Our monthly roundup of our favourite London based exhibitions this February, as curated by the BRUSHWRK team…
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Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily
Until 23rd February 2025
The Photographer's Gallery
"Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily introduces works by the trailblazing Italian photographer, Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022). Renowned for her documentation of everyday life in Sicily under the shadow of the Mafia, this major exhibition brings together powerful imagery that spans the 1970s-90s"
Eyes Open in the Dark
Until 6th April 2025
Raven Row
"This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography. Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 from AIDS-related pneumonia his work was largely unknown to a broader art world. Now it is widely admired for its austere elegance and emotional charge"
Elle Jackson ‘Bones’
Until 14th February 2025
"We are delighted to present the captivating work of Elle Jackson, an artist whose practice intertwines her deep connection to nature with a material-driven approach to artmaking. Living in London, Jackson draws inspiration from the juxtaposition of both the city environment and the accessibility to nature, in a city that harmoniously balances urban and natural environments. Created in the studio, this body of work vibrates with textures, colours, and forms rooted deeply in the earth"
Holding The Shadow While Calling Back The Light
Until 28th February 2025
VSSL Studio
"This timely exhibition of works by artist Benjamin Sebastian (b. 1980, Cairns, Australia. Lives and works in London, UK) is their largest solo presentation in the UK to date, consisting predominantly of new digital collage and textile works, soft sculpture and installation, as well as performance art documentation & relics"
At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World
Until 8th March 2025
Victoria Miro Gallery
"One of the foremost painters of the twentieth century, and among its most radical, Alice Neel (1900–1984) is known for her daring honesty in her pursuit of what she termed ‘the truth’ – of the individual and the broader society in which individual lives were lived. At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World highlights the artist’s career-long commitment to depicting the human condition and her practice of painting people from many walks of life"
Atalanta, The Heroine of Hunting
Until 2nd March 2025
Thames-Side Studios
"Chloe Barnes (U4-123) presents Atalanta in the Thames-Side Studio Lounge, a whimsical collection of monotypes and charcoal studies inspired by the Greek Heroine of Hunting"
I Should Have Prayed For Other People
Until 15th February 2025
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
"Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to present I Should Have Prayed For Other People, American artist Veronica Fernandez’s first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Fernandez’s paintings offer dreamlike windows into childhood memories, narrating raw anxieties alongside moments of understated joy and innocence. These psychological spaces are influenced by the characters, sights, and sounds of the artist’s own upbringing as her family experienced financial insecurity, travelling between temporary housing solutions across the East Coast of the United States. The children play in motel rooms, on sofa-beds and beneath chain-link fences, or they exist in expansive, oneiric fields amidst burning objects and horizons. However, despite the weight of the routine hardships they face, they are curious and affectionate, determined to find delight amongst their tribulations"
On the Verge/On the Cusp
Until 2nd March 2025
The Koppel Project
"On the Verge / On the Cusp asks what does it mean to be on the precipice of change? Is it about the potential for renewal, or the looming possibility of letdown? Showcasing eight London-based emerging artists, the exhibition explores transformative moments of flux informed by fem and non-binary experiences"
Lee Edwards: Absence is Presence
Until 8th March 2025
DOMOBAAL
"Domo Baal is delighted to present Lee Edwards' third solo exhibition in the gallery: 'Absence is Presence'. A group of six meticulous A6 drawings on paper emanate from an artist's residency at Shiro–Oni in the town of Onishi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan, that Lee took part in last Summer. Immersed in and surrounded by the hilly wooded landscape, these works present a direct response both to place as well as to the disconnect from his familiar surroundings and relationships"
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