Gallery highlights
The Natural World
22 September–22 October
Oliver Hoare at Cromwell Place, London
Ranging from Chinese scholar’s rocks to meteorite fragments and from a narwhal tusk to an inscribed sapphire, this exhibition of some 40 objects is a celebration both of the beauty of nature and of the civilisations throughout history and across the world that have prized it. The highlight of the display is a group of three textiles spun from the silk of golden orb-weaver spiders in Madagascar – one of the most elusive materials in existence.
Frank Walter: Music of the Spheres Until 25 September
Ingleby, Edinburgh
Frank Walter (1926–2009) never exhibited his work publicly in his lifetime, but the years since his death have seen a surge of interest in the Antiguan’s visionary paintings, sculptures and autobiographical musings. This display is the first to focus on his ‘spool’ paintings: circular panels which, like portholes, present fragmentary views – of the Caribbean, or seascapes inspired by his voyages to Scotland, or of the inner workings of his mind (Fig. 2).
Dame Elisabeth Frink RA (1930–1993): Man is an Animal
25 September–16 January 2022
Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury
The most extensive display of Frink’s sculpture to take place in the UK since her death in 1993, this show focuses on the Suffolk-born expressionist’s monumental depictions of men. At once excoriating visions of masculinity and reflections on humanity’s compassion and cruelty, the group includes Judas (1963), loaned from the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and a number of her sinister Goggle Heads.
Gallery opening 3 September
Torres Nieto Fine Arts, Munich
At new premises on the Theresienstrasse, near the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Torres Nieto will continue to offer his typically eclectic range of paintings, sculptures and objets d’art, ranging from the Renaissance to the present day. A particular focus is on the work of the Swiss landscape painter Johann Conrad Steiner (1757–1818); also on offer is a fine portrait by the Italian rococo painter Giuseppe Nogari.