Exhibitions

NIKA NEELOVA

FAULTS FOLDS FALLS – Vigo Gallery, London 16 December 2015 - 23 January 2016 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CV DOWNLOAD CREATIVE ESSAY BY NIKA NEELOVA “Life is not life but rock rearranging itself under the sun” Manuel DeLanda “There is a deeper reason why ‘humanity’ will never control technology. Technology is not something that humankind can control. It is an event that has befallen the... Read more

HEYWOOD & CONDIE

LIMELIGHT. THE GARDENER – Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 24 November 2015 - 22 May 2016 Jerwood Gallery Rock-A-Nore Rd, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW Jerwood Gallery's courtyard is now hosting a beautiful installation which brings a warm light to these dark days. The artists Heywood & Condie have created a piece of sculptural architecture consisting of a greenhouse constructed from 18th and 19th Century stained... Read more

LEONARDO DREW

Vigo Gallery, London 9 October - 24 November 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD Drew is known for wall based abstract sculptural installations most often based on the exploration and testing of the grid structure. These works incorporate created, manipulated and found materials constructed from fabricated wood, sheet metal, tree branches, roots, paper, raw cotton, rust, found objects and mud. These... Read more

ISABEL YELLIN

DO A DOUBLE TAKE AND ALL WILL BE CLEAR – Vigo Gallery, London 10 September - 1 October 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD For her second solo show at the gallery, Isabel Yellin investigates our relationship with the synthetic. The genesis of this body of work began with the notion of “skin and bone”, with the artist creating her own play on this theme using PVC leatherette and corset boning.... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

THE ARAB SPRING NOTEBOOK – Galerist, Istanbul 1 September - 3 October 2015 Galerist Meşrutiy et Cd. No:1, 34430, Istanbul, Turkey DOWNLOAD ‘The Arab Spring Notebook’ is a series of 46 black, ink drawings originally made in a single sketchbook, that comprise El Salahi’s artistic response to the Arab Spring. The work will be exhibited for the very first time at Galerist Studio... Read more

ZAK OVÉ

MOKO JUMBIES. CELEBRATING AFRICA – The British Museum, London 28 July - 13 September 2015 The British Museum, London Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG As part of Celebrating Africa at the British Museum the UK-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové has created two Moko Jumbie sculptures . These spectacular seven metre high carnival figures on stilts will be displayed in the Great Court. The male and... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

FLAMENCO – Vigo Gallery, London 29 May - 31 July 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE DOWNLOAD PRESS RELEASE Following on from Frieze, Vigo gallery presents Flamenco, a group of paintings first exhibited at Tate Modern in El-Salahi’s 2013 retrospective. In the summer of 2009 El-Salahi was one of three artists invited by the art collector AbdulMagid Breish to spend time... Read more

IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI

HARAZA – Jerwood Gallery, Hastings 28 April - 31 May 2015 Jerwood Gallery Rock-A-Nore Road, Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3DW DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE ‘I keep working on one particular theme inspired by a tree, an acacia locally called the Haraza that grows on the banks of the Nile. During the rainy season the tree is leafless, it blossoms with freshly budding... Read more

TOBY CHRISTIAN

SOME SKY – Vigo Gallery, London 17 April - 5 May 2015 Vigo Gallery ‘Some Sky’ is Toby Christian’s first show at Vigo. Christian’s expansive practice centres around his written responses to objects, which range from rare museological artefacts to more familiar domestic items. Appropriating the descriptive style of the film treatment, written in the present tense, his texts describe the minutiae... Read more

DUNCAN MACASKILL

STEER IN TIN SIDECAR – Vigo Gallery, London 25 March - 10 April 2015 Vigo Gallery DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE Steer in Tin Sidecar is Duncan MacAskill’s first solo show at Vigo gallery. The exhibition comprises two bodies of work; large paintings made of ash and glue and a small selection of MacAskill’s ongoing, epic series of postcard works. Superficially different in scale, media and apparent... Read more

ANTOINE PUISAIS

BETWEEN THE MANIFEST AND THE HIDDEN – Vigo Gallery, London 25 February - 17 March 2015 Vigo Gallery ANTOINE PUISAIS VISUAL ESSAY Between the Manifest and the Hidden is Antoine Puisais’s first London solo show. “I have only fractured and vague memories of my often dark and fraught childhood. It took till my early twenties for the realization to dawn that something inside me was deeply... Read more