Threads of Heritage: Celebrating Contemporary African Weaving, Craft & Tapestry is an exhibition of contemporary African weaving, craft, and tapestry by Black Female Entrepreneurs Greenwich made from traditional African fabrics such as Aso-oke, Ankara, and Kente, as well as works utilising raffia, beads, ropes, wool, clay, wood, recycled and upcycled materials.

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EncounterCulture an innovative, experimental project from London based sculpture collective Changeable Beast will take place through September and October 2024, culminating in a week long residency of collaborative making and second week exhibition at the APT Gallery, Deptford.

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This October, NOW Gallery’s critically acclaimed annual photographic exhibition Human Stories returns with a solo exhibition by documentary photographer Inès Elsa Dalal.

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This exhibition will stage the works by four emerging Caribbean artists, based in the region. The premis of the exhibition is to stimulate viewers in thinking about how self portraiture, inherently autobiographical, works visually in a contemporary context through various mediums. It will interrogate ideas around traditional portraiture and illustrate the required slippage from that practise in the use of the self and the body to articulate societal issues in post colonial societies.

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‘The black + white paintings have forced me to be cooler, imposed a limitation upon my work habit and structure; forced me to tighten the visual concept; provided a personal framework of references plus a stamp of originality: THEY SAY WHITTEN.’

— Jack Whitten, 1975

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Seyni Awa Camara (b 1945, Senegal) is an octogenarian sculptor, whose mystical healing figures speak of motherhood, magic and forest spirits.

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Prempeh's latest body of works to be premiered this autumn and in 2025, perceive a magical realist interpretation of ‘home' - a spatial and emotional reckoning of what that means to her as a Londoner, of Caribbean and African heritage, and living between Uganda, East Africa and the UK. Vignettes of domestic interiors, landscapes, family and animal companions are portrayed in this presentation which will feature new painting and a multimedia installation. 

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TAFETA is pleased to present Icon | Twins Seven Seven, the first exhibition from a newly developed curatorial program, focused exclusively on icons of 20th century  African Art. 

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October Gallery presents Forest Figures, a much-anticipated solo exhibition of new works by Alexis Peskine.

French Belgo-Congolese artist Tiffanie Delune (b.1988) debuts her first exhibition at Gallery 1957 London, presenting new paintings and textiles entitled The Geography of Feelings. Accompanied by a specially commissioned text by Jennifer Higgie who visited Delune at her new studio in Montpellier, France over the summer.

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Peer presents a new body of work and first major solo exhibition in a London institution by London-based artist, Onyeka Igwe. Igwe’s work, which comprises video, publishing and installation, is aimed at the question: How do we live together?

For her first solo exhibition in London, Yu Hong presents a series of large-scale new acrylic-on-canvas paintings. Based between Beijing and New York, the artist, who has been described as one of the most important voices of her generation, unveils a selection of poignant and poetic paintings that each explore a distinctive state of mind or consciousness. Inspired by Arnold Böcklin’s Island of the Dead (1880-1901), this suite of paintings expands on the body of work unveiled in Yu Hong’s solo exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah in 2023, and follows her first major exhibition in Europe, where she transformed the Chiesetta della Misericordia in Venice through a series of new works, organised by The Asian Art Initiative of the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

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Discover the intersection of art, local history, and anti-racism at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery in Ealing, West London, with the Southall Resists 2024 exhibition. This powerful showcase features silk paintings and sculptures created by local children through the Young Voices programme, a Southall-based initiative designed to educate young people about their community’s rich and complex history.

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Vigo Gallery and Addis Fine Art are pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Tadesse Mesfin (b. 1953). Featuring works on canvas from the last four years, the presentation takes place across Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa and Vigo Gallery, London.

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Addis Fine Art and Vigo Gallery are pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Tadesse Mesfin (b. 1953). Featuring works on canvas from the last four years, the presentation takes place across Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa (15 September – 30 November, 2024) and Vigo Gallery, London (20 September – 4 October, 2024). 

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Felix & Spear are pleased to present ’JOIE DE VIVRE’, an exhibition of paintings and works on paper by Paul Dash (b. 1946).

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October Gallery presents Forest Figures, a much-anticipated solo exhibition of new works by Alexis Peskine.

Rana Begum’s new Louvre series explores how different materials interact with light and considers texture, density, reflection and transparency. Uniform panels of glass, stone and metal are tilted and repeated to create suspended and wall-based works.

Family Album is a solo exhibition by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The artist’s sixth solo show with the gallery brings together new and historical works, highlighting a key arc of exploration in Locke’s practice — the iconography of royalty.

Larkin Durey is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Lavar Munroe. This is the artist’s tenth solo show with the gallery.

Lavar Munroe works in the spirit of an anthropologist, studying the human condition via intensive, immersive travels across the African continent and a similar sense of discovery in his studio. His work attests to the power of storytelling, folklore, fable and community, illuminating the threads that weave us together across culture, time and geography, and spark our collective imagination.

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