
Interview with Tweety Shiwen Wang
Tweety Shiwen Wang’s paintings are concerned with the concept of dusk as an ominous, empty space. The work creates an atmosphere of hidden cues that explore the mysterious nature of imagination.
Tweety Shiwen Wang’s paintings are concerned with the concept of dusk as an ominous, empty space. The work creates an atmosphere of hidden cues that explore the mysterious nature of imagination.
Borrowing from traditions of landscape painting and illustration, Charlotte Evans’ paintings weave together memory and myth to create worlds that are both familiar and strange, comforting and sinister. These worlds are not unlike those conjured in the moments right before sleep, when your mind wanders and drifts and colours become more vivid, sounds sharpen and smells sweeten, all combining in a flash of clarity before dissolving into sleep.
Trained as an architect and multimedia artist, Yuqiao Guo sees her painterly practice as a product of her fascination with self-portraiture and interest in the narrative capacities of the body. Approaching the majority of her work through an autobiographical lens, Guo paints her figures in a way that closely balances surrealism with intimacy, creating striking visual metaphors for the fleeting moments of self-awareness.
Adrian Gardner explores the meaning of life, mortality and adventure through the use of vibrant, colourful landscape paintings. Gardner draws inspiration from artists throughout history such as Titian, Francis Bacon and Damien Hirst who have used painting as a way to express the meaning of life and death.
Ioana Baltan paints large-scale works that revolve around topics such as mental disabilities, poverty, homelessness, dreams and mythology. Working within a figurative landscape, Baltan incorporates abstract and decorative elements to narrate human origin stories and her personal experiences.
Sharon Lacey incorporates her knowledge and training of classical oil painting techniques to create open-ended, mysterious paintings that access deep emotions and environments.
Hidetaka Suzuki paints an array of topics ranging from food, portraits, random objects and scenes that he discovers online. After collecting images on a daily basis and building up an archive, Suzuki intuitively is drawn to objects or scenarios that have an uneasy, human and stimulating quality to them.
Mengmeng Zhang paints moments of fantasy and the ephemerality of everyday life. Memory is a central theme for the artists, incorporating personal narratives into oil paintings that elicit fictitious stories surrounding Zhang’s life.
Jan Valik creates loose, colourful abstractions that evoke powerful feelings and tend to suggest something otherworldly. Valik plays with intuition, experiments with different gestures, shapes, compositions and forms to create spatial ambiguity and a unique visual language. Valik often contemplates scientific topics such as Quantum Theory and Anti-gravity while working, which resonates in the process, leaving a mysterious and suspenseful energy to the pieces.
Shelby Seu paints primarily large-scale portraits that depict the artist, significant people and objects in her life. The subjects of her paintings are immersed in a dreamlike space alongside unique objects that the artist has collected over the years.
CW Landon looks to shared experiences, immersion in our environment and poetry to provide new ways of thinking about human behaviour in today’s society. Landon incorporates geometric abstractions to explore different architectural spaces and absorb the embedded attitudes of our collective trauma, inward energy and human psyche in his work.
John Heywood-Waddington embraces the traditions and tropes of Western art history, cinematic devices such as the split-screen, poetic sensibilities and photographic references in his work. His paintings suggest narratives through their expressive movement and rhythm, yet remain open to the viewer’s interpretation.
Yaya Yajie Liang’s paintings are brightly coloured depictions of imaginative figures, animals, objects and gestures. Liang explores sensations and psychological ideas such as control, power dynamics and dreams. Liang’s abstract paintings are informed by traditional Chinese painting techniques and philosophy that incorporate metaphorical signifiers and investigations of the Rhizome Network Theory.
Brazilian artist Romulo Avi creates intense, colourful, abstract paintings by building up and removing layers of gesso and paint. Avi works with potentiality, an abstract idea which allows him to draw up intuitive structures outside the frameworks of representation. Using unconscious mark making, the surface of Avi’s works is loaded with a vibrational energy charged by opposing colours. His works are a reminder to acknowledge temporary moments and the fleeting nature of life.
Thomas Cameron captures everyday moments of city street scenes and the psychological landscapes of people that inhabit his paintings. He explores the city, guided mainly by his intuition and interest in the urban environment. Cameron captures beauty in the mundane through a process of exploration, photographing, collecting, editing and painting.
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Featuring: Sadie Coles HQ, Simon Lee, The Artist Room, Unit London, Soho Revue, Flowers (Kingsland Rd), Cecilia Brunson Projects, Gazelli Art House, Waddington Custot and Edel Assanti
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Featuring: König London, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, BEERS London, and CASSIUS&Co.
Featuring Exhibitions at: Sadie Coles HQ, Sprüth Magers, Galerie Max Hetzler, MAMOTH, Samuel Visentin, Simon Lee, Tiwani Contemporary, The Sunday Painter, Cob Gallery, David Zwirner and Saatchi Yates
Featuring: Nahmad Projects, Thaddaeus Ropac, Roman Road / Working Project, Unit London, Soho Revue, The Artistellar, GUTS Gallery
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Featuring: BEERS London, Wilder, Grove Collective, Gazelli Art House
lpc Magazine This London Gallery Weekend, explore our selection of the most exciting painting exhibitions happening in Mayfair. Follow our step by step directions as
lpc Magazine Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on linkedin Share on email 1. Jenny Morgan @jenny_morgan_jm Jenny Morgan, In the Pursuit of Morning,
Featuring: Huxley-Parlour, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Pilar Corrias, Peer, Lisson Gallery, Camden Art Centre, Corvi-Mora, greengrassi, Gallery 46, Pilar Corrias
Featuring: ASC Gallery, Unit London, Goodman Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Gagosian, Galerie Max Hetzler, Hauser & Wirth, Maureen Paley, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Featuring: Jack Bell Gallery, Soho Revue, Carlos / Ishikawa, Grove Collective, Simon Lee Gallery, Thomas Dane Gallery, Richard Saltoun, David Zwirner
Featuring: The Approach, The Artist Room, Bosse & Baum, Sid Motion Gallery, Victoria Miro, BEERS London, Lyndsey Ingram, Carl Kostyál, Almine Rech, Mamoth
Featuring: Project Native Informant, Union Pacific, TJ Boulting, Saatchi Yates, Sprovieri, PACE, V.O Curations, Tiwani Contemporary (No. 9 Cork St) and Public Gallery
Featuring: Pace, Maximillian William, Unit London, Vigo Gallery, Domobaal, Edel Assanti, Modern Art, Zabludowicz Collection, Kristin Hjellegjerde, ASC Gallery, South Parade
Featuring: Stephen Friedman Gallery, Goodman Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, BASTIAN, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Timothy Taylor, Gagosian, Alice Black Gallery, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, König London
Featuring: White Cube, Carl Kostyál, Workplace, Soho Revue, The Artist Room, Niru Ratnam, Maureen Paley, Chisenhale Gallery, Cob Gallery, and Studio West
Featuring: Victoria Miro, Cooke Latham, David Zwirner, MASSIMODECARLO, Simon Lee Gallery, Hollybush Gardens, CASSIUS&Co., Corvi-Mora, Public Gallery, Albemarle Gallery
Featuring: Modern Art, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, The Approach, The Sunday Painter, Flowers, Sid Motion Gallery, Parafin, Skarstedt, Michael Werner Gallery, The Perimeter and Whitechapel Gallery
Featuring: Huxley-Parlour, Celia Brunson Projects, Karsten Schubert, Bosse & Baum, Newport Street Gallery
Featuring: Jack Bell Gallery, Aleph Contemporary, Josh Lilley, BASTIAN, Thaddaeus Ropac, Lévy Gorvy, MAMOTH, Grove Collective, Hannah Barry Gallery, Carlos / Ishikawa, James Freeman Gallery and Lisson Gallery
Featuring: Almine Rech, V.O Curations, Lychee One, Sim Smith, Maureen Paley, Modern Art, the approach, Union Gallery and PUBLIC Gallery
Featuring: Nahmad Projects, Gallery 46, Bomb Factory, Roman Road, Luxembourg & Co, Hayward Gallery, Arcadia Missa, Newport Street Gallery
Featuring: Thomas Dane Gallery, Skarstedt, No. 20 Arts, BASTIAN, Pilar Corrias, Unit London, Tiwani Contemporary, Annely Juda Fine Art and Pontone Gallery
Featuring: Aleph Contemporary, Arusha Gallery, Tiwani Contemporary, Lisson Gallery, Huxley-Parlour, White Cube, Victoria Miro, Workplace
Featuring: Josh Lilley, Michael Werner, MAMOTH, Simon Lee Gallery, JD Malat, Herald St, Taylor Grahne Projects, PUBLIC and Hollybush Gardens
Featuring: Sim Smith, Unit London, Hannah Barry Gallery, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Galerie Max Hetzler, White Cube, Frestonian Gallery, greengrassi, Lehmann Maupin, Alison Jacques, Workplace, and Victoria Miro
Featuring: The Sunday Painter, Addis Fine Art, Sadie Coles HQ, Pontone Gallery, Marlborough, Jack Bell Gallery, Frith Street Gallery, Lisson, Goldsmiths CCA, Bosse & Baume, and Claas Reiss
Featuring: Aleph Contemporary, Jack Bell Gallery, Modern Art, Pilar Corrias, Alison Jacques, David Zwirner, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Herald St and Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop
Featuring: Almine Rech, Levy Gorvy, Thomas Dane Gallery, Massimo De Carlo, Royal Academy of Arts, Cardi Gallery, Sid Motion Gallery and Pontone Gallery
Featuring: Royal Academy of Arts, Gagosian, Frestonian Gallery, Lungley Gallery, Goodman Gallery and Rosenfeld
Featuring: Lehmann Maupin, White Cube, No. 20 Arts, Unit London, Jack Bell Gallery, BEERS London, Albemarle Gallery, Kristin Hjellegjerde, Thames-Side Studios Gallery and JD Malat