Current Exhibition

Push / Pull - Lucienne O’Mara and Johnny Abrahams

3 April 2025 – 29 June 2025
 
Vigo Gallery is pleased to present Push / Pull at Wellington Arch, a joint exhibition of new paintings by Lucienne O’Mara and Johnny Abrahams. 

Push / Pull brings together two London-based artists whose practices negotiate the interplay between control and order. United by a shared understanding of the primacy of the materiality of paint, both artists’ visual languages are grounded in the repetition of forms. For O’Mara, this takes shape as a grid structure; for Abrahams, it manifests through rhythmic sequences of geometric forms. Disparate yet interconnected, these two artists balance the opposing forces of adherence to formulae versus working against and challenging these boundaries.

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Past exhibitions include: 

• Edenism, by Leonhard Hurzlmeier. Drawing from Medieval and Renaissance art, particularly Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Hurzlmeier sees the Eden narrative as a metaphor for humanity's evolution from hunter-gatherer culture to civilisation.
• CRISPR @ 80, by Duncan MacAskill. Duncan MacAskill’s ongoing DNA paintings series which lies at the core of his practice.
  
• Haraz, by Ibrahim El-Salahi . Comprised of works from both El-Salahi's celebrated Tree series, many of which featured in his 2013 Tate Modern retrospective, and more recent Pain Relief works on paper and canvas, the exhibition reflects El-Salahi’s fascination with the Haraz tree, indigenous to Sudan.
• Prost, by Henry Krokatsis. The exhibition included an installation that transformed the interior space of Wellington Arch. In place of fine hardwoods, Krokatsis’ functional yet subversive remake of the floor used two tonnes of discarded material.
• Invincible Summer, by Erin Lawlor. The exhibition depicted snapshots of windows of time in the studio and come to encapsulate that peculiar life-drive that goes hand in hand with the hardest of times.

• In and Through, by Matthew Burrows. The exhibition included larger scale works by Matthew Burrows, the fruition of his In and Through series which he developed during the COVID pandemic.  

• Vertical Planes, by artist Jordy Kerwick. Vertical Planes is a playful reaction to history - or alternate histories - of Wellington Arch and some of the characters immortalised by it.

• Pain Relief, by artist Ibrahim El-Salahi. Work on display was created by the Sudanese Oxford-based artist between 2016-2018 from the comfort of an armchair when he refused to let physical restriction limit his ambition.