Recommended to see: exhibitions this June
Exhibitions featuring Peter Godwin, modernist design and a celebration of Chelsea are recommended this week
Immagini e memoria: Rome in the photographs of Father Peter Paul Mackey, 1890-1901. Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP 19th June – 12th September
Nic Fiddian-Green exhibition “Bold New Work” at Sladmore Gallery, 32 Bruton Place London W1:. The sculptor’s first exhibition of new work in four years, and later in the Spring the unveiling of the monumental 30ft “Horse’s Head” at the Daylesford Organic Estate in Gloucestershire. 16th June – 3rd July 2009
Peter Godwin: First UK exhibition by the celebrated Australian artist. Nevill Keating McIlroy, 5 Pickering Place, St James’s street, London SW1A 1EA. (020 7839 8386; www.nevillkeating.com) 17 June – 10 July 2009 (Private view: 16 June)
CLOSING SOON
Thomas Nathaniel Davies – A Retrospective. Whitfield Fine Art, 23 Dering Street, London W1S 1AW (www.whitfieldfineart.com) 21st May – 19th June.
A Celebration of Chelsea – An exhibition of floral paintings, porcelain, furniture, glass and jewellery. Partridge Fine Art, Partridge Fine Arts Ltd, 144-146 New Bond Street, London, W1S 2PF (020 7629 0834) 21st May – 20th June
Graham Giles – Oil Paintings. The John Russell Gallery, 4-6 Wherry Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, 1P4 1LG (01473 212051 www.artone.co.uk) 26th May – 20th June
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To be a dweller in some Utopia - Steve Hubbard. Contructions and Paintings. Francis Kyle Gallery, 9 Maddox Street, London, W1S 2QE (020 7499 6870/6970 www.franciskylegallery.com) 2nd – 18th June
Framing Modernism: Architecture & Photography in Italy 1926-1965. Vintage photographs from the RIBA British Architectural Library Collections. Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, London (020 7704 9522; www.estorickcollection.com) Until 21st June
Age of Experience. The only Scottish showing of this outstanding collection of ceramics, textiles, glass and jewellery. Dovecot Studios, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh. (0131 315 3054; www.dovecotstudios.com) Until 20th June
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