For Frieze London 2025, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is pleased to exhibit new and unseen works by Jennifer Bartlett, Seba Calfuqueo, KV Duong, Jacqueline de Jong, Sophia Loeb, Mario Martinez, Tamar Mason, Wangari Mathenge, Katy Moran, Masao Nakahara, Nengi Omuku, Liorah Tchiprout, Shaqúelle Whyte and Qualeasha Wood. The group presentation will foster a particular focus on memory, community, and our relationship with the natural world.
Highlights include large-scale abstractions by British artist Katy Moran, whose first solo exhibition at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery took place in May 2025. Moran’s instinctive compositions evoke landscape, conjuring representational associations despite being engaged fundamentally in the expression of atmosphere. Like Moran, Brazilian artist Sophia Loeb’s paintings are informed by the natural world and advocate for the interconnectedness of all universal systems. Loeb’s works have recently been acquired by The ICA Miami, FL, and The Museum of Modern Art Fort Worth, TX.
Community and cultural memory are important touchstones for Shaqúelle Whyte, Nengi Omuku, and Wangari Mathenge, who each approach figuration as a space of kinship and interiority. Opening during Frieze week, Whyte’s second solo exhibition at the gallery presents emotionally charged paintings, positioning his subjects in enigmatic environments that defy linear time. Likewise, Mathenge’s surrealistic tableaux portray Black figures in moments of reflection and self-possession. Omuku paints on the pre-colonial Nigerian textile sanyan, portraying her protagonists in lush landscapes that reflect psychological states and collective histories. Both Whyte and Omuku are included in Roots in the Sky at HOME, Manchester, curated by artist Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, opening the week before Frieze London.
Across their respective six-decade careers, late artists Jacqueline de Jong and Jennifer Bartlett expressed a defiant attitude to social change through paint. De Jong favoured a freewheeling figurative approach that prioritised the exploration of human relationships, blending elements of the erotic and the macabre. De Jong’s boundary-crossing practice will be celebrated in a retrospective exhibition at The Kunstmuseum St. Gallen opening in September 2025. In works that focus on the house as a central motif, Bartlett drew upon minimalist and conceptual strategies to dismantle gendered domestic expectations of the home. Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Bartlett’s first exhibition with the gallery in June 2025.
Showing for the first time at Frieze London, KV Duong and Masao Nakahara explore themes of memory and belonging through personal and cultural histories. Duong’s paintings in acrylic on poured latex explore migration and cultural assimilation, having been born in Vietnam to Chinese parents, later living in Canada and now the UK. Likewise, in miniature oneiric paintings and playful sculptures, Nakahara interprets the memories and folklore of his Japanese upbringing alongside European art historical references, having lived in Germany since the 1980’s. Both artists navigate identity, loss, and connection, creating spaces for reflection and emotional resonance. Pippy Houldsworth Gallery presented Nakahara’s first exhibition with the gallery in September 2025 and will present Duong’s first exhibition with the gallery in January 2026.