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William Gear: the painter that Britain forgot
March 7, 2016William Gear's centenary retrospective - which opened at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (where he served as curator from 1958-64), and toured to City Art Centre, Edinburgh during 2015-16 - has received widespread, and positive, press coverage. 'Gear is little known now but in his time he was a controversial artist... Read moreOpen -
Bryan Organ portrait of Sir David Attenborough
June 7, 2016Bryan Organ's portrait of Sir David Attenborough has been unveiled at New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester. Organ had already painted David’s older brother, the actor and director Richard (later Lord) Attenborough, which also hangs in the same collection. Asked what it was like to paint David Attenborough, Organ... Read moreOpen -
Pass Notes: Brian Rice
February 10, 2014Everything you need to know about the iconic painter: Conor Mullan gives us the lowdown on rediscovered swinging 60s London painter Brian Rice. Who is Brian Rice? A 1960s abstract painter and scenester who lived with Derek Boshier, hung out with The Rolling Stones, The Who and David Hockney and... Read moreOpen
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David Tindle RA: A Retrospective
November 12, 2016Huddersfield Art Gallery plays host to a free exhibition by Huddersfield-born figurative painter David Tindle RA, presenting a 60-year overview of his life and work. Tindle is among the most renowned British figurative painters of his generation. Born in Huddersfield in April 1932, he held his first exhibition in London... Read moreOpen -
Paul Jenkins
October 27, 2016This exhibition focuses on a specially chosen group of canvases by internationally acclaimed American artist Paul Jenkins (1923-2012), including large-scale works, as well as the compelling and mysterious black and red Oracle triptych. Paul Jenkins is as much identified with the process of controlled paint-pouring and canvas manipulation as with... Read moreOpen -
London Art Fair 2017
January 17, 2017The 29th edition of the London Art Fair, annually launching the art world's new year, is taking place at the Business Design Centre, Islington, from 17th - 22nd January. The Redfern Gallery will be situated on stand 20. Fair dates and times Tuesday 17 January: VIP Preview : 3pm –... Read moreOpen
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Patrick Procktor included in new Tate Britain exhibition
April 3, 2017The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that work by Patrick Procktor RA will be included in Queer British Art 1861-1967, which opens at Tate Britain on 5 April - the first exhibition dedicated to queer British art. Unveiling material that relates to lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ+)... Read moreOpen -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2017
October 28, 2017The Redfern will be exhibiting at the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair in New York this year, in the River Pavilion at the Javits Centre. Now in its 26th year, the Fair presents 81 leading art dealers, from old master to modern to publishers of contemporary editions. The Redfern will... Read moreOpen -
Paul Feiler retrospective at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
April 21, 2018Paul Feiler: One Hundred Years will present the first major retrospective since the artist's death, bringing a dynamic selection of previously unseen works to public view, at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, from 21 April to 8 July. The display will include works that span his long and productive career, from... Read moreOpen
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London Original Print Fair 2018
May 3, 2018Now in its 33rd year, the London Original Print Fair will run in the Royal Academy of Arts' magnificent Main Galleries 3-6 May 2018. The Redfern Gallery will be situated on stand 34. Opening hours: Thursday 3 - Sunday 6 May Thursday 3 May 10am - 9pm / Friday 4... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar at Farleys House & Gallery
May 20, 2018Eileen Agar is the subject of an exhibition at Farleys House & Gallery, in Chiddingly, East Sussex, the home of the Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose from 1949 to 1984. As a good friend of both Miller and Penrose, Agar was a frequent visitor to Farleys. The exhibition features... Read moreOpen -
Masterpiece
June 26, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to be exhibiting at Masterpiece London 2018, on stand B10. Among the works on display are a life drawing by Frank Auerbach, completed while teaching at Camberwell School of Art in 1963, and which has been in a private collection for over 50 years; sculpture... Read moreOpen
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William Gear commemorated by English Heritage
June 27, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that a blue plaque has recently been erected by English Heritage at the former home of William Gear. Gear moved to 46 George Road in Edgbaston in 1964, after resigning from his role as curator of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne to take... Read moreOpen -
Paul Feiler painting acquired by the Tate
July 25, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that the Tate has recently acquired Paul Feiler's Janicon LXII, of 2002. One of the largest paintings completed as part of the Janicon series, this becomes the fifth work by Feiler to be held in the Tate's permanent collection, alongside works from the... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar retrospective at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
March 15, 2017The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that a new retrospective of Eileen Agar RA is taking place at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. The exhibition features work from the 1930s to the 1980s, in a range of media, including early collages, sculpture, photographs, and a painted turtle shell. Among the paintings... Read moreOpen
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Peter Sedgley at Tate Modern
August 3, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that the painting Colour Cycle III by Peter Sedgley is currently on show at Tate Modern. Completed in 1970 and purchased by Tate in the same year, Colour Cycle III will feature as part of Start Display, which introduces some of the best-loved... Read moreOpen -
Ffiona Lewis at Snape Maltings
August 3, 2018Suffolk-based artist Ffiona Lewis opens her exhibition of new work at Snape Maltings this weekend. The exhibition, which forms part of the 2018 Snape Proms, opens Saturday 4th August with work displayed in both the Concert Hall Gallery and Dovecote Studio. Among smaller watercolour and pastel studies, Summer Fields also... Read moreOpen -
David Tindle on John Minton
August 14, 2018David Tindle RA has taken part in a critically-acclaimed documentary on the artist John Minton, which aired on BBC4 on 13 August . Presented by Mark Gatiss, John Minton: The Lost Man of Art featured interviews with Sir Peter Blake, Bridget Riley CBE and the novelist Paul Bailey, among others.... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar re-contextualised in new group show
September 4, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to be loaning works by Eileen Agar RA to the exhibition The Secret Life of Stuff, which runs from 7-29 September at Arthouse1 . The exhibition takes inspiration from Thumb Rock , a watercolour painted by Agar in the south of France in 1936.... Read moreOpen -
IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2018
October 25, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to have participated in the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair 2018 at the Javits Center, New York. Among the highlights were Grosvenor School linocuts, including iconic images such as Speed by Claude Flight and Concert Hall by Sybil Andrews. Also on show were rare proofs... Read moreOpen -
Ffiona Lewis at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
December 3, 2018The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Ffiona Lewis is among eight artists invited to take part in an exhibition at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington. Each artist has been inspired by the atmosphere, landscapes, wildlife and activities relating to the theme of shorelines. Entitled Coast, the... Read moreOpen
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Danny Markey included in new museum show
November 15, 2016The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Danny Markey has been included in a new exhibition, opening at Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, which explores the nocturnal through paintings, prints and drawings. Among the works on display are Caspar David Friedrich's Winter Landscape; Edvard Munch's The Kiss; Marc Chagall's The... Read moreOpen -
John Carter at the Museum of Perception, Graz
January 30, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that John Carter RA is the subject of a new show at the Museum of Perception MUWA, in Graz, Austria. Entitled Extended Painting, the exhibition will showcase a series of 'wall-objects' created from 1986 to 2017, which are, in the artist’s words, “an... Read moreOpen -
Paul Jenkins in three museum exhibitions
February 20, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Paul Jenkins is currently part of two museum exhibitions in the US, and another in Spain. An important ink on paper, executed in 1954, has been included in By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, which runs at the Morgan Library... Read moreOpen
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Danny Markey in Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
March 5, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Danny Markey was chosen from over 1,000 artists to be shortlisted for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2019. Founded in 2005, the prestigious national art prize showcases the best of representational British painting and drawing, with prize money of £35,000. Markey is one... Read moreOpen -
Peter Sedgley in museum exhibitions
January 1, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Peter Sedgley has been included in Action - Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art, at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. The exhibition offers a comprehensive historical overview of Kinetic Art, the abstract art movement focusing on light and movement, from early pioneers such as... Read moreOpen -
John Carter: Sight Lines at Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
March 20, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, is staging John Carter: Sight Lines, a major retrospective spanning work from the past five decades. Spread across galleries 1 and 2, this will be the first major institutional survey of Carter's work in the UK. His dynamic... Read moreOpen
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Brendan Neiland retrospective in Leicester
January 9, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Brendan Neiland is the subject of a large-scale retrospective at De Montfort University, Leicester. Spanning more than five decades, the meticulous paintings of machine parts, cars, buildings and signage all capture his interest in contemporary production, design and highly finished modern surfaces.... Read moreOpen -
Norman Stevens at Salisbury Museum
April 10, 2017The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Norman Stevens ARA has been included in British Art: Ancient Landscapes, a group exhibition at Salisbury Museum. Featuring works by John Constable, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and JMW Turner, this large-scale survey show will explore how ancient megaliths and stone... Read moreOpen -
Linda Karshan and The Redfern Gallery at Draw Art Fair 2019
May 9, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to be participating in the first UK Draw Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery with a retrospective of drawings by Linda Karshan. The Redfern stand will show a selection of Karshan's drawings completed over the past three decades. As part of the Fair, Karshan will be... Read moreOpen
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Norman Stevens features in new touring exhibition
May 13, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to learn that Norman Stevens ARA has been included in The Printed Line, a touring exhibition of prints drawn from the Arts Council Collection, London. Opening at Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, the exhibition considers how artists have used a variety of printmaking media to exploit... Read moreOpen -
RA Summer Exhibition
May 31, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Sarah Armstrong-Jones and Danny Markey have been selected for this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. Both artists have shown at the annual exhibition regularly for the past two decades. They are joined by senior Academicians John Carter and David Tindle.... Read moreOpen -
The Redfern at Olympia
June 17, 2019The Redfern Gallery will be showing once again at this year’s Olympia Art & Antiques Fair. We will be placing an emphasis on the Grosvenor School linocuts, to coincide with Cutting Edge, the major retrospective at Dulwich Picture Gallery, which runs from 19 June to 8 September. This display will... Read moreOpen
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The Redfern at Masterpiece London
June 24, 2019The Redfern Gallery will be showing again at Masterpiece London, where a number of works are being offered for sale for the first time. Among the highlights is a black and white portrait by David Hockney of the American abstract expressionist Paul Jenkins, painted c. 1963. Jenkins was a significant... Read moreOpen -
Peter Sedgley Special Exhibit at Masterpiece London
July 1, 2019Featuring as a 'special exhibit' in its own dedicated space at Masterpiece 2019, one of the world's leading cross-collecting events, Peter Sedgley's Light Pulse III will be available to view throughout the duration of the fair. Peter Sedgley -Light Pulse III on Vimeo . Peter Sedgley is recognised as a... Read moreOpen -
YCBA acquires a work by Paul Feiler
July 18, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that a painting by Paul Feiler has been acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, in New Haven, Connecticut, which houses the largest collection of British art outside the UK. The work, Janicon G X, was donated by the Estate of Paul... Read moreOpen
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Paul Jenkins painting on show at the Guggenheim
July 19, 2019A 1956 painting in oil is currently on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City in the exhibition Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection. The Guggenheim invited six artists to curate an exhibition of other artists' works in the museum’s collection to be shown... Read moreOpen -
John Carter at the RA
September 10, 2019We are delighted to announce that Redfern Gallery artist John Carter is the subject of a forthcoming exhibition of his prints at the Royal Academy of Arts. The exhibition is part of the RA's Academicians in Focus series, mounted in The Belle Shenkman Room. The exhibition surveys Carter's printmaking from... Read moreOpen -
David Inshaw retrospective at the Saatchi Gallery
October 2, 2019David Inshaw is the focus of a retrospective display of paintings at this year’s British Art Fair. Curated by Andrew Lambirth, it features examples of some of his Pop-inspired work, including Yes, Yes, which Bryan Robertson described at the time as ‘tough and assured’, along with Remembrance Collage, a work... Read moreOpen
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Second blue plaque for William Gear
October 22, 2019William Gear RA has received a second English Heritage blue plaque, to commemorate his time as influential curator of Towner Art Gallery. From 1958 to 1964, he made a number of significant, innovative purchases for the gallery’s collection, which included work by Sandra Blow, Alan Davie and Roger Hilton. Such... Read moreOpen -
The Redfern at the IFPDA Print Fair, New York
October 22, 2019The Redfern Gallery will be exhibiting once again at the 2019 edition of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair, held at the Javits Center, in New York City, from 23 to 27 October. The Redfern will place its usual emphasis on the Grosvenor School linocuts by Sybil Andrews, Leonard Beaumont,... Read moreOpen -
David Inshaw: 'critic's choice' in The Times
October 31, 2019The Redfern’s current David Inshaw exhibition has been chosen as ‘critic’s choice’ in The Times. Reviewing the show, its chief art critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston wrote: “The spirit of ancient West Country landscape is captured by this most evocative and popular of painters”. The exhibition has also been the subject of... Read moreOpen
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Paul Jenkins at McNay Art Museum
November 5, 2019Four monumental paintings and 26 watercolours made by Paul Jenkins for his dance-drama Shaman to the Prism Seen, performed at the Paris Opera’s Salle Favart in 1987, are currently on view in the group exhibition Painting for Performance at the McNay Museum of Art in San Antonio, Texas. Jenkins’ lifelong... Read moreOpen -
Norman Dilworth awarded prestigious art prize
November 22, 2019The Redfern Gallery is pleased to announce that Norman Dilworth has been awarded the prestigious Peter C Ruppert Prize for Concrete Art in Europe. The prize, of 15,000 euros, is funded by the Peter C Ruppert Collection of Concrete Art in Europe, and takes place every three years in the... Read moreOpen -
John Carter in new group show
January 9, 2020John Carter will feature in Hard Painting x2, a two-part exhibition that includes work by Rana Begum, Tess Jaray and Mali Morris. The exhibition focuses on the “elusive and critical nature of Contemporary Painting today; the complexities, the overlooked simplicities and the ‘wonder’ it can engender”. Funded by Arts Council... Read moreOpen
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Media coverage for THEM
January 27, 2020THEM, the latest exhibition at The Redfern Gallery, was critic's choice in The Times (14 Jan), and featured in the Financial Times' 'How to spend it' section (19 Jan), while two larger articles have appeared in The Telegraph (14 and 23 Jan), including an overview of the life of THEM... Read moreOpen -
Further media coverage for THEM
February 4, 2020THEM was the subject of further articles in various newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian by Alex Petridis (4 Feb), and British GQ (2 Feb) by Barry Miles. In a review for The Art Newspaper (3 Feb), Louisa Buck writes: 'This quintet of artists perfectly personified the flurry of stylish... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar in new Surrealism exhibition at Dulwich
February 25, 2020The work of Eileen Agar RA is on show at Dulwich Picture Gallery as part of British Surrealism: 1783-1952 , the first major exhibition to explore the origins of Surrealist art in Britain. The only British female artist whose work was selected for the seminal International Surrealist Exhibition in London,... Read moreOpen
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David Tindle in 'revelatory' show at Ferens
August 21, 2019David Tindle is among a number of leading artists to be included in Reflection: British Art in the Age of Change, at Ferens Art Gallery in Hull. Drawn from the Ferens' own collection as well as the Ingram Collection, one of the largest private collections of modern British art, this... Read moreOpen -
Procktor recommended in the Financial Times
March 10, 2020As a columnist for the Financial Times, the artist and designer Luke Edward Hall recently discussed his love of art, and revealed his favourite galleries (6 March). As a fan of modern British art, Hall writes how The Redfern 'always have fabulous things', and mentions in particular 'several pensive watercolours... Read moreOpen -
Feiler, Heath and Mellis in new St Ives exhibition
March 18, 2020Paintings by Paul Feiler, Adrian Heath and Margaret Mellis are part of Cornwall as Crucible, a new exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. The exhibition focuses on the relationships and networks between artists who lived in Cornwall from the 1930s to the 1960s, and who helped make... Read moreOpen
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David Inshaw in new RWA exhibition
June 25, 2019David Inshaw features in the Royal West of England Academy’s new exhibition Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art 1692–2019, which is the last in a trilogy of shows to focus on the elements, following The Power of the Sea (2014) and Air (2017). This latest show charts the different... Read moreOpen -
Catharine Armitage
March 30, 2020At the beginning of this year, Redfern artist and friend, Catharine Armitage, very sadly passed away. Today, The Times published her obituary, where the careful balance of being an artist, as well as a wife and mother in the '70s, is observed. Admired for a direct and emotional response to... Read moreOpen -
On this day in April...
April 2, 2020This new, regular feature will provide a summary of important historical events that relate to the Redfern and its artists. 4 April 1957 Metavisual Tachiste Abstract opens at the Redfern. This seminal show revealed the influence of French tachism and American Abstract Expressionism on thirty British painters, including Sandra Blow,... Read moreOpen
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Redfern artists at Tate
April 3, 2020A number of Redfern artists are part of current displays across Tate's galleries, drawn from its permanent collection. At Tate Modern, paintings by Eileen Agar and William Gear can be seen as part of its In the Studio exhibition. Gear is represented by The Sculptor; painted in 1953, this was... Read moreOpen -
Redfern prints among Collectors' Choices at LOPF 2020
May 18, 2020A number of Redfern prints were selected as part of the 'Collector's Choice', at this year's online edition of the London Original Print Fair. Anna Brady, of The Art Newspaper, chose 'Patrick Procktor's delicious lithograph of Cataract, Aswan', as did the artist and designer Luke Edward Hall. Catharine Armitage, who... Read moreOpen -
Patrick Procktor Print Room at LOPF
December 4, 2020Having represented Patrick Procktor since the early 1960s, we are delighted to present at London Original Print Fair an online viewing room of Patrick Procktor prints. 'His graphics are instantly recognisable for a rare control of the aquatint that imaginatively recreates the subtlety and translucency of wash tone.' In this... Read moreOpen
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En atelier
February 11, 2021We are pleased to present En atelier, a film by Ron and Meriel Kenley. The art writer David Anfam and the artist Pierre Skira meet in the latter's Paris atelier. The two men discuss the making of art and its many-sided issues and consequences. The space of Skira's workshop is... Read moreOpen -
Major Agar retrospective is a 'must-see', say art critics
May 18, 2021Critics from national newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Financial Times and Frieze, have picked Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy as a 'must-see' show of 2021. According to the Guardian, the upcoming retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery 'makes the case for Agar as an underappreciated modernist trailblazer'. In recommending the... Read moreOpen -
Introducing Margaret Mellis: Modernist Constructs at Towner Eastbourne
October 14, 2021The Redfern Gallery are excited to announce that this Autumn, the Towner Eastbourne will be presenting the first institutional exhibition in over a decade by British artist Margaret Mellis (1914 - 2009). In 1939, aware of impending war, the artist Margaret Mellis and her husband Adrian Stokes relocated from London... Read moreOpen
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Critics continue to champion 'revelatory' Agar retrospective
September 20, 2021Critics from national newspapers have continued to champion the Eileen Agar retrospective at the Whitechapel, which received a five-star review from The Spectator, and four stars from both the Evening Standard and i. Ben Luke, of the Evening Standard , describes Agar's 1936 Angel of Anarchy sculpture, from which the... Read moreOpen -
Works by Redfern artists sell out during the first week of the RA Summer Exhibition
October 15, 2021A number of Redfern artists have once again taken part in this year's Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts. David Tindle - elected to the RA in 1979 - submitted six recent paintings, all of which sold within the opening week. The paintings featured typical motifs of open... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar included in new group show at Hastings Contemporary
May 28, 2021Eileen Agar is among a number of leading artists to feature in a new exhibition at Hastings Contemporary that explores how the beach became an essential source of inspiration for British artists during the first half of the twentieth century. Agar was heavily influenced by the sea, and spent much... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar retrospective travels to Sweden
September 30, 2021Having finished a successful run at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy now continues at Mjellby Art Museum, in Halmstad, Sweden. Agar visited the country in 1947, during which time she took a number of black and white photographs, now in the Tate's permanent collection. In... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar included in huge touring exhibition of Surrealist Masterpieces
November 2, 2021A painting by Eileen Agar will be shown at Seoul Arts Center, as part of the latest stop for the touring exhibition A Surreal Shock: Masterpieces from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. The exhibition has been organised by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, which is loaning nearly two hundred works from its... Read moreOpen -
Tatler tells the 'forgotten story' behind Bryan Organ's portrait of Princess Diana
June 1, 2021A recent article in Tatler tells the 'forgotten story' of when Bryan Organ's inaugural royal portrait of Princess Diana came under attack by an anti-Monarchist. The teenage protestor lunged with a knife at the painting, and a shocked witness describes how the 'whole middle of the picture was ripped out'.... Read moreOpen
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Bryan Organ's portrait of Diana on show as part of new NPG exhibition
May 31, 2021Bryan Organ's celebrated portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, is on show at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits includes more than 150 portraits from across six centuries. Drawn from the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition was shown at the Museum... Read moreOpen -
David Inshaw painting on show at the RWA
November 8, 2021David Inshaw is among a number of high-profile artists included in a new exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. The RWA Collection: Our Heritage, Our Future is the largest exhibition of the RWA's permanent collection in recent times, and includes work by some of its... Read moreOpen -
On this day in November...
November 7, 2021The latest entry as part of a new, regular feature providing a summary of important historical events that relate to the Redfern and its artists. 1 November 1965 Exhibition of paintings by Christopher Wood. Exhibits include Dancing Sailors, Brittany, which illustrates the front cover of the catalogue. This important painting... Read moreOpen
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David Oxtoby part of new show in Madrid
June 8, 2021David Oxtoby's painting Mingus Deep Blues is currently on show at the CaixaForum Madrid. This exhibition draws on loans from the British Museum, Tate, and the Prado Museum, among others, to examine how humans have portrayed themselves throughout different eras and cultures. This is not the first time that Mingus... Read moreOpen -
Studio International reviews 'inspiring' Mellis retrospective
November 9, 2021Margaret Mellis: Modernist Constructs at Towner Eastbourne is an 'inspiring' and 'carefully considered' exhibition, according to a recent review by Beth Williamson, of Studio International. Works in many diverse media, produced across six decades, are on show, from early abstract collages to the later envelope drawings, but the main focus... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar part of major Tate exhibition announced for summer 2022
November 11, 2021Eileen Agar is among the artists included in Radical Landscapes, a major exhibition just announced by Tate for its 2022 programme. Scheduled for summer next year at Tate Liverpool, Radical Landscapes will detail how artists have portrayed the British countryside as a place of mysticism, experimentation and rebellion, through paint,... Read moreOpen
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Erdem Moralioglu discusses "extraordinary" Patrick Procktor watercolours
November 16, 2021In a recent interview with The Financial Times, leading fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu discussed some of his influences, which included the art of Patrick Procktor. Moralioglu owns several pieces by Procktor, and told Simon Chilvers: “He had an extraordinary way of drawing. His watercolours, particularly his depiction of men, I... Read moreOpen -
"Sparkling show" is a fitting tribute to "pioneer" Margaret Mellis
November 18, 2021According to Ian Collins, Margaret Mellis: Modernist Constructs is 'a sparkling show', and a fitting tribute to 'a colourist of great originality and a pioneer in everything she ever did'. In a four-page feature in the October 27 edition of Country Life, Collins charts Mellis' art and life, from escaping... Read moreOpen -
Sarah Armstrong-Jones designs the set for a new production at Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre
October 29, 2021Sarah Armstrong-Jones has recently undertaken a commission from the Frederick Ashton Foundation to design the costumes and backdrops for a new production of Hamlet and Ophelia. The production was debuted by Royal Ballet members at the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre, as part of 'Ashton Rediscovered: Past, Present and Future',... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar in new show celebrating the life of Derek Jarman
November 28, 2021Work by Eileen Agar features in a new exhibition focusing on the art and life of Derek Jarman, at the University of Southampton's John Hansard Gallery. Entitled Derek Jarman's Modern Nature, the exhibition focuses on the artist's lifelong passion for plants, the human body, and the landscape, and draws connections... Read moreOpen -
On this day in December...
December 1, 2021The latest entry as part of a new, regular feature providing a summary of important historical events that relate to the Redfern and its artists. 1 December 1953 Russian Emigre Artists opens at the Redfern. This important exhibition features the work of more than twenty artists, including Chagall, Jawlensky and... Read moreOpen -
Redfern artists donate works to Art for Youth
December 6, 2021A number of Redfern artists have donated work to be auctioned at this year's Art for Youth London. Founded by Diana Brooks MBE in 1988, the auction is now in its 33rd year, and has raised more than £1.6 million for youth organisations via the charity, UK Youth. Among the... Read moreOpen
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Norman Stevens in Arts Council touring show
December 9, 2021An etching by Norman Stevens can be seen in The Printed Line, a travelling exhibition curated by the Arts Council. The show is now at its penultimate venue, Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, having toured seven previous museums since it opened at Torre Abbey Museum, Torquay, in April 2019. The... Read moreOpen -
Peter Sedgley included in major new show at the University of Sydney
December 10, 2021Peter Sedgley is among many leading artists included in Light & Darkness, a major exhibition at the University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum. Opening in January 2022, the show explores luminosity, colour, movement, race and politics across three decades of modernism, all drawn from the university's esteemed J.W. Power... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar inspires new fashion line
December 15, 2021Leading fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu revealed that Eileen Agar was his muse for pre-fall 2022. Moralioglu visited Agar's retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and attributed a quote by the artist to his new collection: “I have spent my whole life in revolt against convention, trying to bring color... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar in new Surrealism exhibition at The Met
November 2, 2021Eileen Agar is included in Surrealism Beyond Borders, a major new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition reconsiders the true 'movement' of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology, with works produced over seven decades and spanning far beyond Europe - influencing artists in Australia, Colombia, Egypt,... Read moreOpen -
Florence Hutchings among critic's Christmas picks
December 21, 2021Art critic Paul Carey-Kent has selected his favourite works from Mayfair's annual Christmas exhibitions, which includes a drawing by Florence Hutchings. Writing in FAD Magazine, Carey-Kent picked Plates on a Dresser II, which he describes as 'typical of Hutchings’ drawings in its vibrant palette, domestic subject and emphasis on abstract... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar retrospective in Top Ten shows of 2021
January 2, 2022Eileen Agar's retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery is among the ten best visual arts exhibitions of 2021, according to iNews. In ranking the exhibition at number 8, the paper's art critic Florence Hallett described Agar as 'buoyant, joyous and resourceful, she is a refreshing and inspiring figure to rediscover'. Prior... Read moreOpen
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On this day in January...
January 10, 2022The latest entry as part of a new, regular feature providing a summary of important historical events that relate to the Redfern and its artists. 1 January 1953 First solo show for Mary Fedden at the Redfern. Exhibits include the painting Boats at Fano, Italy, now in the permanent collection... Read moreOpen -
On this day in February...
January 26, 2022The latest entry as part of a regular feature providing a summary of important historical events that relate to the Redfern and its artists. 2 February 1939 The Queen attends the Redfern to see an exhibition of Welsh paintings by Augustus John, JD Innes and Derwent Lees. The works were... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar selected for 59th Venice Biennale
February 2, 2022Eileen Agar is among the artists selected for this year's Venice Biennale. The 59th edition of the longest-running survey of contemporary art is curated by Cecilia Alemani, a New-York based curator who is the first Italian woman to organise a biennale. Throughout its history, 'the percentage of women participation is... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar retrospective opens in Leeds
February 1, 2022Eileen Agar: Angel of Anarchy, the critically acclaimed exhibition first seen at Whitechapel Gallery, now travels to Leeds, following its tour to Mjellby Art Museum, Sweden. This is the largest retrospective of Agar's work to date, featuring over one hundred paintings, collages, sculptures and photographs, drawn from private and public... Read moreOpen -
On this day in March...
February 28, 2022The latest entry as part of a regular feature providing a summary of important historical events that relate to the Redfern and its artists. 1 March 1952 Opening of Aspects of Modern Dutch Painting, providing an overview of Dutch painting from Van Gogh onwards. Appel, Van Dongen and Mondrian are... Read moreOpen -
Adrian Heath part of "thrilling" new exhibition at the Barbican
March 9, 2022Adrian Heath is among the 48 artists represented in Postwar Modern, a critically-acclaimed exhibition that has just opened at the Barbican. Exploring the art produced in Britain in the two decades that followed World War Two, Postwar Modern features the paintings of Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney; the... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar part of "unsettling" new show at Tate Modern
March 2, 2022Eileen Agar is one of the many international artists included in Surrealism Beyond Borders, the latest major show to open at Tate Modern. This sprawling exhibition reconsiders the true 'movement' of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology, with works produced over seven decades and spanning far beyond Europe -... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar stars in "momentous" Venice Biennale
April 26, 2022Work by Eileen Agar is on show in the Central Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale, alongside fellow pioneering female Surrealists of the twentieth century. Agar is included in 'The Witch's Cradle', one of five historical capsules curated by Cecilia Alemani. In a review for ArtForum, Kate Sutton writes that... Read moreOpen -
Francis Davison in new show of British abstract painting
June 13, 2022Francis Davison features in Celebration: British Abstract Painting, a major new show at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate. The exhibition features sixty large-scale works, each of which, according to curator Sam Cornish, 'are positive, affirmative statements in light, space and colour, and the materiality of paint and canvas'. The exhibition... Read moreOpen
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John Carter in new show celebrating the foundryman Ken Cook
July 21, 2022John Carter RA is among a number of artists included in a new show at Pangolin, London, celebrating the career of bronze foundryman Ken Cook. Out of the Workshop traces Cook's work over the past fifty years, having collaborated with many of the leading sculptors of the twentieth century, such... Read moreOpen -
John Carter in new museum show in Austria
September 21, 2022The recent work of John Carter will be shown alongside that of the Irish artist Ray Malone, in a new exhibition at the Museum of Perception, Graz, which is intended to 'celebrate the fine art of reduction'. Both artists favour a quiet aesthetic of geometry, incorporating sparing design, minimal colour,... Read moreOpen -
Pierre Skira celebrated in new show at the Picasso Museum
October 23, 2022Pierre Skira is the focus of a new solo exhibition at the Picasso Museum in Antibes. This exhibition will be the first to juxtapose a new set of large-format pastels with engravings completed over the past twenty years. While the pastels are entirely abstract, the engravings tread a fine line... Read moreOpen
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Margaret Mellis stars in major new show at the Whitechapel
January 11, 2023Margaret Mellis will feature in a major new group exhibition opening at the Whitechapel Gallery. Action, Gesture, Paint brings together 150 paintings made by a generation of women artists from around the world who embraced abstraction between 1940 and 1970. In so doing, star names such as Helen Frankenthaler and... Read moreOpen -
Patrick Procktor is the focus of new solo show in Bologna
January 9, 2023Patrick Procktor is the focus of a new exhibition at the 16th-century Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna. This marks something of a spiritual return for Procktor, who was a frequent visitor to Italy, having made various paintings and prints of Venice, in particular. He took part in solo and group shows around... Read moreOpen -
Norman Dilworth
February 1, 2023The Redfern Gallery is sad to announce the passing of Norman Dilworth, sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker, who died on 25 January at the age of 92. Born in 1931 in Wigan, Dilworth studied at the local school of art before enrolling at the Slade in 1952, where he was... Read moreOpen
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Eileen Agar in new exhibition showcasing female Surrealist artists
March 31, 2023Eileen Agar is one of fifty artists featured in a new exhibition titled Surréalisme au Féminin? at the Musée de Montmartre, Paris. This exhibition explores the extent and various forms of involvement of female artists and poets in the Surrealist movement. Agar will be displayed alongside major artists such as... Read moreOpen -
Elizabeth Butterworth’s New Collaboration With Artfund
April 11, 2023Elizabeth Butterworth features in two new documentary clips for Art Fund, as part of their new campaign The Wild Escape. The Wild Escape is a major new project run by Art Fund, uniting hundreds of museums and schools in a celebration of UK wildlife and creativity. Supported by Arts Council... Read moreOpen -
Norman Stevens: The Complete Prints
May 22, 2023'A wonderful achievement ... outstanding in every way, worthy of its exceptional subject' - John McEwen 'Elegantly produced ... a fine tribute to an important printmaker' - Rosemary Simmons, Printmaking Today 'A handsome book ... particularly worthy of attention' - Andrew Lambirth, The London Magazine 'Outstanding ... well researched and... Read moreOpen
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Ffiona Lewis
May 30, 2023The recent work of Ffiona Lewis will be shown in a new exhibition Ffiona Lewis: Harris Machair at the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. A body of oil paintings and works on paper, this exhibition is the culmination of 4 years of repeated wanderings to the Outer Hebrides while renovating... Read moreOpen -
Paul Jenkins (1923-2012)
July 12, 2023On 12 July 1923, Paul Jenkins (1923-2012) was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Exactly 100 years on, The Redfern Gallery are delighted to be exhibiting his work in our own centenary exhibition. The abstract expressionist painter is known primarily for pouring paint onto canvas and paper in flows of luminous... Read moreOpen -
Brendan Neiland featured in Architectural Design Volume 94, Issue 5
October 6, 2023Recollected in Tranquility Brendan Neiland - Changing Sensibilities Read the Architectural Design article here Brendan Neiland features in Architectural Design, with an article by Paul Finch, founder of the World Architectural Festival. Finch reflects on his history with Neiland, and in particular focuses on and celebrates Neiland's progression as an... Read moreOpen
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The New York Times hails "knockout" Eileen Agar exhibition
January 23, 2024Roberta Smith, chief art critic of The New York Times, has described Eileen Agar's current exhibition at the Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, as a 'knockout'. Titled after a 1966 painting, Flowering of a Wing, this is Agar's first major solo exhibition in the United States. It spans work from... Read moreOpen -
Eileen Agar memoir among The Times' 'best new books'
May 14, 2024Eileen Agar's memoir, A Look at My Life, has been included in The Times' 'best new books', where it was described by Gavanndra Hodge as 'a manifesto for non-conformity'. Written in 1988, and now reprinted for the first time in over thirty years, A Look at My Life has been... Read moreOpen -
Patrick Procktor catalogue raisonné of prints
May 31, 2024The Redfern Gallery is due to publish Patrick Procktor: The Complete Prints later this year. As such, we are very interested to hear from anyone who owns any rare Procktor prints, or any paintings/watercolours that relate to the prints. In particular, we would like to trace impressions of the following... Read moreOpen
