The Lot 5 Collective is an independent group of figurative artists who believe in using skill, expression and representation to create powerful, beautiful and contemporary works. We reconcile contradictions by applying traditional techniques to modern themes, combining classical beauty with contemporary culture, and uniting expression with representation.
FBA Futures 2017 at Mall Galleries, The Mall, St. James’s, London SW1 +44 (0) 20 7930 6844
Showcasing the outstanding art graduates of 2016, selected from across the country by members of the Federation of British Artists (FBA). The exhibition will be an exciting mix of degree show and newly made painting, sculpture and original prints, all exploring contemporary figuration and ideas of representation and draughtsmanship.
By Popular Demand at Mall Galleries, The Mall, St. James’s, London SW1 +44 (0)20 7930 6844
By Popular Demand revisits the past winners of The Columbia Threadneedle Prize’s Visitors’ Choice Award (formerly The Threadneedle Prize), and recipients of the FBA Selectors’ Choice and FBA Emerging Artist Prize from the first two years of the competition (in 2008 and 2009, respectively).
Another Russia: Post-Soviet Printmaking, Victoria & Albert Museum London
Print has become an important component of recent Russian art practice. The relationship between printing and publishing, strictly controlled under communism, made the new conditions of freedom all the more inviting. After the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, Russian artists who no longer felt defined by resistance to authority could reflect wistfully, ironically or polemically on utopian concepts like the Ideal City or the New Soviet Man.
Joan Eardley: A Sense of Place, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Joan Eardley’s career lasted barely fifteen years.
Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern Bankside SE1 9TG
Robert Rauschenberg blazed a new trail for art in the second half of the twentieth century. This landmark exhibition celebrates his extraordinary six-decade career, taking you on a dazzling adventure through modern art in the company of a truly remarkable artist.
Strange and Familiar: Britain as Revealed by International Photographers, Manchester Art Gallery
Curated by Martin Parr and celebrating the work of leading photographers.
Artist Rooms: Andy Warhol at The Whitworth Oxford Rd, Manchester M15 6ER
Artist Rooms: Andy Warhol shows the sharp critical opinions of an artist known to many primarily as art salesman, purveyor of product and celebrant of capitalism. Focusing on themes of death, politics and identity it presents audiences with Warhol’s reading of the American Dream at a time when the country is under scrutiny following the 2016 US Presidential election.
The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection, Tate Modern
This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see one of the world’s greatest private collections of photography.
Meeting Modernism: 20th Century Art in the Russell-Cotes Collection at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum Russell Cotes Rd, Bournemouth BH1 3AA
This vibrant new exhibition brings out from store some of our most popular early 20th century paintings, collected by the first curators after Annie and Merton’s deaths in the 1920s.










