Shapeshifters, Playing it Fowwards
6 - 11 October, The Corner Gallery Fulham, 2026.
This year, Shapeshifters brings together seven award-winning artists to ‘play it forwards’. The focus is on continuation, nurture, and shared influence. Across painting, sculpture, and printmaking, works respond to what has shaped each artist’ practice. Shapeshifters Playing it Forwards opens October 5 in Fulham.
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea (Stand H11 with ContemporArti)
14th to 18th October, 2026
New work from the Hampstead Swimmers, and the Riviera Reverie collection, and introducing a new collection 'Giverny' based on a visit to Monet's spectacular garden earlier this year.
From the Series Riviera Reverie
Oil on Stretched Canvas
150cm by 90cm
VanessaBrassey
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 until 24 August.
Demonstrating Descartes’ Error at the Ladies’ Pond, Hampstead Heath was selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It was exhibited in Gallery IX and sold. Limited edition prints are available, please get in touch to find out more.
Demonstrating Descartes Error at The Ladies Pond Hampstead Heath
Oil on book cover 'The Mind's Eye'
25cm by 20cm
VanessaBrassey 2026.
Heathbound, Burgh House Hampstead
16th to 27th September, 2026
This September, HEATHBOUND brings together a group of exceptional artists spanning painting, embroidery, photography, illustration, papercut, printmaking, sculpture and miniature worlds, to transform one of London’s most beloved landscapes into something magical, unexpected and entirely new. Ten new paintings available.
Playing in the Dog Pond Hampstead Heath
Oil on wood 10cmby10cm
2026 for Heathbound by artist
VanessaBrassey
Previous events
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026
Gallery IX
Opening June 16 - August 24
Royal Academy, Green Park, London.
Read my review of dance performance 'NOVO'
From Sivan Rubinstein.
'Bacon & The Time of Monsters'
Short Documentary Philosophy Film
British Society of Aesthetics Grant Award 2026
In production, collaboration with Professor Ben Ware and Envis Media
'Cogito in 16mm'
Short Documentary Philosophy Research Film
British Society of Aesthetics Grant Award 2026
In production, collaboration with Dr. Marina Christodoulou and Envis Media
Routledge Book 'The Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts'
Edited by Vanessa Brassey and Derek Matravers, Routledge - out now in paperback.
Events Recap Jan - June 2026
LOVE at The Philosophy Bar
Monday 9th February 6-8pm,
Colony Room Green (Mayfair)
Sold out.
The Frieze-Perediza Edit
Friday 17th April
Shoreditch Arts Club.
By invitation to Frieze members.
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath
PV May 6th- daily, 7 - 10 May,
Contemporarti Stand J9
Happy Place, g Both Gallery Highgate London
PV May 7th - daily 8-10 May,
323 Archway Road, opposite Highgate Tube.
Pop in for some joy.
'Artistic Intelligence'
Wednesday 27th May – Sunday 31st May
Fitzrovia Gallery139 Whitfield St, London W1T 5EN22/5
'FLESH' National Gallery
Friday Lates, 22nd May 6-8pm
Gallery 18, The National Gallery.
SOLD OUT