Exhibitions
A programme of exhibitions curated by Vigo Gallery is on display at Wellington Arch.
The latest exhibition will be announced soon.
Past exhibitions include:
- HOW WE BUILD A HOME, by Lakwena Maciver, a vibrant new exhibition of cardboard and bead paintings.
- Push / Pull, by Lucienne O’Mara and Johnny Abrahams, a joint exhibition of new paintings by artists whose practices negotiate the interplay between control and order.
- Edenism, by Leonhard Hurzlmeier. Drawing from Medieval and Renaissance art, particularly Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Hurzlmeier sees the Eden narrative as a metaphor for humanity's evolution from hunter-gatherer culture to civilisation.
- CRISPR @ 80, by Duncan MacAskill. Duncan MacAskill’s ongoing DNA paintings series which lies at the core of his practice.
- Haraz, by Ibrahim El-Salahi . 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 with the Haraz tree, indigenous to Sudan.
- Prost, by Henry Krokatsis. The exhibition included an installation that transformed the interior space of Wellington Arch. In place of fine hardwoods, Krokatsis’ functional yet subversive remake of the floor used two tonnes of discarded material.
- Invincible Summer, by Erin Lawlor. The exhibition depicted snapshots of windows of time in the studio and come to encapsulate that peculiar life-drive that goes hand in hand with the hardest of times.
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In and Through, by Matthew Burrows. The exhibition included larger scale works by Matthew Burrows, the fruition of his In and Through series which he developed during the COVID pandemic.
- Vertical Planes, by artist Jordy Kerwick. Vertical Planes is a playful reaction to history - or alternate histories - of Wellington Arch and some of the characters immortalised by it.
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Pain Relief, by artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Work on display was created by the Sudanese Oxford-based artist between 2016-2018 from the comfort of an armchair when he refused to let physical restriction limit his ambition.