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Barry Flanagan: 'Alchemy Of The Theatre'
This film traces Barry Flanagan’s collaboration with AB Fine Art Foundry, London – where modelling met metallurgy to animate his animal sculptures in bronze. In dialogue with our new exhibition "Two by Two" (2025), it shows how pairing and performance shaped Flanagan’s language from 1983–2008. -
Bernar Venet: 'When Steel Dreams of Code'
In this exclusive interview, Bernar Venet traces the arc of a restless, ever-evolving practice – from early Tar paintings to the collapse sculptures and his most recent explorations in generative art. -
Artwork Focus: Fabienne Verdier's 'Colour Flows 4'
In ‘Color Flows 4’, Fabienne Verdier captures movement on a monumental scale – each sweeping black stroke coursing across deep blue like a current of pure energy.
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Thinking in Planes: Sean Shanahan on Colour, Space and Simplicity
In this video interview, Irish artist Sean Shanahan reflects on the origins of his distinctive visual language and the central role that colour and form play in his work. Speaking from Waddington Custot on the occasion of ‘The Shape of Colour’, Shanahan discusses how his use of MDF and monochrome palettes create subtle perceptual shifts. -
Building Colour: Vanessa Jackson’s Spatial Illusions in 'The Shape of Colour'
British abstract painter Vanessa Jackson explores the interplay of geometry, colour and perception. In this video, she discusses her formative years, her approach to painting, and the sculptural echoes in her practice.
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Sculpting Colour: William Turnbull’s Blue Duct and Echo in 'The Shape of Colour'.
Two major sculptures by William Turnbull take centre stage in our current exhibition. Explore the interplay between form, colour and materiality. A closer look at Blue Duct and Echo, both from 1966. -
Yves Dana: 'Citadelle'
Sculptor Yves Dana introduces Citadelle, his first solo exhibition with Waddington Custot. Spanning the gallery and Smithson Plaza, the show brings together stone, wood and iron works shaped by touch, memory and ancient form—evoking the vestiges of lost civilisations. -
'Secret conversations, 55': A film of Yves Dana by Pierre Kalbfuss
‘Secret Conversations, 55’ (1996), a film by Pierre Kalbfuss exploring the work of Egyptian sculptor Yves Dana.
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Behind the Scenes: Kenia Almaraz Murillo
Artist Kenia Almaraz Murillo introduces her first solo exhibition with Waddington Custot, 'Andean Cosmovision', and the deep ancestral legends which run through every piece. -
Fabienne Verdier's 'Passenger of Silence'
Hear an except from Corinna Thierolf's descriptive afterword to the bestselling memoir by Fabienne Verdier 'Passenger of Silence' which has been translated to English for the first time. -
Artwork Focus: Allan D'Arcangelo
In this pencil study from 1977, the great American post-Pop artist Allan D’Arcangelo does what he does best, creating something apparently simple, which opens up to reveal a deep complexity. -
Artwork Focus: Sean Scully
Sean Scully is part of a long lineage of abstract artists who have investigated the conceptual properties of the stripe and its compositional strength in painting. Learn more about the quiet power of his 2003 work '1.11.03'. -
Japanese art and Les Nabis
Learn from British Museum curator Joe Nickols how the artistic norms of late 19th-century France were challenged by the innovative use of composition, space, and line seen in Japanese works shown at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1890. -
Introduction to: Fabienne Verdier
Learn how Verdier's practice has evolved after a formative decade working in China, with key series such as her Walking Paintings' and 'Vortex', and her recent projects with Musee Granet in Aix en Provence and the Juilliard School in New York. -
The Artistic Brotherhood of Les Nabis, 1888–1900
The influential artistic group, Les Nabis, were active for 12 abundant years between 1888-1900. A cult-like artistic brotherhood, they explored new forms of personal expression, decoration and abstraction, with a focus on interior emotion and sensation. -
Artwork Focus: Fernando Botero
Produced in the artist's final years, Fernando Botero's Seated Woman, 2019 is a gentle and intimate portrait of a young Colombian woman from the artist's hometown of Medellin, rendered in his iconic 'Boterismo' style.
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Artwork Focus: Maria Helena Vieira da Silva
Maria Helena Vieira da Silva often began by laying down grid-like lines and letting the work organically evolve from that structure, in works which refer to her life in Paris, and to the sensory experiences of her youth in Lisbon. -
Artwork Focus: Fabienne Verdier
In this important earlier work by French star Fabienne Verdier, there are a variety of references: from Caspar David Friedrich, to Wassily Kandinsky, to the sonoral landscapes of John Cage. -
Landon Metz: Exhibition Walk-Through
Artist Landon Metz discusses the ways in which his new series of paintings endeavour to neutralise the formal hierarchy between artist, artwork, and viewer. -
Artwork Focus: Peter Blake
With an almost saintly fervour, these two contemporary Madonnas stare out unblinkingly, but their Disney character tattoos remind us that Peter Blake, at the age of 92, is still a deeply contemporary artist.
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Artwork Focus: Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger’s ‘Le Moissonneuse’ exemplifies the artist’s ‘law of contrasts’, his basic principle for both structuring modern pictures and describing the dynamism of modern life. -
Landon Metz in the studio
Watch Landon Metz in his New York studio preparing a new series of paintings for his second solo exhibition with Waddington Custot in London, opening 2024.
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Barry Flanagan: Imaginary Solutions
An introduction to Flanagan’s work, his diverse experimentation with materials and passionate commitment to redefining sculpture’s parameters. -
Bernar Venet at home in Le Muy
In this short film, the renowned conceptual artist Bernar Venet explores the meaning of art through the language of mathematics. -
Yves Dana in the studio
Yves Dana is an artist known for his pared-back, yet powerful sculptures in stone and bronze, inspired by ancient Egyptian and Cycladic forms. -
An Introduction to Photorealism
Unlock the work of this fascinating group of artists, chiefly working across the Unitesd States, which forces us to question the act of looking itself. -
Ian Davenport in the studio
Ahead of his exhibition 'Lake' at Waddington Custot, Ian Davenport discusses the making of one of his most ambitious works. -
Ian Davenport: A brief introduction
A whistlestop tour through the career to date of Ian Davenport, an abstract painter recognised for his complex colour compositions, and unusual methods of applying paint. -
Nowness presents: Landon Metz
The New York-based artist Landon Metz leads a guided meditation on his dynamic, minimal paintings. -
Fabienne Verdier: Vortex
In her tranquil studio, the paintings of French artist Fabienne Verdier give form to the human voice. -
Barry Flanagan at Berkeley Square
Barry Flanagan, Large Nijinski on Anvil Point, 2001 on show in Berkeley Square
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Peter Blake: Time Traveller
In this film, iconic British artist Peter Blake discusses his approach to making collage with art historian Kate Bryan. -
Writings on the Wall: exhibition walk-through
Writings on the Wall examined the significant influence of ancient and contemporary graffiti on the practice of artists through the twentieth century.
