narrative sequences to work as advertising does, within a minimum of ten seconds.’ - Alexis Hunter Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo exhibition of works by Alexis HUNTER (1948-2014), a pivotal figure in the British Feminist Movement of the 1970s,... Read more

Women's Work is Never Done

Curated by Catherine de Zegher 14 Nov 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 London Private View: November 14 | 6pm “Catherine de Zegher’s writing and curatorial practice (…) is a monumental achievement. Yet it does not seek monumentality. It shows us how to value everything that disdains monumentality and reveals to us the immense importance of tracing other threads of (…) vital creativity by... Read more

The Resistance of Pen and Paper

26 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 London “Thanks to the resistance of pen and paper, it does make one slow down and think.' - Umberto Eco “For all this time, however much I begged for pen and paper, they wouldn’t give it to me. I had thought of all the things I would write whenever they gave... Read more

Peter Cook

Cities 18 Jul - 16 Sep 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is honoured to present the visionary work of British architect Sir Peter Cook . Drawing on his work over the past 60 years, the exhibition features a site-specific architectural environment produced especially for the gallery, together with a selection of drawings and paintings that trace the radical... Read more

Florence Peake

Enactment 30 May - 8 Jul 2023 London Richard Saltoun is delighted to present Enactment, a solo exhibition of multi-disciplinary visual artist Florence Peake . The exhibition presents new installations, sculptures, canvases, and works on paper that continue the artist's research into the possibilities of painting and complements her major solo exhibition at Southwark Park Galleries, running from... Read more

Outside, looking in

31 Mar - 20 May 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present Outside, looking in, a group exhibition celebrating the fundamental role women have played in the evolution of abstract art. The title is lifted from the writings of British artist Shelagh Wakely, inspired by the notion of questioning set divisions and hierarchies and examining... Read more

Antigone

Women in Fibre art 31 Jan - 24 Mar 2023 London Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to inaugurate the 2023 exhibition programme with Antigone: Women in Fibre Art, a group show celebrating the rich Eastern European textile art tradition. Focusing on gallery artists Jagoda Buić – who recently passed away - and Barbara Levittoux-Świderska , the exhibition will situate their pivotal... Read more

On Sexuality

Helen Chadwick & Penny Slinger 6 Dec 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 London On Sexuality presents the early, iconic works of Helen Chadwick and Penny Slinger . Widely considered among the most influential artists in British contemporary art, in the 1970s Chadwick and Slinger broke all taboos and conventions with their bold, visceral works that explored female subjectivity, especially in relation to sexual... Read more

Organised Killing

100 years of war and genocide 10 Oct - 26 Nov 2022 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Organised Killing , a landmark exhibition retracing the history of modern conflict from 1914 to the present-day war in Ukraine through the personal accounts of 13 international artists. Drawing its inspiration from the celebrated exhibition Face a L'Histoire at the Centre Pompidou in 1996, the exhibition... Read more

Haptic Vision

Rosa LEE and Jo BRUTON 20 Aug - 1 Oct 2022 London Private View: 14 September 6:30 pm Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Haptic Vision, a major exhibition dedicated to trailblazing feminist artists Rosa Lee and Jo Bruton , which puts into focus their massive influence on the UK’s abstract and feminist art of the 1980s & 90s. It is the first time... Read more

Born from Earth

Women in Ceramics 5 Jul - 13 Aug 2022 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents an all-women group show bringing together ceramics by 11 contemporary artists, from pioneers of the medium to young artists who keep pushing it forward. The exhibition features a bespoke display designed by Lisa Chan, founder of London-based creative studio It’s a Local Collective, which will transform... Read more

Romina De Novellis

Tales from the South 7 - 26 Jun 2022 London PERFORMANCE TIMES: Mon–Fri, 2–6 pm Sat, all day Sunday 26 June, all day Please book your place for the performance 24 hours in advance by emailing the date and time you intend to visit to rsvp@richardsaltoun.com . Richard Saltoun Gallery is delighted to present the first solo show in the... Read more

Everlyn NICODEMUS

12 Apr - 28 May 2022 London Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a major solo exhibition of African diaspora artist Everlyn Nicodemus (b. 1954), her first with the gallery. The exhibition marks Nicodemus' first solo show in London in over 15 years and brings together a selection of works spanning 40 years, including unseen paintings from The Wedding... Read more

The Conquest of Space

On Hannah Arendt 15 Feb - 2 Apr 2022 London The last exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's 14-month series inspired by the political philosopher Hannah Arendt will feature works by Sylvia PLIMACK MANGOLD (b. 1938), Elaine REICHEK (b. 1943), Carey YOUNG (b. 1970). Read more

Truth and Politics

On Hannah Arendt 1 Dec 2021 - 5 Feb 2022 London The seventh exhibition in Richard Saltoun Gallery's year-long series inspired by the political philosopher Hannah Arendt will display two historically significant artworks by ULAY (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, 1943-2020) and Allan SEKULA (1951-2013), together with three specially commissioned new sculptures by Aleksandra DOMANOVIĆ (b. 1981). The essay “Truth and Politics” is... Read more

Wilma Woolf

Domestic 25 - 27 Nov 2021 London In honour of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women we present Domestic, an installation by Wilma WOOLF documenting all the women that have been killed in the UK at the hands of male violence since 2013. This incredibly important work by Wilma WOOLF consists of eight... Read more