The Shock of the Now - Issue #159
Afternoon All - Welcome to Issue 159 of The Shock of the Now! I hope you’re having an enjoyable week.
This week, the full issue includes fourteen Recommended Exhibitions, as well as eleven fresh Artist Opportunities.
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Recommended Exhibitions Opening This Week :
Yuma Radne - ‘Playing With Hands’ Solo Exhibition - Incubator, Marylebone (6th February - 2nd March, opening Wednesday 5th February, 5:30-7:30pm)
Incubator presents Yuma Radne’s solo exhibition ‘Playing With Hands’.
“This body of work unfolds as a playful yet profound exploration of cultural identity, memory, and the rituals that shape our lives. Radne’s practice is an invitation into a world where the lightness of childhood games meets the weight of tradition, engaging in a dialogue between personal experience and cultural history.” - Incubator
Marcin Dudek - ‘The Ground Harbours the Soul’ Solo Exhibition - OOF Gallery, Tottenham (6th February - 4th April, opening Wednesday 5th February, 6:30-8:30pm)
OOF Gallery presents Marcin Dudek’s solo exhibition ‘The Ground Harbours the Soul’.
“Based on repeated research and audio-recording trips to Tottenham Hotspur matches, Marcin Dudek’s latest body of work combines sound and sculpture into a series of heady explorations of communal emotion and the power of the crowd. The show unfolds in three acts, much like the experience of attending a football match, opening with a suspended installation that emits the sounds of pre-match rituals and the walk to the stadium.” - OOF
Jemima Moore - ‘Slipstream’ Solo Exhibition - Blue Shop Gallery, Oval (6th - 23rd February, opening Wednesday 5th February, 6-9pm)
Blue Shop Gallery presents Jemima Moore’s solo exhibition ‘Slipstream’.
“Jemima Moore paints to exist within a space that is in equal measure analytic and intuitive. The results are paintings which can be understood as maps; maps to spaces that exist somewhere between reality and subconscious. Moore imagines throwing an image into a pond: a memory of a fabric, a velvet brocade in a Titian, a patch of reflected sky in a lake. The artist use oil stick to draw the image in mind, tracing the forms onto panel. The forms dissolve as the image falls deeper into the pond.” - Blue Shop Gallery
Richard J. Butler - ‘Naxos’ Solo Exhibition - Canopy Collections HQ, Bloomsbury (6th - 28th February, opening Thursday 6th February, 6-9pm)
Canopy Collections HQ presents Richard J. Butler’s solo exhibition ‘Naxos’.
“Naxos is a solo show of new paintings by Richard J. Butler which were made in August 2024 while the artist was on residency at La Chapelle Saint-Antoine in Naxos, Greece. These works were inspired by the landscape that surrounded him on the island, as well as by the Yorkshire landscape that he grew up with.” - Canopy Collections
Apollo Painting School Group Exhibition - Alice Amati, Fitzrovia (7th February - 1st March, opening Thursday 6th February, 6-8pm)
Alice Amati presents a group exhibition featuring the 2024 Apollo Painting School cohort, including Ally Fallon, Hannah-Sophia Guerriero, Isaac Jordan, Deborah Lerner (above) and Isobel Shore.
“Apollo Painting School is a non-profit organisation founded in 2024 by artist Louise Giovanelli, gallerist & curator Alice Amati and artist & academic Dr. Ian Hartshorne with the aim to create an accessible, alternative and unique learning opportunity for emerging painters. The course includes an intensive 3-month summer programme designed for UK-based emerging artists with a painting practice taking place online and in person between Manchester (UK) and Latina, (Italy).” - Alice Amati