Graham Contemporary's inaugural exhibition in its new location in Hyde Park Corner – BRAVE NEW WORLD – embraces love as a foundational human connection, one in which art plays a profound role. While the title harks back to Shakespeare's play, The Tempest, and, of course, to Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, it does not share the ironic distrust of the human race implicit in Shakespeare's or Huxley's vision.

Instead, for Graham Contemporary, a 'brave new world' is one which embraces courage and daring, a liberated instinct and a full heart, a point and place of intimacy in which multiple connections are possible – in which love surpasses understanding and value is enshrined tenderly. 

Graham Contemporary has restored its pulse, reinvigorated its contemporary portfolio, maintained its core love for abstraction – the art that best conquers fear, best quashes doubt, transfigures, reorients, transforms the many burdens that afflict life.

Never inspired by 'statement art', always drawn to the intuitive and subtle – the mystery and wonder of colour and form, the uniqueness of sensation and its expression – Graham Contemporary, contra Aldous Huxley, presents us with a BRAVE NEW WORLD that responds counterintuitively to all negative controlling impulses.

For Graham Britz, the gallery's director, art that allows for a triumph over the normative and controlling, art that has the potential to free us. Vivacity is everything! For despite the dark forces that seek to control us and to deprive us of our better nature, art can allay our fears, allow us to return to those unbidden even primal instincts, those deeper repressed yearnings, which override the conventions of taste and fashion. This is the power of art at its best, this the crux of Graham Contemporary's

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Featured Artworks



Gary Komarin "Untitled"Acrylic on Canvas
183 x 152cm 



Selloane Moeti "Matlatsi"Oil Paint, Red Clay, Holy Ash and Impepho on Canvas
200 x 130cm 2023 – 2024

 

Renee Allem Langunia Mixed Media Light Box140 x 140cm 
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