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THE BOTANICAL MIND : ART, MYSTICISM AND THE COSMIC TREE
Sep 24 - Dec 23, 2020
Eileen Agar / Anni Albers / Josef Albers / Consuelo Chelo Gonzalez Amezcuelo Amexcua / Gemma Anderson with Wakefield Lab and John Dupré / Anna Atkins / Jordan Belson / Annie Bessant and Charles Leadbeater / Karl Blossfeldt / Carol Bove / Kerstin Brätsch / Andrea Büttner / Santiago Ramon y Cajal / Adam Chodzko / Ithell Colquhoun / Bruce Conner / Das Institut / Mirtha Dermisache / Minnie Evans / Cerith Wyn Evans / Charles Filiger / Robert Fludd / Giorgio Griffa / Brion Gysin / Friedrich Wilhelm Heine / Ernst Haeckel / Anna Haskel / Tamara Henderson / Channa Horwitz / Textiles from the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawa) people/ C.G. Jung / Joachim Koester / Rachid Koraïchi / Hilma Af Klint / Emma Kunz / Yves Laloy / Ghislaine Leung / Linder / Simon Ling / André Masson / John McCracken / Henri Michaux / Matt Mullican / Wolfgang Paalen / Paul Paun / Steve Reinke and James Richards / Edith Rimmington / Daniel Rios Rodriguez / Textiles and ceramics from the Shipibo-Conibo people / Penny Slinger / F. Percy Smith / Janet Sobel / Philip Taaffe / Fred Tomaselli / Delfina Muñoz de Toro / Alexander Tovborg / David Tudor / Lee Ufan / Scottie Wilson / Terry Winters / Adolf Wölfli / Bryan Wynter / Henriette Zéphir / Anna Zemankova / Anica Zurn / Deuzimar Peu Yawanawá / Tsatsawanu Yawanawá / Xinayura Yawanawá.
A source of shelter and sustenance, fuel and tools, decoration and adornment, medicine and myth, humanity’s history and evolution is intimately entangled with that of the plant kingdom – an impossibly rich, ancient and abundant form of life on earth, but one utterly different from our own. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree brings together the work of over 50 artists, spanning more than 500 years, to investigate the ongoing significance of the plant kingdom to human life, consciousness and spirituality. In doing so it highlights the subjectivity and being of plants, their influence on various knowledge-forms and wisdom-traditions, and how we engage with and activate them in culture, counter-culture, art and music.

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LOOKING UP : HELAINE BLUMENFELD AT CANARY WHARF
Mar 16, 2020 - Jan 31, 2021
Showing sculptures by Helaine Blumenfeld at Canary Wharf gives an unrivalled opportunity to view them in the context of hard interior and exterior architecture as well as carefully designed outdoor spaces amongst mature trees. Her fusion of natural forms, both human and foliate, spiced with abstraction, are seen through a range of diverse works dating from 1974 to 2019.
Lobby exhibition until 6 Nov 2020; exterior works until 31 Jan 2021.

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QUEER CORRESPONDENCE : A MAIL-ART INITIATIVE
June - December 2020
Featuring commissions by Alex Margo Arden & Caspar Heinemann; Beatriz Cortez & Kang Seung Lee; Ezra Green & Martin Hansen; Rafa Esparza; Gelare Khoshgozaran; Atiéna Riollet; David Lindert.
Made possible with the generous support of an Emergency Grant from Arts Council England.
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OLU OGUNNAIKE LONDON PLAIN
Nov 1 - Dec 6, 2020
Cell Project Space presents an intervention by London-based artist Olu Ogunnaike. Staged in the main upstairs gallery during an interim period whilst the exhibitions programme has been postponed, Ogunnaike has been invited to consider our main upstairs gallery at a time when it would have otherwise continued to be temporarily empty.

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ONLINE | PROJECT PAPYROPHILIA
Apr 1 - Dec 31, 2020
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON presents an ongoing, fluid exhibition of work on paper by gallery and associated artists. All work is priced at just £250 including p&p and is available to ship. Selected by and including gallery director, curator and practicing artist Zavier Ellis.
 
Including Kiera Bennett, Michael Boffey, Cecilia Bonilla, Tom Butler, Adam Dix, Graham Dolphin, Zavier Ellis, Sam Jackson, Simon Keenleyside, Melissa Kime, Hugh Mendes, Richard Moon, Alex Gene Morrison, David Risley, Michael Scoggins, Dominic Shepherd, Barry Thompson.

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BRODY CHIPCHASE / ISOBEL FINLAY
(until further notice)
Brody Chipchase and Isobel Finlay, winners of The David Troostwyk / Matt’s Gallery Studio Award and The Vanguard Prize (visible from outside only)
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THAO NGUYEN PHAN
26 Sep - 6 Dec, 2020
Chisenhale Gallery presents Becoming Alluvium, the first solo exhibition in a UK institution by Ho Chi Minh City-based artist Thao Nguyen Phan. Working with painting, installation and moving image, Phan’s work explores history and tradition through non-fiction and fictional narratives.
 
Becoming Alluvium continues Phan’s ongoing research about the Mekong River, which runs through Tibet, China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. Composed of two elements – a single channel film work and a series of lacquer and silk paintings – the works simultaneously explore real and imaginary worlds.
 
Book your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thao-nguyen-phan-at-chisenhale-gallery-tickets-119907321025

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JULE KORNEFFEL : ALL THAT KALE
5 Nov - 19 Dec 2020
Claas Reiss' inaugural show presents new paintings by Brooklyn, NY based Jule Korneffel in her first UK exhibition.
 
Jule Korneffel, born and raised in Germany, graduated from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2008 as Meisterschüler under Tal R. In 2015 she moved to New York, where she feels the particular inspirations of Mary Heilmann and Agnes Martin. After graduating from the M.F.A. program at Hunter College in 2018, Korneffel quickly gained attention for emotional but reductive paintings: recent shows include Phase Patterns at ltd los angeles, Here comes trouble at Spencer Brownstone in NYC and Mini Me Mary in Dialogue with Mary Heilmann at Albada Jelgersma Gallery in Amsterdam.
 
The exhibition will be followed by a publication with an essay by Terry R Myers.
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JULE KORNEFFEL : ALL THAT KALE
Nov 4 - Dec 19, 2020
Claas Reiss' inaugural show presents new paintings by Brooklyn, NY based Jule Korneffel in her first UK exhibition.
 
Jule Korneffel, born and raised in Germany, graduated from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 2008 as Meisterschüler under Tal R. In 2015 she moved to New York, where she feels the particular inspirations of Mary Heilmann and Agnes Martin. After graduating from the M.F.A. program at Hunter College in 2018, Korneffel quickly gained attention for emotional but reductive paintings: recent shows include Phase Patterns at ltd los angeles, Here comes trouble at Spencer Brownstone in NYC and Mini Me Mary in Dialogue with Mary Heilmann at Albada Jelgersma Gallery in Amsterdam.
 
The exhibition will be followed by a publication with an essay by Terry R Myers.
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BOTH KEEN : FLORENCE SHAW AND NATALKA LIBER STEPHENSON
Nov 13 - Dec 13, 2020
Florence Shaw and Natalka Liber Stephenson have created parallel and co-authored bodies of work that chart an intuitively productive journey: informed by discussion, material experimentation and their friendship dynamic.
 
The exhibition has been conceived as if two parts of a material conversation. The main gallery will host a series of drawings and monoprints hung in pairs, while a set of sculptures made by both artists in response to these works will feature in Coleman’s Shed space.
 
Each artist plays with a different sense of immediacy in their practices, often with aesthetically pleasing and associatively open results. The lively “character-driven” works on paper offer an investigation into the nature of pairings; the symbiotic and potentially ‘toxic’ factors that can present when ideas, modes of working and motifs are combined.
 
The gallery installation has been conceived by the pair to encourage closer inspection and engagement with the artwork combinations. Liber Stephenson’s colourful linear expressions connect the strategies of high art with that of the doodle, while Shaw’s freestyle marbling technique speaks of old-world print processes and the happy accident as a useful creative starting point.
 
Shaw and Liber Stephenson have worked together to create a joyfully irreverent crew of sculptural works, which they appear to have stuffed into the Shed space as if family bric-a-brac in storage. These reactionary 3-D responses to the works on paper have been fashioned and engineered, like a series of experiments, from balloon foil, bags, ceramics, soft articles and projected light.
 
An accompanying publication will include writing by Sinead Evans inspired by the energetic nature of this collaboration and the discussions that have come out of the process.
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ALVARO BARRINGTON
Nov 12 - Dec 18, 2020
Garvey 2- They eyes were watching God

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RICHARD HAMILTON : TOWARDS A DEFINITIVE STATEMENT
Nov 27, 2020 - Jan 16, 2021

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LANGUID HANDS X INSTITUTE OF ANYTHING
Jul 29, 2020 - Jul 30, 2030
VISUAL STORYTELLING WITH R.I.P. GERMAIN
A workshop for young people aged 16-24 who live or go to school in Islington
BST | 11am - 3.30pm Wednesday 29th July, Thursday 30th July, Friday 31st July
link here to register: tinyurl.com/y5f67jn5

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TALES FROM THE COLONY ROOMS : ART AND BOHEMIA
Sep 15 - Dec 20, 2020
Tales from the Colony Rooms recounts the genesis of the modern and contemporary art scene that was cultivated by the artists who passed through the doors of the Colony Rooms, the infamous private members club for artists and writers in London. The exhibition presents works of art by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, R. B. Kitaj, F. N. Souza, Frank Auerbach, John Deakin, Daniel Farson, Nina Hamnett, Isabel Rawsthorne, Michael Clark, Sir Peter Blake, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield, Darren Coffield, Daniel Chadwick, Amelia Troubridge, David Bailey, and more.
The exhibition will be accompanied by the official release of the book, Tales from the Colony: Soho's Last Bohemia, by Darren Coffield. The book is an oral history, composed of previously unpublished and long-lost interviews with many of the protagonists and artists who were central to the bohemian art scene; giving the reader a real flavour of what it was like to frequent the Colony Rooms.

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LOTHAR GÖTZ SALVATION
Dec 3, 2020 - Feb 6, 2021
Private view Fri Dec 11 12pm - 6pm
In view of the current pandemic and the challenges this presents in programming and planning as well as the visitor experience, the dates are subject to further confirmation or change. The exhibition will then continue through the Winter towards Spring, allowing all who wish to visit, whether by booking, or turning up.
 
Visitors are encouraged to book advance appointments by email or phone, while walk–ins are also welcome, visitors may be asked to queue outside the gallery if the space is at capacity in accordance with government social distancing guidelines.
 
Lothar Götz currently has three major public commissions in situ, all of which have been extended and may currently be visited in the UK:
 
Dance Diagonal at Towner Eastbourne
Xanadu at Leeds Art Gallery
Composition for a Staircase at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
 
In Summer 2021 he is scheduled to present a solo exhibition at
Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art
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VANESSA BAIRD : IF EVER THERE WERE AN END TO A STORY...
Nov 13, 2020 - Jan 24, 2021
Vanessa Baird: If ever there were an end to a story that had no beginning.
 
Raw, outlandish and utterly individual, Vanessa Baird’s charged works in pastel and watercolour range from room-size murals to intimate self-portraits and draw on a wide range of references from the artist's own lived experiences, as well as Scandinavian folklore. Her extraordinary drawings depict ‘her world’, centred on the house that she grew up in and still inhabits with her three teenage children and elderly mother, for whom she acts as carer. Baird captures the difficult everyday tasks of looking after a family in a kaleidoscope of startling imagery, permeated with exhaustion, boredom, frustration, bodily functions and the chaotic detritus of domestic life. Whilst rooted in the autobiographical, her work equally references wider concerns, from fairy tales and legends, to the international politics of the European refugee crisis and the Oslo bombings of 2011; these all feed into uncompromising images underpinned with a dark, often disturbing humour that is both confidential and confrontational.
 
Vanessa Baird (b. 1963) lives and works in Oslo. This will be the her first solo exhibition in the UK.
 
This exhibition is co-curated by Mary Doyle and Gillian Fox.

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VIEWINGS BY APPOINTMENT
Contact the gallery for details
Due to the redevelopment of our previous building, England & Co is currently working from a private, appointment-only space; however we continue to curate exhibitions and initiate projects, with a particular focus on placing works in museum and institutional collections. The gallery’s programme of events includes off-site exhibitions, art fairs, talks and screening events.
Works from stock and by gallery artists can be viewed by appointment in West London. Please contact the gallery by phone or email:
Tel. +44 (0)20 7361 1694
Email info@englandgallery.com

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