December'25 Exhibitions 🎨
"Art is creating beauty with the empty spaces"
Just like that, the year has come to a close. Honestly, it’s been a fast and intense year, but an incredible one for art, filled with beautiful exhibitions that inspired me, meaningful conversations with artists and fellow art lovers and the discovery of new artists that I can’t wait to see more of! I am also grateful to both old and new subscribers. Thank you for rocking with me!
Like the summer months, December tends to be a little quieter, with many galleries carrying longer-running shows into the new year, which makes this month’s selection a real gift and an opportunity to really sit with the work.
So as always, grab a warm drink, your favourite fit, and take some time to immersive yourself in the beautiful exhibitions on show!
CATO
I have really enjoyed discovering Cato’s work this year, from his show at Sim Smith to his booth at Frieze London, and I can’t wait to see this new solo at Saatchi Yates. This new show centres Black domestic and communal life in South London through scenes in barbershops, diners, studios, and salons that feel intimate, warm, and deeply familiar. His process of cutting, collaging, and layering photographs into vibrant paintings gives the work a distinctive rhythm and energy. I love how he exaggerates hands, heads, and gestures, making everyday moments feel monumental. His work has always felt rooted in lived experience, while still allowing space for imagination and dreaming. This new exhibition is no different; it feels like one of those shows that invites you to slow down, look closely, and see yourself reflected in someone else’s world.
Details
Showing from the 13th November till 11th January 2026
14 Bury Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6AL
STACEY GILLIAN ABE ~ GARDEN OF BLUE WHISPERS
‘Garden of Blue Whispers’ is Stacey Gillian Abe’s latest exhibition at Unit. I was fortunate to meet her and receive a walkthrough during her first solo show at Unit in 2022, so I am eager to experience this new chapter in a journey that began there. This exhibition deepens her practice, drawing on memories of her home village in Uganda and translating them through touch, sound, scent, and sight. Her use of embroidery stitched directly into the canvas transforms a domestic practice passed down through generations of women in her family into something meditative and expansive. Indigo remains central to her work, and I am drawn to how she reclaims it as skin, soil, and lineage, creating a space where her figures can exist freely. As a love letter to her late grandmother, the exhibition carries a quiet emotional weight, inviting you to slow down, look closely, and sit with how memory, land, and lineage gently unfold through material.
Details
Showing from the 03rd December till 31st January 2026
3 Hanover Square, London W1S 1HD
OFUNNE AZINGE ~ HOME IS WHERE MY FEET LAND
When I first came across Ofunne Azinge’s work, I was struck by how deeply grounded it is in personal history while offering a powerful rethinking of portraiture, identity, and belonging, and ‘Home Is Where My Feet Land’ feels like a natural continuation of that exploration. The way she brings together painting, photography, and image transfer reinforces the idea of home as something carried rather than fixed, and as someone who has also lived between Nigeria and the UK, this deeply resonates with me. Drawing on photographic language, she places her subjects in poses historically coded as masculine, subtly subverting traditional power structures while centring Black women in works that feel both powerful and affirming. This exhibition reads as a growing archive of connection and self-definition, creating space to reconsider what home, power, and representation can mean.
Details
Showing from the 25th November till 10th January 2026
19 Great Titchfield St., London W1W 8AZ
HOWARDENA PINDELL ~ OFF THE GRID
White Cube Bermondsey is one of my favourite galleries, and I love how the space complements the works on show, making it the perfect place to experience the full breadth of Howardena Pindell’s practice and to see how abstraction, material experimentation, and politics are inseparable in her work. ‘Off the Grid’ spans six decades, bringing together large-scale paintings, sculpture, and video in an exhibition that feels both expansive and urgent, especially given how openly Pindell addresses racism, sexism, and violence while still allowing space for wonder, colour, and transformation. Through layering, stitching, spray dots, hole punches, and circles, she carries memories of segregation, labour, mathematics, and African textile traditions. This exhibition not only deepens your understanding of abstraction but also reminds you of its power as a tool for resistance, memory, and healing.
Details
Showing from the 21st November till 18th January 2026
144–152 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3TQ
WINSTON BRANCH ~ OUT OF THE CALABASH
I love the joy and energy that come with abstract painting, and the sense of freedom I find in it is why I am really excited to see Winston Branch’s inaugural exhibition with Goodman Gallery. Returning to large-scale works with a new openness and clarity, he explores colour, light, and space through a physical, embodied process. His practice, shaped by a life lived between the Caribbean, the UK, Europe, and the US, brings a layered sense of meaning to the work, while his use of colour feels full of warmth and movement. This exhibition feels like a celebration of painting as something generous and alive, and I can’t wait to experience how abstraction can hold history, movement, and joy all at once.
Details
Showing from the 27th November till 17th January 2026
26 Cork Street, W1S 3ND
STILL SHOWING
Similar to last month, there are still some featured shows from previous months that are still showing. If you have seen them already, why not go again?
Nigerian Modernism
Ends on the 10th May 2026
Showing at Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG
Kerry James Marshall ~ The Histories
Ends on the 18th January 2026
Showing at Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Umar Rashid ~ The Epoch Of Totalitarianism, Part 3 — The Civil Wars And The Uncivilized Wars (See Power)
Ends on the 17th January 2026
Showing at Tiwani Contemporary, 24 Cork St, London, W1S 3NG
Rita Mawuena Benissan ~ The Ones Before Her Were Covered In Gold
Ends on the 20th December 2025
Showing at Gallery 1957, 1 Hyde Park Gate, London SW7 5EW
I hope you get a chance to check them out.
Peace and love 🙏🏾🖤
FJ