Messums London

Messums London Messums London is the West End outpost of Messums West founded in 2016 by Johnny Messum. Messum's is a member of BADA and SLAD.

Messums London is the West End outpost of the Messums Wiltshire brand founded in 2016 by Johnny Messum. It celebrates the best of artists, conceptual craft and the skill of the hand when applied to creativity across the ages. Regular exhibitions across the year complete and compliment the programme of events that our 13th Century Tithe Barn near Salisbury. We also engage actively with museums and

public institutions - including Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, the National Maritime Museum, Birmingham Art Museum and Penlee House and Galleries - to promote British art. Equally, Messum's advise private clients on collection management, research, conservation, framing and valuation.

What does it mean to see a place for the first time when it has already existed in your imagination for years? It’s a qu...
04/06/2026

What does it mean to see a place for the first time when it has already existed in your imagination for years? It’s a question that runs through British-Armenian artist Eleanor Ekserdjian’s work, not as something she answers but something she returns to. In her practice, landscape is not so much recorded as it is reassembled and continually revisiting itself. Through layering film, projection, ink-drawing and painting, the result is a combination of stillness and fluid motion that instead of hiding the process, exposes it. - Gayane Orujyan 'Before Seeing'

Eleanor Ekserdjian ‘We are our Mountains’ continues until 27th June. Artwork enquiries by email to [email protected]

We are delighted to have been invited to participate in this summer showcase of exceptional art and objects with a narra...
03/06/2026

We are delighted to have been invited to participate in this summer showcase of exceptional art and objects with a narrative on the Totemic object.

24 - 30 JUNE 2026
STAND 218

The fair will present the opportunity for a first look at our 'Totemic' exhibition which will then move to the Cork Street gallery. Featured artists will include Laurence Edwards, Nicola Hicks, Elisabeth Frink, Lynn Chadwick, Matthew Darbyshire, Dante Marioni, Tuesday Riddell and Antony Williams.

Images:
Laurence Edwards 'Walking Men' - Figure 2, 2022, Bronze
Lynn Chadwick Maquette II, Sitting Couple on a Bench, 1984. Bronze
Matthew Darbyshire 'Pylon', 2025, Aluminium
Elisabeth Frink 'Man with Goggles', 1969, Bronze
Tuesday Riddell 'Wandle Waters', 2025, Japanning - 23.5 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, gold & silver powder, pigment and paint on European lacquered board
Nicola Hicks 'Black', 2008, Bronze

23/05/2026

Today is the final day to see the acclaimed exhibition’Live’ by Nicola Hicks at Messums London. Catch it if you can.

Join us at Stand B09 at Photo London, Olympia14 - 17 May.Messums London will present After ‘Olympia, 1863’ by Yan Wang P...
14/05/2026

Join us at Stand B09 at Photo London, Olympia
14 - 17 May.

Messums London will present After ‘Olympia, 1863’ by Yan Wang Preston at Photo London at Olympia, marking the first time the three photographic works are exhibited together as a complete triptych.

Also on view work by Sammy Hawker, Polly Penrose, Jean-Vincent Simonet and Finn Gibson.

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‘Love’ by sculptor Nicola Hicks is a raw and tender portrait, capturing both the protective instinct and vulnerability o...
12/05/2026

‘Love’ by sculptor Nicola Hicks is a raw and tender portrait, capturing both the protective instinct and vulnerability of maternal love.

Part of Hicks’ eponymous exhibition 'Love', the works reflect on our enduring relationship with the natural world, reminding us that affection, dependency, shelter, and survival are shared across species.

For artwork enquiries email [email protected] or via the links in our bio.

"Nicola Hicks dives as deep as you can go to dredge up our most animal feelings. Her creatures communicate something old...
23/04/2026

"Nicola Hicks dives as deep as you can go to dredge up our most animal feelings. Her creatures communicate something older than language, something lodged deep in our shared evolutionary memory. In encountering them, we recognise them, we know what they are thinking, what they are about to do. And for an intimate moment, we LOVE them."

- Keggie Carew, author of BEASTLY: The Epic 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us.
Read the full article on our website.

The exhibition Nicola Hicks MBE FRSS ‘Love’ is now open at Messums London on Cork Street and features a series of bronze and raw plaster sculptures shown alongside drawings and limited edition prints.

Opening this April, Messums London presents Nicola Hicks MBE FRSS ‘Love’, an exhibition that celebrates our enduring con...
16/04/2026

Opening this April, Messums London presents Nicola Hicks MBE FRSS ‘Love’, an exhibition that celebrates our enduring connection to the natural world. The show brings together a series of raw plaster sculptures shown alongside limited edition prints and drawings. Love invites viewers to feel those emotional states that flow not just between us but throughout our wider ecology where fragility, tenderness and strength understand each other. The work conveys our sensed connection to one another and the cohabiting flora and fauna of the planet. It is not escapism into fields of fawn-eyed animalia and rolling hills. This a radical act, a dilatant stand against a rising wave of violence wrought by a cruelty that only humanity can conceive, held together by bonds created from love.

Nicola Hicks MBE FRSS ‘Love’
22 April - 23 May

Email [email protected] for a list of artworks.

Messums are delighted to return to Photo London for its eleventh edition from 14 to 17 May. The stand will feature 'Afte...
15/04/2026

Messums are delighted to return to Photo London for its eleventh edition from 14 to 17 May. The stand will feature 'After Olympia', (pictured) a serendiptiously named series of photos from the 'Three Easier Pieces' collection by represented artist Yan Wang Preston.

The three works are restages of Manet’s 'Olympia' (1863). To overturn the painting’s hidden power hierarchy, Wang Preston first replaced the white pr******te with a white man before taking the place of the pr******te herself as a non-white woman and a performing photographer, not to endure, but to return the gaze.

The Photo London fair this year will take place at Olympia. The redeveloped venue offers larger spaces for gallery presentations and new areas for talks and screenings.

Tickets are available to purchase in advance from the Photo London website.

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