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Lydia Gifford: Undercurrent

Lydia Gifford: Undercurrent

Lydia Gifford
2 October - 13 November 2025
Tristan Hoare Gallery is delighted to present Undercurrent, a new body of work by British artist Lydia Gifford.

Blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, Gifford’s tactile, emotionally charged works are built through layering, scraping, and excavation - each surface a quiet record of time and touch. Her palette shifts from deep reds to delicate blues, echoing the push and pull between density and fragility. Rooted in materiality and intuition, Undercurrent pulses with what’s felt beneath the surface - a raw, rhythmic presence that invites embodied looking and deep contemplation.
Tristan di Robilant InAcademia, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
13 September – 24, November, 2025
The Gallerie dell'Accademia presents InAccademia, a solo exhibition by Tristan di Robilant, featuring 12 glass sculptures in dialogue with the history of the Venetian museum.
Booth W4, 1 at 1-54 Art Fair at Somerset House - 16-19 October 2025.

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Gora M’Bengue (1931–1988) at 1:54 Art Fair 2025
Dakar, Senegal
Tristan Hoare Gallery was pleased to present a rare collection of works by Gora M'Bengue (1931–1988) at 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in October 2025. A pioneering artist born in Dakar, Senegal, Gora is celebrated for his masterful contributions to the traditional Senegalese art form of reverse glass painting, known as souwère. Renowned for revitalising this medium, M'Bengue depicted everyday life and infused it with allegorical and religious themes that resonated deeply with both local traditions and universal spiritual narratives.
The Exchange: Shahnameh / de Kooning
by Oliver Hoare
In July 1994, on the tarmac of Vienna airport, a clandestine swap saw the government of Iran acquire the most significant part of the 16th century Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp – the greatest manuscript in the history of Persian painting – in return for Willem de Kooning’s Woman III. This was the culmination of a series of events which had taken place over many years, and which resulted in an extraordinary and ambitious exchange described at the time as the ‘cultural coup of the 1990s’. At the centre of the deal was a charismatic art dealer who dared to pursue the improbable: the late Oliver Hoare (1945-2018).

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Lydia Gifford: Undercurrent

Lydia Gifford

Tristan di Robilant InAcademia, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

Gora M’Bengue (1931–1988) at 1:54 Art Fair 2025

The Exchange: Shahnameh / de Kooning

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