Swan Song at Kate MacGarry: 5 June - 18 July 2026

Mark Corfield-Moore

 

 

Mark Corfield-Moore’s first solo exhibition with Kate MacGarry Gallery, wryly named Swan Song features the artist’s interpretation of traditional ikat weaving techniques refined during his time in Thailand. Painting directly onto the fibres before they are woven together, Corfield-Moore’s images emerge in parallel with the surfaces they sit on: as such, the work combines extraordinary precision with stoic surrender to inevitable blurriness. 

Words and phrases featured on the pieces straddle a similar ambivalence – drawing on intergenerational misunderstandings, and the specificities of meaning that are lost in translation, Corfield-Moore draws on his experience as part of the Thai-British diaspora to implicate viewers in highly specific memories, intelligible only to him.  

With the textile works accompanied by smaller oil impasto paintings resembling embroidered embellishments, Swan Song calls attention to the ground its images sit on as much as the images themselves. 

27 Old Nichol Street, E2 7HR

 

Revisitations at Goodman Gallery: 04 June - 16 July 2026

Ravelle Pillay

 

The title of Ravelle Pillay’s solo show Revisitations at Goodman Gallery operates on two planes of meaning – 'revisiting', as in poring over reference materials, and “visitation”, as in haunting. 

Emerging after the sudden death of her father in late 2025, Pillay’s latest body of painting extends her practice’s use of personal archives as well as British national ones, investigating the complexities of her lineage (South African Indian, British) through the lens of colonial history. In the artist’s words, these public repositories are 'the centre of knowledge for any place that has been colonised'. She continues: 'if you want to learn more about your [identity], go to where it is kept.'

This and That at Sid Motion Gallery: 5 June – 10 July 2026

Francesca Anfossi, Gabriele Beveridge, Jane Bustin, Alan Charlton, Rose Davey, Iain Hales and Gary Woodley

 

The second collaborative exhibition between Sid Motion Gallery and artist Rose Davey, This and That presents artworks that become legible only in the presence of something else. 

Activated by a seated person, the collaborative piece around which the show orbits – a table made by Gary Woodley, painted by Davey and accompanied with stools by Francesca Anfossi – exemplifies the proposition at its core: things exist in relation to one another, beyond the gallery as well as within. 

Extending that logic by coaxing meaning from the contrasts and spaces between forms, the table is surrounded by wall works from Gabriele Beveridge, Jane Bustin and Iain Hales. Meanwhile, paintings by Davey illustrate the intersecting impact of colours upon each other, just as a diptych by Alan Charlton investigates painted canvas by presenting it alongside the unworked material. 

24a Penarth Centre, Hatcham Road, SE15 1TR

The Fugitive Marvels of Sunset at Maureen Paley: 29 May – 25 July 2026

Paul P.

 

Appropriated from gay erotic magazines made between the late 1960s and early 80s, Paul P.’s inimitable portraits of anonymous young men are heartrending. Divorced from their pornographic source material, and drawing on the coded queer visual language of his predecessors from John Singer Sargent to Marcel Proust, P’.s subjects are caught between the self-consciousness of being observed and the abandon of pleasure that we cannot see.

In The Fugitive Marvels of Sunset at Maureen Paley, these latest portraits are presented alongside unpeopled, semi-abstract paintings of hazy skies, bats, laundry on a line; casting his refined, somehow-shimmering lens over scenes and boys alike, P. invites his audience to view both as contextless snapshots in time, as well as part of more eternal stories of freedom and constraint; beauty and demise.  

60 Three Colts Lane, E2 6GQ

 

Never Ends at Seventeen Gallery: 30th May – 27th June 2026

Gabriele Beveridge 

Orbs and teardrops, globules and cells mid-splitting. In Never Ends, Gabriele Beveridge’s practice splices together organic forms with industrial materials;  hardness with softness, transparency with obscurity, monumentalising the momentary. Manipulating glass into shapes and states far beyond its usual capacities, before using metal to suggest puncturing, folding, pinioning as though in real time, Beveridge’s sculptures meld technical mastery with conceptual clarity.

Always in flux, never quite alighting anywhere, her forms are aware of themselves even as they seem to shrug off incarnations before our eyes. As viewers, what are we witnessing? Whatever the answer, it’s already transformed. 

270-276 Kingsland Road, E8 4DG

 

Air at Gagosian: May 21–August 21, 2026

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

 

First envisaged in 1968 but never realised until now, Air at Gagosian features Air Package on a Ceiling – monumental in scale, yet inherently ephemeral, the installation conceived by Christo and Jeanne-Claude nearly sixty years ago hangs just above the heads of gallery visitors.

While the sculpture invites its audience to move beneath and around it, it also pushes them to ask what they’re looking at in the first place – after all, the air named in the work’s title is invisible, only rendered legible by its polyethylene and rope constraints.

Presented alongside archival materials including preparatory drawings, Air Package on a Ceiling is accompanied in the space’s second gallery by Wrapped Automobile—Volvo, Model PV-544, 1981. With one work making visible what can’t be seen and the other hiding it, Air truly has everything covered. 

20 Grosvenor Hill, W1K 3QD