Above the Valley: A Group Exhibition
Current exhibition
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Overview
This short-running January exhibition occupies the gallery as a temporary pocket of time - a contained space in the heart of London's Fitzrovia that opens outward onto something far larger. Across photography, painting and works on paper, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices circle the idea of landscape in its many registers: seen from afar or at close range, mapped across bodies and objects, or stretched into vast, expressive terrain.
Valleys, mountains, verticals and horizons recur throughout the exhibition, not as fixed motifs but as shifting structures. Landscapes appear as distant vistas and intimate details; as lying forms and standing figures; as buildings overlooking the world, fruit arranged like terrain, or flowing bodies of water and creatures moving through hills and ravines. What connects these works is a shared attention to movement - lines rising and falling, spaces folding inward and outward, perspectives that refuse to settle.
The exhibition spans a wide material and emotional range. Muted, pared-back worlds emerge in the photographic and painterly practices of Tõnis Saadoja and Lee Jeonglok, where restraint and atmosphere invite slow looking. Elsewhere, scale and intensity come to the fore in the expressive, often sublime works of Richard Harrison, where colour, gesture and density push landscape toward something immersive and bodily. Between these poles, the exhibition moves fluidly through stillness and drama, clarity and excess.
Featuring works by Henry Jabbour, Matteo Massagrande, Richard Harrison, Iain Faulkner, Luciano Ventrone, Tõnis Saadoja, Philip Muñoz and Lee Jeonglok, the exhibition brings together C-type prints, oil paintings and mixed-media works on paper. Though varied in approach, the works share a sensitivity to scale - how a single image can hold a sense of vastness, and how landscape can be felt as much as seen.
Running for just two weeks, the exhibition resists permanence. Instead, it offers a brief, concentrated encounter: a moment to step into a contained space and look outward, where lines lead up, down and around, and where landscape becomes a way of thinking about distance, proximity and the act of looking itself.
The exhibition spans a wide material and emotional range. Muted, pared-back worlds emerge in the photographic and painterly practices of Tõnis Saadoja and Lee Jeonglok, where restraint and atmosphere invite slow looking. Elsewhere, scale and intensity come to the fore in the expressive, often sublime works of Richard Harrison, where colour, gesture and density push landscape toward something immersive and bodily. Between these poles, the exhibition moves fluidly through stillness and drama, clarity and excess.
Featuring works by Henry Jabbour, Matteo Massagrande, Richard Harrison, Iain Faulkner, Luciano Ventrone, Tõnis Saadoja, Philip Muñoz and Lee Jeonglok, the exhibition brings together C-type prints, oil paintings and mixed-media works on paper. Though varied in approach, the works share a sensitivity to scale - how a single image can hold a sense of vastness, and how landscape can be felt as much as seen.
Running for just two weeks, the exhibition resists permanence. Instead, it offers a brief, concentrated encounter: a moment to step into a contained space and look outward, where lines lead up, down and around, and where landscape becomes a way of thinking about distance, proximity and the act of looking itself.
Works
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Evening Sky I, 2024Oil on canvas35 x 45 cm
13.8 x 17.7 in -
Evening Sky II, 2024Oil on canvas35 x 45 cm
13.8 x 17.7 in -
Evening Sky III, 2024Oil on canvas35 x 45 cm
13.8 x 17.7 in -
March. Pale Purple, 2022Oil on canvas195 x 150 cm
76.7 x 59 in -
Painting of Norrby Lower Lighthouse (After Photo by Helene Fendt), 2023Oil on canvas248 x 176 cm
97.6 x 69.3 in -
Of Many One, 2025Oil on linen30.5 x 25.4 cm
12 x 10 in -
Paesaggio Dalmata, 2025Oil on board70 x 100 cm
27.6 x 39.4 in -
Cast Adrift, 2025Graphite, Ink, Acrylic & Watercolour on paper49.5 x 63.5 cm
19.5 x 25 in -
Are You Thinking Of Me Now, 2025Graphite, Oil, Acrylic & Watercolour on paper63.5 x 49.5 cm
25 x 19.5 in -
Lying Figure, 2024Graphite, Ink, Acrylic & Gouache on paper55.2 x 67.9 cm
21.8 x 26.8 in -
Loch Etive Morning, 2024Oil on canvas121.9 x 121.9 cm
48 x 48 in -
Natura Morta, 1987Oil on canvas50 x 100 cm
19.5 x 39.5 in -
Symonds Yat, Autumn Colours, 2022Oil on marine plywood50 x 50 cm
19.7 x 19.7 in -
Symonds Yat, Lower Viewpoint, 2022Oil on marine plywood46 x 46 cm
18 x 18 in -
Manuela, 2015Oil on linen130 x 90 cm
51.2 x 35.4 in -
Iceland 08, 2019C-Type Print90 x 120 cm
35.4 x 47.2 in -
Iceland 02, 2019C-Type Print120 x 90 cm
47.2 x 35.4 in
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