Dates

Lower Ground Floor Gallery

• 10 - 16 December 2015 (Ground Floor Gallery)

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Art historian Ben Street talks Rubens as Inga Krymskaya launches '3045 Variations on The Feast of Venus' at Hay Hill Gallery 10th December 2015, 6-9pm

• 23 November 2015 - 30 January 2016

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Group Show
features works by Galyna Moskvitina, Walera Martynchik, Penny Crofts, Stanislav Plutenko, Aigana Gali, Nicolas Ruston,  Lilia Mazurkevich, Victoria Kovalenchikova, Ilia Petrovic, David Balilty, Oleg Prokofiev,  Roxana Halls, David Bowers, Sergey Sologub, Miki Reimann, Konstantin Khudyakov, Carlo Pecorelli, David Papava, Sveta Yavorsky, Sergey Eloyan, Igor Tcholaria, Robert Bissell, Zoe Benbow, Afshin Naghouni, Giuseppe Linardi, Hideyuki Sobue, Anastasia Belous, and others.

Sculptures by Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Alexander Archipenko, Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi, Ruurd Hallema, Gill Parker, Spar Street, Carlo Pecorelli, and Andrey Ostashov.
 

• 23 - 25 November 2015 (Ground Floor Gallery)

Charity Event -
Exhibition 'Win, Lose, Draw'

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Exhibition 'Win Lose Draw'.
Art and sport often go hand in hand. The truly great sporting moments are performed by those who transform their sport into an art form. Be it Ian Botham stroking the ball for four, Thierry Henry drawing out the goalkeeper or A P McCoy achieving his 4,000th winner there is something intrinsic about sport that really captures the imagination.

Win, Lose, Draw is an exhibition of iconic sporting moments created by leading UK graphic artists. Each artwork has been signed by the artist and featured sportsman and is completely unique. Original artworks and limited edition prints will be available for to purchase from 24 November.

• 26 October - 21 November 2015

Sculptures by Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Alexander Archipenko, Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi, Ruurd Hallema, and Andrey Ostashov

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Ilia Petrovic

"This is my first show in the UK for two years and I am proud to be doing it at the Hay Hill Gallery in London.

This collection of paintings has been inspired by fleeting peripheral glimpses that occur unexpectedly anytime, anywhere." - Ilia Petrovic

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New exhibition by Sveta Yavorsky, "I Tempi", presents monochromous calligraphic floral patterns. Subtle variation in flow and density of entangled elements produce distinct "tempo" in each painting. The elements themselves are abstract black ink particles, like individual notes, if looked up closely, but observed from distance they chisel floral forms from whiteness of the canvas like distant chimes carve chords from silence.

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• 16 October - 24 October 2015

Sculptures by Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Alexander Archipenko, Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi, Ruurd Hallema, and Andrey Ostashov.
 

• 1 September - 15 October 2015

Sculptures by Alexander Archipenko, Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Ruurd Hallema, and Andrey Ostashov.

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At first glance, Robert Bissell’s art suggests the struggles and triumphs of animals through a narrative painting style reminiscent of illustrative children’s books. But within Bissell’s work lies a more profound message. Familiar animals from our collective childhood, including bears and rabbits, are purposefully set in magical yet realistic landscapes to disarm viewers and draw them in. Once inside Bissell’s art, viewers discover that the quizzical, contemplative, menacing, or exultant animals actually represent us.

Bissell, now living and working in San Francisco, grew up on a farm in the English countryside outside the small village of West Quantoxhead in Somerset, England.

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• 27 July - 29 August 2015

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Sculptures by Alexander Archipenko, Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Ruurd Hallema and Andrey Ostashov.
 

• 29 June - 25 July 2015

Sculptures by Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi and Ruurd Hallema.

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Zoe Benbow’s paintings aim to communicate a sense of awe and enjoyment in landscape and reference the European genre as a means of questioning our cultural construct of wilderness and our relationship to the natural world. The images are developed from drawings made ‘in the field’ yet by an intense engagement with the processes of painting and studio practice, the resulting canvases become as much a meditation on a geology of association and memory as of actual place.

Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1989 Zoe Benbow has chosen to centre her career in studio practice. Based in London, Benbow has undertaken several international residencies and eighteen solo shows alongside numerous group exhibitions. Work is represented in many corporate and public collections including Queen Mary University of London, The British Council and Manchester City Art Gallery. In 2013 Benbow collaborated with the poet Deryn Rees Jones in the touring exhibition Where we begin to Look- Landscape and Poetry which was presented at The Poetry Society London, The Glass Tank at Oxford Brookes University and other venues.

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Patrick Altes

Patrick Altes was born in North Africa from a Franco/Spanish family, he has lived for extensive periods in South America, South Africa, and now the UK.

He is an abstract painter using elements of figuration but he also works on installations and have an affinity for drawing, which has led him to develop work exploring a digital and drawing interface.

His work focuses on the alchemy between consciousness and the unconscious, exploring a personal perception of mythic and archetypal processes that influence a sense of identity, belonging and displacement. He also is very interested the eroding yet evolving relationship between the contemporary world and our deeper humanity.

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• 1 June - 27 June 2015

Sculptures by Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi and Ruurd Hallema.

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Afshin Naghouni 'Satire'

Iranian born British artist Afshin Naghouni is a name to be reckoned with in the art world. Ash, as he is better known, started painting as a child, winning a number of regional and national competitions between the ages of nine and twelve. He doesn’t follow any particular style, but allows his paint brush to lead him into a world that has us questioning what we see. Out of Focus is a documentary by Shahriar Siami about the artist which was recently awarded San Francisco Film Festival’s Award of Merit. The film tells the story of how Ash fell down the seventh floor of a building during an escape from an Iranian police attack on a birthday party. He injured his spinal cord severely and ended up in wheelchair.

'Afshin (Ash) Naghouni works big in a larger-than-life way, zooming-in close-up to produce a super-sized canvas in a neo-figurative style that captures the appeal of intimate moments in a woman's life.

Naghouni teases you in his canvas 'dolly-shot' whilst, simultaneously, considers the controversialists view of whether it is that Muslim women are oppressed and exploited while western women are liberated, or vice versa?' - Estelle Lovatt, Art of England, December 2011

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Peter Blum '

My pictures are realistic in the radical sense of the word, without the models being exposed in the process. Quite the opposite: they confidently allow themselves to be observed. In other words, they are at eye level with the people who are looking at them.

With this attitude they furnish a topic for debate, consequently involving themselves in the social discourse regarding artificial and natural beauty and the construction of an image. A highly-topical subject and a key question that concerns the self-conception of all of us. My pictures contribute to the clarification of this issue, making them very much of their time.' - Peter Henryk Blum

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• 5 May - 30 May 2015

Sculptures by Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, Anne Tanner, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi and Ruurd Hallema.

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I use the constructed urban facades as the canvas to my portraits. These characters are often the faces of people I know or faces from social media.

In doing so, portraits begin to exist at the intersection between urban and fine art where aspects of the visual contemporary landscape are appropriated and re-imagined with traditional techniques of portraiture. “ - Kilmany-Jo Liversage, April 2015.

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My figures may seem frozen in a place of stasis and reflection, in the eye of the storm, attempting to reconfigure themselves & perhaps on the cusp of transformation, but they are always on the verge of some private evolution” - Roxana Halls

In Unknown Women, Roxana Halls' third solo exhibition for Hay Hill Gallery, the identities of the artist's subjects, as the title suggests, forever elude us.

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• Exhibition of Iraqi Artists
  30 March - 2 May 2015

Sculptures by Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, Anne Tanner, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, Sam Shendi, Giuseppe Linardi and Ruurd Hallema.

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Ala Bashir 'Memories Of Chairs'

Ala Bashir is represented in many national museums worldwide, and won national and international prizes. He is a painter, surgeon and writer. According to Professor Douglas Tallack, former Pro-Vice-Chancellor (International) and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester, “Ala Bashir is, in my view and many others, Iraq’s greatest living artist. That he also has an international reputation as a surgeon is astonishing; as is the fact that he has lived through the upheaval and sheer danger of Iraq’s history, and produced some memorable art.”

The show 'Memories Of Chairs' is an attempt to reflect on:
what makes a child to fight to sit on a particular chair;
why most people prefer to sit on the same chair at home;
what makes chairs of Napoleon, Isaac Newton, Henry The VIII look different than a chair in a waiting room;
whether chair becomes metaphor for identity, home, authority, and security.

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• 2 March - 28 March 2015

Sculptures by Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, Anne Tanner, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, and Sam Shendi.

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Sergey Sologub: 'Island'

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• 20 December 2014 - 28 February 2015

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Group Show
features works by Nicolas Ruston, Victoria Kovalenchikova, Oliver Estavillo, Ilia Petrovic, Eugene Brimmerberg, Penny Crofts, Graham High, Igor Tcholaria, Jacky Tsai, Maurizio Camatta, Olga and Sergey Kamennoy, Marek Dutka, Roger Aslin, Michael Sole, Brian Brooks, Bruce Clark, Diana Armstrong, Jones Keyworth, Peter Blum, Zoe Benbow, Ali Jabbar, Afshin Naghouni, Carlo Mirabasso, Timur D'Vatz, Hani Mazhar, Pancho Malezanov, Robert Bissell, Robert Walsh, Will Martyr, Stanislav Plutenko, Amanda Wigglesworth, Patrick Altes, Tim Benson, Adriana Saavedra, Vadim Markevich, Miki Reimann, Marie Louise Wrightson, and others.

Sculptures by Oleg Prokofiev, Eleanor Cardozo, Nicola Godden, Richard L.Minns, Andy Cheese, Jamie McCartney, Ian Edwards, Gianfranco Meggiato, A.& M. Cacchiarelli Principi, Anne Tanner, David Mayer, Roland Piché, Palolo Valdés, and Sam Shendi.