Shanti Panchal. Endurance

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“Often the events of my life compel me to paint that which is not visible. One drifts between the real and the unreal: the real becomes unreal and the unreal becomes real. This escape and shifting of focus is the essence of survival.”

Shanti Panchal, 2024

Shanti Panchal’s (b.1951) exhibition Endurance opens at the gallery with a reception on Thursday 9 May from 6 - 8 pm. The exhibition runs from 10 May – 2 June 2024 and features works from 1989 – 2022. The exhibition is also a part of London Gallery Weekend from 31 May - 2 June 2024 for which the gallery will be open over the weekend.

The Artist will be doing a tour of the show at the gallery on Saturday, 1 June at 4pm.

One of the highlights of the exhibition is a large-scale watercolour study done for the Brixton mural Endurance, which was part of a series commissioned by Art on the Underground for Brixton Underground station in London, which was on display from November 2022 – November 2023.

Panchal has also done two other public commissions in London - Across the Barrier, which was a part of the Anti-Racism Mural, GLC, Lowood Street, Shadwell, Tower Hamlets (1985) and the Roxborough Bridge Mural, Harrow (1994).

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue which includes a detail biography of the artist and an essay by writer, critic, and curator Andrew Lambirth.