From Amber Pinkerton’s long-awaited solo exhibition to a nostalgic portrait of London's indie sleaze era, we take a look at the world’s must-see exhibitions this month

This is the best chance yet to dive into the artistic practice of a photographer who has been making waves on the fashion and editorial circuit for the last five years. Jamaica-born Pinkerton makes work about her own migration to the UK in 2016, but it is shrouded in nature-inspired allegories and freeze-frame-like arrangements across the show’s pink walls. A 6-channel film and sound works show ambition beyond the still image, adding to the sense of circularity which the pictures suggest.

Photographer and moving image artist Amber Pinkerton’s long-anticipated debut solo exhibition, Self Dialogues: Hard Food, is on view at Alice Black gallery. The first in an ongoing series, ‘Hard Food’ centres on a six-channel super-8 and 16mm film, which explores the artist’s personal experiences of migration, isolation, contradiction, and belonging, like a series of thoughts running through her mind. Accompanying the film are photographic stills and self-portraits – on the bubblegum-pink walls of the gallery – which show Pinkerton exploring her own movements.

Off the back of a stellar series of recent shows, including the group show Double Knowledge, Alice Black invites guest curator and contributing artist Daniel Valentine to execute his vision for its next offering.

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In this series, illuminating the world of London’s emerging creatives and explaining how they got there, Lottie Leseberg Smith spends a day with co-founder of the Alice Black Gallery.

Forbes also shines a light on set designer Jabez Bartlett, photographer Nima Benati, gallerist Alice Black, illustrator Alla Horvat, and a number of artists.

The fifth annual Under 30 Europe list highlights the young visionary leaders brashly reinventing business and society. Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts & Culture nominates Alice Black, judged by Chiara Ferragni, Bledar Kola and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Art critic Tabish Khan brings you ‘The Top Art Exhibitions to see in London’. “A 200 year old oak tree that fell has been broken apart and reassembled and resurrected with bolts so it takes up the whole of the gallery space. It’s both massive and delicate as I spot the little cracks where it’s just about holding together”.

“Pigott was shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award in 2015, has a solo show coming up at Alice Black in December and has recently finished an MA in sculpture at the Royal College of Art.”

Art Daily announces Alice Black’s new Exhibition: “A conflict which has been raging, until now virtually unchecked, across all the worlds land mass, deep in our oceans and high in the sky.“

“Leaver or remainer, no one should regard this grotesque sabotaging of parliamentary sovereignty and parliamentary democracy with anything other than abhorrence,” say Matt Symonds and Alice Black, the co-founders of the London gallery Alice Black in response to Anny Shaw of the Art Newspaper.

Art fair first-timer Alice Black, who is showing paintings by Tristan Pigott, Lee Marshall and Marty Schnapf (priced between €3,500 and €14,000), says Art Brussels approached her quite late. “They were very keen on emerging galleries spotlighting emerging artists. They want young blood,” she says.

“Alice Black (London) enjoyed several significant sales for her first ever fair participation since the establishment of the gallery in May 2017.”

Alice Black is presenting the debut London exhibition of acclaimed Irish artist, Brian Maguire. The exhibition spotlights a new body of work which traces Maguire’s fourdecade arc, with an unsparing focus on the underlying socio-political forces at work around the world today.

‘Belgium - a country of art authorities who don’t wait for outside endorsements and are known to take an early stand in an artist’s career.’

"Loosely I wanted to create a sense that all images on all matter, human included, are able to slip off, disintegrate and be recast, whether metaphorically or literally," Pigott told Creative Boom.”

“Painting is an example of me trying to layer time, quite literally in the physical act of layering the paint, but also by having these narrative points in art history and contemporary events overlap.”

“Berwick Street’s Alice Black Gallery has just opened a new show: a selection of oil paintings from Tristan Pigott under the title Slippery Gaze.”

Helena Wadia spoke to curator Alice Black and artist Tristan Pigott about the exhibition. They discuss how the paintings, sculptures and installations are a comment on the way the public now consume content, through advertising, social media and each other.

‘Marty Schnapf’s work may exist within the confines of the canvas but the world he depicts is one which is forever shifting beneath the surface’

Discussing current and future plans for the gallery.

‘Marty Schnapf is launching his debut solo show in the UK this month, bringing together a new body of paintings entitled Santa Ana Winds.’

“Alice Black, co-founder and director of the Alice Black gallery, joins us to discuss a season of performance art that’s taking over the space.”

"ALICE BLACK represents part of London’s new growth, contributing to a forward-looking cultural discourse as a fresh, young gallery with a wealth of insight and ambitious plans for their artists and collectors alike."

A Kinetic Sculpture Twists and Morphs Based on the Fibonacci Sequence. Wales-based sculptor Ivan Black creates large-scale kinetic sculptures that are inspired by mathematical formulae and minimal design.

"The third show there features the Karachi-raised British artist Adia Wahid, who feeds the unusual background of economics into subtly systematic abstractions which also reference computing and textiles to suggest affinities between loom, database and grid."

"Adia Wahid's work asserts that the real world incorporates contemporary global, digital reality. As something of a nomad who has lived in Pakistan, USA, Singapore, South Korea and now London, her constant relocation has presumably demanded a dynamic approach to cultural and language translations, suggesting close symmetry with her art practice."

"An economist by training, Adia Wahid makes diagrammatic or grid-like abstract paintings about the conflict between mechanised industry and the human psyche"

"A curved seemingly organic form appears to emerge from a collection of clothes pegs and a bronze head looks vulnerable as holes have been punched out of it, while a Howard Hodgkin painting hangs between them. These are just a few of the works in this intimate group show, in a small gallery in Soho."

"Discovering a new gallery is always a treat for us and we’re glad to report it’s got a strong show on."

"1883 sat down for a chat with Alice Black, co-founder (with Matt Symonds) of the eponymous gallery ALICE BLACK, to discuss the setting up, philosophy and aims of the soon to open art space."