We still surely don’t need an editorial here do we? Another week, another Five London 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, we won’t though, on with it…
Five art things, 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: That Which Appears at Sid Motion Gallery – on now and until 31st October (it actually opened yesterday, hey we were busy yesterday) – “That Which Appears explores the window as a site of perception, memory and mediation, bringing together historical and contemporary practices in dialogue across generations”. A group show Co-curated with Olivia Bax and James Fisher and featuring work by, Olivia Bax, James Fisher, Lucy Gunning, Charles Hewlings, Milly Peck and Mike Silva…
Drawings from the Drawing Matter collection by Christo, John Hejduk, James Gowan, Louis Kahn and Mies van der Rohe. Exhibition text by James Fisher:
“That Which Appears explores the window as a site of perception, memory and mediation. Bringing together historical and contemporary practices, the exhibition considers the window as both a literal and psychological threshold: between interior and exterior, self and world, presence and reflection. The exhibition aims to open a dialogue across generations, bringing different approaches to the window and its many meanings into conversation”.
The exhibition will be presented in two parts. The first opens at Sid Motion Gallery on 17 September and will remain on view until 31 October 2026. An expanded presentation will then open at Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, in April 2028, running until September 2028. For the Sheffield exhibition, the artists will be joined by significant loans from the Graves Collection, Drawing Matter, Leeds Art Gallery and the Tate Collection, including a work by Philip Guston and nine drawings by Pierre Bonnard. A book accompanying the exhibition will also be published, ahead of its presentation in Sheffield.
Sid Motion Gallery is still found at 24a Penarth Centre, Hatcham Road, London, SE15 1TR. The space is open Thursday, Friday and Saturday, midday until 6pm, This will be the last of 85 exhibitions at the space; “After celebrating ten years dedicated to supporting artists, Sid Motion Gallery has taken the conscientious decision to close” and we’d just like to take a moment to thank Sid and her team (we know more than most how tough it is to run a London gallery). There is a statement on the Gallery’s website
2: Al Diaz, Samo:Transatlantication at D’Stassi Art – The UK debut exhibition of pioneering New York artist and SAMO© co-creator Al Diaz, opening night, 25th September – “Join us in London on Friday 25 September for the opening night of this landmark exhibition” say the gallery. Once again it appears to be all about the opening night at the Shoreditch Gallery and no real indication how long the show goes on for? They never seem to see beyond the opening at D’Stassi Art…
“Born and raised in New York, Diaz emerged from the city’s graffiti scene in the 1970s and became one of the defining voices of its downtown cultural movement. Alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat, he co-created Samo, the enigmatic series of poetic, satirical and often confrontational statements that began appearing across Lower Manhattan in the late 1970s. Written on walls throughout SoHo and the East Village, Samo became part artwork, part social commentary and part anonymous mythology. Its language challenged art, commerce, politics, conformity and the culture surrounding them, leaving a lasting mark on the visual history of New York. Diaz has continued to develop that language over the decades, bringing together text, typography, found materials, collage and the visual vocabulary of the city. For his first UK exhibition, Samo:Transatlantication brings that story across the Atlantic. A new body of work connects the streets and cultural histories of New York and London, revisiting the spirit of Samo while placing Diaz’s own voice firmly at the centre of the story. Join us at D’Stassi Art in Shoreditch for the opening night…”
D’Stassi Art is found around a corner in Shoreditch, the gallery entrance is found on Drysdale St, the actual address is 12-18 Hoxton St, Drysdale St, London N1 6NG, The launch thing is on Friday 25 September 2026, 6pm until late, for this one you do have to do the RSVP thing and get on the list
3: Martin O’Brien & Sheree Rose, Greatest Hits at Iklectik – “The proverbial cat is out of the bag! We’ve hatched a plan for my mom Sheree, @msrosebush, and her longtime collaborator, and brilliant artist, @martinobrienart to do a performance, Greatest Hits, next month in London, Saturday, 26th of September at @iklectikartlab in Peckham, to celebrate their 15 years of collaboration together, as well as my mom’s very special, 85th birthday” so said someone at dommomthemovie
“As the world falls apart, in a night club in London, two zombie rock stars attempt to keep on going. Sickly and falling apart, their bodies remember the decadence of the past and try to continue what they used to do. Part lecture-demonstration/part attempt to roll back the years, ‘The Greatest Hits’ is a performance that re-enacts moments from the work Rose and O’Brien have done together. It marks 15 years of collaboration between them and is a special celebration of Rose’s 85th birthday. Featuring special guest appearances from other artists, ‘The Greatest Hits’ will be a tongue in cheek and poignant exploration of friendship, ageing, memory, and loss. It is a tribute to history and a dedication to continuing. Come and celebrate the 85th birthday of one of performance arts biggest icons, at Iklectik….”
Iklectik is at Peckham Levels, SE15 4ST. This one does demand you buy a ticket, the details, times and more are via this link
4: Hayal Pozanti, A Dream That Rhymed With Mine at Timothy Taylor Gallery – on now and until 24th October – “Showcasing the fluid, biomorphic forms that define Pozanti’s practice, this exhibition traces her close study of the natural world. Each work distils a specific subject through colour, gesture, and material, moving between figuration and abstraction. Familiar forms are reimagined through a language that brings the observed world into conversation with the imagined”.
“Timothy Taylor is pleased to present A Dream That Rhymed With Mine, a solo exhibition of new works by Hayal Pozanti in London. Bringing together paintings and works on paper made over the past year, the presentation marks Pozanti’s second solo exhibition in the UK and her third with the gallery.
Over the past decade, Pozanti has developed a distinctive formal language of biomorphic abstraction, translating her experience of the natural world into a vocabulary entirely her own. Working with oil stick and oil pastel directly on canvas and blending pigment by hand, she builds forms that shift fluidly between flower, body, and current, resisting fixed identity in favour of continuous transformation. Rather than depict nature, Pozanti renders its feeling—an impulse inspired in part by Surrealism, with its dreams and its drive to invent new worlds.
Though rooted in the everyday, Pozanti’s paintings are not literal transcriptions of the material world. Her attention to her environment is acute, almost synesthetic, drawn again and again toward small details that catch and hold the light. For the artist, such objects become “altars”: “the transcendence of a mountain and the tickle of bodega flowers,” she has said, “can hold the same significance.” In her work, both are axis mundi—points where the earthly and the sacred meet.
In several works in the presentation, a vessel holds a moment of stillness within the motion of the larger composition. In The Endless Whisper of Their Warm Bodies (2026), a dark red vase anchors the canvas before its contents spill outward into loose forms glowing turquoise, coral, gold, and violet against a night sky streaked with light. Elsewhere, the paintings dispense with any anchor at all. In one landscape canvas, All That Shines Outside of Itself (2026), blossoms in cream, red, and lilac open against a deep teal-black ground, petals trailing into ribbons of turquoise beneath streaks of light. A related work, Your Laughter That Suddens Me (2026), takes up the same freedom: coral and orange blooms unfurl against a dark ground, tendrils of pale blue and gold looping around them, a pool of red gathering below. Where her vessel paintings hold a pause, these remain in constant motion, each form answering the one beside it.
In creating these paintings, Pozanti draws from the working of a flower itself, which weaves disparate forms of life into partnership, connecting soil microbes and fungi below with the work of pollinating insects and birds above. Her own paintings, she suggests, work the same way—as places where forces ordinary and spiritual meet”.
Timothy Taylor Gallery is found at 5 Bolton Street, London W1J 8BG. The Gallery is open 10am until 6pm Monday to Saturday (11am until 5pm)
Step inside Hayal Pozanti’s studio in Vermont, ahead of her new exhibition with the gallery in London, as the artist offers a glimpse into her practice.
5: Frieze Sculpture 2026, The Regent’s Park, London – it did just open, it is on until the end of October, yes it is a mainstream thing when really that isn’t quite what we’re about, then again you don’t need to use a QR Code to find out who the artists are and it is free and open to everyone and it is worth just for that Palm Tree and it will cause a few people to e.mail us or stop one of us at a gallery and complain about it being one of our five recommendations this week. Here’s our take on it after a visit a couple of days ago…
And while we’re here…
Previously…
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