Carl Freedman Gallery

14/10/2026

14/10/2026

Olivia Guillot
Sunken sails wail, chimneys fail, 2026
Oil on canvas
200 x 170 cm (78.5 x 67 in)

14/10/2026

13/10/2026

Lindsey Mendick
Give me some peace, 2026
Glazed ceramic
50 x 44 x 44 cm (19.5 x 17.5 x 17.5 in)

12/10/2026

Billy Childish
path, 2026
Oil and charcoal on linen
122 x 91 cm (48 x 36 in)

10/10/2026

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‘The first time I encountered Western contemporary art was when I was helping my mother clean houses.’⁠
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Born Jose Campos in La Paz, El Salvador, the artist known as Studio Lenca () entered the US as an undocumented migrant and now lives and works in the UK. His story, and thousands like it, is the central theme in his work, which features narratives of displacement, conflicted identity and cultural influence.⁠
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In this video, shot in his Margate studio, he discusses his new installations for the lounges at Frieze London & Frieze Masters 2026. ‘Ojala’ – the Spanish for ‘hopefully’ will see handmade Salvadoran hammocks cradling volcanic rocks suspended above the heads of visitors, hinting at the precarity of migrant existence, and different concepts of time, from the geological to the length of a coffee break.⁠
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Hit the link in bio to watch the full video

09/10/2026

📣🎨 Carl Freedman Gallery at Frieze London
Booth A28 Frieze

14 – 18 October 2025
The Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4LL

Carl Freedman Gallery returns to Frieze London to present new works by Emii Alrai, Billy Childish, Laura Footes, Olivia Guillot, Joline Kwakkenbos, Studio Lenca, Lindsey Mendick, Vanessa Raw, IyunOla Sanyaolu, Benjamin Senior and Lola Stong-Brett.

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Wednesday 14 October: 11AM - 7PM
Thursday 15 October: 11AM - 5PM

Opening Hours
Friday 16 and Saturday 17 October: 11AM - 7PM
Sunday 18 October: 11AM - 6PM

08/10/2026

🎨🎉 Congratulations on the opening of her major museum exhibition in Copenhagen.

07/10/2026

Guillot will have her first solo show at the gallery in January 2027
Olivia Guillot is a French-British artist exploring perception and the sensory experience of space through painting. Attentive to sound, light, touch, breath and movement, she is interested in the way the world is experienced as an accumulation of sensations, and in those fleeting moments when the familiar becomes strange or recognition begins to slip.

Guillot builds her paintings through marks that shift constantly in scale, speed and intensity. Broad sweeps and washes of colour are crossed by looping lines, abrupt strokes and passages of densely worked paint. Gestures gather and disperse; some move rapidly across the surface while others hover, recede or become caught within successive layers. Different depths and tempos coexist within a single painting, creating a pictorial space that continually opens up and folds back on itself.

The paintings are never still. The eye moves across and through these shifting registers, passing quickly through flurries of marks before slowing over larger fields of colour or denser forms. Line becomes shape, space becomes surface, and abstraction repeatedly tips towards recognition before pulling away again. Forms emerge only to be disrupted, obscured or absorbed back into the painting.

Often beginning with observations made during daily walks, Guillot’s paintings take fragments of the built and natural environment as their starting points. Drawn to structures, textures, shadows, reflections and shifts in atmosphere, these observations are dismantled and recombined through painting rather than directly depicted. The experience of looking is translated into colour, gesture and form.

Music and movement are integral to Guillot’s practice, and painting is understood as an intensely bodily activity.

Guillot will have her first solo show at the gallery in January 2027.

Olivia Guillot

07/10/2026

IyunOla Sanyaolu Joins Carl Freedman Gallery

IyunOla Sanyaolu’s paintings begin with accumulation. Working with oil paint, oil stick and charcoal, she builds, scrapes, covers and reworks her surfaces in a process she describes as “sculpting with paint”. Images are not simply painted onto the canvas but worked out of it: figures, interiors and objects appear through layers of pigment and residue, sometimes remaining visible, sometimes almost entirely buried.

At the heart of Sanyaolu’s work are personal moments dwelt on — experiences, encounters and fragments of everyday life returned to repeatedly, excavated and reconstructed through paint. Rather than attempting to recover these moments intact, she allows them to shift through the process of remembering and remaking. Details become heightened, obscured or lost altogether; others assume a significance they may not originally have possessed.

There is something archaeological in this process, but Sanyaolu excavates and reconstructs at the same time. A face can emerge from an apparently abstract passage; a remembered interior can lose its physical boundaries; an object can persist only as colour, shape or gesture. What begins as something specific and lived is gradually loosened from its original circumstances.

This gives the paintings their movement between figuration and abstraction. For Sanyaolu, the two are not opposing modes, but a means of exploring the distance between an experience and what remains of it. Her paintings suggest that dwelling on the past does not necessarily bring it into sharper focus. Instead, recollection becomes another form of making — a way of taking experience apart and constructing it anew.

Sanyaolu will have her first solo show at the gallery in autumn 2027.

Iyunola Sanyaolu