There is a wall inside the entrance to Paul Smith in Mayfair, currently painted a soft blush, that has come to represent the creative vitality and resilient joy of London’s contemporary art scene. My first encounter with this space revealed a painting resonant with...
Fashion Designer Paul Smith is opening a new exhibition Space in Albemarle Street in time for Frieze Week. Since the company’s inception in the early 1970s, Paul Smith’s shops have taken a pioneering approach to their use of space, blurring the line between a...
A Banksy painting owned by the fashion designer Sir Paul Smith is to be auctioned at Bonhams. Congestion Charge (2004) is a rare vandalised oil painting by the elusive British art rebel Banksy. It leads Bonhams' Post-War and Contemporary Art Sale on Thursday, 29 June,...
The English fashion designer Sir Paul Smith has created one of the most engaging Picasso exhibitions ever mounted to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death on April 8 1973. "The body of work that he left behind had a profound impact on the entire 20th...
Zavier Ellis is the founder and director of CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, a vibrant contemporary art gallery in Shoreditch, London, which is currently celebrating their 10th Anniversary. How did CHARLIE SMITH LONDON come about? I launched the CHARLIE SMITH LONDON gallery...
The elegant new Paul Nash retrospective just opened at Tate Britain offers a welcome contrast to some of the dismal offerings that have been unveiled there in the recent past. It celebrates an important British artist and does so in a thoroughgoing way. It does,...
Paul Freud occupies a curious and compelling corner of British painting. Despite sharing a famous surname with his father, Lucian, he is an artist who has quietly built a language of his own. Born in Paddington in 1959 and raised in the cultural sprawl of North...
It’s well worth visiting The Box in Plymouth. You can see interesting local collections, the touring show from Hepworth Wakefield of surrealist landscapes, and a remarkably comprehensive and superbly orchestrated retrospective covering more than forty years of Jyll...
Mark Woods (b. 1961, Surrey) is a British artist whose work straddles the charged space between adornment, provocation, and artifice. In the late 1980s, Woods designed groundbreaking jewellery for Electrum in South Molton Street, which led to commissions, eventually...