The Centenary Open

The Centenary Open includes artists from all over the world who have submitted work and in all media, from painting to digital art. This year the guest selectors who headed the selection committee were Jane England (Director England & Co), Bruce McLean (Artist) and Nicholas Usherwood (Critic). 76 artists have been selected to show work alongside 61 London Group members at two exhibitions to be held at The Cello Factory in Waterloo, in May and June. Prizes will be handed out worth over £5000 in total and a special prize of a solo show will be decided.

Part 1
May 14 - May 24

Part 2
May 28 - June 7

The Cello Factory
33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo
SE1 8TJ

The London Group at 100

Mottisfont

The London Group is delighted to be working with the National Trust at Mottisfont during its centenary year. Mottisfont House exhibits, and has listed within its catalogue, eighteen major works by artists who have been members of The Group.

The London Group at 100 brings together the Group's historic pieces with work by over 40 of its current members and includes contemporary paintings, sculpture, moving image and photography.

Photos of the show on flickr

Centenary Members' Exhibition at Pitzhanger Manor

Painting, print, sculpture, video and installation works shown by current members to mark the 100th year since the Group's formation. The show will fill the PM Gallery and there will be site-specific works in the Manor House which was the country residence of the famous art collector and architect Sir John Soane.

Photos of the show are here

Members' 2012 Annual Exhibition The Cello Factory

The yearly exhibition of members' recent work, coupled with a 'virtual show' of projected images of additional work, giving a broader impression of the members' ouvres.

The show included a performance arranged by new group member Lydia Maria Julien.

On My Behalf - self portraits from The London Group

Devised by Group members Amanda Loomes and Ian Parker, the 27 self-portraits in this exhibition embraced the full complexity of self-portraiture and reflected the breadth of work currently within The London Group. The exhibition was in the foyer space of the Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch in London.

The show was reviewed by Corinna Lotz and documented on flickr.

Territories & Boundaries

Kensington & Chelsea College
24 April - 3 May 2012
Devised by Group members Paul Tecklenberg and Jane Humphries, the show surveyed the appropriation of maps and charts and also explored notions of territory and boundaries through the translation of 3D into a scaled-down 2D representation. Work by 22 Group members was exhibited.

Documentation on flickr

Download Pdf Catalogue of Territories & Boundaries

Open Exhibition 2011

The Cello Factory
20 October - 10 November 2011
The Group's biennial Open show in which works by Group members are exhibited alongside works selected from open submissions. 160 works in toal were shown. The selection was made by Bill Feaver (writer, artist and critic) and Jenni Lomax (Director, Camden Arts Centre). Guest exhibitors Gillian Ayres RA, Robyn Denny, John Carter RA and Richard Wilson RA also participated, and a work by the late John Hoyland RA was shown.

Documentation on flickr

The Invisible Line

Piers Feetham Gallery
8 - 26 March 2011
Devised by past president Philip Crozier, the show explored the 'invisible line' between figuration and abstraction. Participating artists: Victoria Arney, John Crossley, Philip Crozier, Tricia Gillman, Julie Held, Bill Henderson, Pauline Little, Peter Morrell, Daniel Preece, Alex Ramsay, Tom Scase, Anthony Whishaw.

"Inspiration" - Part 2

Kensington & Chelsea College,
22 September - 7 October 2010
Continuing the themes of the successful Inspiration - Part 1, held earlier in the year.

Members' 2010 Annual Exhibition

The Cello Factory
1 - 11 June 2010
Recent work by some 60 members was shown, together with a 'virtual exhibition' of images of additional examples of their work, allowing for a more complete view to be formed of their output.

Inspiration - Kensington and Chelsea College

29 of the Group's members exhibited works showing the direction given them by inspirational tutors and other sources earlier in their careers.
20 Jan - 4 Feb 2010 (curator Paul Tecklenberg)
The show received much favourable comment.

The London Group Open 2009 at the Menier Gallery

Exhibition of drawn work by London Group members

Part 1: 21-30 October (curators Tom Scase & Mark Dickens)
Part 2: 4-13 November (curators Tony Collinge & Vic Kuell)

Drawing - Act and Artefact

Exhibition of drawn work by London Group members

Morley Gallery, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7HT
25th March - 9th April 2009, curated by Wendy Smith and Suzan Swale.

Stand Alone - an exhibition of work by London Group sculptors

The Cello Factory, 33-34 Cornwall Road, Waterloo, SE1 8TJ
19th - 24th January 2009, curated by Clive Burton & Bill Watson.

The London Group Members' 95th Anniversary Exhibition

The Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark St, London SE1
29th Oct - 7th Nov 2008, curated by Tony Collinge

Highgate Gallery, Highgate Literary & Scientific Institute

11 South Grove, London, N6 6BS
9 - 22 May 2008: curated by Tom Scase

The London Group at Mauger Modern Art, Bath

6 Bartlett St, Bath, BA1 2QZ
19 April - 24 May 2008

The London Group at Deutsche Bank, Part 2

6 February - 15 April 2008

The London Group Open 2007 at The Menier Gallery

Part 1: 7 - 16 November
Part 2: 21 - 30 November
The resumption after a 15-year break of the biennial Open exhibtion, featuring work by Group members, invited artists from Arti & Amicitiae, and selected non-members.

Collective Response, Guildhall Art Gallery, London

8 October - 11 November 2007
A selected London Group exhibition curated by Annie Johns and Wendy Anderson.

The London Group at Deutsche Bank, Part 1

18 January - 18 April 2007

Art et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, De salon 2006

16 November - 10 December 2006, London Group members invited to show alongside Arti members.

The London Group Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery

13 April - 1 May 2006

Sassoon Gallery, Peckham, PArt 1

Sassoon Gallery, Peckham, PArt 2