The gallery will be closed week commencing 16 August for summer holiday.

The London gallery will reopen to the public on Tuesday 24 August. 

The Naples gallery will reopen to the public on Monday 23 August.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Phillip King, one of the most ground-breaking British artists of the last 70 years.

Phillip died peacefully with his wife Judy at his side.

We were blessed to have worked with Phillip in the last eight years of his life, during which time he re-taught us that art and sculpture-making should know no rules or limitations. His curiosity, joy, and sparkle were boundless and contagious, and we will miss him dearly.

Phillip was born in Tunis in 1934 to a French mother and English father. In 1945 he moved to London and went on to study modern languages at the University of Cambridge. He eventually enrolled at St Martin’s School of Art where he met Anthony Caro and the New Generation group of artists, who would go on to completely revolutionise sculpture from the 1960s onwards.

A real free-spirit and risk-taker, Phillip worked tirelessly throughout his life experimenting with materials, forms and colours, seldom repeating himself, as he moved from periods of working in steel, ceramic, polyurethane, found objects as well as bronze and stone. He would rarely make preparatory drawings, rather referring to shapes and colours that would appear to him in dreams. He was a modest man, entirely committed to his rigorous exploration, rarely missing a day in the studio right up to the end of his life.

Phillip loved to be surrounded by younger artists and loved to teach, taking up professorships in the UK, Europe and the US. In 1967 he was appointed a trustee of Tate, and from 1999 to 2004 he was President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

His works are installed in public spaces around the world, from Australia and Japan to Scandinavia, China and the US, and are represented in some of the most important museum collections including Tate, Pompidou and MoMA. His final major public project, La Ronde de Rennes, will be unveiled later this year in the French city of Rennes.

Thomas Dane Gallery Naples is pleased to announce its participation in the first in-person project of the ITALICS consortium.

ITALICS is the first consortium in Italy to unite more than 60 of the country’s most influential galleries. The first in-person project will be  ‘Panorama’, an island-wide exhibition on Procida (off the coast of Naples), curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

It is the first in a series of exhibitions, each with the title ‘Panorama’, to tell the story of some of the most fascinating places in Italy, in an IRL continuation of the digital journey which began in October 2020 on italics.art.

Exhibition dates: 2 - 5 September 2021

A work by Cecily Brown will be placed for auction in Christie’s 20th / 21st Century marquee sales later this year as part of ‘Artists for ClientEarth’, a landmark new collaborate initiative designed to propel the art world in the fight against climate change. 

Gallery Climate Coalition has joined forces with member and patron  Christie's to raise money, awareness and support for the essential environmental work of ClientEarth.

Cecily Brown’s ‘There’ll be bluebirds’ (2019) will be the first work offered in this series, raising funds directly in support of ClientEarth.

A selection of works by Michael Landy is currently on show in Mayfair. 

Watercolours from the series ‘Family Ruins’ are on sale as part of the temporary exhibition, ‘The Contemporary Art Society at 16 Mount Street’. 

A percentage of all sales will be added to funds for art purchase for the Contemporary Art Society’s Museum Members. 

‘Masculinities,’ featuring works by Catherine Opie and Akram Zaatari is now on show as part of Arles, les Rencontres de la Photographie 2021.

“This exhibition charts the often complex and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities, and how they have developed and evolved over time. Touching on themes including power, patriarchy, queer identity, racial politics, female perceptions of men, hypermasculine stereotypes, tenderness and the family, the exhibition examines the critical role photography and film have played in the way masculinities are imagined and understood in contemporary culture."  - Text from the exhibition website.

Curated by Alona Pardo with support from Fluxus Art Projects. Exhibition organised by the Barbican.

Exhibition dates: 4 July - 26 September 2021.

British Art Show 9 is now open in Aberdeen. Works by Hurvin Anderson – including a new painting, ‘Dixie Peach’ - will go on show when the exhibition moves to Wolverhampton on 22 January 2022.

The BAS9 exhibition is structured around three main themes: healing, care and reparative history; tactics for togetherness; and imagining new futures. Each of the four touring shows will also adapt to local contexts: in Wolverhampton the exhibition looks at how we live with and give voice to difference, and in Manchester the exhibition will engage with the evolving nature of work and the ongoing struggle to shape a new social contract.

Pictured: Hurvin Anderson, ‘Dixie Peach’, 2020 © Hurvin Anderson. All rights reserved DACS 2021. Courtesy the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery. Photo: Ben Westoby

'Masterpieces in Miniature: The 2021 Model Art Gallery’ is now on show at Pallant House in Chichester, including miniature works created by Cecily Brown, Michael Landy and Caragh Thuring.

The works, which all range from the size of a pound coin to no larger than 20cm, were made during lockdown. The 2021 Model Art Gallery will be displayed alongside two earlier model galleries – The Thirty Four Gallery and The Model Gallery 2000. Together, the galleries tell the story of Modern British art from the 1930s until today, providing an insight into the evolution of styles and influences across the decades and how different generations of artists have approached the unique challenges of working in miniature.

The earliest model gallery in Pallant House Gallery’s collection, The Thirty Four Gallery, was inspired by the 1924 Queen Mary’s Doll’s House at Windsor Castle. It was created in 1934, when art dealer Sydney Burney asked some of his most notable contemporaries, including Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens and Vanessa Bell to create miniature artworks to fill a dolls house in support of charity. Lost for decades, some of the works were rediscovered in a suitcase by Burney’s grandson. The model was recreated by Pallant House Gallery in 1997 based on photographs of the original designed by the architect Marshall Sissons.

Exhibition dates: Saturday 26 June 2021 - Spring 2022

Michel François’ works ‘Panoptique’ are now on show at Halle Verrière, Meisenthal, France.

“I like the edges, borders, thresholds. I like to be able to crystallise the moment where everything can tip from one side to the next and suggest the possibility of a transgression, a passage. Many of the works I imagine express that, and seek to fix the relative inconstancy of a moment or of a sometimes indiscernible limit.” - Michel François

On view until September 2021. 

Michael Landy's Welcome to Essex is a new documentary commissioned by Firstsite to accompany their exhibition of the same name, currently on show in Colchester. 

The exhibition, Michael Landy's Welcome to Essex, runs until 5 September 2021 at Firstsite, Lewis Gardens, High Street, Colchester, Essex, CO1 1JH.