Live Tours: Spitalfields

Please note, this tour includes walking up and down stairs.

Nestled in the heart of Spitalfields, this tour begins at Union Pacific, where Georgia-May Travers Cook’s paintings blend realist figuration with an uncanny, often surreal, atmosphere and invite the viewers in open-ended narratives.

Next door, at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, Yvonne Mabs Francis’s work draws from her experience with long-term mental illness. The vividly saturated paintings of the ‘Breakdown’ series are a visual reckoning with the psychotic breakdown the artist suffered in 1969 following the death of her father.

We then proceed to Public Gallery for the first UK solo shows of Russell Perkins and Shaniqwa Jarvis across the two gallery spaces. Perkins examines the increasing financialization of culture by restaging political and financial structures  as systems of belief, while Jarvis’ photographic work traces grief, memory, and loss while foregrounding questions of spectatorship.

From here we take a short walk to our final stop, ai. gallery, for an all-female group exhibition exploring sound as a medium by inviting audiences into an inner state of listening and stillness.