The most attractive show I’ve seen recently at one of these is at the Gazelli Art House in Dover Street, (Top Photo) which is a handsome gallery on two floors, with its ownership rooted (of all places) in Baku. The exhibition is called Multiverse and runs till 11th January, so there is time to see it.

Throughout the show Ostrer collages and layers both sculptural and photographic elements together to create disrupted and often disturbing images. Within the vast footwear installation is his most recent photographic series, Currentsee. For the central protagonist he transforms himself into a dominant tribal leader, a powerful chieftain of all...

It’s a chilly morning in Oxford when I meet with Saad Qureshi at OVADA (the Oxford Visual Arts Development Agency), a reconverted warehouse now home to five artist’s studios. Built in 1929 as the Skin and Hide Market Place for the neighbouring Oxpens Cattle Market at the time, the spartan building maintains that character, with its central open...

Azeri artist Niyaz Najafov has been touted as the next Francis Bacon, and in many ways the comparison is apt. Najafov, like Bacon, is self-taught. Having worked as a professional hand-to-hand fighter, a soldier in the Soviet army, and later a policeman, he first experimented with oil paints in 2003 at the age of 35, and was selected to represent...

JAPANESE PAVILION , Takahiro Iwasaki: Turned Upside Down, It's a Forest Takahiro Iwasaki has created a multifaceted spatial experience of viewing the Itsukushima Shrine located in Hiroshima, where the artist was born, raised, and continues to work. Viewers can see the site from the perspective of a bird, insect, or fish, skewing the...

Charlotte Colbert’s works come to Gazelli Art House, London, this July. With an interest in the surreal and the temporality of contemporary culture, Colbert creates visual narratives using the familiar icons and emojis of instant communication.

Group exhibition Through the Headset sees artists Iain Nicholls, Tom Szirtes, SkullMapping (Antoon Verbeeck and Filip Sterckx) and Matteo Zamagni working in the medium of VR (Virtual Reality) in order to blur the lines between real and virtual experiences.

Art16, London’s global art fair, returns to Olympia in Kensington for its fourth edition from May 20-22 with a lineup of more than 100 galleries from over 30 countries showcasing exciting emerging talent alongside established contemporary artists.

From the 19-22 May, Photo London will be celebrating the ever popular medium of photography across the capital by bringing some of the world’s leading practitioners, curators, exhibitors and dealers together with the public. Photo London have collaborated with 80 of the best galleries from around the globe to put together a stellar line up of...

Seeds have been found to be a useful metaphor at many opportunities, despite their only two abilities being to scatter and grow. A key event in the history of seeds as metaphor is the inscription on the most famous of the medals minted to commemorate the defeat of the Spanish Armada: “Jehovah blew with His wind and they were scattered.”...

The work of the Greek-born, London-based artist Kalliopi Lemos has always erred on the polemic side. Her 2013 installation I am I, Between Worlds and Between Shadows, for instance, depicted half female, half animal steel sculptural beings, maimed and displayed in an abandoned lyceum to highlight human rights abuses the world over. Her latest...

Lumiere London , the largest light festival to hit the capital, is set to illuminate and animate four winter evenings this January. Running from 14 – 17 January, the event offers a dynamic platform for a host of international artists and will feature outdoor 3D projections, interactive installations and pioneering light works. In 2016, a...

The Busan Biennale Organizing Committee convened on 11 November 2015 after considering the candidacy of eight influential curators from across the world for the role of Artistic Director of the next Busan Biennale, starting in September 2016. The choice fell on fellow national Yun Cheagab, currently Director of How Art Museum in Wenzhou and...

For its 7th edition, Abu Dhabi Art brought together 40 galleries from around the world—including the United States, Europe and Asia, as well as those from the Middle East—to showcase modern and contemporary art at Manarat al-Saadiyat. In addition to the galleries, the art fair also presented discussions, performances and interactive...

World-renowned art fair ARTINTERNATIONAL, which will be held in Turkey for the first time this year, will host several art galleries and artists from around the world, among which are the Victoria Miro Art Gallery, Catalan painter Joan Miro, Alex Katz and many others. Founded in London in 1985 and one of the most important contemporary art...

 As “Moving Image Istanbul” enters its second edition, the video art fair is coming to the second floor of Kuleli Building of the Haliç Congress Center in the bustling metropolis of Turkey. It’s scheduled to be held September 4-6 and willrun alongside “Art International”. As the name suggests, “Moving Image...

Jane McAdam Freud is blessed and cursed with being the daughter of fiery British painter Lucian Freud and the great-granddaughter of the illustrious neurologist Sigmund Freud. But this is a family of famous achievers with a difference because for most of her career, Jane went without her father's name and earned her stripes simply as McAdam...

Art15, the third edition of London’s global art fair, returns to Olympia in Kensington from May 21-23 with an impressive lineup of 150 galleries from 40 countries showcasing modern masters through to contemporary talents. For the first time in 2015 the fair moves from February dates to May dates, positioning the fair at the start of the...

Art Central will launch its first edition at the Central Harbourfront in Hong Kong from 14 to 16 March 2015 (VIP Preview on 13 March), just a short walk from Art Basel. The new art fair is co-founded by Tim Etchells, Sandy Angus and Will Ramsay, who are all Co-founders of ART HK, now Art Basel Hong Kong. The promising executive team includes...

Award winning sculptor and artist Jane McAdam Freud is the daughter of artist Lucian Freud and great-grand-daughter of Sigmund Freud. Her exhibition Dance of Disapproval War Works runs at the London Jewish Cultural Centre until November 10 and includes works created while she was artist in residence at the Freud Museum in 2005/6. She talks...

Taking our appetite for sugar as a starting point to create images of a corrupted globalisation, James Ostrer takes over the glass façade and ground floor of the Gazelli Art House, as part of its Window Project, to present the unsavoury side of our addiction to the sweet stuff. Ostrer's photographs of human subjects covered in layers of sweets and...

Timed to coincide with the Istanbul Biennial, Kalliopi Lemos’s offsite exhibition sounds, when described, like it shouldn’t work at all. Housed in a girls-only lyceum closed in 1988 due to Turkey’s declining Greek population and now preserved yet decaying, the show comprises three main elements. There are seven steel sculptural...

When I was young, I lived in Japan, and the strange surroundings, the buildings and the gardens made a big impression on me. I studied Japanese flower arranging for years, and collected all sorts of books about the architecture. My studio, where I draw, sculpt and paint, is at the end of my garden in Hampstead. It was designed by the architect...