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LOOK OUT | EXHIBITION EXTENDED

We’re delighted to announce that LOOK OUT has been extended until 19 December 2026 at CLOSE Gallery, Somerset. ✨

Bringing together artists across generations, LOOK OUT explores landscape as both a physical reality and a psychological space, a place of memory, imagination, belonging, resilience and renewal.

Spanning a century of artistic engagement with the land, the exhibition brings together painting, sculpture, drawing and installation, revealing the many ways landscape continues to shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us.

Featuring works by David Abbott, Dien Berziga, Christabel Blackburn, Sarah Gillespie, Magnus Hammick, Ivon Hitchens, Lee Johnson, Charlotte Keates, Rob Lyon, Katherine Perrins, Ged Quinn, Myrna Quiñonez, Saad Qureshi and Harriet White.
Now extended until 19 December 2026
 LOOK OUT 12 September – 19 December 2026 CLOSE Gallery, Somerset
Open Thursdays & Fridays, 11–4pm Saturdays, 11–3pm Or by appointment: info@closeltd.com

To acquire works, visit the link in bio or contact Richard Scarry richard@closeltd.com

Photography: Hannah Goldsmith @goldsmith_studio

#ContemporaryArt #LandscapeArt #BritishArt #SomersetArt #CLOSEGallery by @rscarryart

STEWART GEDDES | KAIROS

Opening Tuesday 13 October, 6–9pm at TM Gallery, King’s Cross, London. ✨

CLOSE Gallery is delighted to present Kairos, a new exhibition of recent paintings by Stewart Geddes, presented in collaboration with TM Lighting and curated by Freeny Yianni.

Taking its title from the Ancient Greek kairos (καιρός), meaning the right, critical or opportune moment, the exhibition marks a point of renewed clarity in Geddes’ practice. Improvisation remains central, but across this new body of work, intuition and deliberation increasingly come together as colour, gesture and structure gradually find their place.

Geddes’ paintings evolve through a process of action, pause and response. Forms rotate, overlap and gather across the canvas, while each work develops through successive decisions rather than towards a predetermined destination. Kairos reflects precisely this moment of recognition: knowing when to act, when to wait, and when a painting has found its direction.

Rooted in abstraction yet shaped by Geddes’ longstanding relationship with landscape, the works carry traces of remembered environments, architecture, movement and atmosphere into the studio.

Private View | Tuesday 13 October, 6–9pm
Exhibition | 14 October – 16 December 2026
TM Gallery
7 Cubitt Street, King’s Cross, London WC1X 0LN

Presented by CLOSE Gallery in collaboration with TM Lighting. Curated by Freeny Yianni.

#StewartGeddes #ContemporaryPainting #AbstractArt #LondonArt #KingsCrossArt by @rscarryart

Some evenings stay with you long after the lights go down. ✨🏳️‍🌈

Last night’s private view of Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends at the National Portrait Gallery was one of those truly moving, magical evenings.

More than an exhibition, Fairyland is a love letter to our LGBTQ+ communities who fought for their rights, those who have lost, and those who continue to live, love and shine so courageously today.

Through Tim Walker’s extraordinary imagination, we are reminded that these stories deserve to be seen, their identities celebrated and their lives honored in all their beauty, complexity and joy.

There was something profoundly moving about being surrounded by these stories and reflecting on the journey the communities that have travelled from the pain, prejudice and struggle of earlier generations to the greater visibility, freedom and celebration they continue to fight for. We must never forget the courage it took for so many to be themselves, or the shoulders on which they stand today.

And what a joyful celebration of who we all are. A reminder that queer life is not simply about survival, but about love, creativity, friendship, chosen family, resilience and the absolute joy of being unapologetically ourselves.

The evening felt like a collective embrace a moment to remember, to feel, to celebrate and to be grateful for how far we have come as a human race, while recognizing how much there is still to do.

Thank you, Tim Walker, for creating this extraordinary Fairyland, and for giving our stories such a beautiful, powerful and unforgettable place to live.

A night full of emotion, pride, love and joy. And a reminder that stories matter, and the light will never be dimmed. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

#TimWalker #Fairyland #NationalPortraitGallery #LGBTQ #QueerJoy Pride LoveIsLove ChosenFamily by @rscarryart

7 Oct 6:30-8:30pm RSVP for TALK: Gordon Cheung and Carrie Scott (curator, presenter and art historian) @carriescottcurates Thanks to @misskatywick for organising

Between Empires @ CLOSE viewing room Marylebone is a solo exhibition by Gordon Cheung at the CLOSE Viewing Room in Marylebone, London: 8 October – 6 November 2026 by appointment.
The show is a unique presentation that brings together Cheung’s acclaimed New Order Vanitas series alongside his Glitch works, both drawing on Old Master painting. Cheung, London-born, Hong Kong origin multimedia artist uses algorithmic pixel rearrangement of Dutch Golden Age still lifes and Financial Times stock listings to explore birth of global capitalism, empire, and cultural identity to reflect on the human condition under histories written by victors with the rise and fall of civilisations.
Dates: 8 Oct – 6 Nov 2026 by appointment
Location: CLOSE Viewing Room, Marylebone, London
Series shown: New Order Vanitas and Glitch
It follows his major survey Many Worlds, One Mind at CLOSE Gallery, Somerset (6 Jun – 15 Aug 2026)

#gordoncheung by @rscarryart

MEET THE ARTIST | DAVID ABBOTT

Bristol-based artist David Abbott creates paintings that bring together observation, memory and perception, exploring landscape as both a physical place and a space shaped by what we project onto it.

Drawn to the cyclical rhythms of the natural world, Abbott sees landscape as an allegory for the instability and change of our own lives. His paintings move between seasonal shifts and much slower geological or historical time, creating scenes that feel momentarily suspended while also suggesting something deeper and more enduring beneath them.

Across his work, landscape becomes a witness to human experience: a source of solace, a repository of hidden histories, and the setting for love, loss, tragedy and comedy. At times his paintings resolve into recognisable places; elsewhere they fragment into abstract forms, moving fluidly between the external world and an internal, remembered one.

Layers of paint often conceal earlier images beneath the surface, reinforcing Abbott’s interest in how memory accumulates, disappears and resurfaces. Painting becomes a way of excavating what has been forgotten and navigating the tension between inhabiting the present and dwelling in the past.

For LOOK OUT, Abbott’s work speaks directly to the exhibition’s exploration of landscape as a place of memory, change and emotional connection: an environment deeply entwined with our lives, yet always existing beyond us.

LOOK OUT 🗓️12 September – 31 October 2026 📍CLOSE Gallery, Somerset
⏰ Open Thursdays & Fridays, 11–4pm Saturdays, 11–3pm Or by appointment: info@closeltd.com

To acquire works, visit the link in bio or contact Richard Scarry richard@closeltd.com

#DavidAbbott #LOOKOUT #CLOSEGallery #ContemporaryArt #LandscapePainting by @rscarryart

MEET THE ARTIST | CHRISTABEL BLACKBURN

London-based artist Christabel Blackburn creates atmospheric paintings that explore the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. Through a sensitively reduced visual language, she distils contemporary life into quiet, concentrated scenes, where solitary figures move through streets, galleries and carefully constructed environments.

Stripped of much of the visual noise of the twenty-first century, Blackburn’s paintings occupy a space between reality and memory. Flat planes, saturated colour and restrained detail create a sense of stillness and psychological suspension, while her figures appear absorbed in their own worlds.

Beneath this apparent calm lies a subtle tension. Blackburn’s work moves between order and isolation, intimacy and alienation, leaving space for the viewer to consider how we navigate both our physical surroundings and our internal landscapes.

For LOOK OUT, her work expands the exhibition’s exploration of landscape beyond the natural world, considering the environments we construct, move through and carry within us.

LOOK OUT 🗓️12 September – 31 October 2026 📍CLOSE Gallery, Somerset
⏰ Open Thursdays & Fridays, 11–4pm Saturdays, 11–3pm Or by appointment: info@closeltd.com

To acquire works, visit the link in bio or contact Richard Scarry richard@closeltd.com

Photography: Hannah Goldsmith @goldsmith_studio

#ChristabelBlackburn #LOOKOUT #CLOSEGallery #ContemporaryArt #BritishArt by @rscarryart

ONYA McCAUSLAND | The Residues

CLOSE Gallery and Proposition are pleased to announce The Residues, a solo exhibition by @onyamccausland, opening at Proposition Bethnal Green on Saturday 10th October.

McCausland’s new works continue her exploration of landscapes transformed by extraction, industry and environmental change. Using materials collected from industrial land, mine tailings and waste dams, she transforms these residues into dense, site-specific pigments through processes of burning, milling and refining.

The resulting paintings are less representations of landscape than material records of its transformation. Their surfaces carry traces of geology, industrial processes and ecological aftermath, revealing the lasting changes inscribed into the earth.

Presented in collaboration with Proposition Studios, The Residues brings together McCausland’s material and site-specific research with a shared commitment to ecological awareness, responsible stewardship and our changing relationship with the environment.

📍 Proposition Bethnal Green, 279 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 0EL
📅 10 October 2026 - 16 January 2027
🗓️ Open Wed-Sat, 1-7pm
🥂 Private View: Friday 9 October, 6:30-8:30pm. RSVP to anna@closeltd.com.

Sales Enquiries: Richard Scarry richard@closeltd.com

#OnyaMcCausland #CLOSEGallery #PropositionStudios #ContemporaryArt #EcologicalArt EnvironmentalArt
📷 Last image: @goldsmith_studio by @rscarryart

This autumn, CLOSE presents an expanding programme of exhibitions and events across Somerset and London, bringing together artists whose work explores landscape, material, memory, identity and transformation. 🍂

In Somerset, LOOK OUT continues at CLOSE Gallery, bringing together fourteen artists across generations and tracing a century of artistic engagement with landscape.

In London, CLOSE presents three exhibitions across Bethnal Green, King’s Cross and Marylebone:

BETWEEN EMPIRES | Gordon Cheung 8 October – 6 November 2026 CLOSE Viewing Room, Marylebone Featuring Gordon Cheung in conversation with curator, writer and presenter Carrie Scott.

THE RESIDUES | Onya McCausland 10 October 2026 – 16 January 2027 PV: Friday 9 October, 6:30-8:30pm Proposition Bethnal Green Presented in collaboration with Proposition Studios.

KAIROS | Stewart Geddes 14 October – 16 December 2026 PV: Tuesday 13 October, 6–9pm TM Lighting, King’s Cross @tmlighting  Presented by CLOSE Gallery, curated by Freeny Yianni, in collaboration with TM Lighting.

And in Somerset:

LOOK OUT Until 31 October 2026 CLOSE Gallery, Somerset

From Somerset to London, we look forward to welcoming you throughout the autumn.

More information on each exhibition via the link in bio.

#CLOSEGallery #ContemporaryArt #LondonArt #SomersetArt #AutumnExhibitions by @rscarryart

Getting acquainted with the new area. Discovering Ham Hill today. by @rscarryart

We’re delighted to share that Hum (2024) by @aimeeparrott has been acquired by the Government Art Collection @govartcol.

Hum was first shown at CLOSE Gallery, Somerset as part of After Nature, our 2025 group exhibition curated by @ben_tufnell, before travelling to @Propositionstudios in London for a second presentation later that year.

Working with monotype appliqué and acrylic ink on unprimed cotton, Hum reflects Parrot’s distinctive approach to painting, where the canvas becomes both image and object. Seams, texture and subtle relief are integral to the work, with biomorphic forms and fluid rhythms evoking processes of transformation, connectivity and continual change.

Drawing on ecological systems, geological formations and textile traditions, Parrot’s work explores the intersection of craft and contemporary abstraction, creating paintings that reveal themselves slowly through their tactile presence and quiet visual language.

Many thanks to the Government Art Collection for their support and for recognising this important work.

Huge congratulations to Aimee on this wonderful acquisition.

Aimee Parrot is represented and supported by @KateMacGarry.

#AimeeParrott #GovernmentArtCollection #ContemporaryArt #ArtAcquisition #CLOSEGallery by @rscarryart

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday for the Private View of LOOK OUT at CLOSE Gallery.✨

It was wonderful to welcome so many of you to celebrate the opening of the exhibition and to bring together artists, friends, collectors and our local community for a very special afternoon.

🌿 LOOK OUT, curated by @freeny_yianni and @rscarryart brings together artists across generations whose work explores landscape as both a physical reality and a psychological space, a place of memory, belonging, reflection and renewal.

@_davidabbott @berziga_dien_ @christabelblackburn @sarahgillespieart @magnus_hammick1 #IvonHitchens @leejohnsonstudio @charlottekeates @rob_lyon @katherine_perrins @ged_quinn_studio @myrnaquinonez @saad_qureshi_studio @harrietwhiteart

🥂 Thank you to our sponsors @rainwellbeing and @blashenwellwines, Katy Wickremesinghe @thewickculture for her continued support, and to @atsushi.hasegawa.creative for setting the atmosphere with a brilliant DJ set. And a huge thank you to all of the artists!

🗓️ LOOK OUT continues until 31 October 2026.
📍 CLOSE Gallery, Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset
Open Thursdays & Fridays, 11-4
Saturdays, 11-3
Or by appointment: info@closeltd.com

✨Make us one of your Somerset Art Weeks destinations 19 Sep-4 Oct, we’re open our usual times @somerset_art_works ✨

We look forward to welcoming you to the gallery!

📸 Photography: Hannah Goldsmith @goldsmith_studio
#LandscapeArt #CLOSEGallery #ContemporaryArt #SomersetArtWeeks artexhibition by @rscarryart

A very Happy Birthday to our Director, Richard Scarry! 🎉 Thank you for being such a special part of the team here at Close, and for always looking so sharp! 🕶️🥂❤️ @rscarryart

#HappyBirthday #Bestdressed #CloseGallery
Photo by @shaunjamescox by @rscarryart