Frestonian Gallery

Exhibitions

Current

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

Past

Correspondences
Tess Jaray / Paul De Monchaux 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 Monchaux’s... Read more

The City & The City & The City
Charles Avery | Dana Lixenberg | Karen Russo 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

The Stage More Beholding
Christian Hidaka | Tom Howse | Nick Jensen 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 the work... Read more

Gardens of Ideas
David Price | Bob & Roberta Smith | Jessica Voorsanger 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

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... 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 work... 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

Magic & Method
Nick Hornby | Eduardo Paolozzi | Douglas White 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

Everything is Real
Tim Braden & Sonia Delaunay 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... Read more

Mind Forged
Lubna Chowdhary | Sam Herman | Eduardo Paolozzi 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... Read more

Imagination And Its Contents
Sara Barker | Anthony Caro | Laurence Owen 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