Past
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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,... 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... 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... Read more
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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... 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... 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... Read more
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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... 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... 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. ... Read more
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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... 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... 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... Read more
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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... 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... Read more
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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,... 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... 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... Read more
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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... 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... 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