THE SPACES BETWEEN
an exhibition in two parts
Platform A, Middlesbrough, May 8th - June 19th 2025
Ryedale Folk Museum, May 10th - June 29th 2025
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL 42nd edition
FLOWERS GALLERY, CORK STREET, LONDON W1 3LZ
21 November 2024 - 4 January 2025
and online.
Small is Beautiful was first established at Flowers Gallery in 1974, inviting selected contemporary artists working in any media to present works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches, offering a rare opportunity to purchase smaller pieces by internationally recognised names and discover new talents.
Above Francesca Simon, goaf works I and ii, acrylic on gesso on a wooden panel, £650 each.
Photography Antonio Parente
ALWAYS AND NEVER THE SAME
ARTSHED GLAISDALE
20 July - 19 August 2024
Always and Never the Same is a joint exhibition by British artists James Hugonin and Nick Kennedy. Although distinctive and visually different, their practices share a close bond through affinity to time, process, systems and the parameters they set themselves. For both artists, it’s a voyage of discovery into how their works manifest themselves to a place beyond the artist’s mind and the excitement this engenders.
ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES
SOMERS GALLERY, LONDON
17 July - 3 August 2024
ADVANCED CONTEMPORARIES highlights the work of seven artists with three things in common: they’re making excellent work, are over sixty, and don’t have a gallery to represent them. That makes it, in effect, an ‘advanced version’ of the well-known Bloomberg New Contemporaries. The main point is simply to appreciate the art of Francesca Simon, Sara Rossberg, Olivier Richon, Colin Crumplin, Jane Clarke, Pauline Caulfield and Judith Burrows as a celebration of artists over 60 deserving of attention. But the show does also raise a question: is the art industry ageist? It seems harder both for older artists to establish themselves if they are ‘late starters’, and to find another gallery if their gallery closes – as will happen to many at some point. Never mind the age, feel the quality!
SWIMMING THROUGH A DIAMOND
ARTSHED GLAISDALE
5 August - 2 September 2023
This exhibition of work by Bridget Riley, Francesca Simon, Rachael Clewlow and Trevor Sutton brings together four British painters, who have established a distinct language of reductive geometrical abstraction, through which they engage with the fundamental nature of human perception.
SUMMER EXHIBITION 2023
ROYAL ACADEMY
13 June - 20 August 2022
Pleased to have check 8 selected and hung in Eileen Cooper RA’s Room IX.
BENDING SPACE II
EAGLE GALLERY, FARRINGDON ROAD,
LONDON EC1
6 April - 6 May 2023
Bending Space II features recent work by three artists, Julia Farrer, Sharon Hall and Francesca Simon, whose paintings whilst entirely abstract explore form, light, phenomena and space, illustrating how the language of abstraction is often misunderstood as being entirely disconnected from the real world.
BAR NOTATION
ARTSHED GLAISDALE
6 March - 5 May 2023
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL XL
FLOWERS GALLERY, CORK STREET, LONDON W1 3LZ
24 November 2022 - 7 January 2022
and online, link below
Small is Beautiful was first established at Flowers Gallery in 1974, inviting selected contemporary artists working in any media to present works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches, offering a rare opportunity to purchase smaller pieces by internationally recognised names and discover new talents.
Small is Beautiful XL at Flowers Gallery
SUMMER EXHIBITION 2022
ROYAL ACADEMY
21 June - 21 August 2022
Very pleased to have two paintings selected and hung in the Large Weston Room, co-curated by Níall McLaughlin RA (pointing to my paintings, second photo) and Rana Begum RA.
As the catalogue says, they ‘have combined significant works by architects and artists.’ McLaughlin adds, ‘we wanted to focus on a feeling of hope; that artists and designers can lead the argument for change’.
NORTHERN EUTIERRIA: SHORT FILM
Pleased to be featured in Northern Eutierria, a film released in three parts, about artists surviving lockdown in North Yorkshire. Click the link above for part 3, which focusses on Peter Coates and me (parts 1 and 2 available on YouTube). The film was commissioned by Ryedale Folk Museum. Leading artists Tessa Bunney, Peter Coates, Joe Cornish, Andy Goldsworthy, Peter Hicks and me talk to Kane Cunningham about how the pandemic has affected their relationships to landscape and to their work. The film was made by John Oxley.
With special thanks to Jennifer Smith, Director, Ryedale Folk Museum.
Photography by Tessa Bunney.
ARTSHED GLAISDALE
ARTSHED opens on May 14th 2022 with Acoustic Colour, an exhibition of paintings by Trevor Sutton and Carol Robertson. The viewing experience will be enhanced by music played in the space, the same music the artists listened to while painting. After the opening event viewings can be arranged by appointment (07885 544 138).
Visit ARTSHED for more information.
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL XXXIX
FLOWERS GALLERY, CORK STREET, LONDON W1 3LZ
24 November 2021 - 8 January 2022
and online, link below
Small is Beautiful was first established at Flowers Gallery in 1974, inviting selected contemporary artists working in any media to present works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches, offering a rare opportunity to purchase smaller pieces by internationally recognised names and discover new talents.
PLATFORM A GALLERY MIDDLESBROUGH
TEN YEARS
I will be showing a painting in this exhibition which celebrates ten years of Platform A and its programme of interesting and exciting projects. Other artists showing include Lorraine Brown, Alex Charrington, Tony Charles, Nicola Ellis, Jo Hamill, Alexis Harding, Annie O’Donnell, Will Hughes, Emma Bennett, Jo McGonigal, Mike Collier, Nick Kennedy, Phil Illingworth, Rachael Clewlow, Sally Taylor, Phil Gatenby, Roberto Picciau, Lothar Goetz, DJ Simpson and William Tillyer. The exhibition runs from 25th November to 4th January 2022.
LOOKING DOWN
A review by Annie O’Donnell is now online on the Saturation Point website Looking Down
The catalogue for the show, introduced by Andrew Bick, and including an essay by Laurence Noga, is available; please contact Francesca Simon if you would like a copy sent to you.