Our monthly roundup of our favourite London based exhibitions this December, as curated by the BRUSHWRK team…
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A Screaming Object: Elsa Rouy
Guts Gallery
Until 21st December 2024
"Guts Gallery is incredibly excited to present A Screaming Object; a solo presentation of ambitious, boundary-pushing new work by London-based artist Elsa Rouy.
A Screaming Object features Rouy’s largest and boldest work to date: a 7.5 metre long frieze made up of five large-scale canvases depicting one continuous scene. In this grand, imposing new work, Rouy continues to explore and navigate the unsettling boundary between hellish, visceral brutality and soft, tender beauty. The result is a complicated, transgressive and labyrinthine emotional landscape in which the repressed, troubling elements of the human subconscious are explored"
Lynne Drexler: The Sixties
White Cube
Until 10th January 2025
"White Cube is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by the late American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99), who is often associated with the second-generation Abstract Expressionist movement of the late 1950s and 1960s. Never fully capitulating herself to the movement, however, Drexler forged a unique aesthetic that synthesised a breadth of influences, including Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Pointillism and the all-over compositional structure of Abstract Expressionism. This exhibition marks her first major presentation in Europe and includes paintings, works on paper and mixed-media collages from a formative period in her artistic career which have never previously been exhibited"
Romance Apocalypse: Maria Szakats
Brooke Bennington
Until 25th November 2025
"Brooke Benington is pleased to present Romance Apocalypse, a solo exhibition by Maria Szakats that probes the layered nature of intimacy, exploring the nuances of beauty and vulnerability within both personal and cultural spheres"
Present/ Non Present Bodies
Night Café
Until 17th January 2025
"Night Café is proud to announce, Present/ Non Present Bodies, a trio exhibition that explores live/ing archival methods, questioning what happens to the materiality of performance once the body is removed. Presenting works by emerging artists Romane Courdacher, Emily Fielding and Julia Mazur; collectively the works engage with themes of physical transformation"
I Am The Last Woman Object: Nicola L.
Camden Art Centre
Until 29th December 2024
"Often celebrated in the context of Pop Art, Nouveau Realism, Feminism and design, there has yet to be an in-depth exploration of the multi-layered and expansive nature of her practice which ranged into cosmology, environmental concerns, spirituality, mortality, sexuality, soft sculpture, activism and political resistance. This will be the first time the full breadth of her practice has been shown in the UK or indeed on the European continent.
Encompassing sculpture, performance, painting, collage and film—all of which carry an air of wit, playfulness, and radical subversion—the show will be an opportunity to experience all aspects of Nicola L.’s multidisciplinary practice"
Eat Soup or Die Trying: Lily Hargreaves
Piccalilli Gallery
Until 4th January 2025
"The exhibition will comprise of a new body of paintings, reflecting on the wellness industry in the early twentieth century, particularly the experimental fad diets and treatment centres that gained popularity in this era. This show explores the perceived link between fasting and cleansing, tracing through a long Catholic tradition of restricted eating and revisiting these worlds to consider how moralising consumption haunts contemporary conversations around food"
𝘗𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘞𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘦𝘦𝘥: Kin Ting Li
South Parade
Until 11th January 2025
"South Parade is pleased to present Pockets of Want and Need, Hong Kong born, London-based artist Kin Ting Li’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Kin Ting Li’s paintings traverse fiction and reality. Li floods space with a distinctive palette of chilling and otherworldly tones – charcoals, glowing silvers and pale pinks, petrol blues, rusted reds and burgundy, to greenish ochre swimming on the surface, as though alginate matter from planetary pools. Across his evolving practice, the gestural and more abstract shapes convey futuristic organic and figurative structures; micro-scale workings internal to the human body, intricate mycelial networks, or astronomical happenings beyond our universe. Moving from the vantage point of a being’s entirety to the cellular focus of one isolated stem"
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)
Cob Gallery
Until 20th December 2024
"Cob Gallery is proud to present Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), a group exhibition of male artists that explores intimacy, identity, and relationships within the domestic sphere. The artists featured respectively across their practice engage with the human figure—sometimes present, sometimes absent—to activate interior spaces where themes of sexuality, queerness, solitude, and ritual might unfold. Central to the exhibition is the idea of the interior as a site for emotional and psychological expression, with each artist using it to examine aspects of male experience"
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