ORGAN THING: James Owens at Hackney’s Lychee One Gallery, luminous nocturnal scenes, aliens in the woods, swans, mystery, anticipation…

James Owens has some paintings hanging over in Lychee One at the moment, Dreaming of UFOs, a new body of work from the  painter – “Through psychologically charged expressions of emotional states, the artist’s paintings of luminous nocturnal scenes suggest the power of mystery and anticipation. The show’s title draws on Owens’ experiences of following…

ORGAN THING: Benjamin Murphy’s Disasterpiece at Hackney’s Lychee One Gallery. There is order, there could maybe be disorder? The unforgiving medium of charcoal on raw canvas can be dirty, somehow that adds to it all…

Benjamin Murphy – Disasterpiece at Lychee One Gallery, Hackney, East London – Needed to go back for a second look at this one, Lychee One is a strange gallery, a cold gallery, a squeaky clean not very friendly white-walled glass fronted space in a new build, there’s never much information (or indeed conversation) about their…

ORGAN: Five Recommended Art Things – Benjamin Murphy at Lychee One, Bob and Roberta Smith’s Thamesmead Codex, Take me with you at The Koppel Project Hive, Mary Anne Francis, This is Not an Art Show, Patrick Heron at The Cristea Roberts Gallery…

Five more art things. 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. 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…