Freddie Foulkes Gallery in Shepherd’s Bush Market will welcome A Brutal Kind of Bloom from 11 March to 4 April 2026. Exhibition brings together Hunter Amos, Alexander Carey-Morgan, Charlie Gosling and Emily Wilcock.
This group exhibition introduces four London-based artists with distinct approaches to painting and sculpture. However, work shares a direct and honest quality. Exhibition text describes that quality as frank, sincere and increasingly rare.
Hunter Amos presents oil paintings with heavily worked surfaces. Paintings appear weathered, almost like natural formations. As result, figures and shapes seem to emerge slowly from within each work. Practice explores material, erosion and effect of environment on form.
Emily Wilcock’s paintings bring powerful figures into view. Characters feel bold, strange and full of presence. She uses mixed media, fast brushwork and distortion to build psychological depth. Because of that, paintings feel both fantastical and intensely human.
Charlie Gosling focuses on portraiture and human psychology. He paints friends, acquaintances and people he meets by chance. Subjects often hold guarded expressions and unreadable gazes. Even so, careful handling of paint gives work sensitivity and restraint.
Alexander Carey-Morgan works across painting and sculpture. His paintings of poppy fields explore landscape, memory and emotion. He also experiments with materials such as muslin, canvas, watercolour and coffee. Alongside that, sculptural work reflects on growth, life cycles and renewal.
Taken together, four artists offer distinct but connected ways of seeing. That makes show thoughtful as well as visually striking.
For visitors to Shepherd’s Bush Market, the exhibition adds another reason to spend time in market. It brings a contemporary cultural moment into a place shaped by exchange, creativity and everyday life. So, whether you follow emerging art or simply feel curious, A Brutal Kind of Bloom is worth a visit this spring.
10th March 2026
