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Cooke Latham Gallery launched in December 2018 in a 19th-century warehouse in London’s Battersea.

With a slower-paced exhibition programme and intimate setting, the gallery is dedicated to the experience of Contemporary Art.

19/10/2026

GALLERY NEWS! On Thursday the 12th November we will open our final exhibition in Battersea before moving to central London next year. We would like to thank all the wonderful artists, curators, clients and friends who have collaborated with us over the last eight years. We hope you can join us for cocktails to celebrate the closing of this chapter, and our move north of the river.
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Pastoral Care
13 November - 4 December
PV: Thursday 12 November 6.30 - 8.30pm

Our forthcoming group show ‘Pastoral Care’ investigates the relationship between nature and caregiving, probing the connection between the outdoors and our inner psychological landscape and asking more broadly how the ‘pastoral’ can influence an artist’s methodology.

We will be exhibiting new works by Lily Hargreaves, Jennifer Pitchers, Jessica Woo Jung Ghil, Max Wade & Olly Williamson

See you there 🍸

Image: Max Wade, Dog grinning eyes, 2026, Oil on linen, 76.5 x 66cm. Courtesy Sid Motion Gallery, photography by Imogen Butler

Sid Motion Gallery

12/10/2026

‘Tinker, Tailor…’ has now closed, thank you so much to everyone who came to visit the show, and to the wonderful group of artists included:

Cato
Johnny Izatt-Lowry
Lisa-Marie Harris
Beth McAlester
Gloria Pescaru
Tanoa Sasraku
Laila Tara H

We remain open by appointment so do get in touch if you would like to pop by for a viewing

Contemporary art, frieze week

07/10/2026

Beth McAlester is a Northern Irish artist based in London. Working primarily in oil on wood, her paintings examine identity, place, and acts of commemoration through semi-biographical narratives informed by post-Troubles contexts in the UK and Ireland. Her work draws on personal experience and inherited histories, using material and image to consider how these are constructed and carried forward through individuals, objects, and places.

The works included in the exhibition examine the various ‘uniforms’, both cultural and political worn in Ireland. In ‘Sock Glue’ McAlester depicts a floor level image of a line of Irish dancers with their distinctive cross laced dance pumps. The work shows a girlish yearning for a clannish ritual that the artist was unable to engage with due to growing up in a small protestant town in Northern Ireland. In the other two works it is the Orange Order that are depicted, a fraternal protestant organisation in Northern Ireland. In ‘The Game’ the OO are shown marching from above, the atmosphere of the work is ambiguous - the bystanders potentially complicit or threatened. McAlester is less interested in resolving this tension than in thinking about the moment in which communal gatherings become oppressive tools of force. Similarly, ’Men For No Seasons’ is an interior scene taken from a video filmed inside an Orange Hall during the Twelfth, a gathering McAlester was encouraged to avoid long before she understood the implication of attending.

In all three works the focus is less upon those wearing the ‘uniform’ than upon those who exist in the same sphere and yet do not. In her own words “my work is a mode of questioning where I (and by extension the viewer) stand in relation to those left on the wayside of our contemporary Western imagination, but also tribalism in a more universal sense.”

Photography by

30/09/2026

In the three works included in the ‘Tinker, Tailor…’ Lisa-Marie Harris uses her signature materials to convey her preoccupation with the female form. In ‘The First Binding’ and ‘The Second Binding’ reclaimed leather and stainless-steel hooks appear as opposing forces. Hooks and eyes are usually the hidden tool of the tailor, deftly moulding and aligning the body they help clothe. Here they are exposed and appear to be in combat with the material ‘body’ they enclose or confine. The artist reflects upon the spectre of girlhood that silently shapes the older women we become, nodding to the societal values that shape or restrict us and the resulting tension this creates.

‘Splayed Form’ on the other hand appears as something infinitely vulnerable, the rigid steel frame in immediate contiguity with the delicate paper form it supports. Harris seeks to show the viewer ‘the flayed ambiguity of a female body picked apart and used beyond clear recognition’ and asks, ‘how much looking is too much; should any body ever be seen this intimately?’

‘Tinker, Tailor…’ continues until October 9th

Lisa-Marie Harris

25/09/2026

In ‘Tidy, 2026’ Cato uses his signature application of collage and paint to depict a monumental close-up of a tie running down the centre of a great ravine of dark suit. There is a whisper of Claes Oldenburg in the fetishistic scale of the object and Cato’s pop delight in colour. As with his broader practice however the work is a homage to the person wearing the suit (of whom only a sliver of neck is visible), it reveals an obsessive eye turned towards Black culture and how it is sartorially expressed.

Cato (b. 1999, Brighton, UK) is a multidisciplinary artist and musician. His large-scale works are distinguished by their candid portrayals of Black elders, often depicted in domestic and communal settings such as barbershops and domino games. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of references, media, and materials, his paintings centre on “uncle-like” figures engaged in cultural exchanges that resonate across the Black diaspora. His practice is grounded in a physical process that emphasises both the layering and erasure of images, creating a dynamic interplay between presence and absence. Cato’s work invites viewers into intimate spaces, encouraging a reimagining of Black identity and community through a contemporary lens.

‘Tidy’ is showing as part of ‘Tinker, Tailor…’ until the 9th October

Cato

23/09/2026

Gloria Pescaru (born, 2004, Cluj, Romania) is a Romanian-British artist who works with oil and acrylic on alternative materials. Her work is an attempt to manifest the presence of the feminine without directly portraying it. She uses the object in place of the subject, as a kind of reduction, but also as a form of iconography, reflecting the way femininity is expressed through objects in consumer culture. Pescaru works through a series of fixations on a single article, repeatedly painting the same object. With each repetition she discovers something new about its form and beauty, while also revealing something about her own way of seeing.

In ‘The Zip’, ‘The Red Thread’ and ‘Two Brown Buttons’, each painting reveals an obsessive attentiveness to the mundane object being depicted. Dislocated from context the objects are presented with the reverence of relics, signifiers of a femininity that is at once familiar and rendered alien.

Gloria Pescaru’s paintings are currently showing as part of ‘Tinker, Tailor…’ which continues until October 9th

gloria

21/09/2026

‘Loqmé 6’ by Laila Tara H is part of an ongoing series of jackets, intended by the artist to act as templates where periods of history can be made simultaneous. They also function as acts of accumulation in which the garment becomes a record of political and daily life. The anatomy of the jacket (kaftan) provides a system of placement, referring to talismanic shirts which would contain and organise verses, numbers, diagrams and protective symbols across the architecture of the body.

Currently showing as part of ‘Tinker, Tailor…’ until 9 October
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Laila Tara H (b. 1995, London, UK) is a British-Iranian artist working to deconstruct the aesthetic framework of the Indo/ Persian miniature tradition, hybridizing traditional painting methods with radically contemporary compositions and concepts. Her imagery is composed of repeated motifs that, once recognized, become a visually and politically charged lexicon by which to ‘read’ the work. Conceptually the paintings interrogate the quiet politics of the domestic sphere and the tension that exists between the personal and public realm. Often monumental in scale, comprising multiple parts and incorporating sculptural elements, Tara H’s practice challenges our traditional perception of what constitutes a work on paper.

Laila Tara H

16/09/2026

Tomorrow! Join us for the opening of ‘Tinker, Tailor…’ 6.30-8.30pm 🍸

With works by
Cato
Johnny Izatt-Lowry
Lisa-Marie Harris
Beth McAlaster
Gloria Pescaru
Tanoa Sasraku
Laila Tara H

Pictured: installation view featuring Lisa-Marie Harris & Cato, photography by

14/09/2026

Join us this Thursday 6.30-8.30pm for a cocktail to celebrate the opening of ‘Tinker, Tailor…’ a group show with works by:

Cato
Johnny Izatt-Lowry
Lisa-Marie Harris
Beth McAlester
Gloria Pescaru
Tanoa Sasraku
Laila Tara H

‘Tinker, tailor...’ explores the idea of tailoring as an expression of identity. It follows thread as it weaves literally or figuratively through the compositions of different artists. Referring back to the nursery rhyme in which children counted prune stones to determine their future profession (or girls the profession of their future spouse!) the exhibition investigates the idea of clothes as both a joyous expression of selfhood and the inevitable flip side; the ‘uniform’ as a societal straight jacket to promote conformity.

Hope to see you there! 🍸

Pictured: Beth McAlaster ‘Sock Glue’ 2026, Oil on wood, 35.5 x 80 cm

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26/08/2026

We are excited to announce the first exhibition in our autumn programme, a group show ‘Tinker, Tailor’ opening on Thursday the 17th September 6.30-8.30pm, join us for a post summer 🍷

‘Tinker, Tailor’ explores the idea of tailoring as an expression of identity. It follows thread as it weaves literally or figuratively through the compositions of different artists.

Referring back to the nursery rhyme in which children counted prune stones to determine their future profession (or girls the profession of their future spouse!), the exhibition explores the idea of clothes as both a joyous expression of selfhood and the inevitable flip side; the ‘uniform’ as a societal straight jacket to promote conformity.

With work by:
Cato
Johnny Izatt-Lowry
Lisa-Marie Harris
Beth McAlaster
Gloria Pescaru
Tanoa Sasraku
Laila Tara H

Pictured: Johnny Izatt-Lowry ‘The Smoker’ 2019

Cato Johnny Izatt-Lowry Beth Tanoa Sasraku Lisa-Marie Harris Laila Tara H gloria

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