Past
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Hew Locke
Family Album 13 Sep - 2 Nov 2024 London Request exhibition preview Hales is delighted to announce Family Album, a solo exhibition by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The artist’s sixth solo show with the gallery brings together new and historical works, highlighting a key arc of exploration in Locke’s practice — the iconography of royalty. Throughout his career... Read more -
Carole Gibbons
Of Silence and Slow Time 30 May - 26 Jul 2024 London Opening reception: Thursday 30 May, 6-8pm 'Her (Gibbons) still lifes, mostly painted in Glasgow, are strong but melancholy interior harmonies where rich colours - some surprisingly sweet - glow among sombre ones.' Alasdair Gray, author of Poor Things (2003) Hales is delighted to announce, Of Silence and Slow Time,... Read more -
Anwar Jalal Shemza
Heads 4 Apr - 18 May 2024 London Hales is delighted to announce Heads, a solo exhibition of historic works by Anwar Jalal Shemza. The show displays Shemza's early portraiture from the 1950s, a key period of experimentation sparked by his arrival in Britain. Never-before-exhibited in the UK, this rare body of work was last shown in 1961... Read more -
Rob Lyon
Temenos 2 Feb - 16 Mar 2024 London Opening reception: Thursday 1 February, 6-8pm Hales is delighted to announce Temenos, British artist Rob Lyon's debut solo show with the gallery. Lyon (b. 1982 Lancashire, UK) lives and works in Sussex, UK. He has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Law from Bristol University, UK. A self-taught painter,... Read more -
Lucy Stein
La Muñeca 23 Nov 2023 - 20 Jan 2024 London Opening reception: Wednesday 22 November, 6 – 8pm A written piece by artist and writer, Maria Christoforidou accompanies the show - Items of mortality I, said the Dove, I mourn for my love, I’ll be chief mourner. * Hales is delighted to announce La Muñeca , British... Read more -
Anthony Cudahy
Double Spar 9 Oct - 11 Nov 2023 London Opening reception: Monday 9 October, 6 - 8pm Hales and GRIMM are delighted to announce Double Spar, a dual solo exhibition by Anthony Cudahy, opening 9 October 2023. Marking the artist's first solo project in the UK, a new body of work will be on view at both Hales Gallery's... Read more -
Laetitia Yhap
Keeping Company 2 - 30 Sep 2023 London Opening reception: Friday 1 September, 6 - 8pm On Hastings Beach, men and boys who fish live out most of their lives together. It was this communal, continuous life-out-of-doors which made me envious. I wanted a share in it. I went there every day… Hales is delighted to present... Read more -
Basil Beattie
Recalling Echoes 19 May - 1 Jul 2023 London Opening reception: Thursday 18 May, 6 - 8pm Hales is delighted to announce Recalling Echoes, Basil Beattie RA's third solo show with the gallery. In an exhibition of paintings and drawings made over the past decade, Beattie continues to explore a unique system of visual codes and painterly language with... Read more -
Haroun Hayward
Event on the Downs 24 Mar - 5 May 2023 London Haroun Hayward in conversation with Shezad Dawood 27 April 2023, Hales London For more information please click here. Hales is delighted to announce Event on the Downs, Haroun Hayward’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Haroun Hayward (b. 1983, London) received a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Painting from University... Read more -
Richard Slee
"Sunlit Uplands" 21 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 London Opening Reception: Saturday 21 January, 2 - 4pm 'We can see no detail, we can see nothing definable and it is, I know, simply the sanguine necessity of our minds that makes us believe those uplands of the future are still more gracious and splendid than we can either hope... Read more -
Martyn Cross
O happiness! happiness! 10 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 London Hales is delighted to announce O happiness! happiness!, Martyn Cross's debut solo show with the gallery. The exhibition features new paintings that muse on Gustav Flaubert's seminal book The Temptation of St Anthony. Cross is primarily a painter engaged with 'world making.' The act of painting for him is a... Read more -
Carolee Schneemann: 1955–1959
17 Sep - 29 Oct 2022 London Hales is proud to announce Carolee Schneemann: 1955–1959, the gallery’s third solo exhibition with the late artist. This exhibition of early work runs alongside Body Politics — the first major survey of Schneemann’s work in the UK, organized by and on view at The Barbican Centre from 8 September 2022... Read more -
Myths of Observation
Martyn Cross, Jacqui Hallum, Hew Locke, Anna Perach, Lucy Stein, Maddalena Zadra, Alyina Zaidi 10 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 London Opening reception: Thursday 9 June, 6-8pm Hales London, 7 Bethnal Green Road, London, E1 6LA Hales is delighted to present Myths of Observation, a group exhibition featuring works by Martyn Cross, Jacqui Hallum, Hew Locke, Anna Perach, Lucy Stein, Maddalena Zadra and Alyina Zaidi. The exhibition takes the concept Geomythology... Read more -
John Hoyland
Flames Like Rainbows 1 Apr - 20 May 2022 London Painting is between the noise of the bells and running water, between bird and leaf, between the wind and the earth. John Hoyland, 1997 Hales is delighted to announce Flames Like Rainbows a solo exhibition of works by John Hoyland. This debut show with Hales focuses on paintings from the... Read more -
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Water Ground Hell Sky 21 Jan - 12 Mar 2022 London Hales is delighted to announce Water Ground Hell Sky, the gallery's second solo exhibition with the legendary American artist Trenton Doyle Hancock. The exhibition of new work continues Hancock's grand visual epic - a complicated and textured exploration of life's complexities and existential conundrums. The intricate story of a set... Read more -
Gladys Nilsson
Games 28 Oct - 11 Dec 2021 London Hales is delighted to announce Games, a solo exhibition of works by revered artist Gladys Nilsson. Nilsson’s second exhibition with the gallery focuses on collages made from 2014 to the present day. Nilsson (b.1940, Chicago, IL, USA) studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1958-62. In... Read more -
Sunil Gupta
Black Experience 17 Sep - 16 Oct 2021 London Hales is delighted to announce Black Experience, a solo exhibition of photographs by Sunil Gupta. The show exhibits a series of 10 works commissioned in 1986 for a pivotal exhibition titled Reflections of the Black Experience at Brixton Art Gallery. For the first time since the 1986 exhibition, Black Experience... Read more -
Gray Wielebinski
Oil and Water 25 Jun - 31 Jul 2021 London Hales is delighted to announce Oil and Water, a solo exhibition of new work by Gray Wielebinski. In their debut exhibition with the gallery, Wielebinski continues with their explorations of the intersections of mythology, identity, nationhood, and memory. Reconfiguring and transforming iconography and visual codes, their work seeks to navigate... Read more -
Mary Webb
Extended Square 6 May - 12 Jun 2021 London Hales is delighted to announce Extended Square, a solo exhibition of historic works by Mary Webb. Her second solo show with the gallery features paintings made between 1969 and the mid-1970s. Mary Webb (b. 1939, London, lives and works in Suffolk, UK) is a British artist who paints in a... Read more -
Michael Smith
Yet another show of drawings and videos reflecting on youth, ageing and a future of retirement by Michael Smith 3 Dec 2020 - 24 Apr 2021 London Hales, in collaboration with Dan Gunn Gallery, is delighted to present Yet another show of drawings and videos reflecting on youth, ageing and a future of retirement by Michael Smith. In his fourth solo exhibition with Hales, Smith presents three recent bodies of work exploring these themes, which he and... Read more -
Maja Ruznic
Name of the Voice 10 Sep - 24 Oct 2020 London Hales is delighted to announce Name of the Voice, a solo exhibition of works by Maja Ruznic (b. 1983 Bosnia & Hercegovina ). Her first solo exhibition with the gallery comes after her inclusion in Hales New York’s group exhibition, The Moon Seemed Lost. Ruznic is primarily a painter,... Read more -
Basil Beattie
Cause & Effect 24 Jan - 14 Mar 2020 London Hales is delighted to announce Cause & Effect, an exhibition of paintings by Basil Beattie (b. 1935, West Hartlepool, UK). His second solo show with the gallery focuses on works from the early 1980s, a key time of energetic expression, before the introduction of symbolic motifs for which Beattie has... Read more -
Hew Locke
Where Lies the Land? 26 Sep - 7 Dec 2019 London Hales is delighted to present Where Lies the Land?, an exhibition of new works by Hew Locke (b. 1959, Edinburgh, UK). In his fifth solo show with the gallery, the artist delves deeper into his motifs, addressing the symbolism of statuary, monarchy and ships. Throughout an extensive and complex practice,... Read more -
Frank Bowling
More Land than Landscape 10 May - 22 Jun 2019 London Hales London is delighted to announce More Land Than Landscape, a solo exhibition of Frank Bowling OBE RA’s most recent paintings. The exhibition coincides with Bowling’s major retrospective at Tate Britain celebrating his sixty-year career, which runs from 31 May to 26 August 2019. Frank Bowling OBE RA (b. Guyana,... Read more -
Gladys Nilsson
Unencumbered 16 Mar - 27 Apr 2019 London Hales is delighted to announce Unencumbered, a solo exhibition of work by revered artist Gladys Nilsson. Nilsson’s first exhibition with the gallery will feature recent watercolours and collages, united by the artist’s distinctive style and a good-humoured view of the human condition. Gladys Nilsson (b.1940, Chicago) studied painting at the... Read more -
Andrew Bick
Concrete-Disco-Systems 18 Jan - 2 Mar 2019 London Hales is delighted to announce Concrete-Disco-Systems, a solo exhibition of recent work by Andrew Bick. His sixth solo show with the gallery, the exhibition celebrates a focused, research-led practice that seeks to reconsider histories of constructivism and systems art in a contemporary context. Andrew Bick’s paintings consist of endless permutations... Read more -
IAIN BAXTER&
&Information 9 Nov - 20 Dec 2018 London The preview will coincide with the opening of Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Multigraphs at Kate MacGarry and Archive Fever at Emalin. Hales is delighted to announce &Information, IAIN BAXTER&’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Pioneering conceptual artist BAXTER& sees the world as an Infoscape, viewing ordinary life in... Read more -
Mary Webb
Reverie 13 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 London “I want the colour to set up a process of renewal where relationships change with the looking. First assumptions are confounded the longer the painting is contemplated, and this is how I like to think of them, as objects of contemplation.”[1] Hales is proud to announce Reverie, a solo exhibition... Read more -
Hunter Reynolds
Love Light 28 Jun - 4 Aug 2018 London “Art has always been one of the tools I have used to heal myself and others and to find order in the chaos of my life, by not telling the story through art, but by transforming myself in the process of making it, using it to rebuild my life, finding... Read more -
Anwar Jalal Shemza
Paintings from the 1960s 10 May - 23 Jun 2018 London Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Paintings from the 1960s, a solo exhibition of works by Anwar Jalal Shemza (1928 – 85). The exhibition focuses on paintings from early-mid 1960s, created in the decade following Shemza’s relocation from Pakistan to the UK. Born in Simla, India in 1928 to Kashmiri... Read more -
Sebastiaan Bremer
Here Comes the Sun 23 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 London Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Here Comes the Sun, its fifth solo exhibition with Dutch-born, New York-based artist Sebastiaan Bremer. Throughout his career, Bremer has in one way or another used pre-existing images to explore profound ideas about time, memory and processing. In his early work, he meticulously reproduced... Read more -
Andrea Geyer
If I Told Her 19 Jan - 3 Mar 2018 London Hales Gallery is delighted to announce “If I told Her,” a solo exhibition of work by Andrea Geyer at Hales London. This is Geyer’s first show with the gallery, and will coincide with a second exhibition of Geyer’s work opening at the Hales Project Room in New York later in... Read more -
Omar Ba
Supernova 10 Nov - 9 Dec 2017 London Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Supernova, an exhibition of new work by Omar Ba. This is the gallery’s second solo exhibition with the artist. Ba was born in and grew up in Senegal, attending art school in the capital of Dakar before moving to Geneva aged 26 in 2003.... Read more -
Frank Bowling
Fishes, Wishes in Summertime Blue 8 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 London Hales Gallery is delighted to announce Frank Bowling: Fishes, Wishes in Summertime Blue, a solo exhibition of Bowling’s very recent works. The exhibition coincides with Frank Bowling: Metropolitanblooms, the inaugural project at the Hales Project Room in New York. Now widely recognised as ‘first among equals’ [1] in the field... Read more -
Ebony G Patterson | Thomas J Price | Zadie Xa
31 Mar - 6 May 2017 London Preview: 30 March, 6–8:30pm In Conversation with Thomas J Price and Zadie Xa: 22nd April, 2:30pm Questions of cultural identity – feelings of belonging to a particular group – seem especially relevant in today’s troubled Western society, increasingly international and yet as riven as ever with conflict and fear of... Read more
![Andrew Bick, Variant t-s [flat and tilted] #2 v3, 2013-2018, Acrylic, pencil, oil, watercolour, and wax on linen on wood, 135 x 100 x 4 cm, 53 1/8 x 39 3/8 x 1 5/8 in](https://artlogic-res.cloudinary.com/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto/ws-artlogicwebsite0652/usr/images/exhibitions/main_image_override/133/andrew-bick-variant-t-s-flat-and-tilted-2-v4-2013-2018-acrylic-pencil-oil-watercolour-and-wax-on-linen-on-wood-135-x-100-x-4-cm-a_bic0212-photo-by-angus-mill-charlie-cropsq.jpg)
