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Elephant Magazine, Laughter & Tears ‘Gaaaaaaasp’: A Conversation with Alexandra Metcalf, 19 June 2025

Ella Slater speaks with Alexandra Metcalf about contemporary girlhood, the cyclical nature of anxiety, and Richard Dadd's 'Crazy Jane' on the occasion of the artists solo exhibition at The Perimeter

Apollo Magazine, Alexandra Metcalf will see you now, 23 June 2025

‘Gaaaaaaasp’ opens with what is immediately recognisable as a waiting room, or – given the viewing window in a temporary dividing wall – a space for clinical observation....

The World of Interiors, A Bitter Thrill to Swallow, 18 June 2025

It’s with a healthy dose of playful camp that artist Alexandra Metcalf examines the medicalisation of the female psyche – yet there’s no escaping the suggestion of something sinister just...

FRIEZE, Alexandra Metcalf’s Sinister Vignettes, 23 June 2025

At The Perimeter, London, the artist explores how women have been mistreated in both domestic and clinical settings

Flash Art, 351 SUMMER GROTESQUE FUNCTIONALISM, 3 June 2025

The third cover story is dedicated to Alexandra Metcalf. Metcalf’s work blends gothic theatricality with piercing feminist critique, exploring themes of madness, diagnosis, and containment.

Artnet, For Rising Artist Alexandra Metcalf There’s Beauty in the Breakdown, 12 June 2025

The artist creates time-melding works laced with dark histories, psychedelia, and psychosis.

VOGUE, This Summer’s Must-See Contemporary Art Exhibitions In London And Beyond, 10 June 2025

Head to The Perimeter in Bloomsbury for one of the summer’s standout institutional shows, Alexandra Metcalf’s Gaaaaaaasp... It really is a must-see. 

Wallpaper, Alexandra Metcalf creates an unsettling Victorian world in London, 9 June 2025

The convergence of disparate worlds, attitudes and aesthetics – that of medical institutionalisation and of leisure, aspirations of the past and modern sensibility, beauty and horror – works to humorous...

TimeOut, Alexandra Metcalf: Gaaaaaaasp, 27 May 2025

The space recalls a clinical waiting area, but it also suggests something more metaphysical: a kind of purgatory, where time is suspended, judgment is quietly present and trauma lingers...

emergent magazine, Ensemble at The Perimeter, 25 January 2025

Elephant Magazine, Lewis Hammond and Actress are Related by Blood and Shared Consciousness, 31 Oct 2024

Theo Meranze speaks with painter Lewis Hammond and DJ Darren Cunningham about their relationship as cousins and collaborators. 

Plaster Magazine, Lewis Hammond: “Music and sound enters the body. You feel it before you can diagnose it”, 18 September 2024

There’s a quiet theatre at play from the moment you step into The Perimeter, the 6a Architects-designed gallery in a quiet Bloomsbury mews. I am offered...

London Review of Books, On Shuvinai Ashoona, 25 April 2024

A blue creature​ – part platypus, part squid, part amorphous squiggle – scuttles behind a pale three-headed figure with one webbed foot...

Burlington Contemporary, Shuvinai Ashoona: When I Draw, 17 April 2024

Naturalism blends with phantas-magoria in the delicate, bewitching drawings of Shuvinai Ashoona (b.1961). Some offer a window into quotidian...

Art Review, All Impossible Worlds, 14 February 2024

In Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawings of Kinngait, a hamlet in Nunavut Province, northern Canada, people live alongside characters from Inuit mythology...

FRIEZE, Shuvinai Ashoona’s Visions of Inuit History and Resilience, 12 February 2024

Crawling with tentacled creatures, flipper-footed beasts and beaked hybrids, Shuvinai Ashoona’s colourful pencil drawings are playful and...

The Times, Shuvinai Ashoona Review — Arctic Monsters and Haunting Ice Floes, 24 January 2024

There is something thrillingly peculiar about the perspective in Shuvinai Ashoona’s drawings. There’s no obvious horizon, no real recession, no sure...

The Guardian, ‘It’s fun, fun, fun’: The Arctic artist who took up painting for ‘cigarette money’, 22 January 2024

The oldest of 14 children, Shuvinai Ashoona takes inspiration from Inuit mythology and the wildlife of her ice-scape home. As her show comes to...

Artnet, Anna Uddenberg’s Body-Twisting Sculptures Probe — and Breach — the Limits of Femininity and Reality, 2 January 2024

Around 2009, while Anna Uddenberg was commuting to Frankfurt’s prestigious Städelschule from her hometown in Stockholm, she opened... 

Interview Magazine, Anna Uddenberg on Kinks, Consumerism, and Home Wreckers, 26 October 2023

The sickly sweet taste of artificial grape flavoring. The cold, inhospitable interiors of the Kardashians’ houses. The squeaky plastic surface of a...

Plaster Magazine, The who’s who of the new Bloomsbury Group, 25 October 2023

Who said the city is dead? There’s a growing cultural renaissance as galleries open their doors in this historic central London district...

Elephant Magazine, Anna Uddenberg’s ‘Home Wreckers’ Explores Desire and Affect in Our Technology-Bound Consumer Culture, 18 October 2023

London—Anna Uddenberg has become known for her sculptures of hyper-sexualised (and hyper-flexible) faceless female dummies adorned in futuristic...

TimeOut, Anna Uddenberg: Home Wreckers, 17 October 2023

If you get caught smoking as a kid, the best punishment is to be locked in a closet and forced to smoke a whole pack. It’ll put you off for...

Artnet, How the Buzzy Young Artist Joseph Yaeger Is Constructing His Cinematic Language in Striking Watercolors, 2 February 2023

By the time Joseph Yaeger starts painting, he’s been working on a piece for months. He’s chosen a reference image, often a still from a film. He’s...