Hales Gallery

Hales Gallery Contemporary art, est. 1992
London / New York

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Thursday - Saturday, 11am-6pm
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7 Bethnal Green Road
E1 6LA, London, UK
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547 West 20th Street
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Sunil Gupta receives MBE🔗Link in bio to learn more.Hales congratulates Sunil Gupta on being awarded a MBE for Services t...
13/06/2026

Sunil Gupta receives MBE

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Hales congratulates Sunil Gupta on being awarded a MBE for Services to Art and to the LGBTQ+ Communities in this year’s King’s Birthday Honours list.

MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) rewards outstanding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service.

Over a career spanning more than five decades, Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist’s diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and q***r identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history.

Image: Sunil Gupta in his studio, 2020. Photo by James Proctor

Sunil Gupta

On View | Sunil Gupta in ‘Ten.8 afterimage’ at The New Art Gallery Walsall🔗Link in bio to learn more.Sunil Gupta, Gay, 1...
10/06/2026

On View | Sunil Gupta in ‘Ten.8 afterimage’ at The New Art Gallery Walsall

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Sunil Gupta, Gay, 1986/2021 is included in ‘Ten.8 afterimage’ at The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK through 13 September 2026.

Ten.8 afterimage explores the legacy and enduring impact of Ten.8 (1979–1992), the influential photography journal that emerged from the Midlands’ radical cultural and political landscape and helped shape critical debates on representation and the politics of photography. Bringing together works from the 1980s and 1990s with more recent artworks, the exhibition examines the continuing relevance of questions surrounding visibility, power, and representation.

In ‘Gay’, 1986, from ‘Reflections of the Black Experience’, Sunil Gupta photographed himself and his partner, creating a rare and visible representation of q***r South Asian identity in Britain at a time when few individuals were willing to be publicly identified. Part of a commission exploring the social, cultural, and political realities of Black communities in Britain, the work reflects Gupta’s longstanding commitment to issues of visibility, representation, and belonging.

Image: Sunil Gupta, Gay, 1986/2021.

Announcing Virginia Jaramillo Catalogue Raisonné Project🔗Link in bio to learn more.The Virginia Jaramillo Catalogue Rais...
09/06/2026

Announcing Virginia Jaramillo Catalogue Raisonné Project

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The Virginia Jaramillo Catalogue Raisonné seeks to establish a definitive, living record of the artist’s oeuvre, advancing critical understanding of her aesthetic vision, career trajectory, and enduring influence. Through rigorous research and reflective scholarship, the project situates Jaramillo’s work within broader art historical contexts. In keeping with the innovation and integrity of her practice, the catalogue will be available digitally and in a limited print edition.

Directed by Erin Dziedzic and scheduled for publication in 2035, the Virginia Jaramillo Catalogue Raisonné seeks to preserve the artist’s legacy and affirm her vital contributions to American art.

Those wishing to contribute to the catalogue can find further information and next steps at www.virginiajaramillocatalogueraisonneproject.org

Image 1: Virginia Jaramillo in front of Divide, 1964
Image 2: Installation view, Virginia Jaramillo, Principle of Equivalence, MCA Chicago, 4 May - 5 January 2025
Image 3: Virginia Jaramillo in her Paris studio, 1966

Wilhelmina Barns Graham was born on 8 June, 1912🔗Link in bio to learn more about Wilhelmina Barns GrahamWilhelmina Barns...
09/06/2026

Wilhelmina Barns Graham was born on 8 June, 1912

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (b. 1912 St Andrews, UK - d. 2004 St Andrews, UK) was a pioneer of British abstraction and a prominent member of the St Ives group. She was elected honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1999 and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2001.

Primarily a painter, Barns-Graham developed her own abstract vocabulary of distinctive line, form and colour through a physical and conceptual engagement with nature. Her practice was deeply impacted by place and in an oeuvre spanning seven decades, her works were consistently rooted in an exploration of nature, particularly its hidden structures and elemental forces.

‘Wilhelmina Barns-Graham: Nature in Motion’ is on view at Museum Belvédère, Netherlands from 20 June – 20 September 2026. Presenting the first retrospective of the artist’s work on the European continent, the exhibition features around seventy works from different periods of her career and offers a unique introduction to one of the leading figures of British modernism.

Images: Portait of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, c.1947
Images 2 & 3: Installation view of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Mirage at Hales London, 11 September - 18 October 2025. Photo by Damian Griffiths

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquires work by Virginia Jaramillo🔗Link in bio to learn more.Hales is delighted ...
05/06/2026

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art acquires work by Virginia Jaramillo

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Hales is delighted to announce the acquisition of Virginia Jaramillo, ‘Genesis’, 1969 by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA).

Virginia Jaramillo (b. 1939, El Paso, Texas) is renowned for her innovative explorations of perception, geometry, and materiality, which have shaped a distinctive artistic practice spanning more than six decades.

‘Genesis’ is an exceptional, early example from the artist’s ‘Curvilinear’ paintings made from 1969 to 1974 that feature deep fields of color with delicately arcing lines. The acquisition marks the first work by Jaramillo to enter SFMOMA’s collection, further affirming her significant contribution to postwar American abstraction.

Images: Virginia Jaramillo, Genesis, 1969, collection SFMOMA, purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Honig

Now Open | London Gallery Weekend | Ally Fallon, ‘At the still point of the turning world’ at Hales London🔗Link in bio t...
04/06/2026

Now Open | London Gallery Weekend | Ally Fallon, ‘At the still point of the turning world’ at Hales London

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4 June – 17 July 2026
Opening reception: Sunday 7 June, 12 – 3pm

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London Gallery Weekend Opening Hours:
Friday 5 June, 11am – 6pm
Saturday 6 June, 11am – 6pm
Sunday 7 June, 12pm – 4pm

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Hales is delighted to present At the still point of the turning world, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ally Fallon, marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery.

The exhibition takes its title, At the still point of the turning world, from a line in T. S. Eliot’s poem Burnt Norton, a meditation on temporal existence, where consciousness resides in the ‘still point’ of the present. Fallon’s paintings similarly engage with time as an abstract and elastic condition.

Fallon’s painting practice deftly combines structure and spontaneity, drawing on personal experience and a sustained engagement with interior spaces. Working within the legacy of abstraction, his paintings extend a lineage concerned with materiality, spatial tension, and the act of painting, while introducing a contemporary sensitivity rooted in lived environments and psychological space. Central to his practice is the process of painting: an exploratory approach to colour, line, and material that allows each work to reveal itself through its physical components.

Image 1: Ally Fallon, Midwinter Spring, 2026. Photo by Michael Pollard
2, 3 & 4: Installation view, Ally Fallon, ‘At the still point of the turning world’ at Hales London, 4 June – 17 July 2026. Photos by Damian Griffiths

Now Open | Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK🔗 Link in bio to learn moreThrough...
03/06/2026

Now Open | Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK

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Through 1 November 2026

Hales is delighted to present ‘Path through Trees’, Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional exhibition, now on view at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. The exhibition showcases a new body of work developed following a joint residency with Pallant House Gallery and West Dean College.

Rooted in his experience studying the Sussex landscape, Hayward combines ideas from abstract expressionism, 1990s dance music, rave culture, graffiti, and his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles. His vibrant, hybrid approach blends rhythm and texture, using oil stick techniques that echo embroidery.

This series of new works was inspired by post-war British artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland in Pallant House Gallery’s collection, and which can be seen in the major exhibition ‘British Landscapes: A Sense of Place’, on view at Pallant House Gallery concurrently with Path Through Trees.

Offering a bold and contemporary response to British landscape painting, ‘Path Through Trees’ highlights Hayward’s distinctive visual language and expanding practice.

Images: Installation views, Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House, Chichester, UK. Photograph by Pallant House Gallery/Chris Ison

Hales wishes Martyn Cross a happy birthday! 🔗 Link in bio to learn more about Martyn Cross. Cross is primarily a painter...
02/06/2026

Hales wishes Martyn Cross a happy birthday!
 
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Cross is primarily a painter engaged with ‘world making.’ The act of painting for him is a means to explore the inner life and strangeness of the ordinary. Each work begins in reality, with recognizable limbs and elements of landscape, which transform into uncanny scenes.
 
In the studio Cross surrounds himself with the eclectic things that inspire him, including images of medieval wall painting, old English churches, the work of Forest Bess, Cecil Collins and William Blake, to science fiction books and walking sticks. The myriad of inspiration enters subconsciously into the work. Reoccurring motifs emerge — billowing clouds, tumbling waterfalls, oversized pointing fingers and bright suns create an immersive world. Biomorphic landscapes speak to mythologies, but in Cross’s paintings the narratives are knowingly ambiguous. Familiar and mysterious, quiet and epic, scale and irregularity in proportion puzzles the viewer. Questions remain unanswered and meaning remains a mystery to the artist himself.
 
Martyn Cross, ‘My Head Catches Fire’, 2025 is currently included in the Drawing Biennial 2026 at Drawing Room, London, which brings together over 300 works by artists at the forefront of contemporary practice. The exhibition reaffirms drawing as a fundamental and enduring discipline while supporting Drawing Room’s public programme.
 
Image 1: Portrait of Martyn Cross, 2022
Image 2: Martyn Cross, My Head Catches Fire, 2025. Charcoal and pastel on paper: 21 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy the artist and Drawing Room, London.
Imag 3: Installation views of Drawing Biennial 2026, Drawing Room, London. Photography: Benjamin Deakin.
 

Ken Kiff was born on this day, 29 May in 1935.🔗 Link in bio to learn more about Ken Kiff.Kiff is a British artist known ...
29/05/2026

Ken Kiff was born on this day, 29 May in 1935.

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Kiff is a British artist known for his visionary and distinct painting practice. Primarily a painter, Kiff pursued the formal qualities of painting - of shape, line, texture, transparency and colour. His practice was driven by an exploration of the material and emotional properties of colour, viewing colour as image, and image as colour. He melded figuration and abstraction, allowing colour and meaning to enhance one another. Although recognized during his lifetime, he carved a solitary path, maintaining a commitment to the pictorial and symbolic values of modernism at a time when Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art dominated. In recent years there has been a renewed interest in his work in the context of contemporary figurative painting, with many younger artists turning to Kiff’s work for inspiration.  

Earlier this month, Hales presented a solo exhibition of prints by Ken Kiff at the London Original Print Fair. Working in parallel with his painting practice, Kiff devoted significant time and thought to printmaking, developing a rich and varied body of work across almost every printmaking technique. The presentation preceded the forthcoming publication of Ken Kiff: The Complete Prints by Thames & Hudson, a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of the artist’s prints.

Image 1: Portrait of Ken Kiff, courtesy of the artist’s estate
Image 2: Installation view, Hales Gallery at London Original Print Fair, Booth S10. Photo by Damian Griffiths16

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Exhibition Extended | Kay WalkingStick, ‘Mesas/Mountains/Sky’ at Hales New YorkShow extended through 6 June 2026🔗Link in...
27/05/2026

Exhibition Extended | Kay WalkingStick, ‘Mesas/Mountains/Sky’ at Hales New York

Show extended through 6 June 2026

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Image 1: Kay WalkingStick, Ascent to Ouray, 2025
Image 2: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York
Image 3: Kay WalkingStick, Silverton, 2025
Image 4: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York
Image 5: Kay WalkingStick, Galena Pass Sketch I, 2023
Image 6: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York

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