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    Esra Kizir Gokcen Sail to Hope 26 February - 9 March 2025 Private View: Tuesday 25 February, 6 - 8pm 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London W1J 7QX     RSVP   ...

    from packaging to art 19 February - 2 March 2025 Private View: Tuesday 18 February, 5.30 - 8pm Great Pulteney Street Gallery, 36 Great Pulteney Street, London W1F 9NS   RSVP Gavin Turk | Leo Fitzmaurice | Marisa Culatto | Russell Herron | Sam Hodge Sarah Pettitt | Shane Bradford | Susan Collis curated by Paul Carey-Kent Upcycle  is an exhibition that explores the value assigned to materials in contemporary society. Eight artists show work of, from and with the layers of packaging usually discarded once they have disgorged their content.   In Sam Hodge’s and Marisa Culatto’s work, packaging becomes the medium, while Susan Collis and Russell Herron make throwaway materials their lead subject; Gavin Turk and Leo Fitzmaurice turn spent vessels into artefacts. Shane Bradford’s paintings bear titles inspired by overpromising sales slogans, whereas Sarah Pettit’s abstract constructions are reminders of what is missing.   Presented together they become a playfu...

  I am very happy to be in this beautifully curated group show in Bath Please do make an appointment to view with  sandra@sandrahiggins.com The show is at The Empire, Grand Parade, Bath and is on until March 14th

    Esra Kizir Gokcen Sail to Hope 26 February - 9 March 2025 Private View: Tuesday 25 February, 6 - 8pm 54 The Gallery, Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London W1J 7QX   RSVP With  Sail to Hope  Esra Kizir Gokcen presents her response to the far-reaching effects of globalisation. Born from human empathy rather than politically driven, her work questions the hierarchies that place humans above other life forms. In paintings inspired by Eastern miniature art, natural forces intermingle with crowds of abstracted shapes and figures to represent movements of people and cultures, between past and present. Collaged paper boats folded from world maps symbolise the shared humanity of precarious passages too often reduced to numbers in news headlines.  The ubiquitous origami vessels also feature in a largescale multi-media installation at the heart of the exhibition. These were co-created in workshops with diverse community groups. Partic...

  Freddie Yauner This Is A Red Flag at SOIL 23 January - 13 April 2025 Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA Former Somerset House Studio artist Freddie Yauner has been commissioned to create a flag to coincide with SOIL, an exhibition of artworks and installations responding to the challenges of climate change, land use and waste by taking a closer look at the world beneath our feet.  This Is A Red Flag  with its cautionary SOS   will fly above Somerset House as an urgent warning to 'Save Our Soil'. Yauner's This Is A Red Flag  is inspired by William Morris who would give open air talks with a small red flag by his side. Best known for his textile patterns, the pioneering Arts and Crafts artist was also a social reformer and is considered a forerunner of the modern Green movement. Yauner's original  Red Flag  was first shown at the William Morris Gallery last year and will tour institutes and organisations, in...