Arts & Galleries NEWPORT STREET GALLERY NEWPORT STREET SE11 6AJ Rachel Howard: Repetition is Truth – Via Dolorosa To 28 May The show is the first UK exhibition of Howard’s series of paintings,‘Repetition is Truth – Via Dolorosa’. This body of work was the subject of a 2011 exhibition at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy, curated by Mario Codognato. John Copeland: Your Heaven Looks Just Like My Hell To 28 May Copeland’s first UK solo exhibition features twenty-five paintings, dating from 2009 to 2017, taken from the Murderme collection. Veering between representation and abstraction, Copeland’s paintings feature tactile, impasto surfaces, rendered in oil and acrylic paint. Professing an interest in‘any arrangement that involves interaction between the figures’, Copeland often situates his subjects in social settings – around a table, playfully balanced on one another’s shoulders, or surveying a painting as a group. The figures remain, however, deeply ambiguous, and are set against abstract backgrounds populated by curious, amorphous shapes. The unnerving quality of the imagery is heightened by the appearance of pairs or mirrored human forms, as in The Bullet Screams Past (2015). TATE BRITAIN MILLBANK SW1P 4RG Impressionists in London To 7 May This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots. In the 1870s, France was devastated by the Franco-Prussian war and insurrection in Paris, driving artists to seek refuge across the Channel. Their experiences in London and the friendships that developed not only influenced their own work but also contributed to the British art scene. Camille Pissarro: Charing Cross Bridge 1890 John Copeland: Transmission (Imaginary Rules) 2017 | C U L T U R E | 28 THE RIVER MAGAZINE | Spring 2018