Shows worth the Overground trip

Freya Okonkwo

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Sketchbook casualties of my lunch breaks, honestly — exhibitions I'm either already circling in my diary or ones I've shoved the gallery assistant discount card toward my own ribs for. Half are five minutes from the gallery, half need the full Overground-and-a-flat-white pilgrimage into town, but worth it, I promise. Currently reading something about Agnes Martin which is doing unhelpful things to my own painting, more on that another time.

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Shows worth the Overground trip — 5 items
Name	Event	Venue	My take
1Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads	Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads	Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX	Textiles and threads as a whole language — honestly want to sketch every knot in this one, bring a jumper, it's a big echoey space
2The 90s: Art and Fashion	The 90s: Art and Fashion	Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG	Equal parts nostalgia and research for my own collage work, Edward Enninful curating this is honestly reason enough
3Salman Toor: Someone Like You	Salman Toor: Someone Like You	The Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN	Soft, queer, a bit melancholy — the kind of show that makes me want to redo my whole palette
4Frieze Sculpture 2026	Frieze Sculpture	The English Gardens, The Regent's Park, London NW1 4NR	Free and outdoors so no guilt about wandering off mid-sketch, going back before it closes honestly
5Painting the French Riviera	Painting the French Riviera	Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD	Craving sunlight by November so this Matisse-and-Dufy haze feels like cheating a holiday