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Catalogue 8.0: Fear Gives Wings to Courage is out now

‘It is sacrosanct that art remain truly free, and we can travel with it – or let others do so.’ – Dean Mayo Davies, Editor-in-Chief, CATALOGUE. The new edition of CATALOGUE, the journal for contemporary art published by Cork Street Galleries is 100 years in the making.   DOWNLOAD HERE   In 1925, Freddie Mayor… Read more »

Frieze 2025 at Cork Street

Cork Street Galleries is thrilled to announce its annual Frieze week programme, highlighting exhibitions, extended opening hours, and special events that will take place on the Mayfair street during Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Wednesday 15 – Sunday 19 October 2025. As part of the celebrations, CATALOGUE will launch its special issue, ‘Fear Gives Wings… Read more »

Cork Street Banners Commission 2025, ‘Fear Gives Wings to Courage’, in collaboration with Tarini Malik, Courtesy Cork Street Galleries and The Pollen Estate.

Cork Street Banners Commission 2025, 'Fear Gives Wings to Courage', in collaboration with Tarini Malik, Courtesy Cork Street Galleries and The Pollen Estate.

Marking 100 years of Cork Street – where the Neo Naturists once tumbled naked over Rolls-Royce bonnets; where the Grey Organisation rendered gallery windows opaque with a specific shade of paint; where Robert Fraser remains beloved as a star gallerist; Peter Blake holds the achievement of longest-represented artist, and where Peggy Guggenheim simply started it… Read more »

London Gallery Weekend 2025 at Cork Street Galleries

London Gallery Weekend, the world’s largest event of its kind and unique among global gallery weekend events in the breadth and diversity of its participating galleries, arrives to the beat of meteorological summer. City-wide over 6 – 8 June 2025, art makes its case for the flâneur, uniting to propose a series of routes and… Read more »

Transavanguardia, seeds and stone: spring 2025 at Cork Street Galleries

Recreation of Eric Tucker's front room studio at Erick Tucker: At Home, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, 2022

Cork Street Galleries is pleased to announce its programme for the spring 2025 season. The street’s permanent roster of galleries – including Frieze No.9 Cork Street, Alison Jacques, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, Goodman Gallery, Holtermann Fine Art, MASSIMODECARLO, Messums London, Nahmad Projects, The Redfern Gallery, Stephen Friedman, Tiwani Contemporary and Waddington Custot – together present… Read more »

Dominique Fung’s surreal blend of opulence and objectification

Dominique Fung photographed in her Brooklyn studio by David Spence

Harriet-Lloyd Smith discovers that in the painted world of Dominique Fung, not all is as it seems. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE, the magazine of Cork Street Galleries… The Nepenthes is a majestic plant. Its leaf formations look like smooth, bulbous ceramic vessels with a sensual, feminine shape. Its colours are… Read more »

Caroline Coon’s Rejection Letter

Caroline Coon. Photo by Caroline Coon. Courtesy of Caroline Coon and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and New York

How does a Punk legend like Caroline Coon deal with rejection? Harriet Lloyd-Smith speaks to the artist to find out. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE, the magazine of Cork Street Galleries… Few icons seem more unrejectable than Caroline Coon. Her 60-year career has been filled with rebellion, creative variety and tireless… Read more »

Emma Prempeh wants you to feel what you can’t touch

Emma Prempeh photographed in her Forest Hill studio by Milly Cope

Prempeh’s paintings are troves of nostalgia, identity and matriarchal strength, as Izzy Bilkus finds when she visits the artist’s South East London studio. ‘Belonging In-Between’, Prempeh’s show at Tiwani Contemporary‘s Lagos gallery runs 6 March – 24 May 2025, works from which can be seen here. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE,… Read more »

The commute

Alison Jacques photographed by Sophie Davidson, 2023

Laurie Barron joins gallerist Alison Jacques on her morning commute from Primrose Hill to Cork Street. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE, the magazine of Cork Street Galleries… On a crisp autumn morning, London’s Primrose Hill is one of the most picturesque spots to start the day, with panoramic views of London’s… Read more »

And you are?

Jazmin Bolanos and Norma Cajas, cleaners for Waddington Custot. Photography: Kyle Crooks

To get a sense of the daily cycle of life in London’s gallery heartlands, Plaster pull back the curtain and spotlight the people and jobs that make Cork Street tick, photographed by Kyle Crooks. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE, the magazine of Cork Street Galleries… It takes a lot to run… Read more »