Last Chance to See - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

Last Chance to See - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

09 December, 2011
by: Tom Jeffreys

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.

Until Saturday 17th December
Sylvia Plath @ Mayor Gallery
Last chance to see works by Sylvia Plath! 44 pen and ink drawings by the troubled poet are on show at the Mayor Gallery on Cork Street until Saturday. Perhaps surprisingly, Plath's drawings show little of the inner turmoil for which she is best known. The works are delicate, precise pen and ink drawings, that depict a range of everyday objects – a pile of pots, a bowl of fruit, an umbrella, a cow, a thistle.



Until Saturday 17th December
Polemically Small @ Charlie Smith London
An exhibition of contemporary painting curated by the brains behind The Future Can Wait – namely Zavier Ellis, Max Presneill, Simon Rumley and art critic big-shot Edward Lucie-Smith. The work features small-scale works by the kinds of exciting artists we've come to associate with Charlie Smith – the likes of Gavin Nolan, John Stark and Nadine Feinson. Billy Childish is also involved too, which is always fun.


Until Sunday 18th December
John Maine @ Royal Academy
The Royal Academy's brilliant exhibition of work by John Maine – part of their ongoing Artists' Laboratories programme – comes to a close this week. Best known for major outdoor commissions like the new Green Park station, Maine is exhibiting a site-specific indoor work for the very first time. Consisting of a monumental installation of stone pieces, the exhibition is inspired by the artist's participation as an advisor in the restoration of the incredible thirteenth century Cosmati Pavement in Westminster Abbey.


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Image: Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar. Copyright Frieda Hughes.

Tom Jeffreys