Fabrice Cazenave: Blooming Body
Fabrice Cazenave’s second solo show with the gallery opens Jan 11th 2025, following an extended research trip to Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex from his home in Paris. Further details to follow.
Jamie Reid: Eternal Ecstasy
John Marchant Gallery is very pleased to present a show of paintings and works on paper by British artist Jamie Reid (1947-2023), focusing principally on a period of work which has largely remained unseen.
Reid trained as a painter at Croydon College in the late 1960’s, alongside his lifelong friend Malcolm McLaren, both of course principal architects of Punk in the mid-1970’s. During the 1980’s Reid was provided with a studio space by Malcolm Garrett at Assorted iMaGes in Shoreditch, giving him the opportunity to return to large scale painting, Reid was well aware of Rudolph Steiner’s colour theories, connecting colour to the soul and for its use in healing and wellbeing. Reid had stated that he wanted his paintings to function as some sort of spiritual elevator, and would have liked to have worked in hospitals, taking his interest in colour theory into new areas. He was always mindful of the potential for improvement in everything - schools, media outlets, healthcare. Like Steiner, Reid removed black from his palette (as being too negative), preferring to use colours to both ground himself and to release his spirit, predominantly using strong yellows and blues, reds and greens. Later, semi-automatic writings - some examples are also included in this presentation - revealed his thoughts on these paintings as well as a host of other subjects which included Universalism, political inertia, colonialism and the Society of The Spectacle. “It may take the future to reveal their translation of time & place & meaning. They are painted & conceived in a trance state of mind…”
The paintings are untitled and unframed, and were not intended to be conventionally stretched. They are here presented simply nailed to the walls of the gallery, alongside framed examples of the aforementioned text works, which Reid worked on relentlessly from the period 2017 to 2023. The archive contains hundreds of examples of both paintings and text works, this presentation being a near random sample. The exhibition also includes one large scale painted hanging from the mid 1990’s that includes screen printed esoteric symbols devised by Reid including his signature OVA glyph, and one collage from the same period to contextualise the direction Reid’s work was taking in his later years.
John Marchant was a close collaborator with Reid, having organised his NYC retrospective show Peace Is Tough in 1997, which travelled internationally. He is also the curator and custodian of the Jamie Reid Archive, which contains work from the late 1960’s through to the artist’s passing in 2023.
Gallery hours are 10am-6pm Thursday and Friday, and 11am-6pm on Saturday. The exhibition is also available to view by appointment.
A free, full colour booklet with an essay by John Marchant is available to visitors.

ALISON LLoyD: 144 x 30 (2016-2022)
"The land knows you, even when you are lost." Robin Wall Kimmerer
As part of Photo Fringe 2024, this group exhibition curated by Jane and Jeremy, will bring together the work of artists who explore mankind's physical, emotional, and cultural connection to the land.
Taking over three spaces within the building at Marine Workshops, this exhibition will feature work by Rhiannon Adam, Alison Lloyd, Kathryn Martin, Véronique Rolland, Eric Hosking, Molly Maltman and Sara Knelman. Alongside the artworks will be an interactive space with books curated by Photoworks and a bookmaking area.

ALISON LLoyD: CONTOURING
We are very pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Alison Lloyd including photography, collage and drawing.
This exhibition of wall-based work is paired with a presentation of the recent film work ‘144 x 30 seconds’ (2016-2022) at Marine Workshops, Newhaven.

Delaine Le Bas: Rags of evidence
Rags Of Evidence revolves around Le Bas’ concerns around identity - how we present ourselves, how we are ‘read’ by others and how these narratives resonate through our culture. Le Bas has always used her own visual identity in her work, presenting with complicity and playing with archetypes and stereotypes as a Roma woman, challenging others who see her identity as fixed, when its very fluidity is what she is calling in to this very dialogue.

ALISON McKENNA: MOON SHRINES, WATER SPRINGS AND SACRED FLARES
We are delighted to announce the opening of our second show with British artist Alison McKenna. (UK, 1970), who works in a variety of media including painting, film, photography and collage.

HANS DE WIT: AFTERSIGNS
Our second exhibition with Hans de Wit, Aftersigns present works selected from drawings rendered at differing scales. Often de Wit makes his meticulous and orphic works at a scale measured in metres. For this presentation we offer smaller, more singular drawings.

MARCO VILLARD: ANGELS
Announcing the forthcoming show ‘Angels’ by Marco Villard (b.1992, lives and works NYC), following solo and group exhibitions in Athens and Los Angeles with Alkinois Gallery and Lobster Club, respectively. This will be Villard’s first exhibition in the UK.

JAMIE REid: INTO THE LIGHT, A Memorial Exhibition.
INTO THE LIGHT is a tribute to the artist Jamie MacGregor Reid (1947 – 2023) containing artworks from his personal archive. This exhibition was planned in the last year of Reid’s life and takes place as a memorial celebration of the artist’s work.

ALICE O’MALLEY ‘She’s Fire!’
Alice O’Malley is renowned for her portraits of New York’s most notorious downtown personalities.
This exhibition has been organised with the kind cooperation of the University of Ulster Art Gallery and The 2023 Outburst Festival in Belfast.

JEFF KEEN: 100 Years Of Dr Gaz
The '100 Years of Doctor Gaz' exhibition will feature large format photographs and film stills, painting, intimate drawings and a rolling presentation of film from the renowned career of one of the UK's most exciting and pioneering artists.

WOMEN IN REVOLT: ART & ACTIVISM IN THE UK 1970-1990
This exhibition is the first of its kind – a major survey of feminist art by over 100 women artists working in the UK. It explores how networks of women used radical ideas and rebellious methods to make an invaluable contribution to British culture.

ALICE O’MALLEY: Community of Elsewheres
Alice O’Malley is a New York photographer known for her portraits of New York’s most notorious downtown personalities. Community of Elsewheres is a queer intersectional space; a circle of celestial elders and underground angels that speak across generations.

LIGHT YEARS AHEAD
Artists… Monica Sjöö, Alice O’Malley, Delaine Le Bas, Vivienne Dick, Ptolemy Mann, Fiona Finnegan, Sandra Vasquez de la `Horra, Forouz Zarei, Jessica Mallock, Sarah Staton, Grace Ndiritu, Jennifer Binnie, Helen Melland and Alison McKenna. Light Years Ahead is curated by Alison McKenna

CANDY FACTORY
Candy Factory 2: Coum to Thee Nest, an exhibition featuring the collaborative work of the late Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Eric Heist.

RED MOON RISING: Early & Late work by Vivienne Dick
Red Moon Rising is an exhibition in two parts by renowned Irish film maker Vivienne Dick (b. Donegal, 1950).

Who You Staring At?
VISUAL CULTURE OF THE NO WAVE SCENE IN THE 1970S AND 1980S… Anya Phillips in a still from Vivienne Dick’s film Guérillère Talks (1978)

L'ORéE
L’orée - new work by Fabrice Cazenave opens at Galerie La Ferronnerie, Paris on Dec 15th - Jan 26th. Please check for holiday opening dates.

The Horror Show!: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
A major exhibition exploring how ideas rooted in horror have informed the last 50 years of creative rebellion. The show looks beyond horror as a genre, instead taking it as a reaction and provocation to our most troubling times.

JAMIE REID: TAKING LIBERTIES!
Jamie Reid / Talking Liberties!
Taking Liberties! is a rare opportunity to see some of Jamie Reid’s original works that not only established an entire counter-cultural visual aesthetic for the late 20th Century but also continues to be central to protest movements today.

FABRICE CAZENAVE: GROUP SHOW AMIENS
Fabrice Cazenave / Group Show Amiens
Group Show Amiens. A group show of work with accompanying texts. Fabrice Cazenave, Louis Clais, Gabriel Folli, Marie Glaize, Régis Jocteur Monrozier, Raphael Lecoquierre, Nancy Moreno, Yoann van Parys.

UNKNOWN TERRITORIES: HANS DE WIT
Exhibition ‘Unknown Territories’ Mette Sterre, Hans de Wit, Bas de Wit, Jonat Deelstra, Ninet Kaijser en Cathelijn van Goor. De Vishal, Haarlem. Netherlands.

Vivienne Dick: New York Our Time screening and Q&A
Filmmaker Vivienne Dick’s new film is an intimate and philosophical documentary that contrasts the concerns of present day living in New York with the bohemian wildness of the city in the late 70’s, reflected through the lives of artists, musicians and friends of the filmmaker.

JAMIE REID / NOKI: WORKS IN PAPER & CLOTH
Jamie Reid / Noki:
Works In Paper And Cloth exhibition.
VIVIENNE DICK: 192nd Annual Exhibition
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
23rd May - 24th July 2022
Admission Free

JAMIE REID: TIME FOR MAGIC
A year long project to sow Reid’s OVA glyph into the Cornish landscape. The project moves with the Druidic Eight Fold Year.

HOMMAGES: HENK DUIJN & HANS DE WIT
For the first time, friends Henk Duijn and Hans de Wit show their work together, under the heading 'Hommages'.

PARC
An Exhibition featuring Fabrice Cazenave, Brigitte Negrier, Benjamin Nachtwey and Alexandra Sa.

VIVIENNE DICK: REEL SANS ETRE REEL
An extensive survey presentation of Vivienne Dick’s celebrated film work from the 1970’s to date, at one of the most prestigious and iconic cultural institutions of Paris.

ANTIPOLIS
Antipolis by Fabrice Cazenave. End Of Residency Exhibition at Picasso Museum in Antibes.