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Barry McGlashan | Invisible Lines, Immortal Beams
2 May - 14 Jun 2025 Thresholds, metaphorical and literal, are perhaps the most omnipresent and important motif in Barry McGlashan’s extraordinarily evocative paintings. The works in this exhibition – his first full solo show at Frestonian Gallery – bring us to the edge of lakes, rivers, roads, lead us to the foot of mountains and... Read more -
David Price | Spolia
5 Mar - 17 Apr 2025 David Price’s ambitious new show is his second solo exhibition at Frestonian Gallery and springs from the artist’s deep fascination with the art of the late Renaissance, in particular the paintings of Tintoretto, Van Eyck, Rubens and Veronese. Over the past two years Price has made regular trips to Italy,... Read more -
Barry McGlashan | Art SG | Singapore
17 - 19 Jan 2025 We are hugely excited to be exhibiting at the highly regarded Art SG art fair in Singapore from the 17th to the 19th January 2025 . We will be showing a solo presentation of new works by Barry McGlashan. Barry McGlashan was born in 1974 in Aberdeen on the North-East... Read more -
Cara Nahaul | Livelihood
10 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present our first solo exhibition by Cara Nahaul. The vibrantly coloured and elegantly balanced compositions of Nahaul’s major canvases present, in Gallery 1, an extraordinary tableau of a place and culture. Devoid of figures, but with the light and heat of their subject perfectly evoked... Read more -
Domestic Flights
Curated by Cara Nahaul 10 Jan - 22 Feb 2025 In Gallery 2 we are delighted to present the first in a series of artist-curated exhibitions that provides a space for the artist showing in the main gallery to both contextualise their work amongst their contemporaries and to express their own curatorial voice. Of her selection Cara Nahaul writes: Domestic... Read more -
Hannah Brown | The Road to Hollow Pond
14 Nov - 20 Dec 2024 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to announce our second solo exhibition of works by Hannah Brown. The subject of the boundary or ‘in-between’ space has long been a fascination for Brown, and this new series finds its focus on just such a place near to the artist’s home in east London.... Read more -
Sam Herman | Frieze Masters | London
9 - 13 Oct 2024 Frestonian Gallery, London, is delighted to be showing for the first time at this year’s edition of Frieze Masters, London, exceptional works by the pioneering glass artist Sam Herman (1936–2020), focusing on his highly influential work made from mid-1960 to the 1980s in the UK, Australia and Belgium. As both... Read more -
Minami Kobayashi | The Song of Jujubes
18 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to announce our second exhibition of works by Minami Kobayashi. The show comprises ten major canvases completed over the past year. The paintings’ subjects span three continents and several decades, through Kobayashi's signature evocation of the construction of narrative and the function of memory. The sense... Read more -
The Armory Show | New York
5 - 8 Sep 2024 Our presentation this year is located in the fairs core Galleries section , Booth #403 , featuring major works by: Adrian Berg (1929-2011), Tim Braden, Edmond Brooks-Beckman, Hannah Brown, Sam Herman (1936-2020), Sunyoung Hwang, Minami Kobayashi, Barry McGlashan & David Price. Fair contacts: Matt Incledon: matt@frestoniangallery.com Rollo Campbell: rollo@frestoniangallery.com Dates... Read more -
Formation | Paul de Monchaux at 90
27 Jun - 3 Aug 2024 In Gallery 1 we are delighted to present a survey exhibition of the work of Paul de Monchaux , in celebration of the artist’s 90th year. Spanning six decades, this extraordinary body of work charts the development of an artist of rare talent who has been a significant influence on... Read more -
Radhika Agarwala | Weathering With You
27 Jun - 3 Aug 2024 In Gallery 3 the work of Radhika Agarwala weaves a fascinating and haunting sculptural narrative concerning memory, both recent and ancient. The human scale meets the geological scale across the corroded and patina’d surface of the multi panelled Studies in Earth Displacement series in broad reference to the wide range... Read more -
Juliet Ferguson-Rose | Assemblage
27 Jun - 3 Aug 2024 G allery 2 Is host to the first solo exhibition of London-based sculptor Juliet Ferguson-Rose . A recent graduate of the Royal College of Art, Ferguson-Rose works predominantly in ceramics, creating works that are literally and metaphorically multi-layered. Her confident and technically skilled use of glazes and firing techniques is... Read more -
Sanne Maloe Slecht | Among The Billions
23 May - 22 Jun 2024 Galleries 2 & 3 see our second major presentation of works by Sanne Maloe Slecht. The sense of the sculptural is never far from Slecht’s work, nor the sense of the uncanny – and in the subject matter of her most recent body of work she has found a perfect... Read more -
Sunyoung Hwang | The Listened Landscape
23 May - 22 Jun 2024 In Gallery 1 we are delighted to present our first solo exhibition of works by Sunyoung Hwang. The densely layered yet effervescent oils on canvas that form the core of Hwang’s practice are a kind of abstract diary of mood and thought. The seemingly quickly applied, gestural brushstrokes belie a... Read more -
Luke Elwes | Constellation
18 Apr - 18 May 2024 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present ‘Constellation’ – a solo exhibition of work by Luke Elwes, spanning the body of work produced at and following his 2022 residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Mayo, Ireland, as well as the most recent major works from Elwes’ extraordinary fifteen-year-plus engagement with the... Read more -
Barry McGlashan | The Distant Ideal
7 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 Galleries 2 & 3 see the first presentation at Frestonian Gallery of works by highly acclaimed painter Barry McGlashan . In these small works on panel, the motif of the single figure in the landscape recurs – each having its own sense of quiet intimacy, as the viewer is compelled... Read more -
James Ferguson-Rose | The Occasion and the Vessel
7 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 In Gallery 1 we are delighted to present the first solo exhibition in London of works by James Ferguson-Rose . In Ferguson-Rose’s paintings the sense of immersion is inescapable – these are works where the entire experience of the landscape is felt and formed, and latterly described in dense and... Read more -
Anna Woodward | Toxic Traits
26 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to be hosting Anna Woodward's first major solo show in the United Kingdom. This follows on from her first international solo exhibition at Duarte Sequiera (2023, Braga, Portugal), that came soon after her highly anticipated graduation from City & Guilds. Woodward (b.1998, London) creates fantastical worlds... Read more -
Art SG | Singapore
Minami Kobayashi & Tim Braden 18 - 21 Jan 2024 We are hugely excited to be exhibiting in the second edition of the highly regarded Art SG art fair in Singapore from the 18th to the 21st of January 2024 . We will be showing new works by Tim Braden and Minami Kobayashi. Minami Kobayashi was born in 1989 in... Read more -
Edmond Brooks-Beckman | Spoken in Ochre
10 Nov - 20 Dec 2023 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present the first major solo show of Edmond Brooks-Beckman following his graduation from the Royal College of Art in the summer of 2023. Brooks-Beckman’s paintings present as extraordinary palimpsests wherein the artist’s command of surface, colour and composition is frozen in a carefully determined moment... Read more -
Asia NOW | Paris
Minami Kobayashi & Kristina Chan 19 - 22 Oct 2023 Frestonian Gallery is excited to be showing for the first time at Asia NOW (Paris), where we will be exhibiting new works by Minami Kobayahi & Kristina Chan. Celebrating its 9th Edition, Asia NOW is the first Parisian art fair showcasing the diversity of Asia’s contemporary art scene, and this... Read more -
Tim Braden | La Coloriste
21 Sep - 4 Nov 2023 We are delighted to announce Tim Braden’s third solo exhibition with Frestonian Gallery , opening 21st September 2023. ‘La Coloriste’ comprises an extraordinary body of paintings, largely produced over the past 18 months. The principal subject of these radiant and boldly realised paintings is the city and surrounding area of... Read more -
THE ARMORY SHOW | NEW YORK
Hannah Brown | Hollow Pond 7 - 10 Sep 2023 Frestonian Gallery, London, is delighted to be exhibiting Hannah Brown 's latest series of work, the Hollow Pond series, in the Presents section (Booth P37 ) at The Armory Show in New York, 7th-10th Sepember 2023 . This work is a continuation of Brown's interest in our relationship to nature,... Read more -
Soft Monuments
29 Jun - 5 Aug 2023 Carolina Aguirre / Gianna Dispenza / Enam Gbewonyo / Maria Positano / Vanessa da Silva / Melania Toma / Jonathan Trayte / Laura White Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present Soft Monuments , an exhibition bringing together the work of 8 artists who make work using an alchemy of ambiguous,... Read more -
Adrian Berg | Works on Paper
27 Apr - 17 Jun 2023 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present its first major exhibition of works on paper by Adrian Berg RA (1929-2011). One of the most innovative and ultimately influential British landscape painters of his generation, Berg had long been underserved by recognition outside the circle of those variously inspired by or taught... Read more -
Minami Kobayashi & Patrick Procktor | Place and Presence
2 Mar - 1 Apr 2023 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present its first exhibition of new works by Minami Kobayashi (b. 1989), alongside and in dialogue with selected works by Patrick Procktor (1936-2003). Kobayashi, who now lives and works in London, is a graduate of the Toyko University of the Arts and the School of... Read more -
Luke Elwes & Bridget Riley | Vision and The Visionary | London (Part 2)
26 Jan - 25 Feb 2023 For the inaugural exhibition of its 2023 programme Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of works on paper by Bridget Riley and Luke Elwes . This exhibition is a continuation & development of the exhibition of the same name at the Myung-Won Folk House Museum in Seoul, South... Read more -
David Price | The Flowers She Sent
16 Nov - 20 Dec 2022 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present its first solo exhibition of the work of David Price. The pathway to this current series of highly energetic and dynamic paintings by Price has been many varied. Beginning as a student of drawing at Edinburgh College of Art he went on to an... Read more -
Luke Elwes & Bridget Riley | Vision and the Visionary | Seoul
21 Oct - 13 Nov 2022 Luke Elwes, Sammy Lee, Bridget Riley, Vakki Co-curated with Stephanie Seungmin Kim at Myung Won Folk House Museum, Seoul, Korea. Bridget Riley (born London, 1931) and Luke Elwes (born London, 1961) are two British artists who were, and are, heavily influenced by the deconstructive & colour-theory elements of the 19th... Read more -
Anna Freeman Bentley | Make Believe (Part 2)
21 Sep - 10 Nov 2022 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present at our London gallery the second part of Anna Freeman Bentley’s extraordinary new body of work, following her highly successful solo presentation at the 2022 edition of The Armory Show, New York. The series – entitled ‘make believe’ is derived from an informal artist’s... Read more -
The Armory Show | New York
Anna Freeman Bentley | Make Believe 8 - 11 Sep 2022 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present Anna Freeman Bentley's latest series of works. The ‘make believe’ series includes 14 major new canvases, a similar number of smaller works on panel and canvas, and over twenty works on paper. They will be presented in two halves: the first opening as a... Read more -
Lustrum Frestonian | Celebrating Five Years of Frestonian Gallery
15 Jun - 6 Aug 2022 To celebratef five Years of Frestonian Gallery we are presenting a group exhibition of our represented gallery artists, Featuring works by Adrian Berg, Tim Braden, Hannah Brown, Luke Elwes, Anna Freeman Bentley, Sam Herman, David Price, Sanne Maloe Slecht & Will Stein. The stunning late work of Adrian Berg (1929-2011)... Read more -
Sam Herman 1936 - 2020
5 May - 11 Jun 2022 Frestonian Gallery presents a memorial exhibition reflecting on, and celebrating, the extraordinary life and work of Sam Herman. His legacy stands as Britain’s most pioneering and celebrated glass artist; and as a vital figure in the development of British Modernism throughout the transformative era of the 1960s and far beyond.... Read more -
Sonia Delaunay, Austin Eddy & Sagarika Sundaram | Form / Symbol
16 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 The exhibition Form / Symbol presents three artists whose practices enagage with precepts of colour theory, physical craft and ever-evolving symbology. Spread across different mediums and generations, the works of Delaunay, Eddy and Sundaram typify a love of making and interaction with material as both a celebration of surface aesthetics... Read more -
Hannah Brown | I Stood Still
12 Jan - 26 Feb 2022 ...Let me, keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished . From “Messenger’ by Mary Oliver, 2006 The works in Hannah Brown’s first solo exhibition at Frestonian Gallery achieve a quality common in all truly successful representational painting,... Read more -
Luke Elwes | Landermere
10 Nov - 22 Dec 2021 Consisting solely of works on paper ‘Landermere’ marks Luke Elwes’ second solo exhibition at Frestonian Gallery and the culmination of an extraordinary investigation into a practice that is as meditative as it is dynamic. For the past two decades, Luke Elwes has alternated his time between his studio in London,... Read more -
Tim Braden | PINKS, GREENS, VIOLET WITH CADMIUM YELLOW
23 Sep - 6 Nov 2021 Tim Braden’s third solo exhibition with Frestonian Gallery provides a fascinating insight into the many layered concerns and inspirations of his practice as a painter. The paintings take as their subject matter the abstract nature of both garden and textile design. Braden’s works unfold as a balance between accepting and... Read more -
The Armory Show | London
ANNA FREEMAN BENTLEY 9 - 18 Sep 2021 As the travel ban to the USA remains in effect for non-US citizens we have decided to defer our participation at Armory NY until 2022. Instead we shall be presenting at the London gallery a short exhibition (to run in tandem with the actual event taking place in NY) of... Read more -
Sanne Maloe Slecht | Metaphorically Speaking
7 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present its first exhibition of paintings by Sanne Maloe Slecht. First studying as a photographer at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, Slecht’s practice very early on became somewhat anarchic & subverting of the medium – introducing deconstructive elements such as overpainting and... Read more -
Adrian Berg | Paintings 1964 - 2010
5 May - 3 Jul 2021 'His paintings, above all, breathed new life into landscape painting... Berg’s constant reinvention of the terms of painting, his repeated demonstrations that as a medium it remains as alive as ever and as pertinent a means for communicating a coherent world view, is a matter for celebration. Berg’s paintings, a... Read more -
Tess Jaray & Paul De Monchaux | Correspondences
3 Dec 2020 - 28 Apr 2021 PRESS HERE FOR EXHIBITION VIEWING ROOM Megan Piper and Frestonian Gallery are delighted to present an exhibition of work by Tess Jaray and Paul de Monchaux . Having studied together at the Slade in the late 1950s, the artists met again in 1986 during the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival, where de... Read more -
Charles Avery, Dana Lixenberg & Karen Russo | The City & The City & The City
16 Sep - 7 Nov 2020 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present The City & The City & The City – a show of work by three leading international artists, which brings together three distinct visions of the urban. Spanning 22 years, the Dutch photographer Dana Lixenberg ’s series Imperial Courts (1993-2015) documents a Black and... Read more -
The Green Fuse
Adrian Berg, Tim Braden, Hannah Brown, Luke Elwes, Anna Freeman Bentley, Harry Phelan Gibb, Sam Herman, David Hockney, Egle Jauncems, David Price, Bridget Riley, Michaela Yearwood-Dan 1 Jul - 5 Sep 2020 We are delighted to announce our reopening following our temporary closure over the Covid-19 lockdown period. The group exhibition we will be presenting is a celebration of spring, summer, renewal, and the landscape – both real and imagined. The title refers to the 1934 Dylan Thomas poem The Force That... Read more -
Christian Hidaka, Tom Howse & Nick Jensen | The Stage More Beholding
11 Mar - 24 Jun 2020 The title of this exhibition – the first at Frestonian Gallery for each of the three artists exhibited – is derived from a treatise by the English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) not on art but on love. The phrase itself specifically relates to the way in which ‘the stage’ may... Read more -
Anna Freeman Bentley | Collected & Composed
16 Jan - 22 Feb 2020 Order and Chaos, deliberation and spontaneity: these contrasting concepts form both the sense and the subject of the latest solo exhibition of paintings by Anna Freeman Bentley. The literal subjects are both purposeful constructions of a sort – the carefully staged tableaux of museum ‘interiors’ (intended to demonstrate certain design... Read more -
COLOUR / BALANCE
Sonia Delaunay | Lothar Goetz | Andre Lanskoy | Sol LeWitt | Eduardo Paolozzi | Bridget Riley | Dan Shaw-Town & William Stein 11 Dec 2019 - 11 Jan 2020 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present work by contemporary and modern artists exploring the boundless possibilities of geometric abstraction. The precisely measured and exquisitely realised lines of Sol LeWitt , Bridget Riley and Lothar Goetz , contrast with the more painterly employment of standard geometric forms as are found in... Read more -
David Price, Bob & Roberta Smith & Jessica Voorsanger | Gardens of Ideas
6 Nov - 7 Dec 2019 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present ‘Gardens of Ideas’ – new works by three artists each addressing the importance of art in our (and every) culture. Art as a part of the human condition is that vital thread of human endeavour that ploughs ahead full steam regardless of the restraints... Read more -
Tim Braden | Yellow Lake Deep, Rose, Violet & Mauve
12 Sep - 26 Oct 2019 Within the seemingly purely descriptive title (the words comprising it are simply the proper names of commonly available oil paints) of Tim Braden’s latest exhibition is contained both the problem and the solution that Braden has respectively identified and tackled as an artist, and more specifically as a painter. The... Read more -
BARRY REIGATE & MARIANNE THOERMER | AUTOMATICALS
Barry Reigate & Marianne Thoermer 10 Jul - 7 Sep 2019 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present ‘Automaticals’ – a series of new paintings by Barry Reigate, alongside new textile, print and large-scale installation works by Marianne Thoermer. In the practice of both artists the tension is evident between the instinctive & intuitive, and the determined and skilful application of finely-honed... Read more -
Hill & Park
Patrick Caulfield | Lucian Freud | Patrick Heron | Susan Hiller | David Hockney | Howard Hodgkin | Bridget Riley 16 May - 6 Jul 2019 The Camden Town Group and Bloomsbury Set of the North & Centre; the 90s YBAs of the East; the vibrant sprawling network of young and emerging artists peppering the South of the city... London has a certain geographic sense of the artistic richness, past and present, in each of its... Read more -
SAM HERMAN | RETROSPECTIVE: 1965 - PRESENT
20 Mar - 11 May 2019 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Sam Herman, to celebrate the launch of Lund Humphries new monograph on the artist. Sam Herman’s magical creations in glass are the tangible product of a creative spirit, a philosophy, and a crusading energy that... Read more -
LUKE ELWES | PASSAGE: PAINTINGS FROM THE GANGES
7 Feb - 16 Mar 2019 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to present a newly completed body of work by Luke Elwes, that takes as its principal source a journey by the artist along the Ganges River begun in early 2018. Beginning at Allahabad, after attending the Mela, and wending along the ever-changing course of perhaps the... Read more -
William Stein & Ben Nicholson | SHORE LINES
14 Nov 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 In the exhibition 'Shore Lines' Frestonian Gallery presents works by two alumni of London’s Slade School of Art: a series of new large and mid-scale paintings by contemporary artist William Stein, in dialogue with paintings, drawings and prints by Stein's long-time inspiration and one of the most significant figures in... Read more -
Tim Braden | Looking & Painting - Book Launch & Celebration
26 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 Frestonian Gallery is delighted to announce an evening Book Launch, with an accompanying exhibition, to celebrate the publication of Tim Braden’s new monograph: ' Looking and Painting' . Art/Books writes: Constantly shifting between representation and abstraction, while referencing art, architecture and design and embracing the decorative, British artist Tim Braden’s... Read more -
Tony Sleep | Welcome To Frestonia: Book Launch & Exhibition
5 - 22 Sep 2018 “On 31st October 1977, Freston Road, a squatted street of derelict houses in Notting Dale, West London, declared independence from the United Kingdom. We appealed to the United Nations to send a peacekeeping force to prevent evictions by the Greater London Council. The new nation-state called itself The Peoples Free... Read more -
Year One
Celebrating the First Year of Frestonian Gallery - Featuring works by every artist the gallery has exhibited to date 20 Jun - 4 Aug 2018 Read more -
Adrian Berg RA | A Human Nature
25 Apr - 16 Jun 2018 Adrian Berg (1929–2011) was one of the great British landscape painters of the last half of the twentieth century. He whole-heartedly committed his life, work and huge talent to painting his favourite parks, gardens and vistas in the UK and abroad. For twenty-five years Berg assiduously painted the view of... Read more -
Nick Hornby, Eduardo Paolozzi & Douglas White | Magic & Method
14 Mar - 21 Apr 2018 The exhibition ‘Magic & Method’ is something of a confluence of three artists’ practices that are intrinsically linked to both the artistic and technological contexts of their time. Artistic enquiry, much like any other vital human endeavour, does not exist in isolation – and in the development of each ‘new’... Read more -
Tim Braden & Sonia Delaunay | Everything is Real
24 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 ‘Everything is feeling, everything is real. Colour brings me joy’. Sonia Delaunay, 1972 The exhibition Everything Is Real juxtaposes two artists working with abstraction in different ways and at different times, but with many of the same intentions and indeed end results: the retention or enhancement of movement and energy... Read more -
Lubna Chowdhary, Sam Herman & Eduardo Paolozzi | Mind Forged
15 Nov 2017 - 20 Jan 2018 Mind Forged brings together three artists’ practices that, while ultimately divergent, have crossed paths and exchanged influences at critical junctures. Eduardo Paolozzi and Sam Herman both taught together at the Royal College of Art from the late 60s. Paolozzi continuing his hugely influential tenure into the 90s, whilst Herman –... Read more -
Tony Sleep | Welcome to Frestonia
11 Oct - 11 Nov 2017 Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Free Independent Republic of Frestonia For its current exhibition Frestonian Gallery presents ‘Welcome To Frestonia’ – an exhibition both examining and celebrating the Free Independent Republic of Frestonia – founded 40 years ago, in October 1977 by a group of disparate inhabitants of the... Read more -
Sara Barker, Anthony Caro & Laurence Owen | Imagination And Its Contents
6 Sep - 6 Oct 2017 Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just their own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe – Philip Guston The works in this exhibition, span the 40 years since Caro wrought the... Read more -
The Luminous Language
Adrian Berg | William Crozier | David Hockney | Ken Kiff | Jesse Makinson | David Price 7 Jun - 21 Jul 2017 The Luminous Language: Adrian Berg | William Crozier | David Hockney | Ken Kiff | Jesse Makinson | David Price Read more
