Tag: Contemporary Art

Warm up to Frieze week: Preview Gallery Tour in Mayfair

Jannis Kounellis, 'Senza titolo', 1963

Ahead of Frieze art fair, the following weeks I will be covering auction highlights, artworks to collect from the fair, the quirky and the overlooked. As a warm up, this week I am filling up your calendar with a hand-picked list of gallery openings in Mayfair. A selection of three contemporary art history totems. The three of them poetic, unruly, unmissable.

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Studio_Leigh commissions emerging artists: Catch them before they skyrocket

Phillipa Horan, The Bottom of the Butt Tastes Better after Wine (2015) Handblown glass, glass cigarettes

Studio_Leigh opened in September 2015. To celebrate the first year anniversary of one of the most innovative emerging art spaces in London, I am dedicating this article to revisit a selection of the gallery’s limited edition commissions. With a sharp eye, Studio_Leigh spots talent that you will be hearing a lot of in the future. Catch them before they skyrocket!

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