AIR Gallery at Rosebery Avenue

1978 — 1989

An important venue for London artists, as well as offices for SPACE, AIR and PADT (Public Art Development Trust), alongside a residency studio.

Shows included:

  • 2 Contemporary Artists from Ontario Canada, Part of the Ontario Project, 15 May – 16 June 1984.
  • Vaughan Grylls and Michael Peel Photoworks, 6-29 January (year unknown).
  • Ronald Boyd Paintings, Paula Rego Paintings – Drawings, May 12 – June 11 (year unknown).
  • Susan Haire Recent Paintings, Andrew Stahl Recent Paintings, June 16 – July 16 (year unknown).
  • Harkness Arts 1958-85, Julia Farrer, Anthony Green, Nigel Hall, Paul Huxley, Richard Kidd, Thomas Newbolt, Colin Smith, Richard Smith and John Walker, 10 May – 8 Jun 1985.
  • Eric Bainbridge: Sculpture, 11 Sep – 6 Oct 1985, Catalogue with essay by Stuart Morgan.
  • London Video Arts & AIR Gallery presents Video Window Box: Works for the Street by Duvet Brothers, Judith Goddard, Mick Hartney, Rose Finn Kelcey, Brett Turnbull, Graham Young 14 Mar – 13 April.
  • London Video Arts presents Video Art from Japan, March 14 – April 13 1986.
  • ‘New British Sculpture 2 July – 31 August 1986: Julia Wood, Cornelia Parker, Mark Ingham, John Plowman, Steven Pippin, Hermione Wiltshire, Rob Kesseler, Sharon Kivland, ‘The sky’s the limit’ June 10 – July 5 1986 organised by the Chicago Office of Fine Arts
  • ‘Naked City’: Flick Allen + Peter Doig, 30 May – 22 June 1986, Colour slides + b/w photos.
  • ‘The issue of painting’ 5 Sept- 5 Oct 1986, Sutapa Biswas, Margaret Harrison, Glenys Johnson
  • ‘Dutch Photography’ 15 Oct – 16 Nov Teun Hocks, Lydia Schouten, Henk Tas.
  • Seamus Finnegan’s The German Connection, 11-29 Nov 1986.
  • Sonya Boyce, 11 Dec 86 – 25 Jan 87
  • Last Sweat of Youth: New Performance and installation from Britain and Europe selected and organised by Rob La Frenais, 9-31 March (year unknown).
  • Heroes: Present Day Heroes, Hero Worship and The Heroic, 23 Sep – 1 Nov 1987
  • Michael Peel, Extracts from a Modern World, 21 Jan – 27 Feb (year unknown).
  • Hotel, proprietors Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, 19 Jan – 25 Feb 1989.
  • Critic’s Space Series of exhibitions of SPACE artists selected by an invited critic.