Past
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The Seahorse Versus the Axe
Darcy Brenna, Ellie Davies, Emmanuelle Norré, Harry Hugo Little, Jake Freeman, Meryl Yana, Ziqi Chen 3 Oct - 5 Nov 2024 The Seahorse Versus the Axe leverages its titular metaphor to examine the role of the destructive impulse within the psyche and artistic creation. Presenting a compelling battle between sensitivity and aggression, instinct and intellect, beauty and decay, seven artists tap into our base passions, deploying animal iconography, nocturnal narratives, or... Read more -
Within and Without
Agnes Treherne, Dien Berziga, Keisuke Azuma, Lea Rose Kara, Mingzhang Sun, Rebecca Sammon, Selena Corsellis, Xanthe Burdett, Zhenlin Zhang 5 Jul - 2 Aug 2024 Traversing painting, drawing, sculpture and textiles, selected artists encourage slow looking in a time of over-saturation. Featuring work by Agnes Treherne, Dien Berziga, Keisuke Azuma, Lea Rose Kara, Mingzhang Sun, Rebecca Sammon, Selena Corsellis, Xanthe Burdett and Zhenlin Zhang. Read more -
In Search of Lost Time
Diana Zrnic, Hope Turnbull, Lucy Cade, Rebecca Foster-Clarke, Robyn Packham, Naomi Boiko-Stapleton 16 May - 25 Jun 2024 Liliya Gallery is delighted to present In Search of Lost Time an exhibition featuring new and recent work by six emerging artists. The show invites viewers to enter a visual marshland of heightened sensation, uncertain revelation and involuntary reminiscence. Each with their distinctive iconography, but connected through a grasp for... Read more -
I Lost Something in the Hills
Alexander Appleby, Esmé Naylor Farrelly, Henry Glover, Hugo Winder-Lind, Imogen Allen, Laurie Cole, Maggie Menghan Chen, Suhayah H, Yi Liu. 28 Mar - 7 May 2024 Artists in I Lost Something in the Hills are brought together by concepts of wild landscape, the elements and animism. Placing an emphasis on an embodied experience of the natural world, artists unveil the predominant genre of landscape as a human projection - even myth. Two contrasting notions of Arcadia... Read more -
It's Really Like That
Will Harman, Jen Roper, Paula Parole, Bliss Coulthard 8 Feb - 5 Mar 2024 It’s Really Like That reveres the awkward, crude and comedic aspects of the everyday, with participating artists demonstrating an ability to confront and confess in equal measure. Read more -
Abstracting Rhythms
Laurence Jansen, Cai Arfon Bellis, Emma Lake, bill daggs, Fran Hayes 14 Dec 2023 - 30 Jan 2024 Liliya Art Gallery is delighted to announce its last exhibition of 2023, Abstracting Rhythms, a group show with Laurence Jansen, Cai Arfon Bellis, Emma Lake, bill daggs and Fran Hayes. The exhibition takes inspiration from Walter Pater’s concept of Ander-Streben (‘other-striving’), the thought that each art has its own specific... Read more -
Before into Dust we Descend
Safa Amirmoghadam, Mina Ghafari, Fariba Mirsaeedi, Agrin Lotfollahzadeh 26 Oct - 5 Dec 2023 Liliya Art Gallery is delighted to present Before into Dust We Descend, an exhibition in four parts, showcasing solo exhibitions of work by four female artists from Iran. These artists draw upon the rich tapestry of Iranian culture, whilst simultaneously exploring contemporary concerns related to womanhood, freedom, and truth. Working... Read more -
Hunting the Dawn
Ella Garvey, Frances Joy Macgregor, Aniela Preston, Salomé Wu 24 May - 15 Jun 2023 Liliya Art Gallery is pleased to present Hunting the Dawn, an exhibition showcasing new and recent work by Ella Garvey, Frances Joy McGregor, Aniela Preston and Salomé Wu. Influenced by religion, mythology and the spiritual, the exhibiting artists harness the poetic power of paint to create an in-between world, blending reality... Read more -
A Matter of Perspective
Iga Bielawska, Magdalena Gluszak-Holeksa, Rosalind Howdle, Sunyoung Hwang, Ana Kazaroff, Megan Menzies 13 Apr - 18 May 2023 A Matter of Perspective brings together a group of contemporary artists who reject the constraints and boundaries of traditional representation and perspective, exploring new ways of seeing and interpreting the world. Their works offer a fresh perspective on how we perceive, represent, and experience reality, and encourages us to rethink... Read more -
In the Making
Phoebe Evans, Oliver Hoffmeister, Sophie Lourdes Knight, Or Lapid, Leon Scott-Engel 1 Mar - 4 Apr 2023 In the Making brings together different ways of creating and thinking, in a celebration of the complexities that inform the artistic process. Each of the five exhibiting artists interrogate everyday experiences, focusing on the transformative power of painting to question and reflect upon our perception of the world around us.... Read more -
To Touch You
Abi Giltinan, Henry Glover, Orla Murray, Melitta Nemeth, Robyn Packham 18 Jan - 21 Feb 2023 Intimacy for oneself, intimacy shared, the intimacy of a stare or a quiet moment. Liliya Art Gallery’s first exhibition of 2023 brings together five contemporary artists who use paint as a medium to capture scenes of intimacy. Each artist explores these unguarded and personal moments, boldly bringing them into the... Read more -
Highlights of 2022 Graduates
Danying Chen, Amy Yuchen Ge, Erica Hsu, Eloise Knight, Fangying Lu, Sammi Mak 6 - 31 Dec 2022 Liliya Art Gallery is delighted to present Highlights of 2022 Graduates; a group show which brings together six contemporary artists who have graduated from London-based arts universities this year. Featuring carefully selected work to highlight the skill, originality, and technique of the new generation. We strive to support emerging artists... Read more -
A Kind of Human Clothing
Bobby Fermie, Jake Garfield, Sophie Knight, Emily Mannion, Alice Miller, Shunshun Qi, Chica Seal 4 - 30 Nov 2022 Liliya Art Gallery is delighted to present A Kind of Human Clothing, a group show which brings together seven contemporary artists to explore the subject of interiors through the mediums of painting, watercolour, and woodcuts. As a global and everyday experience, the interior (in particular the domestic space) has been... Read more -
Falling without ever Landing
Solo exhibition - Lara Cobden 4 - 29 Oct 2022 The title Falling without Ever Landing comes from a line in ‘Love Song’ by Devendra Banhart, from the album Ma. On Lara’s studio playlist during 2020-21, whilst painting her swan paintings, the album touches on grief and joy, existential unease and dark humour and echoes ongoing ideas in Lara’s paintings.... Read more -
Close my Eyes and I'm Flying
Solo exhibition by Henry Glover 4 - 29 Oct 2022 This exhibition is centred around and pays homage to Joan of Arc. Henry’s figurative and landscape paintings and ceramics are objects of veneration to Joan and to nature. The paintings exhibited are made in sequence, showcasing different sides to Joan of Arc, spliced in between with images of nature. Almost... Read more -
A Season away from Yesterday
Solo exhibition by Michele Fletcher 4 - 29 Oct 2022 Michele’s rhythmic, gestural paintings are an intuitive response to her immediate surroundings. As a reimagining of our relationship with the natural world, they are grounded in both traditional landscape painting and the language of abstraction. Michele adopts an instinctive approach to her work; when creating her oil paintings, Michele enjoys... Read more -
Wilderness Known
Farnaz Gholami & Maddie Yuille 24 Aug - 23 Sep 2022 Liliya Art Gallery is proud to present Wilderness Known, a duo exhibition of contemporary female painters Farnaz Gholami and Maddie Yuille. This exhibition brings together two artists who explore the relationship between figures – present and absent – and the landscapes within which they inhabit. Both artists utilise the medium... Read more -
Dark Roots
Mafalda Figueiredo · Kora Moya Rojo · Alfie Rouy 11 Jul - 5 Aug 2022 This exhibition brings together three contemporary artists who use paint to combine the real and the imaginary. Each artist creates their own world within the canvas – a portal for both the artist and the viewer to escape into. All three artists are showcasing new bodies of work exploring the... Read more -
Open Call
Baroque Anarchist, Bijanka Bacic, Theo Bardsley, Laura L Bell, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Liam Bradley, Holly Brandrick, Lucy Cade, Henry Glover, Salla Kuoppamaa, Bianca MacCall, Lydia Merrett, Nell Mitchell, Mariam Mudarres, Jemima Murphy, Karen Pitcairn, Noah 31 May - 28 Jun 2022 Liliya Art Gallery is pleased to present its first ever open call exhibition. Our most ambitious exhibition to-date, we will be showcasing an incredible selection of work from artists who applied to the gallery’s public open call invitation. At the centre of Liliya Art Gallery’s values is to support artists,... Read more -
The Flesh of Paint
Noemi Conan · Alya Hatta · Olivia Harding · Lily Irwin · Yeonsu Ju · Alice Miller · Orla Murray · Shunshun Qi 26 Apr - 21 May 2022 The Flesh of Paint assembles eight contemporary figurative painters working and living in London. Artists were selected for their distinct voices, striking approaches, and mastery of paint in the field of figurative expression. The exhibition explores how these individual artists translate their own experience and imagined realities into striking and... Read more -
A Material World
Kate Burling, Bobbye Fermie, Ana Kazaroff, Lindsey Jean McLean, Tom Mead, Llinos Owen, Manon Steyaert 24 Mar - 19 Apr 2022 Liliya Art Gallery is delighted to present A Material World, a group show of multidisciplinary artists making groundbreaking work through an innovative use of materials. The mediums artists utilise to make their work are often viewed as a secondary, and at times coincidental element of their practice. Inspired by Marshall... Read more -
Running with the Wolves
Carolina Aguirre, Camilla Bliss, Rafaella Lazarou, Simona Orentaitė, Georg Wilson, Salomé Wu 16 Feb - 19 Mar 2022 R unning with the Wolves is a group show featuring six contemporary artists whose work explores mythology, folklores, fairytales and the spiritual through painting, drawing and sculpture. The exhibition takes its title from the book Women Who Run with the Wolves, Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (1992)... Read more -
In Awe of You
Kate Burling, Rebecca Gilpin, Joseph Goody, Sunyoung Hwang, Henry Ward 12 Jan - 5 Feb 2022 Liliya Art Gallery is proud to present In Awe of You, a group show featuring new and recent work by five contemporary abstract artists: Kate Burling, Rebecca Gilpin, Joseph Goody, Sunyoung Hwang and Henry Ward. The work in the show will be presented through the lens of Clive Bell’s ‘Significant... Read more -
Veiled Bodies
Alemeh Bagherian & Lindsey Jean McLean 24 Nov - 31 Dec 2021 Liliya Art Gallery is delighted to present Veiled Bodies, an exhibition showcasing the paintings of Iranian artist Alemeh Bagherian alongside new and recent work by British artist Lindsey Jean McLean. Bagherian and McLean’s difference in background and artistic practice are evident in the style and content of their work, however,... Read more -
PETRICHOR
Sophie Mei Birkin, Lara Cobden, Michele Fletcher, Beatrice Hasell-McCosh, Melissa Jarram, Amber Khan, Lucy Neish, Paula Turmina 15 Oct - 21 Nov 2021 Since the Stone Age, our relationship to the natural world has been explored through art, helping us to connect with our surroundings and inspire creativity. Today, however, it is increasingly complex, with the climate emergency impacting us all, some artists have decided to use their art to voice concern. Others... Read more -
A Chorus of Bodies
Lena Brazin, Caroline Cornelius, Olivia Harding, Lily German, Harriet Gillett, Grace Mattingly, Orla Murray, Amélie Peace 17 Sep - 10 Oct 2021 Liliya Art Gallery is proud to present A Chorus of Bodies, an exhibition exploring depictions of the body in relation to themes of identity and fiction. Featuring new and recent work by eight emerging artists working in the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture, A Chorus of Bodies invites viewers... Read more -
'A CALL ACROSS ROOMS'
Araminta Blue, Amy Beager, Barbara Alegre, David Brian Smith, David Rhys Jones, Daniel MacCarthy, Hugo Harris, Hannah Lim, Louis Appleby, Luke Burton 13 Aug - 5 Sep 2021 Liliya Art Gallery is pleased to present ‘A Call Across Rooms’, a group exhibition featuring ten artists working with painting and sculpture. The work exhibited offers an intriguing insight into the artists’ immediate surroundings; quiet glimpses of everyday life, remote essences of familiar things which then become a conduit for... Read more -
UNTOUCHABLE
ALISON LOUSADA, ALLY POWELL, CLAUDIA CLARE, MIMI JOUNG, JULIET FLEMING, JUNG MIN PARK, RUTH MARTIN 16 Jul - 8 Aug 2021 Artists and artisans working with ceramics have contributed to the art world for centuries. From prehistoric pottery to ancient Greek amphoras, from the rise of porcelain in Asia to the Arts and Crafts movement in the UK – ceramic traditions have long fascinated artists. The role of women in producing... Read more -
A SPACE TO HOLD THE GAZE
Group show: Anne Carney Raines, Ben Walker, Bianca Maccall, Gareth Cadwallader, Gethin Evans, Julie Caves, Marc Prats, Tomas Harker, Willian GC Brown 18 Jun - 11 Jul 2021 Liliya Art Gallery is pleased to present its first group exhibition ‘A Space to Hold the Gaze’. The exhibition presents a new series of work by nine artists who subtly draw influence from photographs and moving image. The work exhibited offers an intriguing insight into the interplay between imaginary pictorial... Read more -
'Universal Yearnings' Rafaela de Ascanio
21 May - 13 Jun 2021 Liliya Art Gallery is pleased to present Universal Yearnings, a brand-new body of work by Rafaela de Ascanio. Working predominantly as a painter and ceramicisit, Universal Yearnings is an intimate and powerful exhibition focusing on explorations of feminsim, the solar system and mythology. Starting with a strong academic background having... Read more -
'Cry Cowboy Cry' Douglas Cantor
22 Apr - 13 May 2021 Having immigrated from Colombia, Cantor’s Latin American upbringing is reflected in the sterong graphic quality of his work. Bold outlines are juxtaposed with vibrant colours and eclectic patterns, using thick brushstrokes to create both a flat and dimensional canvas. With a Matisse-like vibrancy, Cantor’s paintings hold a nostalgic power, entrancing... Read more -
'Take Me Somewhere Nice' Henry Glover
22 Mar - 18 Apr 2021 Henry Glover is a London based painter and ceramicist who won the Saatchi ‘Rising Star’ award in 2020, naming him as one of the top 35 artists around the world under 35 years old. Read more
