Ekun Richard has created a playlist to accompany his solo show, Say Your Words to the Sun, at Francis Gallery.

For his first solo show at Francis Gallery, titled Resonant Line, London-based artist Liam Stevens creates a sense of rhythm with repeated lines and forms, while drawing equal attention to the negative space around them. Featuring layered pigment washes with pencil on canvas, constructed reliefs, and a selection of drawing studies, his work is inspired by the repeating structures he identifies in natural and urban landscapes, as well as his connection to music, which often takes a visual form. In his canvas compositions, subtle vertical grids act as a regular tempo, while groups of horizontal lines create a sense of movement, progressively stepping out of phase with the grid.

Liam Stevens has created a playlist to accompany his solo show, Resonant Line, at Francis Gallery.

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK, and the theme this year is kindness. To support the cause, Francis Gallery is holding a two-week print sale, offering free worldwide shipping via DHL on our limited edition prints from 19 May – 2 June 2020, and donating 50% of proceeds to UK charity, Mind.

Spencer Fung is exhibiting a new show, titled Seed of Hope, at Bamford Barn in Gloucestershire and the Bamford shop in Mayfair, with dates to be released soon. The show features works in clay and graphite, hand-stitched collages, and botanical samples collected by Fung on his walks through nature. The show, commissioned by Carole Bamford, coincides with a front cover feature in the second volume of Seed.

Rosemarie Auberson has collaborated with ceramic artist Juliette Teste to produce a collection of ceramic pieces titled Passe Avant Minuit, exhibited at 0fr Gallery, Paris in November 2019. Adopting a mindset of open experimentation, free from any imposed direction or meaning, the partnership resulted in a playful process of creation, with Auberson painting on the ceramic forms created by Teste.

We are pleased to announce the representation of London-based artist, Liam Stevens. His solo exhibition at Francis Gallery will launch digitally next month.

Northover created this work in response to its location - a modernist house in Texas near the Mexican border - amidst the conversations about building a wall between the US and Mexico. The installation explores positioning and the weight of placement, as it defines borders both visible and invisible. The rocks, collected from the surrounding landscape, hold the knowledge of millennia; positioned against the modernist structure of the house, between light and dark, they describe the tension between oppositions.

Francis Gallery artist Jean-Baptiste Besançon is participating in a group exhibition titled, Silence Is So Accurate, at Geukens & De Vil in Antwerp, Belgium. Curated by Lien Craps and dedicated to Leonarrd D'Hondt, her grandfather for whom silence brought relief after a long and brave fight, this exhibition includes works from artists Matthew Allen, Anna-Eva Bergman, Lucia Bru, Francesco De Preszzo, Marco De Sanctis, Ayan Farah, Matthew Feyld, Per Kesselmar, Nika Neelova, Benjamin Sabatier, Günterr Umberg, Pieter Vermeerrsch, Christoph Weber, and John Zurier.

A portrait of artist Romy Northover, captured during her time at Santa Clara 1728 in Lisbon, Portugal.