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. Actually this week we probably do need an editorial, or a repeat, the art coverage on these pages really has fallen of a cliff in recent times, we have been saying for weeks that we’re just not feeling that excited by the various branches of the London art scene right now. We’re looking at listings and gallery mailouts, at press releases and the annoyance of artists who clearly think it all starts and finishes with a bloody Instagram story, that and just showing their art to each other and really not wanting to engage with anyone outside of their immediate peer group. I really am wondering if I’m that bothered about any of it right now? It isn’t that we haven’t been going to shows, checking out shows, searching for shows, far from it. The London Art Scene really isn’t inspiring anything much right now and…
Enough of this, shut up, get one with it. Five art things then, five more art things happening somewhere around right now (or any moment now). Five art shows to check out in the coming days as we repeat ourselves. We do aim to make this an (almost) weekly round up of recommended art events, five shows, exhibitions or things we rather think might be worth checking out. Mostly London things for that is where we currently operate and explore, and like we said last time, these five recommendations come with no claims that they are “the best five” or the “Top Five”, we’re not one of those annoying art websites that ignore most things whilst claiming to be covering everything and proclaiming this or that to be the “top seven things” or the “best things this weekend”. This Five Things thing is simply a regular list of five or so recommended art things happening now or coming up very soon that we think you might find as interesting as we think we will…
And we should add, that entry to these recommended exhibitions and events, unless otherwise stated, is free…
1: Katy Binks, Matt Dosa and Mark McClure, Patternicity at Well Hung Gallery – 21st May until 20th June 2026 – “We are pleased to present Patternicity, an exhibition bringing together the works of Katy Binks, Matt Dosa and Mark McClure, three artists whose works are rooted in abstraction” so say the gallery
“The exhibition title, Patternicity, can be understood as the tendency to identify structure and meaning within visual noise. The works presented in this exhibition portray the artist’s individual responses to the world, forming patterns which are established, tested, and disrupted through the material process of making. Across the exhibition, abstraction is not treated as a fixed language but as a site of negotiation. Each artist negotiates the relationship between control and disruption. Systems are constructed, surfaces are tested, and control is repeatedly interrupted, whether that is via painting, printmaking, or collage with found material. While sharing a commitment to their processes, each artist has their own experience with creating large-scale public murals. This relationship to the urban landscape can be seen in the works throughout the exhibition, within the rhythm of the compositions, or the shared sensitivity to colour. Tying the exhibition together, the artists have created a site-specific collaborative mural for the window of the gallery, unifying the artist’s individual dialogues between disorder and control.
Katy Binks is a printmaker and painter whose bold practice spans silkscreen, mural and installation. Informed by architecture, textiles and a life lived across diverse visual cultures, her work embraces variation and resists uniformity. Recent exhibitions and commissions include Bingham Riverhouse, Brick Brewery, Coco di Mama and Container Records.
Matt Dosa is a painter whose work is rooted in graffiti culture. His saturated colour carries an instinctive quality, accumulated through each layer rather than planned from the outset. Dosa has been commissioned multiple times by Haringey Council, most notably for his large-scale painting Under Many Flags at Wood Green Mall, commissioned through the Mayor of London’s Good Growth Fund (Matt has also taken part in the number of Cultivate’s online exhibitions that are hosted here on the Organ pages)
Mark McClure trained as a graphic designer and draws on the visual language of the built environment, creating works across printmaking, mural and sculpture. His compositions are architectural, treating form as a framework: a set of rules that are established and then challenged. McClure has been commissioned to create murals extensively across London and internationally.
Well Hung Gallery is found at 239 Hoxton Street, London, N1 5LG. The space is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 5pm (midday until 4pm on a Saturday)
2: Sun Ra Day with Thurston Moore at ROVR Soho on May 22nd – one of those hipster record shops with their I’m-cooler-than-you curated playlists and their unfriendly heads slightly up their arses as they try and flog you second hand vinyl at ridiculous places. They do have a small exhibition space though and we are talking Sun Ra here – “Celebrate Sun Ra Day on May 22nd from 5PM at ROVR Soho, London. Honoring the jazz and Afrofuturism legend, the event features an exhibition, talks, DJ sets, exclusive merch and live Thurston Moore” – although they don’t spell honouring with a U in the info they give us which we can’t forgive (stop using AI to write your info you d$%^&ucks!)
“It is so recorded that one Herman Poole Blount was born in Birmingham, Alabama on 22nd May 1914. Concurrently Le Sony’r Ra arrived on Earth from Saturn – bandleader, philosopher, Afrofuturist, the cosmic outlier who taught jazz to think in light-years, and Sun Ra Day is the moment his orbit returns. We’re marking it the only way that makes sense – by tuning in at ROVR SOHO: an exhibition charting the Arkestra’s universe through robes, hieroglyphs, hand-painted sleeves, photographs, visual ephemera, and the iconography that turned a Chicago basement into a spaceship; a solar day – twenty-four earth hours, of music on air and on the floor – spiritual jazz, free improvisation, modular synth séances, and the Arkestra’s own catalogue in full bloom, featuring talks from Paul Smith (Blast First), Peter Dennet, and Thurston Moore, alongside a live performance by Thurston Moore and DJ sets from Cherrystones and Peter Dennet; and a signature collection of t-shirts, cassettes, and posters, a limited drop shaped by Sun Ra’s visual code, built to travel. Space IS the place. Come find it”.
ROVR Soho is at 14 Richmond Buildings, Soho, London W1D 3HQ. The event happens on Friday May 22th, from 5pm You’re probably better off looking at their Instabloodygram feed for actual useful information rather than their over slick and absolutely useless website
3: Clara Hastrup, Polyrhythms and Multigrain Vibrations at Standpoint Gallery – 22nd May until 4th July 2026 – This one looks rather intriguing; “Standpoint is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Clara Hastrup (b. Århus, Denmark), winner of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award 2025/26”. No big fan of awards and the idea that art should be a competition, it will be interesting to see what has evolved though.
“The exhibition Polyrhythms and Multigrain Vibrations brings together a new body of work by Clara Hastrup, developed since she received the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award in 2025. The exhibition extends the artist’s ongoing investigation into sculpture as a dynamic system, connecting external forces, sound, image, and disparate materials to generate new rhythms and relationships. Hastrup works in a variety of media that often combines analogue and digital technologies to reconfigure everyday objects, domestic materials and animate forms. Through playful transformation and material experimentation, her works invite imaginative ways of encountering the seemingly familiar”.
Standpoint Gallery is found at 45 Coronet Street, London, N1 6HD. The space is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, midday until 5pm
4: Jason Shulman, Moving Pictures at Ashley Saville Gallery, Fleet Street – on now and until July 4th 2026 – “Ashley Saville is delighted to announce Moving Pictures, an exhibition of photographic works by Jason Shulman. The exhibition’s title is a wide bracket that alludes to time and motion, as well as to an implied dramatic intensity”.
This one actually opened last week, wanted to see it before picking it as one of our five recommendations, but now that time has been spent with the art in the gallery then yes, it is very much one to go see. Here’s the Organ review – Jason Shulman’s Moving Pictures at Ashley Saville Gallery, Fleet Street, London. No, it isn’t an uncomfortable show, far from it, it is indeed a rather beautiful show…
And here’s the gallery preview –
“Spanning a decade of work, Moving Pictures showcases Shulman’s distinctive command of photographic techniques. The artist’s acclaimed series, Photographs of Films, in which the entire duration of a feature film is captured in a single exposure, celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Moving Pictures will include a new and exclusive edition from this eminent body of work: Roger Vadim’s intergalactic cult classic Barbarella (1968).
The exhibition features two lenticular images from Shulman’s ongoing Photographs of History series: the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile. Animated and emotive, these tightly-cropped images exist in-between news footage and conventional documentary photographs.
Shulman’s most recent works (2025–26) mark a return to his long-exposure technique, this time applied to a more focused range of footage. The exhibition features a selection of images depicting kisses in cinema: the kiss between Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura in an episode of Star Trek (1968), one of the earliest interracial kisses shown on American television; Pepé Le Pew’s unwanted kisses to Penelope Pussycat in For Scent-imental Reasons (1949); and Marcello Mastroianni kissing Anita Ekberg’s hand in La Dolce Vita (1960), their only kiss in the film. Moving Pictures will also present a series of long-exposure photographs of male ejaculations sourced from online sources. As with the kisses, the arc of the orgasm is captured and compressed into a single image”
Ashley Saville Gallery is found at 193 Fleet Street, EC4A 2AH, London. Opening Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 10am – 6pm and by appointment The gallery is on the corner above the hair salon, there’s a door to the right, just ring the bell… Moving Pictures goes on until July 6th 2026.
And seeing as we stepped back in terms of that Jason Shulman show jsut now, we’ll do it again for the current show at Rose Easton for it really isn’s about the opening nights and all the noise…
Jan Gatewood, Internal Empire at Rose Easton Gallery, Bethnal Green, East London – on now and until 27th June 2026 – We did review this one already, it is rather recommended, sometimes we need to see it before we featuring it on these Five Art Recemnedation pages that we have been bringing you for years now – Jan Gatewood’s Internal Empire at East London’s Rose Easton Gallery – it isn’t that easy to pin down Jan Gatewood’s and that is part of the enjoyment here, for it is, as challenging as it all is, as provoking as it is, an enjoyment…
And here’s another #43SecondFilm…
Rose Easton is at 223 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0EL. The space is open Wednesday until Saturday, midday until 6pm. The Jan Gatewood exhibition is on until 27th June. The door is usually locked, there is no sign and very little clue that there is an art gallery there, do ring the bell though, they’ll just buzz you in and leave you alone to explore it. I don’t know why galleries do this?
Recently at Rose Easton…
And while we’re here, you’ve surely noticed another Cultivate online show opened earlier this week? Once again hosted here on the Organ website. Melike is, as we said last time, a rather exciting painter, a rather pro-active mixed media artist who’s work, especially her drawings, constantly challenge us. You can explore the recent work of Mleike via this link – Cultivate Presents: Melike, Recent Work, an exhibition…
Previously…
And I guess we should remind you that London Gallery Weekend is only a couple of weeks away now – ORGAN PREVIEW: London Gallery Weekend is just four weeks away so shouts someone. Here’s a preview and links to our extensive coverage of last year’s event…
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