Halcyon has extended its Summer Exhibition across its 148 and 29 New Bond Street galleries until 28 September, underscoring the gallery’s role as a platform that specialises in both Impressionism and modern, contemporary art. The exhibition embraces colour in all of its forms by showcasing the works of David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Paul Cummins MBE, Dominic Harris, Dale Chihuly, Pedro Paricio, Santiago Montoya and James McQueen. The central theme that the exhibition aims to illustrate is that colour embodies individual experiences beyond physical space and touch. Case in point, each artist approaches colour as a defining element, whether through digital experimentation, sculptural installations, or reinterpretations of historical and cultural narratives.
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A highlight of the show is Paul Cummins’ cascade of ceramic poppies, a work that recalls his large-scale installation at the Tower of London. Revived this year to mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day (Victory in Europe Day), it is a piece that carries the powerful weight of commemoration and honouring sacrifice while symbolising renewal. Alongside this is Dominic Harris’ interactive digital works that visitors can see shift and evolve in real time. His work, “The Promise of Babylon,” is part of an immersive installation that invites guests to step into a dynamic ecosystem that sees flowers morph with the cycles of nature.
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Santiago Montoya and Pedro Paricio approach the subject of colour with contrasting strategies. Montoya uses global currency as his medium, creating compositions that resemble sunsets or abstract colour fields, but which on closer inspection reveal layered commentary on politics and economics. Tenerife-born Paricio, by contrast, draws on art history and mythology, rendering tulips, Greek legends and American landscapes in bold, monumental colour studies that reframe familiar subjects with contemporary takes on colour and form.
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Other highlights include Dale Chihuly’s glass installations, where blown vessels burst with saturated tones and backlit acrylic works that transform colour into luminous, contemplative light. In dialogue with this is David Hockney, whose iPad drawings capture fleeting luminosity with immediacy, emphasising clarity and directness. Warhol’s works and James McQueen’s contributions further underline the exhibition’s central thesis that colour has the ability to operate before form and narrative to evoke emotion and engage the senses.
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Halcyon has been critically acclaimed for spotlighting both living artists and promising new talent and the “Summer Exhibition” is no different. The showcase makes a case for colour as substance and symbol, a medium that can commemorate, disrupt, seduce or provoke. By placing historic, digital and material practices side by side, Halcyon shows how colour continues to be a force that expands the language of contemporary art.
Halcyon’s Summer Exhibition is now on view at 148 and 29 New Bond Street until 28th September.
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