Visual Art
London's visual art scene is famous for being on the cutting-edge of the art world. This section gives an overview of visual art venues, from the more prestigious venues like the Royal Academy of Arts to the wonderfully formed White Cube in Hoxton.
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Interview with Penny - the London based stencil artist
"I have always been inspired by Chuck Close... I was not only blown away by the level of detail in his work, but also the varied approaches he took to achieve a final piece. ... I looked into how he worked and saw that he planned… Read More
The Crafts Council produce a programme of high-level events for makers to showcase and sell their work directly to the public.They also run schemes to support both emerging and established makers and curators, and create conferences and seminars to encourage debate and share best… Read More
Founded in 1856, the aim of the National Portrait Gallery, London is ‘to promote through the medium of portraits the appreciation and understanding of the men and women who have made and are making British history and culture, and ... to promote the appreciation and understanding… Read More
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198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Trust
Located in Brixton, 198 was created by Zoe Linsley Thomas, John Morgan and Clarence Thompson MBE, in response to the social unrest of the 1980s.
Known initially as Roots Community, 198 has grown from a community arts space, which helped nurture the Black Arts movement, into a…
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ALTERNATIVE ARTS is an innovatory arts organisation based in Spitalfields, East London. They invest in new artists and new ideas and aim to make the arts highly accessible to the public.
Alternative Arts produce an annual programme of diverse arts events including jazz, dance, theatre,…
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Andipa Gallery is a leading international dealer in Modern and Contemporary Art since 1967. Based in the heart of Knightsbridge they are amongst London’s most established commercial galleries with a large and ever-changing collection of wholly-owned artworks.
Andipa's extensive inventory of paintings, drawings,…
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Based in London but working across Britain and beyond, Artangel commissions and produces exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past two decades, the projects have materialised in a range of different sites and situations and in countless forms of media.
Each new project…
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The Arts Gallery is an exhibition space in the heart of Museum Mile in central London dedicated to promoting the creative talent of specialist art and design subjects taught at the University. Described by the Evening Standard as "good for discovering promising artists", and by…
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Barbican Art Gallery presents the best international art with a dynamic mix of architecture, design and photography in the heart of London. Barbican Art Gallery is easily accessible from Hoxton and Whitechapel. Accompanying each exhibition is a dynamic programme of talks and events.
The Curve…
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Beaconsfield’s holistic vision is to provide a critical space for creative enquiry. Founded to occupy a niche between the institution, the commercial and the ‘alternative’ the charity maintains a unique venue which has provided a laboratory and presentation space for artists…
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The Bernard Jacobson Gallery was founded in 1969 and is a major dealer specialising in modern and contemporary British and international art.
The London gallery is situated in the central district of Mayfair. It has two main exhibition spaces and a graphics department all within 6…
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Black Rat Projects was initiated in 2007 and has for the past four years been supporting and developing the careers of artists whose mediums and techniques are in many ways traditional yet whose practices are fused with a contemporary interventionist spirit. Their artists are many things…
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Destined to be home to more than sixty carefully chosen fashion, arts and lifestyle brands. BOXPARK is a retail revolution – the world’s first pop-up mall.
BOXPARK strips and refits shipping containers to create unique, low cost, low risk, ‘box shops’.…
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