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GALLERY OPENING TIMES AND EXHIBITION DATES CAN VARY; IF IN DOUBT PHONE TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT

Piet Mondrian House in Sunlight, 1909, oil on canvas, 20¾326¾in (52.5368cm) at the National Galley of Ireland in Dublin this spring
National Gallery of Ireland

LONDON

Bankside Gallery

48 Hopton Street SE1.

☎ 020 7928 7521 

www.banksidegallery.com 

Society of Wood Engravers; 

February 2 to 21.

Barbican Art Gallery 

Silk Street, Barbican EC2. 

www.barbican.org.uk 

Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty;

February 11 to May 23.

Gallery@OXO 

Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street SE1.

☎ 020 7021 1600 

www.oxotower.co.uk 

Wales Contemporary/ Cymru Gyfoes; 

international open 

competition, 

February 25 to March 7.

Mall Galleries 

The Mall SW1.

☎ 020 7930 6844 

www.mallgalleries.org.uk 

The Pastel Society; 

annual exhibition, 

January 27 to February 13.

Words Made Beautiful; 

celebrating the centenary of The Society of Scribes & Illuminators, 

February 16 to 28. 

Dandelion; work by Ed Burkes, winner of the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award in response to the people, culture, heritage and landscape of Derbyshire, February 23 to 28.

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