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Art Advisor, Art Curator and Art Club Events Organiser- helping my clients discover, source, renew & experience art.

On the Chisenhale Gallery Advisory Board, amazing not for profit in London that launched 26 Turner Prize Nominees and 4 TP winners.

28/09/2026

What I love about humans: creating something out of nothing. ✨

The V&A has never had a Global Africa Acquisition Committee, that is, until this year.

Did you know that Global African objects make up just 0.4% of the V&A’s collection?

Well, the V&A is doing something about it. This new, incredible group, led by Madeleine Haddon Dr Madeleine Haddon and Gus Casely-Hayford, helps ensure the collection is diversified into Africa and its Diaspora, with key modern and contemporary works. A new space to discuss the relationship between Global Africa and Britain 🌟

The donations from members of the committee go entirely to acquiring works from global Africa. Let me know if you’d like more details.

This all heralds a fab evening at V&A East tomorrow night: with an introduction to the Acquisition Group and a private view of the Museum’s inaugural exhibition, The Music Is Black: A British Story.

Looking forward to seeing you all there M_C_R izeidemudia 💚💚

Victoria and Albert Museum

25/09/2026

Last night at Antony Gormley’s studio with my Chisenhale Gallery family and so many supporters. Antony — one of the founding fathers of Chisenhale in case you didn’t know — spoke powerfully about how pivotal CG had been for him as a young artist, with his studio above the gallery, and how important Chisenhale remains today in launching the careers of young artists. He thanked every single supporter from the heart, and generously opened up his studio to us all. No photos allowed as you can imagine but oh boy was it an Aladdin’s cave of glorious Gormley bodies in all their disparate forms, whether made of sticks and rods, blocks or boards, either hanging from the ceiling 20 meters high ready for collection, or on the warehouse floor in the middle of construction. Then, a room of maquettes, including for the unmistakable Royal Academy Summer Exhibition cardboard work, and many more. All of which to confirm that the zeitgeist is with Chisenhale — not least with the incredible roster of artists coming up this year and in 2027, including you, Deborah-Joyce Holman! Loved seeing you and Flavia Nespatti ❤️

24/09/2026

Huge thanks to British Art Fair Fair and for touring us around the fair this morning before the doors opened to the public. A real trip back to the 20th century with Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, David Hockney, Patrick Heron, Lowry, William Turnbull, Anne Saïd, Felicity Powell, and so much more. Thank you so much for an enlightening morning.
The British Art Fair (at Saatchi Gallery, London) runs 24–27 September 2026.

18/09/2026

In Grenoble for a few days, my hometown, where we have a little chunk of Paris’s Universal Exhibtion of 1900. Le Magasin, Centre national d’art contemporain is a hall I love, built in the ateliers of Gustave Eiffel, and transformed into an art centre in the 1980s. It’s had shows of all sorts, including Anish Kapoor and is currently showing 𝘿𝙚̀𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣-𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙩 with works by a local artist Adrien Fregosi, who sadly recently passed away from cancer aged 44, with 12 other artists. A place to visit if you happen to be in the Alps✨Sophie Guerrive 🐻 DELPHINE REIST DELPHINE REIST 𝑺𝑼𝑳𝑻𝑨𝑵𝑨 DCA Ministère de la Culture 🇫🇷 Ville de Grenoble Isère le Département

14/09/2026

Our talented Spirit Now London friend Catherine Wingfield | Fine Art Photographer opens her new exhibition The Dreams of Lioness Blixen in Mayfair galleryeight this week — 14 to 18 September. Catherine’s photography is seeped in the celebration and the beauty of nature.

I love how her lens conjures up beautiful other worldly abstracts, which you slowly realise are the crust of our own beautiful planet Earth. We were blind and now we see✨

01/09/2026

And that’s a wrap on summer✨

Nicaraguan volcanoes, treks across France and Scotland, fab parties and friends, lots of reeling, plus even tried trapeze of all things. The hardest physical art form in the world. I am in absolute awe of anyone who can do this..

Back to work this week, with a lot of exciting things in the pipeline. Watch this space✨

18/08/2026

Back online after a few weeks off-grid, travelling through France 🇫🇷 This is the Gare de Limoges-Bénédictins — voted France’s Most Beautiful Station in 2022. Built 1925–29 by architect Roger Gonthier, it’s a Monument Historique and carries the “Patrimoine du XXe siècle” label for outstanding 20th-century architecture — a mix of Art Nouveau and Art Deco crowned by a soaring dome, with stained glass by Francis Chigot and sculpture by Henri Varenne.

The four allegorical women looking down over the hall — Le Limousin, La Bretagne, La Gascogne, La Touraine — represent the regions once served by the old Paris-Orléans railway line.

22/07/2026

Fabulous evening. Many thanks to White Cube for hosting our group last night for an exclusive tour of Tarwuk- the Croatian-American husband and wife duo and their densely layered, poetic and symbiotic paintings. Personal mythology, rich tapestry of colour and beauty, all seeped in art history. Love that their bright orange colour was bequeathed to them by the famous painter Ron Gorshov.
Their works are already in the Met Museum amongst many other notable institutions, and this is their very first show at White Cube. Going up fast. Loved doing this with you Mairead Murray

White Cube Mason’s Yard, St James’s, London 9 July – 15 August 2026

02/07/2026

Belated thanks to M_C_R amd Ize for hosting a wonderful evening Lisson- a reception for American museum and curator friends in town from Basel and Paris 🤍 So lovely to join and catch up with everyone — pictured here in front of one of Anish Kapoor’s extraordinary mirrored works.

26/06/2026

Fantastic closing evening last night capitalgroup. So great to see you there Gemma Rolls-Bentley 💕 Thank you to all our artists for making it such a special and record-breaking 2026 show 🙏🙏We’ve now made it into the biggest corporate Pride show in the UK no less 🎉Massive hats off to Julie Dickson who trailblazed it from the start, and to Capital Group for allowing me to push them to make it bigger and better every year. I am now lobbying like the clappers to have a fully public opening next year.. so watch this space .. 🌈 ❤️💛💚💙💜

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