Live Tours: Carnaby

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

This tour kicks off at Kearsey & Gold’s new space on Brewer St. After an energising climb up the stairs, we explore Lucien Smith’s exhibition, Burn Down the House. Drawing on references ranging from Christopher Wool and Barbara Kruger to The Wizard of Oz the show reflects on consumerism, the so-called American Dream, and what we’re actually building when we build a life.

Our second stop is just around the corner in Golden Square, at Frith Street Gallery, where John Riddy presents new photographs of London. While his previous images of the capital focused on the stillness and permanence of surfaces and architecture, in Winter Landscape, Riddy captures temporal elements. 

After a short 2-min walk, we arrive at NORITO showing the UK debut of Eve Yifan Jiang, bringing together a new body of large-scale ink-on-silk paintings. Across the works, familiar forms and symbols are subtly displaced and reassembled, producing images that feel both intimate and monumental.

Our next and final stop takes us across Regent Street to Bernheim, where we can visit two solo shows. On one side, David Flaugher’s In Dog Years I'm Dead is an exhibition organized around recurrence, and what recurrence reveals: that nothing stays the same, even when everything looks identical. On the other side, the large canvases and intimate tempera panels by Tsai Yun-Ju push us to reflect on perception: what we see when we look at an abstract painting tells us as much about the architecture of our own cognition as it does about the work itself.

Central London has a dense population of art galleries, and while our tour won't cover them all, we strongly encourage visitors to explore additional spaces in the neighbourhood using our map.