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Mandy Zhang Art is pleased to present 𝘿𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮’𝙨 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙘, a new immersive installation and performance by Annie Trevorah @annietrevorahsculptor , guest curated by Joséphine May Bailey @procrastinarting_ and staged off-site at the Coningsby Gallery @coningsbygallery in London’s West End. Trevorah transforms the gallery into a meticulously realised aesthetics clinic for animals. The familiar language and rituals of the contemporary beauty industry are reimagined through six sculpted animal patients, each with their own signature procedure, consultant’s notes and recovery plan. 𝘿𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙮’𝙨 𝘾𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙘 4–14 November 2026 Curated by Joséphine May Bailey Presented by Mandy Zhang Art Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham St, London W1T 4RJ For any enquire, please email: info@mandyzhang.art
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FRESCOES | NOW ON VIEW Now on view at Mulryan Gallery, Frescoes brings together the work of Lydia Hamblet, Pippa El Kadhi Brown and Vincenzo Muratore. Taking the ancient technique of fresco as a point of departure, the exhibition considers the surface as a record of change, where material, gesture, weather and time leave their traces. Across painting and sculpture, surfaces are flooded, fractured, carved, marked and transformed. Hamblet explores light, landscape and memory; El Kadhi Brown moves between atmosphere, sensation and shifting psychological environments; while Muratore works through fracture and repair across marble, bronze and cyanotype. Together, their works consider material not as something fixed, but as something that absorbs experience and carries the evidence of its own transformation. Co curated with Joséphine May Bailey. FRESCOES Lydia Hamblet Pippa El Kadhi Brown Vincenzo Muratore Mulryan Gallery 47 Nine Elms Lane, London SW11 7DH Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm #artexhibition #londonart #contemporaryart #abstractart #sculpture
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It’s a miracle I managed to get some cute pics last week 🖤
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Thank you to everyone who visited our booth at @paraiso_fair to see Ana Benavides’ work. In the midst of this turmoil in the world, Paraíso was a great reminder that community, trust and care are the only way we can make this work.
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Exhibition Review: Michael Gao, Salt Land, Mandy Zhang Art, London until 14 November 2026 if the hound is left the light then who has gone missing – Drenched Co. At the breakfast opening, the soft spoken Gao stood within a phalanx of well-heeled women, their shoes making a small architecture around him. The arrangement belonged to his paintings: one quiet figure made solitary by everything gathered around it. If IF belongs to the lighthouse, then THEN belongs to the dog. If there is a light, somebody must require it. If there is a companion, somebody has already gone missing. Michael Gao paints inside this faulty consequence, where an animal becomes human at the level of the image. Sea upon sky, lighthouse upon sea, dog upon everything. The landscape is sprayed into atmosphere, while the dog is masked out and returned later by hand. At the edge, allusion tilts into illusion. Poe left his unfinished lighthouse with a keeper, a dog and doubt beneath the tower; Gao continues from the blank day. A lighthouse is solitude built for another person. The keeper disappears so a stranger can arrive. Perhaps doing the same thing night after night and expecting somebody to find land is love. Gao’s animals keep that repetition for us, looking outward while the white things beyond them become sea, cloud or the beginning of mountains. The paintings sometimes understand their loneliness too well, repeating the dog until vigil resembles design. Yet their error holds. We lend the animal our absence, then call what returns companionship. Beyond the painted weather, light addresses a body it cannot see. The hound keeps it for whoever has gone missing. Image courtesy of the artist and Mandy Zhang Art. We take great care to respect the integrity of every image. The views expressed here are ours alone and do not represent those of the artist, curator or gallery. @michael_cy_gao @mandyzhangart @procrastinarting_ #drenchedco #soakedspace #SaltLand #MichaelGao #MandyZhangArt
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FRESCOES | OPENING NIGHT Last night we celebrated the opening of Frescoes at Mulryan Gallery. Thank you to everyone who joined us for such a wonderful evening. It was a pleasure to see the gallery filled with conversation, curiosity and such thoughtful engagement with the artists and their work. Bringing together Lydia Hamblet, Pippa El Kadhi Brown and Vincenzo Muratore, Frescoes explores surfaces shaped by time, gesture and transformation, where traces of making become part of the work itself. Co curated with Joséphine May Bailey. Frescoes is now on view at Mulryan Gallery. Mulryan Gallery 47 Nine Elms Lane, London SW11 7DH #contemporaryart #friezeweek #londonart #exhibition #openingnight
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MICHAEL GAO: SALT LAND Breakfast & Curator-led Tour Join us for a special breakfast and curator-led tour of 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚍, Michael Gao @michael_cy_gao ’s first solo exhibition with Mandy Zhang Art, curated by Joséphine May Bailey. Exploring themes of solitude, longing and refuge, 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚍 presents a series of atmospheric paintings that navigate the delicate boundaries between isolation, memory and imagination. Joséphine May Bailey @procrastinarting_ is a London-based senior curator and former gallery director with over a decade of experience across commercial galleries, museums and international exhibition production. Her curatorial practice is rooted in artist advocacy, feminist perspectives and fostering meaningful dialogue within contemporary art. She founded 8 Vine Yard Residency & Project Space and co-founded ArtLoft, a cultural salon and mentorship initiative supporting emerging and mid-career artists. Her work now extends through Ansaldo, focusing on building lasting connections between artists, galleries and institutions. Friday, 16 October 2026 | 10 AM 16 Seymour Place, London W1H 7NG RSVP: info@mandyzhang.art #MichaelGao #SaltLand #JosephineMayBailey #MandyZhangArt
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‘The Dwelling’, an installation by Annie Trevorah at @nobulondonportman ‘The Dwelling’ takes the Earth as a shared home. Across the White Box, foyer and lounge, Trevorah fills the hotel with speculative beings and imagined ecologies, made in sculpture, textile and print. Her world is one of transformation, where human, animal and landscape flow into one another. Beyond the major installation in the White Box, the lobby holds three further bodies of work. ‘Bird Girl’ kneels at the window, facing the street. Silver legs, a bloom of red, and above it a dove with its wings open On the marble by the glass, three photographic works set in resin. Root, moss and forest floor, layered through architecture and light. Behind them, the plane trees of Portman Square keep growing. Further in, the Human Chrysalis series glows in amber niches. Each figure caught mid emergence. Presented by @mandyzhangart Curated by Joséphine May Bailey Until 30 October 📸 Courtesy of Mandy Zhang Art - Gallery strategic consultancy Artist agency Residencies & projects @ansaldo_art ansaldo.uk Enquiries: info@ansaldo.uk
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Salt Land. Michael Gao’s first solo exhibition with Mandy Zhang Art, curated by Joséphine May Bailey. Twelve paintings, a lighthouse at the edge of an empty sea, and a solitary dog that reappears throughout. No human figures, but a world that feels quietly inhabited. Each painting is part of a larger story, written by Michael as he worked on the exhibition, about a boy who leaves a travelling carnival to keep a lighthouse he comes to call his citadel of solitude. Since July, Ansaldo has worked closely with Michael and Mandy Zhang Art to bring the exhibition together. From fortnightly studio visits and selecting the works to developing the curatorial framework, installing the show and writing the exhibition texts, the process has unfolded over several months. Alongside the exhibition, Ansaldo has worked with Michael on a publication featuring his story in full, with an essay by Joséphine. It comes in two editions, including ten hand-bound copies with covers painted by Michael himself. We marked the opening with an intimate dinner at the gallery the night before, followed by a reading and conversation with Michael on the evening itself. It has been a real pleasure to work with Michael on this project and to see it develop from the studio into an exhibition and publication. This is how Ansaldo likes to work with artists: closely, over time, and across the many parts of a project that allow an artist’s ideas to find their fullest expression. Michael Gao, Salt Land Mandy Zhang Art, 16 Seymour Place, London Until 14 November 2026 - Part of the Programme www.ansaldo.uk @ansaldo_art Enquiries: info@ansaldo.uk
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Went to Houston and took selfies
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The Dwelling is open. Annie Trevorah has made Nobu Hotel London Portman Square a habitat of its own. In the gallery, speculative beings settle among imagined ecologies, in sculpture, silk and print. At its heart stands ‘Becoming’, a hand sculpted figure that is neither Male nor female, human or animal. It is many bodies held in one form. Around it, the Human Chrysalis series hangs in mirrored chrome above sculptural flora. Look closely and you find yourself in the work. It does not imagine humans turning into animals. It reminds us we never stopped being them. Next, Trevorah’s creatures wander out into the lobby. Then, afternoon tea. - The Dwelling Annie Trevorah @annietrevorahsculptor Presented by Mandy Zhang Art @mandyzhangart Curated by Joséphine May Bailey / ansaldo Nobu Hotel London Portman Square 9 to 30 October 2026 - Part of the programme. For The Dwelling, Ansaldo shaped the exhibition across the hotel, wrote its texts, led the install, and worked alongside Nobu on press and the opening www.ansaldo.uk @ansaldo_art @sohorevue Enquiries: info@ansaldo.uk 📸Photography courtesy of Mandy Zhang Art
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Thank you everyone who visited the opening of Michael Gao: 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚍. The show is currently on view at the gallery till 14 November. 𝚂𝚊𝚕𝚝 𝙻𝚊𝚗𝚍 Michael Gao @michael_cy_gao Curated by Joséphine May Bailey @procrastinarting_ 
9 October – 14 November 2026 
16 Seymour Place, London W1H 7NG For any enquire, please email: info@mandyzhang.art Photo: @zimpleplus.studio
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