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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 »

The internship

Matthew Flowers, London Art Fair, 1989, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

Plaster’s co-founder Milo Astaire reflects fondly on a formative experience at Flowers Gallery. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE, the magazine of Cork Street Galleries… In 2012, I was generously given a three-month internship by gallerist Matthew Flowers. I was a young layabout, but eager to understand the art world. Damien Hirst’s… Read more »

A psychic reading of Cork Street

Spiritual medium Kim Alexis tunes in, joining writer Jacob Wilson and photographer Delphino Productions for an evening perambulate along art’s sacred strip. As part of Plaster magazine’s guest editorship of CATALOGUE, the magazine of Cork Street Galleries… It’s 7 pm on an early September evening and our photographer, Delphino, and I are standing on the… Read more »

Catalogue 7.0: Plaster Runs Riot on Cork Street is out now

Cork Street Galleries is thrilled to announce Plaster Magazine – instantly recognisable for its discerning, humorous editorial approach, becoming a celebrated alternative voice and irreverent force within the art world – as guest editor of CATALOGUE, Cork Street Galleries’ journal for contemporary art. Editorial-led and highly collectible, CATALOGUE is driven by concept, every edition seen… Read more »

Frieze 2024 at Cork Street

John Giorno, DIAL-A-POEM (Push-Button Edition), 1986–2019. © Giorno Poetry System. Courtesy/ Giorno Poetry System and ALMINE RECH

Cork Street Galleries is thrilled to announce its annual Frieze Week programme, highlighting exhibitions, extended opening hours, and special events that will coincide with Frieze London and Frieze Masters, Wednesday 9 – Sunday 13 October 2024. All of the galleries on Cork Street will throw open their doors to welcome the evening crowds of Frieze… Read more »