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Xanthe Somers & Yacout Hamdouch: Poetic Threads | Spotlight James Barnor

2 Jul-15 Aug 2026
PV 1 Jul 2026 6-8.30pm

Upcoming

Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: James Barnor in conversation with Eleri Fanshawe
25 Jul 2026, 3-4.30pm

Past

Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Yacout Hamdouch in conversation with Eleri Fanshawe
4 Jul 2026
Talks & Events
Sokari Douglas Camp in Conversation with Melanie Vandenbrouck
6 Jun 2026
Exhibition
Sokari Douglas Camp: Fashion and Fortune
21 May-27 Jun 2026
Exhibition
Inheriting the Future
16 Apr-16 May 2026
Talks & Events
Joji Hirota and The London Taiko Drummers
20 Mar 2026
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Kenji Yoshida: Joe Nickols & Gerard Houghton in Conversation
7 Mar 2026
Exhibition
Kenji Yoshida: The Meaning of Life
5 Mar-11 Apr 2026
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Lineages at October Gallery, London
31 Jan 2026
Exhibition
Lineages
29 Jan-28 Feb 2026
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Govinda Sah
17 Jan 2026
2025
Exhibition
Govinda Sah 'Azad': Journey to the Heart of Light
4 Dec 2025-24 Jan 2026
Exhibition
El Anatsui: 'Go Back and Pick'
9 Oct-29 Nov 2025
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk. Freedom Rising: The Art of Owusu-Ankomah
13 Sep 2025
Exhibition
Freedom Rising: The Art of Owusu-Ankomah
4 Sep-4 Oct 2025
Exhibition
Education Exhibition. Beyond the Weave: Crafting Tradition, Sparking Play
30 Jul-2 Aug 2025
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Aubrey Williams: Dr. Hew Locke OBE RA, Dr. Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani and Dr. Indie Choudhury
29 May 2025
Exhibition
Aubrey Williams: Elemental Force
22 May-26 Jul 2025
Exhibition
Transvangarde: Luminous Matter
10 Apr-17 May 2025
Talks & Events
Film Screening. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Q&A with director Yony Leyser
29 Mar 2025
Talks & Events
The Art of William S. Burroughs: Andrew Wilson and Barry Miles in conversation
22 Mar 2025
Talks & Events
William S. Burroughs. Film Screening: Naked Lunch
21 Mar 2025
Talks & Events
BURROUGHS THE MOVIE + Q&A with Aaron Brookner at October Gallery, London
15 Mar 2025
Talks & Events
William S. Burrough: Oliver Harris and Kathelin Gray in conversation
8 Mar 2025
Exhibition
William S. Burroughs
6 Mar-5 Apr 2025
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Artists Xanthe Somers, Gaia Ozwyn in conversation with Curator Eleri Fanshawe
1 Feb 2025
Exhibition
Material Sensibilities
30 Jan-1 Mar 2025
2024
Exhibition
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Nature Morte
14 Nov 2024-25 Jan 2025
Exhibition
Alexis Peskine: Forest Figures
3 Oct-9 Nov 2024
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk. The Artist as Curator: The Curator as Artist
21 Sep 2024
Exhibition
Vital Force
5 Sep-28 Sep 2024
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Ablade Glover in conversation with Chili Hawes.
6 Jul 2024
Exhibition
Inner Worlds, Outer Journeys: Ablade Glover at 90
4 Jul-3 Aug 2024
Talks & Events
Artists Theresa Weber & Matheus Marques Abu in conversation with Curator Eleri Fanshawe
1 Jun 2024
Exhibition
Emergent Energies
30 May-29 Jun 2024
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: LR Vandy in conversation with Elisabeth Lalouschek
27 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Film Screening: Koraïchi: Tu manques même à mon ombre. Director: Laurent Boullard.
6 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Rachid Koraïchi: Celestial Blue. The Artist in Conversation with Gerard Houghton
9 Mar 2024
Talks & Events
Film Screening: Koraïchi: Tu manques même à mon ombre. Director: Laurent Boullard.
9 Mar 2024
Exhibition
Rachid Koraïchi: Celestial Blue
7 Mar-13 Apr 2024
Talks & Events
Transvangarde: Time Capsule
20 Jan 2024
Exhibition
Transvangarde: Free Style Cipher
18 Jan-2 Mar 2024
2023
Talks & Events
Family Art Day
9 Dec 2023
Exhibition
El Anatsui: TimeSpace
11 Oct 2023-13 Jan 2024
Talks & Events
Zana Masombuka in Conversation with Harold Offeh
16 Sep 2023
Exhibition
Zana Masombuka: Nges’rhodlweni: A Portal for Black Joy
5 Sep-30 Sep 2023
Talks & Events
Ecological Envisioning: Aubrey Williams, Ecology and the Artistic Lens
18 Jul 2023
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk | Aubrey Williams: Imruh Bakari and Dr Ian Dudley in conversation
1 Jul 2023
Exhibition
Aubrey Williams: Future Conscious
15 Jun-29 Jul 2023
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk | Golnaz Fathi in Conversation with Sussan Babaie, Professor of Islamic and Iranian Arts, The Courtauld Institute of Art.
29 Apr 2023
Exhibition
Golnaz Fathi: No rain will put out this fire
27 Apr-10 Jun 2023
Talks & Events
John Kenny: The Mouthpiece of the Gods
31 Mar 2023
Talks & Events
Jukhee Kwon in conversation with Gerard Houghton, Director of Special Projects
18 Mar 2023
Exhibition
Jukhee Kwon: Liberated
16 Mar-22 Apr 2023
Talks & Events
Sokari Douglas Camp CBE in Conversation: Presumption of the Possible!
3 Feb 2023
Exhibition
Transvangarde: Pushing Boundaries
2 Feb-11 Mar 2023
2022
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Govinda Sah 'Azad' in conversation with Gerard Houghton.
3 Dec 2022
Exhibition
Govinda Sah 'Azad': Absent Presence
1 Dec 2022-28 Jan 2023
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Romuald Hazoumè in Conversation with Gerard Houghton
15 Oct 2022
Exhibition
Romuald Hazoumè: Carnaval
6 Oct-26 Nov 2022
Exhibition
In the Light
8 Sep-1 Oct 2022
Exhibition (online)
Rock, Paper, Scissors
27 Jul-30 Jul 2022
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk: Sokari Douglas Camp CBE
18 Jun 2022
Exhibition
Sokari Douglas Camp CBE: Jonkonnu - Masquerade
16 Jun-23 Jul 2022
Exhibition
Nomadic Resonance
5 May-11 Jun 2022
Exhibition
Aubrey Williams: Sunphase: Works on Paper
17 Mar-30 Apr 2022
Exhibition
Expanding Horizons
3 Feb-12 Mar 2022
2021
Exhibition
Jordan Ann Craig: Your Wildest Dreams
2 Dec 2021-29 Jan 2022
Talks & Events
Gallery Talk - Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Ghost of the Present
16 Oct 2021
Exhibition
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga: Ghost of the Present
13 Oct-27 Nov 2021
Exhibition
Benji Reid: Laugh at Gravity
3 Sep-9 Oct 2021
Exhibition
Rafael Trelles : Axis Mundi
17 Jun-24 Jul 2021
Exhibition
Rachid Koraïchi : Tears that Taste of the Sea
13 Apr-12 Jun 2021
2020
Exhibition
Alexis Peskine : Fire Figures
2 Oct 2020-16 Jan 2021
Exhibition
Tian Wei
3 Sep-26 Sep 2020
Exhibition
Focus on El Anatsui
15 Jul-8 Aug 2020
Exhibition
William S. Burroughs as seen at Frieze 2020
24 Jun-11 Jul 2020
Exhibition
Benji Reid
1 Apr-30 Apr 2020
Exhibition
Gallery activity during coronavirus
1 Mar-1 May 2020
Exhibition
Atmospheres
6 Feb-28 Mar 2020
2019
Exhibition
Portal II : Inside the Cordillera
28 Nov 2019-1 Feb 2020
Exhibition
Life Through Extraordinary Mirrors
12 Sep-23 Nov 2019
Exhibition
Summer Closure
4 Aug-11 Sep 2019
Exhibition
Ablade Glover : Wogbe Jeke – We Have Come a Long Way
4 Jul-3 Aug 2019
Exhibition
LR Vandy: Hidden
1 Jun 2019
Exhibition
LR Vandy: Hidden
30 May-29 Jun 2019
Exhibition
October Gallery at 40
11 Apr-25 May 2019
Exhibition
El Anatsui: Material Wonder
28 Feb-6 Apr 2019
Exhibition
Present Moment
24 Jan-23 Feb 2019
2018
Exhibition
Tian Wei
1 Nov 2018-19 Jan 2019
Exhibition
Aubrey Williams
13 Sep-27 Oct 2018
Exhibition
Rachid Koraïchi
21 Jun-28 Jul 2018
Exhibition
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
10 May-15 Jun 2018
Exhibition
Portal
8 Mar-5 May 2018
Exhibition
Transvangarde
1 Feb-3 Mar 2018
2017
Exhibition
Hassan Massoudy : Breath, Gesture and Light
7 Dec 2017-27 Jan 2018
Exhibition
Nnenna Okore : Ụkwa Ruo Oge Ya Ọ Da – There’s a time for
26 Oct-2 Dec 2017
Exhibition
Alexis Peskine : Power Figures
13 Sep-21 Oct 2017
Exhibition
Naomi Wanjiku Gakunga : Tushauriane - Let's Talk about it
18 May-29 Jul 2017
Exhibition
Benchmarks : New Prints by El Anatsui
6 Apr-13 May 2017
Exhibition
TRANSVANGARDE 2017
2 Feb-1 Apr 2017
2016
Exhibition
Sylvie Franquet : reMembering
1 Dec 2016-28 Jan 2017
Exhibition
Romuald Hazoumè : All in the Same Boat
7 Oct-26 Nov 2016
Exhibition
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
30 Jun-30 Jul 2016
Exhibition
Govinda Sah
11 Jun 2016
Exhibition
Govinda Sah : Azad
19 May-25 Jun 2016
Exhibition
Sokari Douglas Camp : Primavera
7 Apr-14 May 2016
Exhibition
El Anatsui : New Works
4 Feb-2 Apr 2016
2015
Exhibition
Gerald Wilde : From the Abyss
27 Nov 2015-30 Jan 2016
Exhibition
Aubrey Williams : Realm of the Sun
8 Oct-21 Nov 2015
Exhibition
Brion Gysin : Unseen Collaborator
2 Jul-3 Oct 2015
Exhibition
Wang Huangsheng : Unbroken Line
14 May-20 Jun 2015
Exhibition
Kenji Yoshida : Infinite Light
2 Apr-9 May 2015
Exhibition
El Anatsui
12 Feb-28 Mar 2015
Exhibition
BARRY MILES : CUT-UPS AS A REVOLUTIONARY WEAPON
7 Feb 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
CLOSE TO MY HEART : WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
31 Jan 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE & KATHELIN GRAY
24 Jan 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
An Evening with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
23 Jan 2015-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
MINUTES TO GO AND YEARS APART : LILIANE LIJN & TONY WHITE
17 Jan 2015-1 Jan 2000
2014
Exhibition
William S. Burroughs : "Can you all hear me?"
4 Dec 2014-7 Feb 2015
Exhibition
Interwoven Histories
30 Oct-29 Nov 2014
Exhibition
Arthur I. Miller : COLLIDING WORLDS
25 Oct 2014-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Owusu-Ankomah
20 Sep 2014-1 Jan 2000
Exhibition
Owusu-Ankomah : MICROCRON BEGINS
18 Sep-29 Oct 2014

Artists represented

Ablade Glover

Ghanaian, b. 1934

Yacout Hamdouch

Moroccan, b. 1994

Govinda Sah

Nepalese, b. 1974

LR Vandy

British, b. 1958

Artists shown

El Anatsui

Ghanaian, b. 1944

James Barnor

Ghanaian, b. 1929

William S. Burroughs

American, 1914-1997

Jordan Ann Craig

Sokari Douglas Camp

Nigerian, b. 1958

Golnaz Fathi

Iranian, b. 1972

Brion Gysin

American, 1916-1986

Romuald Hazoumé

b. 1962

Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga

Citizen of The Democratic Republic of the Congo, b. 1991

Eddy Kamuanga

Citizen of The Democratic Republic of the Congo, b. Ilunga

Susanne Kessler

b. 1955

Rachid Koraïchi

Algerian, b. 1947

Jukhee Kwon

South Korean, b. 1981

Zana Masombuka

South African, b. 1995

Owusu-Ankomah

b. 1956

Alexis Peskine

French, b. 1979

Benji Reid

British, b. 1966

LR Vandy

British, b. 1958

Theresa Weber

German, b. 1996

Tian Wei

Chinese, b. 1955

Gerald Wilde

British, b. 1200

Aubrey Williams

Guyanese, 1926-1990

Kenji Yoshida

Japanese, 1924-2009

Xu Zhongmin

Chinese, b. 1961

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