Discover Five Exhibitions To See In London In October 2025, from Nicolas Party’s pastels to Britt Boutros-Ghali’s vibrant abstractions.
As the warmth of late summer yields to the first chill of winter, London prepares for one of the art world’s most anticipated annual gatherings: Frieze London. The fair draws collectors, critics and enthusiasts from across the globe, and with it comes a surge of gallery shows and museum openings across the capital. Artists and institutions alike are poised to dazzle, presenting bold statements of creativity and vision. Here are Five Exhibitions To See In London In October 2025.
Swiss painter Nicolas Party stages his first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, bringing together new portraits and treescapes in pastel that continue his probing exploration of representational painting. At once lush and unsettling, the works confront themes of mortality, renewal and time’s passage. Party draws inspiration from Camille Claudel’s Clotho (1893) and Auguste Rodin’s She Who Was the Helmet Maker’s Once-Beautiful Wife (1885–87), both meditations on ageing and decline. Refracted through his vivid palette, these references become a framework for the show, which takes mortality as its central motif.
At Ronchini’s new Conduit Street gallery, Flourish: Gestural Abstractions in Bloom introduces four female artists — Michele Fletcher, Connie Harrison, Shuang Jiang and Shara Mays — whose gestural, baroque-like abstractions are infused with floral and landscape-inspired undertones. Each canvas radiates emotional intensity and layered complexity, with expressive mark-making that evokes metamorphosis and transformation. The exhibition speaks to a shared sensibility, where instinctive gesture and ornamental flourish merge into a lush visual language rooted in nature but freed through abstraction.
Sculpture takes centre stage at Mall Galleries’ North Gallery, where Bushra Fakhoury presents TRANSMUTE. Working in resin, bronze, plaster and ceramic, and without preparatory sketches, Fakhoury embraces a spontaneous process that produces fluid, organic forms. Her practice reflects personal history and political awareness, drawing on global concerns such as deforestation and social unrest. Known in London for her public works on Park Lane, Fakhoury here also collaborates with photographer Mal Fostock, whose parallel exhibition INCLUSION will run in the West Gallery.
Helen Cammock returns to Kate MacGarry with Pelicans Dive at Half Light, her second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show gathers new works reflecting on diasporic identity, memory and the politics of voice. Its title comes from a recent series of relief prints made in Jamaica, where her father was raised. Mapping wind, sea and sound into her practice, Cammock creates a meditation on displacement and belonging, what she describes as “the liminal suspension” of diasporic experience.
Meanwhile, at the Mandrake Hotel, Bolanle Contemporary presents Moving on Swiftly, a solo project by British-Jamaican painter Ramone K Anderson as part of the third edition of Minor Attractions. The paintings explore the imprint of Pentecostal Christianity on personal history, memory and selfhood. Faith, for Anderson, is both a force of intimacy and tension, shaping relationships in ways that his canvases render fragmentary, unsettled and resistant to easy resolution.
Finally, Varvara Roza Galleries, in collaboration with TRAFFICARTS, hosts Life in Colour, the first United Kingdom solo exhibition of Britt Boutros-Ghali. Born in 1937 in Svolvær, Norway, Boutros-Ghali grew up amid the shifting northern light that has long defined her painterly sensibility. Since the 1970s she has lived largely in Egypt, working between studios in Cairo and along the North Coast, where her mosaic-filled Agami home has become a cultural gathering point. Her canvases merge gestural abstraction with a deep sense of cultural resonance, their chromatic vitality reflecting a career that spans more than six decades and continues to evolve with extraordinary energy.
Five Exhibitions To See In London In October 2025
Nicolas Party: Clotho
Swiss painter Nicolas Party stages his first solo show at Hauser & Wirth London, where portraits and treescapes in pastel confront themes of mortality, renewal and time’s passage. The show, which features new portraits and treescapes in pastel, continues Party’s exploration of representational painting while testing the boundaries of its traditions.
Nicolas Party: Clotho
14th October, 2025 – 20th December, 2025
Hauser & Wirth London
23 Savile Row
London W1S 2ET
Flourish: Gestural Abstractions in Bloom
Featuring four dynamic female artists—Michele Fletcher, Connie Harrison, Shuang Jiang, and Shara Mays—spanning three continents, whose practices explore gestural, baroque-esque abstractions infused with floral undertones and inspired by landscape, Flourish marks Ronchini’s inaugural exhibition at its new Conduit Street space.
Flourish: Gestural Abstractions in Bloom
16th October, 2025 – 12th December, 2025
Ronchini Gallery
21 Conduit Street
First Floor
London, W1S 2XP
Courtesy of Bushra Fakhoury and Mall Galleries
Bushra Fakhoury: TRANSMUTE
Mall Galleries’ North Gallery will open TRANSMUTE, an exhibition of sculptures by the British artist Bushra Fakhoury, whose work draws on influences as wide-ranging as Picasso, Goya and Rodin. Working without preliminary sketches, Fakhoury favours a spontaneous and fluid
process, employing materials that include resin, bronze, plaster and ceramic.
The exhibition will also include collaborative photographic works by Fakhoury and Mal Fostock. In parallel, Fostock’s own exhibition, INCLUSION, will be on view in the West Gallery.
Bushra Fakhoury: TRANSMUTE
7th October, 2025 – 11th October, 2025
Mall Galleries
North Gallery
The Mall
London SW1
Courtesy of Kate MacGarry © Helen Cammock
Helen Cammock: Pelicans Dive At Half Light
Kate MacGarry will open Helen Cammock’s second solo exhibition this autumn, bringing together new works that reflect on diasporic identity, song, memory and the politics of voice.
The exhibition’s title is drawn from a recent series of relief prints made during a visit to Jamaica, where Cammock’s father was raised. Responding to what she calls “the liminal suspension” of her diasporic identity, Cammock maps the sonic and haptic geographies of place—wind, sea and sound—into a meditation on displacement and reckoning.
Helen Cammock: Pelicans Dive At Half Light
12th September, 2025 – 25th October, 2025
Kate MacGarry
27 Old Nichol Street
London E2 7HR
Courtesy of the Artist and Bolanle Contemporary
Ramone K Anderson: Moving on Swiftly
At the Mandrake Hotel in London, Bolanle Contemporary is presenting Moving on Swiftly, a solo presentation by British-Jamaican painter Ramone “K” Anderson, as part of the third edition of Minor Attractions. The presentation is an inquiry into memory, interiority, and the imprint of Pentecostal Christianity. Anderson considers how faith has shaped his relationships and his sense of self. His paintings wrestle with fragments of personal history, translating them into images that remain unsettled and resistant to resolution.
Ramone K Anderson: Moving on Swiftly
15th October, 2025 – 18th October, 2025
Bolanle Contemporary
Minor Attractions
Mandrake Hotel
20-21 Newman Street
London, GB W1T 1PG
Courtesy of Varvara Roza Galleries
Britt Boutros-Ghali: Life in Colour
Varvara Roza Galleries, in collaboration with TRAFFICARTS, will present the first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom of Britt Boutros-Ghali, the internationally recognised abstract painter whose career spans more than sixty years.
Born in 1937 in Svolvær, Norway, Boutros-Ghali grew up amid the shifting northern light that would shape her visual language. She began painting during the long winters of postwar Europe, and over the decades has forged a singular style that merges gestural abstraction with cultural resonance.
BRITT BOUTROS-GHALI: LIFE IN COLOUR
2nd October, 2025 – 20th October, 2025
Varvara Roza Galleries
8 Duke Street
St. James’s,
London SW1Y 6BN
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