Past
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Johnny Abrahams / Lucienne O'Mara: Push / Pull
16 May - 28 September 2025 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is pleased to announce Push / Pull , a joint exhibition of new paintings by Lucienne O’Mara and Johnny Abrahams . Push / Pull brings together two London-based artists whose practices negotiate the interplay between control and order. United by a shared understanding of the primacy of the... Read more -
Leonhard Hurzlmeier: Edenism
24 January - 16 April 2025 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Edenism at Wellington Arch, Leonhard Hurzlmeier 's second exhibition with the gallery. Concurrently we will show his masterpiece Women at the Well at Mason's Yard painted from 2015 - 2018 and shown in the UK for the first time. In Edenism , Hurzlmeier investigates... Read more -
Duncan MacAskill @ 80 : CRISPR
7 November 2024 - 19 January 2025 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is proud to present CRISPR - Duncan MacAskill ’s fourth solo show with the gallery, in celebration of his eightieth birthday. The exhibition presents works predominantly from 2019 to the present day taken from his ongoing DNA Paintings series that lies at the core of his practice. CRISPR... Read more -
Ibrahim El-Salahi: Haraz
7 June - 27 October 2024 Wellington Arch As a ten-year celebration of our inaugural exhibition with Ibrahim El-Salahi , Vigo Gallery presents Haraz. Comprised of works from both El-Salahi's celebrated Tree series, many of which featured in his 2013 Tate Modern retrospective, and more recent Pain Relief works on paper and canvas, the exhibition reflects El-Salahi’s fascination... Read more -
Henry Krokatsis: Prost*
26 April - 2 June 2024 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is delighted to present Prost*, a solo exhibition by British artist Henry Krokatsis . This year-long installation transforms the interior space of Wellington Arch, creating a functional yet subversive replacement for the existing floor. Although based on the Waterloo Gallery’s intricate border parquet pattern in Wellington’s former residence... Read more -
James Drinkwater: Somewhere Between The Sea and The Table
9 February - 21 April 2024 Wellington Arch Wellington Arch Private View: Thursday 8 February, 6-8pm 9 February – 21 April 2024 Somewhere Between The Sea and The Table is James Drinkwater ’s first solo exhibition with Vigo Gallery. It will be presented in the Quadriga Galleries of Wellington Arch Museum in partnership with Apsley House and English... Read more -
Samuel Bassett: The Birds
24 November 2023 - 4 February 2024 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery is delighted to present The Birds , a solo exhibition of new paintings by Samuel Bassett (b. 1982, St Ives). Living in a small, rural community in Penwith, near Penzance in Cornwall, Bassett’s work is intensely personal. The paintings reflect and document his multi-layered, psychological, and physical experiences... Read more -
Xavier Baxter: Angel Halloween
22 September - 12 November 2023 Wellington Arch Vigo is proud to announce our first show with Xavier Baxter in the Quadriga Galleries at Wellington Arch from 22nd September to 12th November 2023. Xavier Baxter aka Bob Baxter was born into a multigenerational family of artists, with his maternal grandparents and parents marking their time on earth in... Read more -
Matthew Collings: Alternative Art History
21 June - 17 September 2023 Wellington Arch Matthew Collings ’ first solo exhibition with Vigo showcases the paintings and drawings he has been doing over the last three years, selling, to a public already conditioned to respect art, an idea of it as radical subjectivity. Beauty exists. Realistic picturing exists. Colour exists. Narrative exists. They’re all real.... Read more -
Henrik Godsk: Humans and Creatures
24 March - 11 June 2023 Wellington Arch Henrik Godsk (b. 1975, Hjørring) is of seventh generation travelling heritage, having grown up among the world of his family’s funfair in Denmark and Norway. His practice reflects pride in his upbringing and cultural identity, fusing folkloric and high art, using portraits and ‘creatures’ as vessels for his exploration of... Read more -
Erin Lawlor: Invincible Summer
11 January - 19 March 2023 Wellington Arch Wellington Arch This January, Vigo gallery will present an exhibition of new paintings by Erin Lawlor (b. 1969) at the Wellington Arch Museum. Lawlor will be the first woman to exhibit at this historic location steeped in male-dominated, wartime legacy. 'There is something very fitting to me in the very... Read more -
MATTHEW BURROWS: IN AND THROUGH
2 November 2022 - 8 January 2023 Wellington Arch The paintings of Matthew Burrows explore a coalescence between stillness and movement. Work from the In and Through series has a preoccupation with watchfulness and the lines that delineate the landscape and our physiology. Burrows speaks of his work as an internal vigilance for place, creating images that meditate on... Read more -
IBRAHIM EL-SALAHI: PAIN RELIEF
23 June - 30 October 2022 Wellington Arch When 91-year-old Ibrahim El-Salahi is drawing he gets lost in work and has temporary respite from his sciatica and chronic back pain. The ‘Godfather of African Modernism’ says it’s the only time he really has relief from the pain. Between 2016-2018 Sudanese Oxford-based artist created an extraordinary body of work... Read more -
JORDY KERWICK: VERTICAL PLANES
6 April - 29 May 2022 Wellington Arch Vigo Gallery in partnership with English Heritage presents Vertical Planes by Jordy Kerwick . The exhibition comprises a new group of Kerwick’s distinctly bold, graphic and colourful paintings. Executed in oil, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, the works are playful in style, redolent of the exuberance and carefree qualities... Read more -
DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB: THE CONSEQUENCES OF PLAY
Wellington Arch, London 30 June 2021 - 13 May 2022 Wellington Arch ESSAY BY MATTHEW COLLINGS DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE HERE Vigo, in partnership with English Heritage, is proud to present The Consequences of Play , a series of six epic paintings by British artist Daniel Crews-Chubb relating to Wellington Arch, Apsley House and its environs and inspired by Peter Paul Rubens’ painting The... Read more
