Lionel Smit: Faces of Identity at Everard Read London, 24 February - 25 March

This exhibition comes to Everard Read London following Lionel Smit’s acclaimed solo exhibition at the Didrichsen Art Museum in Helsinki where it was seen by more than 10 000 visitors.

Faces of Identity is a powerful body of work that explores themes of identity through portraiture on canvas and bronze deconstructions. With its ubiquity but also its uniqueness, the human face offers an endless source of study. Smit’s work accentuates facial characteristics through bold swathes of colour and brush techniques, highly-textured bronzes and vivid patinas which result in the arresting work, often of monumental proportions, for which he is renowned.

Watch a short film of the artist in the studio here.

Franta, on the occasion of his solo exhibition Franta: Le Temps d’une Oeuvre in Venice, is featured, with images and a video, on France Info

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Everard Read London opened southern abstraction, a group exhibition, on 20 January 2017. Participating artists include Ricky Burnett, Galia Gluckman, Liza Grobler, Syndi Kahn, Vusi Khumalo, Bronwyn Lace, Richard Penn, Lyndi Sales, Penelope Stutterheime, Andrzej Urbanski and Philippe Uzac.

My aim is to visually grasp the studio and its contents which are predominantly static, over time, so that the slow infusion of the presence of the working artist, through light and movement, impregnates the photographic image with a tangible presence and energy which cannot be seen, but definitely felt. 

   - Laura Ellenberger

Kilmany-Jo Liversage, on the occasion of her mural for Hyde Park Nando's (South Africa), is the subject of a feature one Hyde Park Herald

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Our newest gallery in the Everard Read group - CIRCA, Cape Town - opened in November 2016 in a refurbished heritage building overlooking the V&A Waterfront, with inaugural exhibitions by Beezy Bailey and Liberty Battson.

The Bowie/Collector sale at Sotheby's on Friday 11 November 2016 saw Norman Catherine achieve a new record for the sale of his work at auction. Catherine, who is represented by Everard Read Galleries, had three works included in David Bowie's private collection on sale. Both 'Fanagalo Store' and 'Cat Man' significantly exceeded their estimates.

View the catalogue here.

Nigel Mullis: 21st Century Talismans and Caryn Scrimgeour: Postcards from China at Everard Read London are highlighted in a round up on The South African

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Deborah Belll , leading South African artist represented by Everard Read discusses her new body of work for her forthcoming exhibition - Return of the Gods - at Everard Read Gallery London. Here we find Bell, a long time collaborator with South African legends Robert Hodgins and William Kentridge, at her most introspective best, contemplating what it is to practice art in a far flung corner of South Africa as an outsider from the global often circuitous and incestuous art dialogue which allows her to bring her own unique vision to the conversation.

Everard Read|CIRCA Galleries are pleased to announce that artist Beth Diane Armstrong has won the 2017 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for visual art. Armstrong follows in the footsteps of William Kentridge, who won the Visual Arts category in 1987, and Brett Murray in 2002.