Topping Out: a solo exhibition of new sculpture and works on paper at: Gurr Johns, 16 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5LU

Curated by Thorp Stavri

20-25th January 10-5pm

Curators talk Saturday 15th January 11am

OENERIC , Blanco Gallery, The Millers House London E3

2-13th October 2025

Oneiric, an exhibition curated by Adela Blanco and featuring the work of London-based artists Margarita Frančeska Loze, Misha Horacek, Samantha Sweeting, Julian Wild, and Jane Woollatt. The term oneiric, meaning ‘relating to dreams’, reflects the exhibition’s engagement with the shifting terrain of memory, dreams and imagination. Through Julian Wild’s sculptures, the textiles and installations of Jane Woollatt and Margarita Loze, and the projection of the short film Daughters of Blodeuwedd by Misha Horacek and Samantha Sweeting, the artworks evoke the elusive ways in which recollections surface - part fact, part invention - within an atmosphere that encourages contemplation and discovery.

 Echoing the mythic origins of the film, Oneiric takes place in a setting imbued with history and storytelling. The House Mill is a Grade I listed heritage building constructed in 1776 on the medieval foundations of an earlier mill. Standing on an island on the River Lea, it forms part of the historic Three Mills complex, with origins recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Its vast wooden interiors, weathered textures and time-worn beams carry a quiet poetry, embodying traces of past events. This atmosphere resonates profoundly with Oneiric’s dream-infused aesthetic, making the site not merely a backdrop but an active participant in the exhibition’s unfolding narrative.

FOLLY- A RETROSPECTIVE

21st June -10th September

Floreat House, 33 Grosvenor Street, London W1

In collaboration with Modern Forms, MTArt Agency presents Folly, a survey of Julian Wild’s work from the last 10 years. The exhibition presents a dramatic interplay between Wild’s practice and the lavish interiors of Floreat House, a Georgian mansion in Mayfair.

Hussam Otaibi (founder of Modern Forms) was the first person to purchase Wild’s work back in 2003. This exhibition celebrates his continued collection of Wild’s work over those two decades, presenting both Wild’s sculptures and his rarely seen works on paper and paintings.

Wild’s works allude to minimal sculptures disrupted by interventions and gestures within their form. He uses colour as an agent to exaggerate the contrast between two elements or to give an object a presence in space. The vibrant colours that he uses make references to industrial colours and modernist sculpture.

He has developed a number of oeuvres: these have grown from the earlier geometric Indeterminate Series to the recent more playful Crush sculptures. The works that he has made in his career are consistent in their investigation into sculptural language through material, form and surface driven on by a need as an artist to present his perspective on the world: a world that contains success and failure in equal measures. Wild works with materials, processes, and found objects that are subverting their purpose often with humour, occupying the space between finish and failure.

Central to, and lending its name to the exhibition is Folly- a 2.2m tall sculpture fabricated from recycled steel i-beams and crumpled sections of stainless steel. This is a modern day folly made from a construction material that revolutionised the built environment, held up by expressive polished elements that endeavour to commune together to create a seemingly haphazard structure. This sculpture references both the ‘Folly of man’ as well as Wild’s own personal narrative.

ANNUAL LEAVE - CURATED BY ALISON HAND AND SIMON YATES

An exhibition exploring ideas around Michel Foucault's Heterotopias.The artists in the exhibition touch on alternative worlds and hierarchies, humour and absurdity.

Andrew Grinham, Kirsten Glass, Poppy Whatmore, Simon Yates, Frances Richardson, Julian Wild, Alison Hand, Office for Subversive Architecture.

The Art Academy, 185 Park Street, Bankside, SE1 9BL

Open from 21st May to 30th May.