Saatchi Gallery features Dufy and new shows

Saatchi Gallery’s current London program is split between three small free exhibitions and a larger paid summer show opening this week. As of June 2-3, the gallery’s “What’s on” listings and recent local coverage highlighted Anna Liber Lewis’s abstract painting show “Spectral Interference,” Perspicere’s thread-based portrait exhibition “States of Transition,” and “Inflorescence,” a flower-themed group exhibition drawn from artists in the gallery’s 2025 “Flowers – Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture” show. (saatchigallery.com) Raoul Dufy’s “The Artist’s Studio” was also cited in social posts this week as a featured work connected to the gallery’s art coverage, while external museum records identify the painting as a 1935 work. (saatchigallery.com) The Saatchi Gallery’s own current listings reviewed for this article center on the three free exhibitions and the forthcoming “The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial,” which opens June 5. ### Which shows are on view at Saatchi Gallery now? Saatchi Gallery’s current “What’s on” page lists “Spectral Interference,” “States of Transition,” and “Inflorescence” as now showing in Galleries 1, 2 and 4. (saatchigallery.com) The gallery says all three opened on May 21, with “Spectral Interference” and “States of Transition” running through June 13 and “Inflorescence” running through July 26. IanVisits, in an article published June 2, described the trio as “abstract paintings, intricate thread portraits and flower-inspired contemporary works” on display across three free exhibitions at the Chelsea venue. (phillipscollection.org) ### What is in the abstract painting show? Anna Liber Lewis is the artist behind “Spectral Interference,” a solo exhibition presented with Hannah Payne Art. Saatchi Gallery says the show brings together a new body of work and marks a break from Lewis’s earlier grid-based paintings, moving instead toward abstraction. (saatchigallery.com) The gallery describes the exhibition as embracing “abstraction as a site of risk, embodiment, and perceptual instability.” That language appears in the official listing for the show now on view in Gallery 1 through June 13. (ianvisits.co.uk) ### How are the thread portraits made? Perspicere’s “States of Transition” is curated by BSMT Gallery and focuses on portraits made from thread. Saatchi Gallery says each work is created by wrapping thread around nails in layers until a photorealistic image emerges from intersecting lines. The exhibition runs from May 21 to June 13 in Gallery 2 and is listed as free entry, with no pre-booking required. (saatchigallery.com) IanVisits included the show in its June 2 roundup of the gallery’s summer displays. ### What is the flower-themed exhibition? “Inflorescence” opened on May 21 in Gallery 4 and brings together new works by contemporary artists who appeared in the 2025 exhibition “Flowers – Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture,” according to Saatchi Gallery. (saatchigallery.com) The gallery says the new show was assembled to revisit those artists with works that “celebrate the beauty and significance of flowers.” Entry to “Inflorescence” is free until June 17, after which admission will be by ticket from June 18, the gallery says. The exhibition is scheduled to run until July 26. (saatchigallery.com) ### Where does Raoul Dufy fit into this week’s coverage? Raoul Dufy’s “The Artist’s Studio” appeared in social media posts this week tied to art coverage around the gallery. The Saatchi Gallery pages reviewed for this article do not list a current Dufy exhibition, but The Phillips Collection identifies “The Artist’s Studio” as a 1935 painting from Dufy’s series of studio interiors. (saatchigallery.com) The next major Saatchi Gallery exhibition is “The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial,” which opens on June 5 and runs through Sept. 8 across nine gallery spaces. Saatchi Gallery says the show will include installations by Luke Jerram and teamLab, alongside works by established and emerging artists. (saatchigallery.com 1) (saatchigallery.com 2) (phillipscollection.org)