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Exhibitions
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Colin Crumplin: Paintings
5 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Castor is delighted to present Colin Crumplin: Paintings. This exhibition marks Crumplin’s first solo exhibition since 2005 and consists of works predominately made in the years proceeding. Colin Crumplin was born 1946 in Hertfordshire and is now based between Bath and Wiltshire, UK. He has long been drawn to chance... Read more -
The Nature of Things
31 Aug - 28 Sep 2024 Sophie Barber, Shiraz Bayjoo, Gareth Cadwallader, Exodus Crooks, Martyn Cross, Jane Hayes Greenwood, Andy Holden, Serena Korda, Mark Leckey, Robin Mason, Vivien McDermid, Karen McLean, Victor Seaward, Holly Stevenson, Jonathan Trayte, Emma Talbot, Georg Wilson, Dominic Watson, Lian Zhang In The Nature of Things, curated by artist Jane Hayes Greenwood,... Read more -
Sarah Derat: Two-Hearted
13 Jul - 17 Aug 2024 “Deep inside our bodies, under 4 kilograms of skin, under 4000 miles of condensed ground and molten iron, another force is spinning backwards, from macro to micro and back, touching the core of the earth, touching the foundations of our constructed selves… We are slowly getting out of sync” For... Read more -
Mark Jackson: psychic surface
30 May - 6 Jul 2024 Castor is delighted to announce psychic surface, London-based artist Mark Jackson’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Jackson’s heavily impastoed oil paintings lure the viewer closer with their shimmering surfaces and soft, impressionistic forms. Frequently depicting figures and faces at roughly human scale, the works at once address us directly,... Read more -
Magda Blasinska: Owl Mountain
30 May - 6 Jul 2024 Owl Mountain alludes to the myth of the Nazi train of looted treasure that went missing during WWII and is believed to be buried in passages beneath Owl Mountains, Central Sudetes, Southwestern Poland. The myth has endured, without evidence, since the war. Its persistent popularity speaks of the allure of... Read more -
Fabian Ramírez: Firing of the Idols
10 Apr - 18 May 2024 Hissing snakes look on as men holding flaming torches set about burning numerous different human heads, masks, and shields. Great flames curl outwards, licking at fornicating bodies that fall through the air or hover in space above serpentine rivers of blue, red, and purple, while an enormous wide-open mouth bares... Read more -
Des Lawrence: Oh my absolute complete and utter everlasting days!
9 Oct - 18 Nov 2023 Des Lawrence’s meticulous paintings depict both technology and portraiture. With a crisp likeness and gradient backdrops they suggest we are looking at product shots used for advertising, or studio portraits. The objects in particular hold a sense of nostalgia to the golden era of tech which came with the late... Read more -
Grace Woodcock: 23.5°
9 Oct - 9 Dec 2023 Woodcock’s sculptures are instruments for taking notice. They give tangible form to gravitational and orbital forces, recalibrating our perception of what it means to exist on a planet rotating in space. The exhibition’s title 23.5° references the axial tilt of the Earth. This angle is drifting and Earth’s rotation is... Read more -
Ben Jamie: Realm
1 - 30 Sep 2023 Castor is pleased to present Ben Jamie’s Realm, his forth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this new series of paintings, Jamie explores the organic relationship between the human body and the natural world, inspired in part by a recent trip to the raw and unpredictable landscapes of Iceland. The... Read more -
Jane Hayes Greenwood: A Little History
23 Jun - 29 Jul 2023 A Little History presents two series of paintings alongside a number of new ceramic pieces. The works explore the complex and widely felt relationship between birth and death, and draw on the artist's recent experiences of motherhood and mourning. Not long after the arrival of her children in 2020 and... Read more -
Roberta Booth: Works on Paper
4 May - 10 Jun 2023 Castor is proud to present an exhibition of works on paper by Roberta Booth (1947 – 2014). This marks the gallery’s second exhibition with the Roberta Booth Estate following our 2021 ‘Paintings 1972 – 1982’ which brought together 11 canvases from the formative years of Booth’s career following her graduation... Read more -
Jean-Philippe Dordolo: 3.01 am
4 May - 10 Jun 2023 3.01 am is a reference to the Hour of the Wolf, a phrase drawn from Swedish folklore for the hours between 3 am and 5 am. The Hour of the Wolf is also a 1968 Ingmar Berman film. 'It is the hour when most people die, when sleep is... Read more -
Andrea Medjesi: Look, I have brought them back..
17 Mar - 22 Apr 2023 The title of the exhibition is borrowed from the book “The General of the Dead Army” by the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare. It provides a psychological setting and a historic link to the Balkans that trigger content for the new body of paintings by Andrea Medjesi. The atmospheres marked by... Read more -
Clyde Hopkins: Paintings 1989 - 1993
27 Jan - 4 Mar 2023 Castor is proud to present a major survey of Clyde Hopkins’ (1946 - 2018) works from the late 80’s to early 90’s. ‘Paintings 1989 - 1993’ brings together a selection of large scale works on canvas and paper from a pivotal period in the British abstractionist’s career. Born in Bexhill... Read more -
Ben Jamie: Threshold
2 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 'Man lives always on the verge, always on the borderland of a something more. He is the only animal, apparently, who has built restlessness into a metaphysical principle. Even in the practical sphere he is restless in ways that mark him off, for good and for ill, from his fellow-animals.... Read more -
Jack West: Solstice Arc
2 Dec 2022 - 14 Jan 2023 The sky is looking different. Everyone’s noticed it. Hushed whispers ripple through the crowd as the twilight grows thicker. At first the difference was considered a one off, a fluke of the heavens. But night after night the intrusion returns. The usual characters are there, unflinching in their expected positions.... Read more -
Tom Worsfold: Additives
10 Oct - 19 Nov 2022 Additives is an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Tom Worsfold, his second with the gallery. Painted in lurid and saturated colours, the canvases mark a move away from the everyday towards the fantastical. They embrace imaginary cartoon logic and a playful relationship to depicting the self. The paintings... Read more -
There Goes the Neighbourhood
2 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 Jane Hayes Greenwood️, Rachel Hobkirk, Andrea Medjesi, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Shailee Mehta, Elsa Rouy, Nour el Saleh, Alan Stanners, Oda Iselin Sønderland, Morgan Wills 'There Goes the Neighbourhood’ inaugurates Castor and Indigo + Madder’s new Fitzrovia spaces. There Goes The Neighbourhood is a jointly conceived group exhibition in two halves,... Read more -
Claire Baily: Terra Incognita
6 May - 11 Jun 2022 “Immobile images move, first slowly, repeating over and over those same moments and it’s like extracting ancient skeletons from sand: at first you see a single bone, but a brush soon uncovers more, until finally the whole complex structure is on display, the joints and articulations that comprise the construction... Read more -
Liam Fallon: The Hotspot
18 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Un chant d’amour: Liam Fallon and Jean Genet by Matt Retallick ‘from afar, my body passes through thine, and thine, from afar, through mine’ – from Our Lady of the Flowers (1949) by Jean Genet Jean Genet (1910-1986) spent most of his unstable childhood on the run. He turned to... Read more -
Derek Mainella: Too Much Fun
18 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Castor is pleased to present Too Much Fun, Derek Mainella’s forth solo exhibition with the gallery. Here we find Mainella in a reductive mood, continuing his self-styled take on abstractive figuration yet striped back in both in scale and complexity to present a series of portraits of creatures of the... Read more -
Louis Appleby: Rear View Mirror Sunset
28 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 I won’t forget our 4th date when you invited me round for dinner. I was excited but flustered. The knot in my stomach had been tightening all day, I was so tense I wasn’t sure I’d be able to eat a thing. You answered the door wearing an oversized smile... Read more -
Nana Wolke: High Seat
28 Jan - 5 Mar 2022 On the face of it the sprawling iconic landscape of Monument Valley could not be further from the socialist blocks nested around the arteries of European cities. A housing model known for high concentration and repetition of elements was first conceptualized in Sweden and Germany, then replicated from the 1960s... Read more -
Jane Hayes Greenwood: Garden of the Night
26 Nov 2021 - 15 Jan 2022 Jane Hayes Greenwood’s exhibition Garden of the Night, is comprised of three distinct series of paintings, executed in her characteristic high key and luminescent colour palette, and a sculptural installation and CGI video. The artist draws on her research into herbalism and botanical illustrations, specifically looking at obscure medicinal plants, in addition to primeval relics and cultural artefacts, such as Venus figurines, that allude to the discourse surrounding the symbolic visual representation of women over centuries. Read more -
Roberta Booth: Paintings 1972 - 1982
8 Oct - 13 Nov 2021 Roberta Booth: Paintings 1972 - 1982 Read more -
Doubling Down
17 Sep - 9 Oct 2021 Offsite Leicester Contemporary Claire Baily, Alia Hamaoui, Jaime Welsh, Jack West, Grace Woodcock Co-curated with Georgia Stephenson In the casino, stale air circulates through a complacent ventilation system. The plastic slatted covers of which are the closest thing to a window for what seems like miles. Following the river of... Read more -
Ian J Brown: Midnight Shadows
3 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 Walking in, there’s an unsettling energy in the air. The once bustling bar is deserted, the solid oak bar top gathering dust, beer taps cling filmed shut from the last service. Looking towards the back of the room is a low stage, the usually shimmering glitter curtains are static, they... Read more -
Rosie McGinn: Contemplating my Navel
3 Sep - 2 Oct 2021 ‘Rosie McGinn stares at her cuddly bit whilst painting tiny post-it watercolours of previous works [2015 - today]’. McGinn’s practice centres around a fascination with extremes of human emotion. From euphoria to despair; seeming opposites which can interchange within the space of a sharp intake of breath at sporting events,... Read more -
Nick Paton: fala ford
2 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 If you’re fortunate enough to be able to maintain a straight line while walking, you’ll be more than able to do the same thing even at a great height, on a precipice, overlooking a fatal drop. There’s no shift to the logic or the demands on your unconscious faculties. Yet... Read more -
Jack Warne: Rtapte
2 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 Castor is pleased to present Jack Warne’s debut solo exhibition ‘Rtapte’. Warne’s practice combines digital paintings, composed soundtracks and augmented reality. Rtapte explores scenes from childhood filtered into a dream like daze combining nostalgia with the domestic and industrial. Jack grew up with moments of his life in complete darkness.... Read more -
Ben Jamie: And Other Withered Stumps of Time
13 May - 19 Jun 2021 Monomyth: A hero ventures forth from the world of the common day into a region of supernatural wonder where reality and fantasy intertwine: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won. Look, there he is! That guy rarely seen since the school trip to Tate Britain... Read more -
The Stable Object in Precarious Times
9 Apr - 8 May 2021 Claire Baily, Sarah Derat, Jean-Philippe Dordolo, Clark Keatley, Alan Magee, Amanda Moström, Nick Paton, Hamish Pearch, Grace Woodcock As technological advancements in AI & Automation increasingly become the dominant mediators of human experiences and practices, our direct engagement with materiality inversely decreases. So, in a world that no longer distinguishes... Read more -
Lucas Dupuy: Florist Mews
5 Mar - 3 Apr 2021 Castor is pleased to present Florist Mews, a solo exhibition by London based artist Lucas Dupuy. The metropolis is awash with a mass of grey. Contrails scar the sky and raking light from cloud cover distorts the pavement below. Yesterdays brutalist ideals still punctuate the retina of urban explorers, architect... Read more -
Simon Mathers: The Frenzy
3 - 31 Dec 2020 Castor is pleased to present The Frenzy; an exhibition of new paintings and sculptural works by Simon Mathers. For this exhibition the artist wants us to consider the home as a transitory space. where physical forms of social engagement and entertainment have combined with our professional lives to create a... Read more -
Charline Tyberghein: many drops make a puddle
3 - 31 Dec 2020 Castor is pleased to present ‘many drops make a puddle’, Antwerp-based painter Charline Tyberghein’s debut London exhibition. A baseball, pair of pants, a pretzel, the internet explorer logo are just some of the symbols used within Tyberghein’s paintings. In this new series of works, these small silhouetted icons sit in... Read more -
Grace Woodcock: GUT-BRAIN
17 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Castor is pleased to present GUT-BRAIN, Grace Woodcock’s debut London solo show which examines the gut’s role as the original brain, 1960s space-age aesthetic and soft furnishing. “When you go back to creatures with the first nervous systems, they are creatures whose whole bodies were fundamentally an intestine. So they... Read more -
Indrikis Gelzis: Figure of Everything
17 Sep - 31 Oct 2020 Castor is pleased to present Figure of Everything, the debut London solo show by Latvian artist Indrikis Gelzis. Gelzis’ distinctive wall-based sculptures reference minimal abstraction, the method of displaying data in infographics and ideas of pareidolia. 'To dispelanxiety by understanding and internalizing its causes: this would seem to be one... Read more -
Jack Burton: Pro-Social Fries
25 Jun - 1 Aug 2020 Castor is pleased to present Pro-Social Fries, Jack Burton’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Pro-Social Fries brings together a new body of work created over the past few months locked down in Brussels. Through sculpture, wallpaper, animation and wall-based works, Burton explores ideas of social identity and redistribution in... Read more -
Barry Reigate: Drawings
30 Apr - 30 May 2020 ‘Then, as I set the burglar alarm, I realised that I could change the course of my life by a single action. To shut out the world, and solve all my difficulties at a stroke, I had the simplest of weapons - my own front door. I needed only to... Read more -
Rafal Zajko: Resuscitation
14 Mar - 18 Apr 2020 Castor is pleased to present Resuscitation, Rafal Zajko’s second exhibition with the gallery. Resuscitation sees Zajko explore ventilation systems, prosthetics, Polish folklore and science fiction through performance and sculptural installation. Resuscitation is a form of artificial ventilation, through stimulating respiration in which a rescuer presses their mouth against that of... Read more -
Habitual
1 Feb - 7 Mar 2020 Sara Anstis, Claire Baily, Jack Burton, Gareth Cadwallader, Lotti V Closs, Stevie Dix, Jemma Egan, Ben Jamie, Simon Linington, Alan Magee, Derek Mainella, Simon Mathers, Amanda Moström, Nick Paton, Sebastian Sochan, Willem Weismann, Jack West, Grace Woodcock, Rafal Zajko - I don’t think I contracted the bug through any singular,... Read more -
Derek Mainella: Comfort Zone
23 Nov 2019 - 18 Jan 2020 Read more -
Amanda Moström: Participating in a chair
28 Sep - 2 Nov 2019 Read more -
Sarah Derat: She Who Loves Silence
21 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 Read more -
Alan Magee: Data Dust, Dust Data
3 May - 8 Jun 2019 Read more -
Lindsey Mendick: The Ex Files
15 Mar - 27 Apr 2019 Read more -
Jack West: Last Man Standing
25 Jan - 2 Mar 2019 Read more -
Tom Worsfold: Models
1 Dec 2018 - 19 Jan 2019 Read more -
Miriam Naeh: Tall Tales, Tall Tails
27 Oct - 24 Nov 2018 Read more -
Ben Jamie: Comfortably Dumb
7 Sep - 13 Oct 2018 Read more -
Jutro
14 Jul - 4 Aug 2018 Read more -
Rafal Zajko: Jaka praca dzis - takie nasze jutro
29 Jun - 4 Aug 2018 Read more -
Claire Baily: Skeleton Key
18 May - 23 Jun 2018 Read more -
Simon Linington: In From The Light
30 Mar - 5 May 2018 Read more -
Amanda Moström: Doing it in the park, doing it after dark
9 Feb - 17 Mar 2018 Read more -
Jonathan Trayte: SCHUSSBOOMER
2 Dec 2017 - 27 Jan 2018 Read more -
Derek Mainella: It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine
4 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 Read more -
Alan Magee: Business As Usual
1 Oct 2017 Read more -
Jack Burton: SOFT DIARY
8 - 30 Sep 2017 Read more -
Mari Kolbeinson: Triangle Walks
7 Jul - 12 Aug 2017 Read more -
Lotti V Closs: In Plain Sight
26 May - 1 Jul 2017 Read more -
Jack West: Time and Attendance
7 Apr - 13 May 2017 Read more -
Barry Reigate: Do Zombies Dance to Love in C Minor?
17 Feb - 25 Mar 2017 Read more -
Steven Gee: Sandwiched
28 Jan 2017 Read more -
Ben Jamie: Sense Data
18 Nov - 17 Dec 2016 Read more -
Alan Magee: Some days I’m thinking, some days I’m dreaming
15 Oct - 12 Nov 2016 Read more -
Claire Baily : Dream On
16 Sep - 8 Oct 2016 Read more -
Sarah Bernhardt: like all your favourite entries from the urban dictionary in a font you hate
2 - 31 Aug 2016 Read more -
Lily Hawkes : FLEX
8 - 30 Jul 2016 Read more -
Peter Ainsworth: how arid it is / how fertile it is
3 - 25 Jun 2016 Read more -
Amy and Oliver Thomas - Irvine: RROYA
30 Apr - 21 May 2016 Read more -
Kate McMillan : Stones for Dancing, Stones for Dying
18 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 Read more -
Oliver Tirre: I am so heavy
12 Feb - 5 Mar 2016 Read more -
Derek Mainella : Infinity Poison
8 - 30 Jan 2016 Read more
