Exhibition
Looking Like Fire
20 Sep 2023 – 14 Oct 2023
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 6 Camberwell Passage
- Camberwell
- London
England - SE5 0AX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest Bus Stop: Camberwell Green (F), bus numbers 35, 40, 42, 45 and Warner Road (J and H) bus numbers 36, 185, 436, N136
- Nearest London Stations: Oval (Northern Line), Denmark Hill (London Overground and Thameslink) or Loughborough Junction (London Overground and Thameslink)
- Denmark Hill
Sim Smith is proud to present Looking Like Fire, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s newly expanded space.
About
This exciting group exhibition includes some artists represented by the gallery, some who have contributed to the exhibition programme previously and others who the gallery have not exhibited before.
This exhibition continues the gallery’s interest in intergenerational exhibitions with those at different stages in their careers. Looking Like Fire will include works by Anna Calleja, Sarah Faux, Jenna Gribbon, Norman Hyams, Lisa Ivory, Karyn Lyons, Juanita McNeely, Kemi Onabulé, Florence Peake, Lydia Pettit. The exhibition will host its finissage over Frieze London on the 14th of October.
The exhibition aims to unlock a space that we are rarely allowed to enter. It relies on the vulnerability of the subject within the paintings to expose a moment, a connection to the artist who paints them. It is a place where intimate, quotidian moments and life events display powerful emotions behind a veil of freedom or privacy. The show encapsulates experience and atmosphere through observed, imagined and psychological scenes. The exhibition not only invites us to look but to shape our act of looking, with a promise of entering another realm, that of indulgence, pleasure, fear, power and fascination.
