Double Take
at The Weston Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Sat 26 Sep 2026 - Mar 2027
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am- 4pm
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That Which Appears
Olivia Bax
James Fisher
Lucy Gunning
Charles Hewlings
Milly Peck
Mike Silva
Drawings from the Drawing Matter collection by Christo, John Hejduk, James Gowan, Louis Kahn and Mies van der Rohe.
Curated by Olivia Bax, James Fisher and Sid Motion. Thank you Cathy Hawley for her selection from Drawing Matter.
at Sid Motion Gallery, London
18th September – 31st October
Opening Reception: 17th September, 6-8pm
'That Which Appears' explores the window as a site of perception, memory and mediation. The exhibition considers the window as both a literal and psychological threshold - between interior and exterior, self and world, presence and reflection - and seeks to generate intergenerational dialogue between historical and contemporary practices.
The exhibition will be presented in two parts. The first opens at Sid Motion Gallery, followed by the second expanded exhibition at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield opening in April 2028 and scheduled to run until September 2028, with an accompanying publication.
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Dinner Party
with Matthew Smith, Jacob Epstein, Olivia Bax
Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow
Leeds
LS1 3AA
26 June 2026 - 29 August 2027
Tuesday – Saturday: 10am – 5pm
(note: Upper galleries close from 4pm on Saturdays)
Sunday: 11am – 3pm
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Wind Eyes
at East Gallery, Norwich
8 May - 27 June 2026
Tuesday – Friday, 12pm – 5pm
Saturday, 12pm – 4pm
PV: Thursday 7 May, 5-7pm
Exhibition Tour: Monday 18 May, 1:30pm
In conversation with Olivia Bax and Stephen Feeke:
Monday 18 May, 6pm
St Andrews Street
Norwich
NR2 4AE
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These Mad Hybrids
In 1994 painter John Hoyland made an unruly group of ceramic sculptures. Loaded with colour, humour and creatureliness, he dubbed them ‘these mad little hybrids’. They now appear remarkably contemporary, in sync with a broad range of recent and current sculpture. These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture presents the ceramics in dialogue with sculpture by Caroline Achaintre, Eric Bainbridge, Phyllida Barlow, Olivia Bax, Hew Locke, Anna Reading, Jessi Reaves, Andrew Sabin, John Summers and Chiffon Thomas.
Essays by co-curators Olivia Bax and Sam Cornish situate the ceramics within contemporary sculptural discourse and in relation to Hoyland’s deep personal engagement with sculpture. How and why could a sculpture be funny? How did sculpture help an abstract painter rethink his relationship with the High Modernist tradition and find a new relationship with the wider world? James Fisher considers hybridity in the guise of an imaginary dialogue with King Kong, while Hannah Hughes’s visual essay explores the Polaroid photographs that Hoyland employed to help move his dramatic and powerful imagery between two and three dimensions.
Published by Ridinghouse and Slimvolume.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name at Royal West of England Academy), Bristol, 2 February - 12 May 2024, and Millennium Galleries, Sheffield, 20 February -18 May 2025.
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Thinking is Making
Objects in a Space
Mark Tanner Sculpture Award
Published by Black Dog Press
Lee Holden, Rosie Edwards, Dean Kenning, Olivia Bax, Anna Reading, Frances Richardson, Beth Collar, Megan Broadmeadow, Kate Lyddon and Iain Hales.
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