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Curating, writing/researching, mediumistic and visionary art. New exhibition Louise Janin June2026
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@madge.gill @georgianahoughton

💫SAVE THE DATE 💫New Exhibition💫 Tuning In: Vibrat 💫SAVE THE DATE 💫New Exhibition💫

Tuning In: Vibrations, Frequencies and Harmonies 

Paola Bay @paolamcbay 
Cecilia Charlton @ceciliacharlton 
Amy Grantham @_amygrantham 

An exhibition of art that connects to the Universe.

22 - 27 September 2026

GPS Gallery @gpsgallerysoho 
36 Great Pulteney Street
Soho, London, W1F 9NS

Preview 22 September 6-8pm (All welcome)
23 - 27 September 11am to 17.30pm 

Curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart - More details to follow soon
EXTENDED!!!One eye sees, the other feels – an exhi EXTENDED!!!One eye sees, the other feels - an exhibition that brought together artists @jolewisart @olivia.streeton @melissaalley.artist and @hannahluxton_ together with #ithellcolquhoun #louisejanin #gracepailthorpe and Henri Pfeiffer. In the spirit of this wholesome collaboration, it was also the first exhibition of Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects and Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart 

It’s such a beautiful show so don’t miss an opportunity to visit - now ends Thursday 20th August Open: Tuesday to Friday
EVENT: THURSDAY EVENING 30 JULY AT 6.15-8PM As we EVENT: THURSDAY EVENING 30 JULY AT 6.15-8PM

As we enter the last week of our exhibition, one eye sees, the other feels, artist and practising mesmerist
Melissa Alley presents the third in an ongoing series of site-specific mesmeric performances. 

The Hatton Garden Operation: An evening exploring Mesmerism, place and transformation takes place in The Bindery gallery at 53 Hatton Garden presented by @vivienne.roberts.projects 

Following on from previous site specific performances inspired by The Sleeping Boy of Deptford and Vortex, based on Baron du Potet’s nineteenth-century mesmeric clinic in Cavendish Street, this new performance responds to Hatton Garden’s own mesmeric history, where Dr Coffin practised mesmerism in the late nineteenth century.

The performance begins with a series of live mesmeric demonstrations with volunteer sitters before concluding with the mesmerisation of water collected in Hatton Garden. The water has been immersed with a piece of second-hand jewellery purchased in the district, bringing together the histories of mesmerism, craftsmanship and transformation.

Three of Melissa’s paintings in the exhibition were created through the same process: water collected from specific locations was mesmerised before being combined with paint, allowing the qualities of that place to emerge through the finished work. The mesmerised Hatton Garden water will become the source material for the next painting in this ongoing series.

Volunteer sitters welcome.

Thursday 30 July 2026
6.15 – 8.00pm

@vivienne.roberts.projects @mediumisticart @melissaalley.artist 

Image: Mesmerised Water: Burgess Park Lake, The Edge , 2023, Acrylic on wood, 40 x 40 cm + frame
Exhibition: Dictation from the Other Side at Karma Exhibition: Dictation from the Other Side at Karma @karmakarma9 in Los Angeles
July 23–September 12, 2026

Curated by Laura Whitcomb @laurawhitcomblabel Dictation from the Other Side brings together artists who, across a range of media, techniques, and generations, worked in and extended the Surrealist tradition. This includes those the Surrealists considered “channelers”—figures who gave form to signals from beyond this world—and the following generations, whose practices built on their legacies. The artists in this exhibition turned away from the notion of singular subjectivity or artistic voice, instead exploring authorship as shared, displaced, or subordinated to a force or intelligence external to their own will—dictation, this exhibition asserts, is a missing term in the history of modernist art.

Gertrude Abercrombie, Sara Kathryn Arledge, Paul Beattie, Wallace Berman, William S. Burroughs and Steven Lowe, Eugenia P. Butler, Cameron, A. Burton Carnes, Bruce Conner, Enrico Donati, Renate Druks, Esteban Francés, Madge Gill, Juanita M. Guccione, George Herms, Ian Hugo, Aleksandra Ionowa, Louise Janin, Ted Joans, Jacqueline Lamba, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Michael McClure, Arthur Monroe, Grace Pailthorpe, Paulina Peavy, Betye Saar, Kurt Seligmann, Harry Smith, Marian Spore Bush, Beatrice Wood, Anna Zemánková, Joanne Ziprin, Lionel Ziprin, and Unica Zürn

Images: @paulinapeavyofficial 
Gertrude Abercrombie (detail)
Cameron
@madge.gill 
Juanita M Guccione (detail)
@aleksandra_ionowa 
#LouiseJanin
@mariansporebush 
#annazemankova
💫🔮NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON🔮💫 Madge Gill The Arcan 💫🔮NEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON🔮💫

Madge Gill
The Arcana Drawings

Tuesday 21 – Friday 31 July 2026
Monday to Friday, 11am – 6pm

Curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart @madge.gill with @sworderslondon @swordersfineart 

Thursday 23 July, 6pm – 8pm - You are invited to a private drinks reception and evening viewing of the exhibition featuring a talk on Madge by Vivienne Roberts, curator and art historian specialising in enigmatic art. Register your interest by contacting london@sworder.co.uk

Sworders London Gallery
15 Cecil Court
London
WC2N 4EZ

For all images and prices see : www.sworder.co.uk/madge-gill-arcana-exhibition

Madge Gill: The Arcana Drawings brings together a jewel-like series of twenty-two ink drawings on postcards. Modest in scale yet central to Gill’s practice, these intimate works function as transmissions: part vision, part message, part meditation. Created across decades marked by war, uncertainty and personal adversity, they can be understood as missives from another realm, carrying themes of healing, hope and transformation.

#MadgeGill
One eye sees, the other feels on now until August One eye sees, the other feels on now until August 7th @thebinderylondon 

Presented by @vivienne.roberts.projects curated by @mediumisticart 

@melissaalley.artist 
@hannahluxton_ 
@jolewisart 
@olivia.streeton
New exhibition – One eye sees, the other feels is New exhibition - One eye sees, the other feels is now open. All welcome and a fully accessible space. 

Co-curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart with Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects 
who share not only a name, but also a shared vision in this exciting new exhibition. 

Featuring Artists: Melissa Alley, Jo Lewis, Hannah Luxton, Olivia Streeton
With historical works by: Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Janin, Grace Pailthorpe, Henri Pfeiffer

Venue: Vivienne Roberts Projects 
The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN
@thebinderylondon 
Exhibition continues to 7th August 2026
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm or by appointment

Taking its title from a quote by Paul Klee, one eye sees the other feels,  is an exhibition that considers painting as a multisensory practice in which feeling is as central to artistic creation as seeing. Bringing together contemporary and historical works, the exhibition examines how artists have used mediumistic, intuitive, and visionary approaches, including automatism, trance and meditation, to access forms of knowledge beyond ordinary perception.

The artists featured in the exhibition approach painting as both a creative and receptive act, occupying the role of channeller as much as originator. Here, the support becomes a site of transmission and transformation, where the flow of conscious intention merges with presences that appear to emerge from elsewhere: the subconscious, dreams, ancestral memory, spirit communication, cosmic energies, or intuitive connections to the natural world.

 @hannahluxton_ 
 @jolewisart 
 @melissaalley.artist 
 @olivia.streeton
New Exhibition on now!! Co-curated by Vivienne R New Exhibition on now!! 

Co-curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart with Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects 
who share not only a name, but also a shared vision in this exciting new exhibition.

ONE EYE SEES, THE OTHER FEELS 

Featuring Artists: Melissa Alley, Jo Lewis, Hannah Luxton, Olivia Streeton
With historical works by: Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Janin, Grace Pailthorpe, Henri Pfeiffer

Preview Tuesday 23rd June 6-15-8.15

Venue: Vivienne Roberts Projects 
The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN
Exhibition continues to 7th August 2026
Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm or by appointment

Taking its title from a quote by Paul Klee, one eye sees the other feels,  is an exhibition that considers painting as a multisensory practice in which feeling is as central to artistic creation as seeing. Bringing together contemporary and historical works, the exhibition examines how artists have used mediumistic, intuitive, and visionary approaches, including automatism, trance and meditation, to access forms of knowledge beyond ordinary perception.

The artists featured in the exhibition approach painting as both a creative and receptive act, occupying the role of channeller as much as originator. Here, the support becomes a site of transmission and transformation, where the flow of conscious intention merges with presences that appear to emerge from elsewhere: the subconscious, dreams, ancestral memory, spirit communication, cosmic energies, or intuitive connections to the natural world.

Images: 1-2 Hannah Luxton @hannahluxton_ 
3,6,7 #LouiseJanin
4-5 Jo Lewis @jolewisart 
8-9 Melissa Alley @melissaalley.artist 
10-11 Olivia Streeton @olivia.streeton 
12 #IthellColquhoun
13 Grace Pailthorpe
14 Henri Pfeiffer

New Exhibition opening tomorrow!! 

Co-curated by Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart with Vivienne Roberts @vivienne.roberts.projects 
who share not only a name, but also a shared vision in this exciting new exhibition.

ONE EYE SEES, THE OTHER FEELS 

Featuring Artists: Melissa Alley, Jo Lewis, Hannah Luxton, Olivia Streeton
With historical works by: Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Janin, Grace Pailthorpe, Henri Pfeiffer

Preview Tuesday 23rd June 6-15-8.15
SAVE THE DATE💫one eye sees, the other feels 💫 Exh SAVE THE DATE💫one eye sees, the other feels 💫

Exhibition presented by Vivienne Roberts Projects @vivienne.roberts.projects together with Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart 

Gallery: Vivienne Roberts Projects 
Location: The Bindery, 53 Hatton Garden, London EC1N 8HN 
Dates: 23 June – 7 August 2026 
Private View: Tuesday 23 June, 6.15 – 8.15 pm 
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday 11am - 5pm (Free Admission)
Co-Curators: Vivienne Roberts and Vivienne Roberts (@mediumisticart)

Taking its title from a quote by Paul Klee, ‘one eye sees, the other feels’ brings together contemporary and historical artists whose practices explore painting as a multisensory and intuitive act. The exhibition examines how artists have used mediumistic, visionary and psychic approaches — including automatism, trance and meditation — to access forms of knowledge beyond ordinary perception. 

Featuring contemporary artists:
Melissa Alley @melissaalley.artist 
Jo Lewis @jolewisart 
Hannah Luxton @hannahluxton_ 
Olivia Streeton @olivia.streeton 

Alongside historical works by #IthellColquhoun #GracePailthorpe #LouiseJanin and Henri Pfeiffer, the exhibition traces a lineage of artists connected through sensation, intuition, spirituality and expanded states of awareness. Drawing on ideas linked to Spiritualism, Theosophy, Surrealism and alchemy, the works propose painting as both a creative and receptive process — one in which the artist acts as both maker and channeller. 

At a time of technological saturation and renewed spiritual searching, One Eye Sees, The Other Feels reconsiders visionary and mediumistic art as a vital and continuing aspect of contemporary practice.
Last day tomorrow – Sunday 7th!! Louise Janin: The Last day tomorrow - Sunday 7th!! Louise Janin: The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life

Thank you 🙏 to all of you that have visited so far and for your fantastic comments. Hats off for braving the weather and tube strikes too! For those that haven’t seen the show, there’s just one day left. Do pop in, you won’t be disappointed. 

Thank you 🙏 to @studio.ardworks and @siyu_chen_photography for your design and photography. 

Thank you 🙏 to @thegreatwomenartists for the fantastic interview featured on your substack. 

Curated by @simoncgrant and @mediumisticart 

#louisejanin First solo show in the UK
The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life - in detail! 

Show ends Sunday 7th June

Curated by  @simoncgrant @mediumisticart 

36 Great Pulteney Street @gpsgallerysoho
See you next week for the opening of The Echo of t See you next week for the opening of The Echo of the Spirit Through the Rhythms of Life - the first UK solo exhibition of Louise Janin (1893-1997)

Curated by Simon Grant @simoncgrant and Vivienne Roberts @mediumisticart 

GPS Gallery @gpsgallerysoho 
36 Great Pulteney Street
Soho, London 
W1F 9NS

Preview 2nd June 6-8pm

3 - 7th June 2026
10-6pm (Free Admission)

Image: Design by @studio.ardworks
Photography: Siyu Chen Lewis

#louisejanin
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