Hales Gallery

Hales Gallery Contemporary art, est. 1992
London / New York

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Thursday - Saturday, 11am-6pm
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7 Bethnal Green Road
E1 6LA, London, UK
T +44 (0)20 7033 1938

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New York:
Thursday - Saturday, 11am-6pm
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547 West 20th Street
NY 10011, USA
T +1 646 590 0776

Now Open | Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK🔗 Link in bio to learn moreThrough...
03/06/2026

Now Open | Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK

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Through 1 November 2026

Hales is delighted to present ‘Path through Trees’, Haroun Hayward’s first solo institutional exhibition, now on view at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester. The exhibition showcases a new body of work developed following a joint residency with Pallant House Gallery and West Dean College.

Rooted in his experience studying the Sussex landscape, Hayward combines ideas from abstract expressionism, 1990s dance music, rave culture, graffiti, and his mother’s South Asian and West African textiles. His vibrant, hybrid approach blends rhythm and texture, using oil stick techniques that echo embroidery.

This series of new works was inspired by post-war British artists such as Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Edward Burra, Ceri Richards, Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland in Pallant House Gallery’s collection, and which can be seen in the major exhibition ‘British Landscapes: A Sense of Place’, on view at Pallant House Gallery concurrently with Path Through Trees.

Offering a bold and contemporary response to British landscape painting, ‘Path Through Trees’ highlights Hayward’s distinctive visual language and expanding practice.

Images: Installation views, Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees at Pallant House, Chichester, UK. Photograph by Pallant House Gallery/Chris Ison

Hales wishes Martyn Cross a happy birthday! 🔗 Link in bio to learn more about Martyn Cross. Cross is primarily a painter...
02/06/2026

Hales wishes Martyn Cross a happy birthday!
 
🔗 Link in bio to learn more about Martyn Cross.
 
Cross is primarily a painter engaged with ‘world making.’ The act of painting for him is a means to explore the inner life and strangeness of the ordinary. Each work begins in reality, with recognizable limbs and elements of landscape, which transform into uncanny scenes.
 
In the studio Cross surrounds himself with the eclectic things that inspire him, including images of medieval wall painting, old English churches, the work of Forest Bess, Cecil Collins and William Blake, to science fiction books and walking sticks. The myriad of inspiration enters subconsciously into the work. Reoccurring motifs emerge — billowing clouds, tumbling waterfalls, oversized pointing fingers and bright suns create an immersive world. Biomorphic landscapes speak to mythologies, but in Cross’s paintings the narratives are knowingly ambiguous. Familiar and mysterious, quiet and epic, scale and irregularity in proportion puzzles the viewer. Questions remain unanswered and meaning remains a mystery to the artist himself.
 
Martyn Cross, ‘My Head Catches Fire’, 2025 is currently included in the Drawing Biennial 2026 at Drawing Room, London, which brings together over 300 works by artists at the forefront of contemporary practice. The exhibition reaffirms drawing as a fundamental and enduring discipline while supporting Drawing Room’s public programme.
 
Image 1: Portrait of Martyn Cross, 2022
Image 2: Martyn Cross, My Head Catches Fire, 2025. Charcoal and pastel on paper: 21 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy the artist and Drawing Room, London.
Imag 3: Installation views of Drawing Biennial 2026, Drawing Room, London. Photography: Benjamin Deakin.
 

Ken Kiff was born on this day, 29 May in 1935.🔗 Link in bio to learn more about Ken Kiff.Kiff is a British artist known ...
29/05/2026

Ken Kiff was born on this day, 29 May in 1935.

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Kiff is a British artist known for his visionary and distinct painting practice. Primarily a painter, Kiff pursued the formal qualities of painting - of shape, line, texture, transparency and colour. His practice was driven by an exploration of the material and emotional properties of colour, viewing colour as image, and image as colour. He melded figuration and abstraction, allowing colour and meaning to enhance one another. Although recognized during his lifetime, he carved a solitary path, maintaining a commitment to the pictorial and symbolic values of modernism at a time when Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art dominated. In recent years there has been a renewed interest in his work in the context of contemporary figurative painting, with many younger artists turning to Kiff’s work for inspiration.  

Earlier this month, Hales presented a solo exhibition of prints by Ken Kiff at the London Original Print Fair. Working in parallel with his painting practice, Kiff devoted significant time and thought to printmaking, developing a rich and varied body of work across almost every printmaking technique. The presentation preceded the forthcoming publication of Ken Kiff: The Complete Prints by Thames & Hudson, a comprehensive catalogue raisonnĂ© of the artist’s prints.

Image 1: Portrait of Ken Kiff, courtesy of the artist’s estate
Image 2: Installation view, Hales Gallery at London Original Print Fair, Booth S10. Photo by Damian Griffiths16

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Exhibition Extended | Kay WalkingStick, ‘Mesas/Mountains/Sky’ at Hales New YorkShow extended through 6 June 2026🔗Link in...
27/05/2026

Exhibition Extended | Kay WalkingStick, ‘Mesas/Mountains/Sky’ at Hales New York

Show extended through 6 June 2026

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Image 1: Kay WalkingStick, Ascent to Ouray, 2025
Image 2: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York
Image 3: Kay WalkingStick, Silverton, 2025
Image 4: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York
Image 5: Kay WalkingStick, Galena Pass Sketch I, 2023
Image 6: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York

Opening Soon | Ally Fallon, ‘At the still point of the turning world’ at Hales London🔗Link in bio to learn more.4 June –...
26/05/2026

Opening Soon | Ally Fallon, ‘At the still point of the turning world’ at Hales London

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4 June – 17 July 2026
Opening reception: Sunday 7 June, 12 – 3pm coinciding with London Gallery Weekend

Hales is delighted to announce ‘At the still point of the turning world’, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ally Fallon. This marks the artist’s debut solo show with the gallery, following on from his inclusion in Hales group show ‘A Room for Keepsakes’ (2025-2026). Fallon was named the winner of the 2025 John Moores Painting Prize, becoming the youngest artist to win the prestigious award. This year he will have a solo exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery and is featured in New Contemporaries which tours from South London Gallery to MIMA.

Fallon’s painting practice deftly combines structure and spontaneity, drawing on personal experience and a sustained engagement with interior spaces. Working within the legacy of British abstraction, his paintings extend a lineage concerned with materiality, spatial tension, and the act of painting, while introducing a contemporary sensitivity rooted in lived environments and psychological space. Central to his practice is the process of painting: an exploratory approach to colour, line, and material that allows each work to reveal itself through its physical components. 

Image 1: Ally Fallon, The Night Smelt of Moss, 2026.
Images 2: Ally Fallon, Neither Flesh nor Fleshless, 2026.
Photos by Michael Pollard

Hales wishes Rachael Champion a happy birthday! 🔗Link in bio to learn more.Champion’s artworks explore the physical, ma...
20/05/2026

Hales wishes Rachael Champion a happy birthday!

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Champion’s artworks explore the physical, material, and historical relationships between ecology, industry, and the built environment. Her works are typically large in scale and consist of living organisms and ubiquitous building materials. Coalescing at an intersection between biology, geology, and architecture, Champion’s work addresses the corporeality of the materials we extract, transform, and consume and how these actions affect the physical characteristics of landscapes, ecosystems, and the built environment.

Recently, Rachael Champion & Jonathan Trayte’s public sculpture, ‘Seed’, Reading, was nominated for the 2026 PSSA Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.

‘Seed’ is a site-specific public sculpture inspired by Sutton’s Seeds and Reading’s horticultural heritage. Merging botany, history and microscopy, the work takes the form of a Calendula officinalis (pot marigold) seed, set on a brick terrazzo plinth referencing Reading’s brickmaking history. Bronze reliefs of magnified seed textures, selected through a public engagement programme, reflect themes of growth, transformation and renewal.

Image 1: Portrait of Rachael Champion
Image 2: ‘Seed’, Rachael Champion & Jonathan Trayte at Station Hill, Reading, UK. Image by Andy Stagg

Closing Soon | Emma Talbot, ‘Always in Transformation’ at Hales London 🔗Link in bio to learn more.Through 22nd May 2026A...
19/05/2026

Closing Soon | Emma Talbot, ‘Always in Transformation’ at Hales London

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Through 22nd May 2026

A solo exhibition of works by Emma Talbot, Always in Transformation, presents silk paintings, intimate drawings and sculpture. Talbot’s practice explores the complexity of our relationship with nature, technology and the world around us, combining myth and storytelling with futuristic perspectives to create thought-provoking works.

In Always in Transformation Talbot’s work offers a reminder of our fundamental connection to the natural world and to one another. In her body of silk paintings Everything is Energy, human figures, rock formations, flowing water, plants and trees are imbued with a living energy—suggesting an ecosystem in which all elements are interconnected. Ideas of transformation and continuity are central to her practice. Talbot’s process often involves intuitively making drawings before delving into extensive research, intertwining her findings with myth, memory and observation to tell the stories of our time. Her sculptural forms extend these ideas into three dimensions, giving physical presence to concepts that might otherwise remain intangible.

Image 1: Installation view, Emma Talbot, Always in Transformation, Hales London, 23 April - 22 May 2026.
Image 2: Emma Talbot, Magical Garden, Fuchsia, Parsley, Venom, 2025.
Image 3: Installation view, Emma Talbot, Always in Transformation, Hales London, 23 April - 22 May 2026
Image 4: Emma Talbot, Rootless Plant, 2023
Photos by Damian Griffiths

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“Virginia Jaramillo is one of Frieze New York 2026’s biggest names. A pioneer of abstraction, the New Yorker is showing ...
16/05/2026

“Virginia Jaramillo is one of Frieze New York 2026’s biggest names. A pioneer of abstraction, the New Yorker is showing new works at Hales (C07) in her career-spanning ‘Curvilinear’ series, begun in the 1960s.” – Frieze

As we go into the weekend, we’re delighted to see our solo presentation of Virginia Jaramillo at Frieze New York featured across the press.

We’re grateful for the thoughtful coverage from .official and others highlighting Jaramillo’s presentation at the fair.

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Ken Kiff at London Original Print Fair Booth S1014 – 17 May 2026Somerset House, Strand, London🔗Learn more about our pres...
16/05/2026

Ken Kiff at London Original Print Fair

Booth S10
14 – 17 May 2026
Somerset House, Strand, London

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Kiff described his approach to printmaking as: “Respect for the medium, I suppose that’s the obvious starting-point... It does feel, in stroking a stone with litho-pencil, or cutting into copper or wood, as though you’re listening to what the wood, or copper or stone is saying; it may sound fanciful, but I think printers do tend to feel that. That is a kind of deep response to printmaking.”

Spanning twenty years of printmaking, the presentation highlights key woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and large-scale monotypes. Working in parallel with his painting practice, Kiff devoted significant time and thought to printmaking, developing a rich and varied body of work across almost every printmaking technique.

Images:
Untitled - Lightning (1), 1989, Monotype. Photo by Damian Griffiths
Green Flower, 1991, Woodcut on paper. Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates
Man and Serpent, 1993, Burnished aquatint, drypoint, and mezzotint. Photo by Damian Griffiths
A Step and a Boat Among Changing Forms, 1994, Drypoint, and roulette on paper. Photo by Prudence Cuming Associates
Street: Four Sections, c. 1988, Woodcut on paper. Photo by Damian Griffiths

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ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk: Thursday, May 14th, 5–8pm⁠🔗Link in bio to learn more.Hales New York is delighted to participa...
14/05/2026

ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk: Thursday, May 14th, 5–8pm⁠

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Hales New York is delighted to participate in this year’s ADAA Chelsea Gallery Walk.

As part of the event, Hales New York will remain open after hours for extended viewing of our current exhibition Kay WalkingStick, ‘Mesas/Mountains/Sky’.

Image: Installation view, Kay WalkingStick, Mesas/Mountains/Sky at Hales New York. Photo by JSP Art Photography

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