7 Questions for U.K. Artist Nicola Green on How Art Can Preserve Historic Moments and Drive Change

In partnership with Facet and Fable, Green's work is presented by Zuleika Gallery in London this week.

Artnet Gallery Network, December 1, 2022

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Corinna Lotz's review of Frances Aviva Blane's work can be read here.

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On Thursday 9th June we had a wonderful evening celebrating the private view of Vibrant Jouneys in Paint, our new exhibtion opening at the Stables Cafe, Blenheim Palace. 

Zuleika Gallery is delighted to have been mentioned in the article titled 'Where to buy art when you can't afford a Bronzino' by Luke Edward Hall. 

We are delighted to share with you our new blog containing an online intevirew with artist Amy Stephens, in which she discuss the body of work in her new exhibition Amy Stephens - A Stone is a Rock Out of Place and her practice.

During our current exhibition ‘Nigel Hall and RA and Manijeh Yadegar Hall’ we are delighted to share an excerpt from the conversation between one of the most esteemed and respected sculptors in Britain, Nigel Hall RA, and Lizzie Collins, founder and director of Zuleika Gallery.

The exhibition is open until 19 July 2021 at Zuleika Gallery, Woodstock.

In the final week of 'Stuart Hartley: Brave New World' we are delighted to share a conversation between artist, Stuart Hartley and Hannah Payne, Senior Director at Zuleika Gallery. 

Artist and social historian Nicola Green is interviewed by Professor Martin Kemp during the final weeks of Nicola Green’s solo exhibition ‘Unity’, filmed at Zuleika Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The exhibition 'Unity' includes Nicola’s iconic works related to the time when the artist witnessed, first hand, Barack Obama’s meteoric rise to power as the first African-American President of the United States in 2008. Special thanks to Martin Kemp, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, University of Oxford. Film by Guy Oliver for Zuleika Gallery.

Paul Hobson, Director, Modern Art Oxford selects 'Best Entries' in Art From The Heat 2021, a 100% non-profit exhibition supporting artists working in the UK, and in aid of cancer charity, Maggie's.

This year at London Art Fair: Edit, we provided a live exhibition tour of our current exhibition for London Art Fair VIP Programme. In this video, artist Nicola Green talks about her works in the exhibition 'Unity', hosted from Zuleika Gallery, Woodstock on 21st January 2021.

A transcript of an interview between Renée B. Adams, Professor of Finance at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and artist Nicola Green in relation to Nicola Green’s exhibition Unity at Zuleika Gallery, November 2020 - March 2021.

This interview was recorded on Thursday 14th January, the week before President Biden's Inauguration on 21st January 2020. A link to view the video of this converation can be found at the end of this transcript.

In this short video, Japanese artist Yasushi Yamabe (b. 1958) is shown painting a large scale landscape painting in his studio in Kyoto, Japan. 

In this conversation, British artist, Daniel Crawshaw discusses his emotive landscape paintings with Hannah Payne, Senior Director, Zuleika Gallery, focussing on Crawshaw's paintings in the exhibition 'Remote Lands' presented at Zuleika Gallery. 

In this online conversation, film maker, Penny Woolcock talks to Lizzie Collins, Founder and Director of Zuleika Gallery talks about British abstract painter, Frances Aviva Blane. 

This 'In Conversation' event with artist Femke Dekkers and guest curator Anstice Oakeshott was hosted live and recorded online from Zuleika Gallery in Woodstock, 6th November 2020, to coincide with Photo Oxford Festival, celebrating the inaugural exhibition of contemporary photography at Zuleika Gallery:

'Femke Dekkers - Open Space'.

In this interview, filmed at the artist's studio, Ceramicist, Claudia Clare talks to Lizzie Collins, Director of Zuleika Gallery about her new pots, now showing in 'Fragmented - Frances Aviva Blane and Claudia Clare' at Zuleika Gallery, London.

Ahead of a forthcoming exhibition with Zuleika Gallery in London, British abstract painter Frances Aviva Blane was interviewed at her studio by film maker Penny Woolcock. The exhibition titled: 'Fragmented' is a duo show of two artists, featuring new work produced over lockdown by Blane alongside new work by ceramic artist, Claudia Clare. In this short video, Frances Aviva Blane discusses the new paintings from the exhibition.

In August 2020 during lockdown, Sewell Centre Gallery curator Amanda Jewell visited Zuleika Gallery artist Alyssa Dabbs at her studio to talk about her recent works, the process of producing her large scale abstract paintings, how she's been working in a smaller scale over lockdown, as well as creating a virtual exhibition for her Loughborough University Final Degree Show, 2020. 

We filmed the socially-distanced studio visit for our series of Lockdown Artist Interviews.

We opened our new gallery in Woodstock on 17th August 2020. Art historian and Woodstock resident Dr Janina Ramirez sent us a welcome video message, we are delighted to join the vibrant artistic community in Oxforshire and look forward to welcoming you to the gallery soon!

In July 2020, as lock down restrictions following the Coronavirus pandemic were beginning to ease, Lizzie Collins, Director of Zuleika Gallery visited Nigel Hall at his studio in South London to talk about life during lock down, Hall's works in development including his large-scale and smaller abstract sculptures, new charcoal drawings, and works on canvas.

This exhibition is a collaboration between Zuleika Gallery and Harry Moore-Gwyn and features 38 drawings and watercolours by some of the leading exponents of the neo-romantic movement in Britain from the collection of the late John Constable. Constable, who died at the age of 91 last year, was one of life's true connoisseurs and aesthetes, who spent his lifetime collecting and researching art. It has been a pleasure to catalogue this collection, some of which we present here, and we are grateful to his business partner Nigel Collins for all his support in putting this together. 

At the opening of the exhibition Lizzie Collins, Director of Zuleika Gallery and Harry Moore-Gwyn met at the Masons Yard gallery in London to discuss some of the highlights for a short video. We have compiled some of the highlights here, and the highlights video can be viewed at the link at the end of this blog.

On 20th May 2020, British Painter Frances Aviva Blane was due to talk to psychoanalyst and writer Susie Orbach at ‘Smashed up Paint’ at The Freud Museum, London, before the event was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Instead, Orbach visited Blane at her studio, where they undertook a ‘socially distanced’ conversation on the subject of the artist’s paintings, ideas and process, with reference to the current lockdown situation. The short film directed by Penny Woolcock, filmed by Leo Regan and edited by Alex Fry is called Two Metres Apart and was shot at the time of the virus. 

We have transcribed the first part of the conversation to share on the Zuleika Gallery blog, with some stills and images from the studio visit. The 12 minute film 'Two Metres Apart' is available to view on YouTube.

During the period of lockdown, we have been undertaking interviews with our artists, either online over Zoom, or by visiting studios and filming socially distanced interviews to share on our YouTube channel, and to feature on our gallery blog. This week we asked Amanda Jewell, curator at the Sewell Centre Gallery, to talk to Sam Wadsworth about the drawings and woodcuts presented in his current solo exhibition 'Sam Wadsworth: The Nudes, From Drawings to Woodcuts', showing online until 20th June. Here's an overview of the interview that took place over Zoom. A filmed studio visit will follow in the coming weeks.

'British artist Sam Wadsworth is known for his portraits and landscapes and is a regular exhibitor with the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. Based in the Northamptonshire village of Kelmarsh, I spoke to him via Zoom about his current exhibition at Zuleika Gallery and about his personal lockdown challenges...