PRESS RELEASE
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | Summer 2025
Jul 9 – Sep 30, 2025
10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | SUMMER 2025
9 July – 30 August 2025
March 2016 marked the official opening of the first international home for Everard Read gallery’s artists and a commitment to bringing their work to the receptive and cosmopolitan audience that London offers. The city’s stature as a crossroads for art and culture endures, and over the past decade, Everard Read London has become part of the fabric of the leafy borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
For this 10th anniversary exhibition, Everard Read London has curated a collection of artworks which represent the gallery’s dynamic identity as well as the vibrant and complex art-making community that is South Africa. It includes a rich diversity of paintings and sculptures, by leading contemporary artists - some of whom the gallery has represented for many decades - as well as emerging, younger creatives.
The gallery is proud to represent an impressive stable of primarily South African artists, with diverse backgrounds, who have an authentic and considered practice and who share a commitment to contemporary story-telling and craft.
Whether meditating on everyday aspects of being human, or the big philosophical ideas of our time, Everard Read supports its artists in creating contemporary icons that help to discern meaning in the world, as well as encourage reflection, contemplation, wonder, awe – and humour.
Established in Johannesburg in 1913, the Everard Read galleries present world-class exhibition programmes, supported by the depth of knowledge accumulated over decades. Today we boast seven distinct galleries across four locations – London, Cape Town, Franschhoek and Johannesburg – shaped to accommodate the breadth of our artists’ creations and envisaged as oases for the communities they serve.
