Incubator, an ambitious new platform for emerging artists, has launched as a permanent gallery and project space at 2 Chiltern Street, London this month. Initiated and led by Angelica Jopling, the daughter of White Cube founder Jay Jopling, Incubator seeks to foster a vibrant community for burgeoning artists, amplifying their work through a programme of…
On 27 April 2023, The Three Horseshoes with food from Margot Henderson OBE, behind the well-loved Rochelle Canteen, will open in Somerset. Located in the bucolic village of Batcombe, The Three Horseshoes is a 17th century inn thoughtfully restored from its origins and brought back to life as an elegant pub with rooms, offering glorious…
Shezad Dawood’s multidisciplinary practice weaves together stories, hybrid realities, and symbolism to build nuanced works that extend across a diverse array of media, from painting and sculpture to film and VR. Fascinated by ecologies and architecture, his work takes a philosophical approach, asking questions and exploring alternative futures through what Dawood describes as ‘world-building’ and…
Open now and running until 7 May 2023, the Hayward Gallery presents Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons, the first major survey exhibition of large-scale installations and sculptural works by the internationally acclaimed British artist. Curated by Yung Ma, who joined the Hayward Gallery from Centre Pompidou back in 2021, the psychologically charged and atmospheric presentation takes…
Lina Iris Viktor is a British Liberian multidisciplinary artist who works between Italy and the UK. Her work weaves together performance, photography, painting, water-gilding and sculpture to create rich, lavish works featuring mythical and majestic looking female figures. Through these sensuous and visually loaded works, pattern becomes a ‘pre-verbal language connecting to that which is…
Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey’s impactful works, spanning installation, performance, painting and sculpture, frequently utilise found materials from the artist’s hometown of Accra to forge meaningful dialogues with the city’s cultural history and identity. Resourcefully embracing everyday objects such as discarded Kufuor gallons, car tyres, and recycling boat wood as his canvas, among other materials,…
Bhutanese director and writer Pawo Choyning Dorji’s Oscar nominated debut feature, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, is set for its UK release on 10 March 2023. When Ugyen, a day-dreaming and dissatisfied young teacher, is posted to a school in the remote village of Lunana, dizzyingly high up in the Himalayan glaciers, he is…
Hailing from Los Angeles and presently based in New York, artist Ian Cheng’s fascinating work investigates the nature of mutation and the capability of humans to respond to change, resourcefully drawing on principles of videogame design. Having had major solo presentations at the Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Serpentine Gallery, MoMA PS1, and the Migros…