Private view: Thursday 6th March 2025 from 6 to 8pm.
Nice to see you! celebrated the very best in contemporary portraiture from emerging, mid-career and artists new to painting.
A call out for artworks was announced at the end of January 2025 to artists working in London and the South East. The final artworks in the exhibition were then selected by a panel of 23 young people aged 11-18 from Eltham College who chose artworks, according to whether the artworks moved them and based on based on creativity, originality, and technique.
As part of this exhibition, we also featured a selection of portraits by the late Dr Gerald Moore, the founder of our gallery. These works, presented in our Paul Henderson space, explore portraiture through religious, spiritual, and existential themes, offering a rich contrast to the contemporary pieces in the main exhibition.
Artists include:
Rose Antony, Natalia Baran, Mengwei Chen, Andrew Clement-Hammond, Lucy Coomes, Rodrigue Dakouri, Dan Draws, Dionne Elizabeth, Toby Geden, Sheri Gee, Meg Griffiths, Hai Hoang, Eve Holcombe, Michalis Karaiskos, Nellie Katchinska, Prabhleen Kaur, Minjoo Kim, Svetlana Kornilova, Edward at Last, Dominic Longworth, Emily McCaul, Sasha Palfreyman, Sean Bw Parker, Marta Paula, Imogen Perkin, , Emma Sefton Smith, Harry Speirs, Jasper Stinchcombe, Jacqueline Synnott, Irini Tataki, Shelly Wain, Anya Wang, Tisna Westerhof, Tong Wu, and Dan Zhang.
Dr Gerald Moore (1926 – 2018) was a prolific artist who worked across the mediums of sculpture, painting and drawing. His career as an artist evolved over several decades. Since 1950, he exhibited his work widely, including at Whitechapel Gallery (1950), the Scottish National Gallery (1959), at Heal's Gallery with David Hockney (1961), Bath Festival (1982) and Cooperative K (Germany, 1994). The largest single collection of his work is now housed within the walls of Gerald Moore Gallery. Alongside his work as an artist, Moore published several written works. This includes an anthology of poems entitled The Singing Dust (1976), children's book The Cuckoo Who Flew Backwards (1977) and in 1982 he published his autobiography, Treading in Treacle.