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03/06/2026

This is the third work in Emily Allchurch's new exhibition 'FLOW', a series of twelve new digital photographic collages that follow the River Thames over the course of a year as it runs from the Cotswolds to the North Sea.

Here at Oxford the river encounters its first major settlement, flowing around the western and southern edges of the city. The location for March’s scene of early spring is the intersection of the River Thames, the former trading superhighway, with the freight and passenger railway line (Great Western Railway) from London Paddington, which superseded it. This view references the houseboat community, which exists in many places along the Thames, and for whom the river is home.

Currently on show at the gallery until 20 June. More details via link in bio 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

Artwork details:
Emily Allchurch
FLOW: March – Oxford
Archival C-type print, edition of 15 + 2APs, 2026
Image size: 72cm H x 48cm W / Framed size: 76.6cm H x 52.6cm W

30/05/2026

'The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial’ opens at the Saatchi Gallery in London next Friday 5 June.

On display as part of the exhibition will be this painting by Mark Connolly of a dreaming figure floating above Charlton in South London by moonlight. This work was first exhibited at our gallery in ‘Out of the Darkness, Into the Light’ in 2024, and it is fantastic that it will be given a new showing in such a spectacular exhibition. The details are:

Mark Connolly
Dreaming of the sky above Charlton
Oil, collage & paper on canvas, 2024
180cm W x 210cm H

The exhibition opens on Friday 5 June and continues until 8 September. Visit the Saatchi Gallery for more details

With any enquiries on this painting please contact James Freeman Gallery – [email protected]

29/05/2026

This is the second work in Emily Allchurch's new exhibition 'FLOW', a series of twelve new digital photographic collages that follow the River Thames over the course of a year as it runs from the Cotswolds to the North Sea.

Approximately 20 miles downstream from the Thames Head, the riverbank and St. Lawrence Church in the Gloucestershire market town of Lechlade (the highest navigable point of the River Thames) are depicted in the picturesque quiet of a winter’s dawn. This bucolic setting, with swans and frost-tipped grasses, already shows signs of human intervention: mooring poles, a discarded bottle and ‘private property’ signage, alongside the medieval church which bears testament to our long historical connection to the river.

Currently on show at the gallery until 20 June. More details via link in bio 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

Artwork details:
Emily Allchurch
FLOW: February – Lechlade
Archival C-type print, edition of 15 + 2APs, 2026
Image size: 72cm H x 48cm W / Framed size: 76.6cm H x 52.6cm W

28/05/2026

Next week ‘The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial’ opens at the Saatchi Gallery in London, a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity, and belief throughout human history and across different cultures.

Occupying two floors of the Gallery and spanning nine major exhibition spaces, the show presents artworks, installations, and objects that reveal how artists have responded to the Sun and the Moon.

On display as part of the exhibition will be this new painting by Gill Button, created especially for the show:

Gill Button
Under the Pale Pink Moon
Acrylic and oil on linen, 2026
95cm W x 140cm H

The exhibition opens on Friday 5 June and continues until 8 September. Visit the Saatchi Gallery for more details.

With any enquiries on this painting please contact James Freeman Gallery – [email protected]

27/05/2026

'FLOW: January – Thames Head' is the first work in Emily Allchurch's new exhibition 'FLOW', a series of twelve new digital photographic collages that follow the River Thames over the course of a year as it runs from the Cotswolds to the North Sea.

This frosty January scene captures the River Thames in its infancy, inviting the viewer to cross the wooden stile (with a dog-walker’s lost glove and ball) into Trewsbury Mead, a meadow three miles south of Cirencester in the Cotswolds, leading to its official source marked by a famous stone. Here begins the Thames Path, a National Trail, that utilises the old towpaths to form a continuous leisure trail to the Flood Barrier in Woolwich.

Currently on show at the gallery until 20 June. More details via link in bio.

Artwork details:
Emily Allchurch
FLOW: January – Thames Head
Archival C-type print, edition of 15 + 2APs, 2026
Image size: 72cm H x 48cm W / Framed size: 76.6cm H x 52.6cm W

16/05/2026

LAST CHANCE TO SEE

Today Saturday 16 May is the last day to see 'Origins of the Species' with work from Fantich & Young, Liane Lang RA, Sol Bailey Barker, Andy Harper, and Lesley Hilling.

More details via link in bio 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

13/05/2026

Final week to see 'Origins of the Species' with works from Liane Lang RA, Andy Harper, Sol Bailey Barker, Fantich & Young, and Lesley Hilling.

The exhibition continues until this Saturday 16 May.

More details via link in bio 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

06/05/2026

Andy Harper's series of 'Head' paintings in our current exhibition 'Origins of the Species', until.16 May.

Andy Harper’s paintings resemble botanical studies of exotic flora, where an organic sample has been removed from its context to be observed with analytical clarity. His paintings, however represent nothing in nature. They are instead pure painterly abstraction, arrangements of myriad different ways of making marks with oil paint embedded into frameworks to give them structure. The result is an invented version of nature that is purely man-made. The works thus explore one of the fundamental forces that drives the creative act: the creation of a new world, related to the one we live in but mediated and moulded entirely by the experience of the individual.

More details via link in bio 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

01/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE

FLOW
New Works by Emily Allchurch
21 May - 20 June 2026

Opening Reception:
Thursday 21 May, 6:30 - 8:30pm

We are pleased to present FLOW, a collection of twelve new works by Emily Allchurch that follow the River Thames over the course of a year as it runs from the Cotswolds to the North Sea.

The Thames is England’s longest river, flowing through nine counties on a 215-mile journey from its source in Gloucestershire to Southend where it meets the North Sea. It represents a fluid history of the country through traces of centuries of human activity: from Magna Carta’s Runnymede, the locks, weirs and embankments of the Industrial Revolution, modern interventions such as the creation of the Thames Path from historical towpaths, hydro-power at Reading, and the Thames Flood Barrier.

In 2025 Emily Allchurch followed its course over a calendar year, exploring 12 locations, one for each month of the year, from January at its source at Thames Head in the Cotswolds to the mouth at Southend-on-Sea in December. Each location, spaced at around 20-mile intervals, was chosen to show a different facet to the story of the Thames today. The series unfolds from the almost timeless pastoral landscape of its upper reaches, via the ultra-managed river banks of London, to the industrialised stretches east of the capital. The works celebrate the natural beauty to be found along the entirety of the river, despite the pressure from human impact.

FLOW at James Freeman Gallery will be the first time the full collection is exhibited. The opening reception is on Thursday 21 May, 6:30 – 8:30pm. To receive the PDF preview of works shortly before the show opens please contact the gallery.

Image:
Emily Allchurch
FLOW: October - Thames Flood Barrier
Archival C-type print, edition of 15 + 2APs, 2026
Image size: 72cm H x 48cm W / Framed size: 77.2cm H x 53.2cm W

29/04/2026

Lesley Hilling
Sphere 16
Assembled found wood & objects, 2026
20cm diameter

Lesley Hilling’s sculptures take a cartographic approach to the soul, recognising how life is lived through objects and that a person’s belongings tell the tale of their days. Her works are made from the discarded detritus of everyday existence: old furniture, toys and gears, photographs and magazine clippings, all deconstructed and re-assembled in compositions like maps of imaginary cities. The works are lyrical, echoing Mondrian’s New York paintings and Joseph Cornell’s poetical assemblage boxes. In contrast to our increasingly virtual existence, Lesley places value on the physical traces of life, through sculptures that suggest how the objects we live with connect an individual’s inner world with the physical world without.

Part of our current exhibition 'Origins of the Species'. More details via link in bio 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

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