I shall have my curating hat on this weekend over in Crystal Palace, London SE19. An artist-led group show featuring 14 artists at Free The Gallery. #LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: On from the Approach to the beautiful tension of Manon Wertenbroek’s highly recommended In guts and heads at East London’s Rose Easton Gallery… On from The Approach (and the Mile End Art Pavilion), on to the that corner on the Cambridge Heath Road and Bethnal Green’s Rose Easton Gallery to check out the two current shows in the still…

ORGAN THING: On from the Approach to the beautiful tension of Manon Wertenbroek's highly recommended In guts and heads at East London's Rose Easton Gallery... wp.me/p2ScbB-xBL

#londonartscene #ManonWertenbroek #RoseEastonGallery

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Kunstindustrie at Seventeen Gallery, Wilhelm Sasnal at Sadie Coles, Manon Wertenbrock’s In guts and heads at Rose Easton, Rocco And His Brothers at Stolen Space and... We don’t need an editorial here do we? Another week, another Five Art Things thing and on with all this endless art coverage? Years of it. Should it all just knocked on the head, just get back to t…

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Kunstindustrie at #SeventeenGallery, Wilhelm Sasnal at #SadieColes, Manon Wertenbrock's In guts and heads at #RoseEaston, Rocco And His Brothers at #StolenSpace and... wp.me/p2ScbB-xAZ #LondonArtScene

ORGAN PREVIEW: The Good, the Bad, the God and Her Lover, an exhibition by Rocco and His Brothers opens at London’s Stolen Space on April 9th… The Good, The Bad, The God And Her Lover is the name of a new show from Rocco And His Brothers coming up at London’s Stolen Space this coming April, Something to do subterranean network as a …

ORGAN PREVIEW: The Good, the Bad, the God and Her Lover, an exhibition by Rocco and His Brothers opens at London’s Stolen Space on April 9th… wp.me/p2ScbB-xAf

#LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: London’s Haricot Gallery re-opens this week – “Two days to go! The Drunken Boat opens this week and we are so excited” A quick Organ preview for our Thing of The Day today for today we are very busy mixing tapes and such. London’s Haricot Gallery re-opens this week, wonder if they’ll still have a green …

ING: London's Haricot Gallery re-opens this week - "Two days to go! The Drunken Boat opens this week and we are so excited" - wp.me/p2ScbB-xxJ

#LondonArtScene #HaricotGallery

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Tricia Gillman’s re-view at Benjamin Rhodes Arts, Thamir at POSK Gallery, Mutoid Waste Company’s Joe Rush at The Bomb Factory, Alexis Ralaivao and Alyina Zaidi, two... We don’t need an editorial here do we? Another week, another Five Art Things thing and on with all this endless art coverage? Years of it. Should it all just knocked on the head, just get back to t…

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Tricia Gillman's re-view at Benjamin Rhodes Arts, Thamir at POSK Gallery, Mutoid Waste Company's Joe Rush at The Bomb Factory, Alexis Ralaivao and Alyina Zaidi, two shows at Pilar Corrias and... wp.me/p2ScbB-xsn #LondonArtScene

As an artist, it was fantastic to be part of The Other Art Fair @TheOtherArtFair hosted by @SaatchiArt at @trumanbrewery in London.

Met so many lovely people -incredible artists, passionate art lovers.

#TheOtherArtFair #LondonArtScene #ArtLovers #ArtistLife #LondonVibes

ORGAN THING: A #43SecondFilm of Máret Ánne Sara’s installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London… Really have been meaning to go to the Southbank just to walk through and around Máret Ánne Sara’s installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The problem with things like installations in the…

ORGAN THING: A #43SecondFilm of Máret Ánne Sara's installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, London... wp.me/p2ScbB-xpP

#LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: Sabrina Shah’s friendly invasion of Shane Bradford’s space at East London’s Union Gallery, a Trespass if you like… Trespass: Paintings by Sabrina Shah on surfaces by Shane Bradford at Union Gallery, East London, Match 2026 –  Sometimes it is good to recap, these small galleries that are semi hidden semi secrets…

ORGAN THING: Sabrina Shah's friendly invasion of Shane Bradford's space at East London's Union Gallery, a Trespass if you like... wp.me/p2ScbB-xoJ #LondonArtScene #UnionGallery

ORGAN THING: Tracey Emin’s A Second Life at Tate Modern, London, much more than just Mad Tracey From Margate having the last laugh, much more than just that… Off to the Tate for the first morning proper of A Second Life, could have opted for the distractions of a thousand conversations on the opening night or indeed the relative peace and quiet of the p…

ORGAN THING: Tracey Emin's A Second Life at Tate Modern, London, much more than just Mad Tracey From Margate having the last laugh, much more than just that... wp.me/p2ScbB-xnq

#TraceyEmin #LondonArtScene #TateModern #Painting

ORGAN THING: A #43Secondfilm of some Tracey Emin neon in the late night rain of Hackney ahead of her Tate show that opens tonight… Oh well, the mysteries of life, of a second life, of why there’s a load of Neon over the road here in Hackney, East London, well we know what it is, hype for the new Tracey Emin show opening …

ORGAN THING: A #43Secondfilm of some Tracey Emin neon in the late night rain of Hackney ahead of her Tate show that opens tonight... wp.me/p2ScbB-xm0

#TraceyEmin #Hackney #LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: The calm of Takesada Matsutani’s Shifting Boundaries, the very busy Tetsumi Kudo show, both at Hauser and Wirth’s London spaces… Takesada Matsutani, Shifting Boundaries at Hauser and Wirth, London, Feb 2026 – There really isn’t a massive need to write about exhibitions that happen at big establishment places like…

ORGAN THING: The calm of Takesada Matsutani's Shifting Boundaries, the very busy Tetsumi Kudo show, both at Hauser and Wirth's London spaces... wp.me/p2ScbB-xiZ

#LondonArtScene #TakesadaMatsutani #TetsumiKudo #HauserAndWirth #Mayfair

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ORGAN THING: Kevin Kane’s Uncultivated Gods at Hoxton Arch, East London – is it loose or is it more a bold freedom in the way he paints? Is it about the sense of that bold freedom that you get from st... Kevin Kane, Uncultivated Gods, Hoxton Arch, East London – Seems the opening night was rather eventful, on Friday afternoon it feeling a little like the afternoon after the night before, the install…

ORGAN THING: Kevin Kane's Uncultivated Gods at Hoxton Arch, East London - is it loose or is it more a bold freedom in the way he paints? Is it about the sense of that bold freedom that you get from standing in front of his work? wp.me/p2ScbB-xk9

#LondonArtScene #KevinKane

ORGAN THING: Cat Phillipps and Fran Copeman’s Land at the Space Pop Up, Hackney – Now this one looked powerfully interesting from the moment they started installing it… Cat Phillipps and Fran Copeman, Land at the Space Pop Up, Hackney, East London, February 2026 – Something happening over the road at the criminally underused Space Pop Up space adjacent to th…

ORGAN THING: Cat Phillipps and Fran Copeman's Land at the Space Pop Up, #Hackney – Now this one looked powerfully interesting from the moment they started installing it... wp.me/p2ScbB-xjA #LondonArtScene

This painting is called Mending #art #love #painting #abstractart #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #jennymeehanart #contemporaryarts #indieartist #londonart #artgallery #londonartscene

This painting is called Mending #art #love #painting #abstractart #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #jennymeehanart #contemporaryarts #indieartist #londonart #artgallery #londonartscene

This painting is called Mending #art #love #painting #abstractart #contemporaryartist #contemporaryart #jennymeehanart #contemporaryarts #indieartist #londonart #artgallery #londonartscene

ORGAN: London’s stand out Stephen Friedman Gallery goes into administration, now that’s going to leave a great big Cork Street hole… Well now, we’ve never been that concerned with the (often sordid soulsucking) business of art, we’ve always been more concerned with the actual art, although it is rather sad to see tod…

ORGAN: London's stand out Stephen Friedman Gallery goes into administration, now that's going to leave a great big Cork Street hole... wp.me/p2ScbB-xcX
#londonartscene

ORGAN PREVIEW: Tonight on London arts radio station Resonance FM a broadcast marking 30 years of the Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT). Set up in January 1995, APT is an artist-led space, Harold Wharf, an... Tonight at 8pm on unique London arts radio station Resonance FM: APT at 30. Tonight being Friday, 30th January, a broadcast marking 30 years of the Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT). Set up in January …

ORGAN PREVIEW: Tonight on London arts radio station Resonance FM a broadcast marking 30 years of the Art in Perpetuity Trust (APT). Set up in January 1995, APT is an artist-led space, Harold Wharf, an old warehouse building in Deptford, South London... wp.me/p2ScbB-xay #LondonArtScene #ResonanceFM

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Sam Lipp at Soft Opening, Basil Beattie at Hales, Georg Wilson’s Against Nature at Pilar Corrias, Kuda Mushangi at Glasshouse Contemporary, Claude Cahun Month at To... Another week, another Five Art Things thing, That’s a George Blacklock piece hanging in his current show at Flowers Gallery up there, a recently recommended exhibibition here and recently reviewed …

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Shows – Sam Lipp at Soft Opening, Basil Beattie at Hales, Georg Wilson's Against Nature at Pilar Corrias, Kuda Mushangi at Glasshouse Contemporary, Claude Cahun Month at Torriano Meeting House and... wp.me/p2ScbB-x9n

#LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: It is surely about the way George Blacklock uses both paint and colour, the liberating decisions he makes? Alchemy is on at Flowers, Cork Street, London right now… George Blacklock, Alchemy at Flowers, Cork Street, London, Jan 2026 – For his new show, Alchemy, London-based Blacklock presents a series of works that emerge from what he calls the “studio narrati…

ORGAN THING: It is surely about the way George Blacklock uses both paint and colour, the liberating decisions he makes? Alchemy is on at Flowers, Cork Street, London right now... wp.me/p2ScbB-x7t

#GeorgeBlacklock #Painting #LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: Condo 2026 Pt.2 – More exploring East London’s part in Condo, that and Woman’s History Month at Soft Opening with Zaza Gallery, Matt Bollinger at Mother’s Tankstation, Lloyd Corporation a... We left Part One, halfway through exploring the gallery known as Soft Opening, we were about to make that very short walk from that rather rewarding Sam Lipp exhibition to the smaller second hardly…

ORGAN THING: Condo 2026 Pt.2 – More exploring East London’s part in Condo, that and Woman's History Month at Soft Opening with Zaza Gallery, Matt Bollinger at Mother's Tankstation, Lloyd Corporation at Carlos/Ishikawa, James Iveson and LA's Castle Gallery and... wp.me/p2ScbB-x3d #LondonArtScene

ORGAN THING: Cherry picking at the 2026 London Art Fair, our best of with Leatitzia Campbell, François Bard, Morten Lassen, Time For The Onoric, Julio Vaquero, oh and Donald McIntyre and Gillian Ayres... It is a busy art week, we’re still digesting last weekend’s Condo opening across twenty-three London galleries, that and the new shows that opened last week, George Blacklock at Flowers…

ORGAN THING: Cherry picking at the 2026 London Art Fair, our best of with Leatitzia Campbell, François Bard, Morten Lassen, Time For The Onoric, Julio Vaquero, oh and Donald McIntyre and Gillian Ayres and... wp.me/p2ScbB-x6c

#LondonArtFair #LondonArtScene #FrançoisBard #LeatitziaCampbell #Art

ORGAN THING: Condo 2026 Pt.1 – Exploring East London’s part in Condo, that and Sam Lipp at Soft Opening, Hana Miletić at The Approach alongside New York’s Margot Samel Gallery presenting the work of L... “Welcome to the scene said one gallarina to another, are you going to Condo tomorrow?” yes replied the second gallerina “I have to be seen on the scene”, we’re in a Co…

ORGAN THING: Condo 2026 Pt.1 - Exploring East London's part in Condo, that and Sam Lipp at Soft Opening, Hana Miletić at The Approach alongside New York's Margot Samel Gallery presenting the work of Leroy Johnson and Olivia Jia... wp.me/p2ScbB-x2p

#LondonArtScene #Condo2026 #SamLipp #SoftOpening

ORGAN THING: Beatriz Olabarrieta’s Next of Kin at East London’s Rose Easton Gallery – Well she’s certainly removed the colour and rather a lot of art from the street outside, is it (almost) an arrogan... Beatriz Olabarrieta, Next of Kin at Rose Easton, Bethnal Green, East London, January 2026 – I’ll admit it was kind of disappointing to arrive at Rose Easton’s corner last Sat…

ORGAN THING: Beatriz Olabarrieta's Next of Kin at East London's Rose Easton Gallery - Well she's certainly removed the colour and rather a lot of art from the street outside, is it (almost) an arrogant act? wp.me/p2ScbB-wZr

#LondonArtScene #RoseEaston #BethnalGreen #BeatrizOlabarrieta

ORGAN PREVIEW: Condo time is here again, Condo 2026 kicks off in London next weekend; a collaborative exhibition by 50 galleries across 23 London spaces, will it be any good this year? On with our cyn... Well I guess while we wait for 2026 to get going in terms of art and the London art scene (does it seem particularly slow to wake up this year?) we should expose ourselves to the fresh hell that wi…

ORGAN PREVIEW: Condo time is here again, Condo 2026 kicks off in London next weekend; a collaborative exhibition by 50 galleries across 23 London spaces, will it be any good this year? On with our cynical smile t-shirts once more.... wp.me/p2ScbB-wYx

#CondoLondon2026 #Condo #LondonArtScene

All works in the #PastelSociety #AnnualExhibition are now available to browse & buy online - a great chance to snap up your favourite before anyone else does!

www.mallgalleries.org.uk/exhibitions-...

#pastel #pastelart #mallgalleries #london #londonartscene #drymedia #charcoal #graphite #oilpastel

ORGAN: Our Best Art Shows of 2025 Part Two with Steven Appleby, Susie Hamilton, Jakkai Siributr, Erin M Riley, Jim Hodges, Tricia Gillman, Lady Pink, Sasha Stiles, Canalboat Contemporary, Bianca Raffa... And on we go, the best of our art year, Part Two od our 2025 round up kicks off with Steven Appleby’s peep show and bed in the middle of a gallery in South East London… That’s Sad…

ORGAN: Our Best Art Shows of 2025 Part Two with Steven Appleby, Susie Hamilton, Jakkai Siributr, Erin M Riley, Jim Hodges, Tricia Gillman, Lady Pink, Sasha Stiles, Canalboat Contemporary, Bianca Raffaella, Alison Chaplin and more... wp.me/p2ScbB-wVe #LondonArtScene

And now that 2025 is properly over and that extensive list of the best albums that came out way is up for all to explore, we'll be along later today with another packed list, this time the best of the art we encountered in a busy 2025.. #LondonArtScene

ORGAN PREVIEW: The last Underbelly of the year, the last event of 2025 at Richard Amor’s DIY Hackney art space this weekend, opening on Friday 12th December… Richard Amor And may we just quickly mention this… The last Underbelly of the year with Richard Amor and Sean Worrall happens this weekend. Yes, that’s right, a bit of self-indulgent trumpet …

ORGAN PREVIEW: The last Underbelly of the year, the last event of 2025 at Richard Amor's DIY Hackney art space this weekend, opening on Friday 12th December... wp.me/p2ScbB-wGR #LondonArtScene