past exhibitions
Vanitas
The Leontia Gallery presents VANITAS, a group exhibition exploring the transience of life, through the art form of still life.
· VANITAS celebrates life, with food, flowers, colour and rapture whilst simultaneously exploring our fascination with the fragility of life.
· This immersive exhibition features original paintings, drawings, prints from leading contemporary artists across the world.
a highgate christmas
Leontia Gallery will be popping up in Avivson Gallery, taking over the space in Highgate village, a picturesque area, enthused with history, a long-known haven for artists and writers. The villages elevated position offers sweeping views of London and its rural charm has made it a retreat for creatives for centuries
choose love
Leontia Gallery, is raising money and awareness to help the refugee crisis by auctioning original artworks and limited edition prints from its collection of international artists. 100% of its profits will go to the charity Help Refugees/Choose Love, which since inception have been supported by many famous artists including Anish Kapoor, Anthony Gormley and Ai Wei Wei
Godliness
The Leontia Gallery presents GODLINESS an exhibition exploring the gods, from 1st November to 22nd November
World-renowned artists have
come together and created
works inspired by the gods,
mythical, human and biblical.
In a post religious western
world, the exhibition explores
mythical and biblical gods,
religion and iconography.
figure it out
The Leontia Gallery presents Figure It Out an exhibition exploring contemporary figurative painting, and the artist as celebrity.
In an era of digital culture where contemporary art has turned to digital media as the main means of expression and every artist is the master of their own publicity, the Figure It Out exhibition aims to explore the significance of painting today and the numerous possibilities of expression and dialogue that painting has to offer
nuclear winter wonderland
A new group show featuring new and best selling works from London’s leading contemporary artists. The show is the antithesis to Christmas mayhem with darkly original works focusing on consumerism, climate change and counter culture.
pitch black
Featuring new works by Magnus Gjoen, Lauren Baker, Rebecca Mason, Steven Quinn, Alexandra Gallagher and Louise McNaught.
Introducing Carp Matthew, Known for his dark, visceral and grotesque style featuring mutated lost characters, full of longing, despair and banality.
solar visions
LEONTIA GALLERY PRESENTS ‘SOLAR VISIONS’ - a new solo exhibition by Steven Quinn exploring the planet, humanity and its future through collage and print.
Science fiction meets reality where humans holiday on the moon, take boat rides through the solar systems and raise a glass behind a screen of nuclear explosions.
It’s a comprehensive message of human behaviour and aspirations, innate with our desire to consume, to love and to destroy.
money talks
New exhibition exploring concepts of wealth, idolatry, and consumerism, Through neon, photography, painting and printmaking.
Presenting Dan Tague, Roberto Voorbij, Rebecca Mason , Lauren Baker ,Magnus Gjoen, Frank E Hollywood , Etienne Clement , Carne Griffiths, Louise McNaught & Schoony
brave new world
From the 29th of September to the 13th of October you are invited to the Leontia Gallery (6-10 Central Parade, 137 Hoe Street, Walthamstow, E17 4RT) to explore ground-breaking new works from worldwide artists exploring themes of power, apocalypse, democracy, life and death under the exhibition theme of "BRAVE NEW WORD"
Private View 29th September 7-9pm
Expect to see apocalyptic collages from celebrated artist Steven Quinn. Provocative phtotoraphy from renowned Parisien artist Etienne Clement, Industrial large scale collage from Cuban artist Alfonsono Abelardo Hernandez
As well as new releases from critically acclaimed Lauren Baker, Magnus Gjoen, Carne Griffiths and many others.
mixed media
From the 28th July to 28th August visitors are welcome to the Leontia Gallery to see visual craftsmanship that truly subvert the conventions of art from the likes of Schoony, Magnus Gjoen, Louise McNaught, Juan Barletta and many more! Also witness the unveiling of distinct British street art from the likes of the exceptionally creative Wild Seeley and the ground-breaking duo Static.
love to death
New exhibition exploring the relationship between mortality and humanity’s strongest emotions through paintings, neon, drawing, sculptures and prints from the world’s most pioneering artist
Renowned for its love of dark, exploratory and thought-provoking art, Leontia Gallery’s highly anticipated exhibition ‘Love to Death’ certainly lives up to the reputation. The multi-disciplinary collection will explore these subjects through paintings, neon, drawing, sculptures and prints by innovative and original talent from the UK and world wide.
Each artist has been selected for ‘Love to Death’ as they bring something distinctive and unique to the exhibition, with intriguing and insightful explorations of the notions of human emotion and mortality, and the lightness and darkness in each of them.
Leontia Reilly, owner and curator of Leontia Gallery said: "If there are two subjects that artists, and of course the whole the human race, obsess over it’s love and death. The new exhibition aims to explore the fixation with these themes and the associated ambiguous connotations. Each piece brings something distinctive to the exhibition both in technique and concept.”
there and now
The Leontia Gallery presents THERE AND NOW, a new exhibition exploring the present and the past in paintings, neon, drawing, sculptures and prints from the world’s most pioneering artists;
The highly anticipated exhibition will feature original works from Nina Fowler, a favourite amongst art collectors. Nina has received prestigious nominations for the Young Masters award and The Aesthetica Art Prize.
Additional exhibition highlights include:
o Internationally acclaimed Alabama-based artist Butch Anthony
o Hotly tipped as the UK’s next big artist, Lauren Baker , Lauren’s work has been shown at the V&A and The Tate Modern in London.
o London based artist Rosie Emerson works almost exclusively on representing the female form.
o 2014 winner of The CASS ART Jean-Luc Almond creates thought provoking paintings inspired by historical figures in his inimitable painterly style.
o Emerging artist Jesus Leguizamo is from Colombia and his evocative paintings have won him prestigious awards throughout South America.
o London emerging artist Sara Ley Roy’s work focuses on storytelling fairy tales and folklore.
CONSUME
This highly anticipated exhibition will feature original works created by a new wave of pioneering urban artists from across the globe.
Leontia Gallery is proud to be showcasing the latest work of homegrown British talent Schoony, who is considered a leader in the new direction of urban art.
Schoony’s life cast sculptures have won him a loyal fan following including superstars Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Damon Albarn, as well as art critics and collectors from around the world.
The theme “Consume” has been explored in its broadest sense, artist inspirations range from media consumerism as seen in Juan Barletta’s “Miley” piece to the complete consummation or expenditure of human life as seen in Magnus Gjoen skull light boxes “Mr and Mrs”.
Additional exhibition highlights include:
o Critically acclaimed Norwegian artist Magnus Gjoen
o Neon artist Rococo Wonderland
o Futuristic popular culture visionary Juan Barletta
o Intricate portraits from Carne Griffiths
o 2014 winner of The CASS ART Jean-Luc Almond’
FLESH
The first exhibition of a highly edited selection of contemporary art, from an international group of the most highly anticipated young artists. Titled Flesh, this exhibition is visceral, demanding, sensual and dark. Artworks will explore our experience of being a body and our complex relationship with our own flesh, whilst also unlocking themes of alienation, fantasies, desire and destruction.
Exhibiting artists: Magnus Gjoen, Flora Borsi, Mariska Karto and Maria Koshenkova.