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SYLVIA SLEIGH
THE BRIDGE

8 MAY 2026 – 15 JULY 2026

MALARKEY
48 RUSSELL SQUARE
LONDON, WC1B 4JP

OPEN FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS 11 AM - 6PM, AND BY APPOINTMENT FOR MORE INFORMATION AND THE LIST OF WORKS PLEASE EMAIL : LONDON@DANIELMALARKEY.COM
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Ursula Hauser holds an important collection of Sylvia Sleigh and I first saw the artist’s work in 2019 at Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition of part of her collection in Somerset. Enclosing part of her interview with her daughter Manuela courtesy of @hauserwirth #sylviasleigh #ursulahauser #ursulahausercollection

Opening 5 June 2026
Spanning both levels of the Musée Rath, this off-site exhibition presented by the MAMCO juxtaposes a retrospective dedicated to the British artist Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010) with a polygraphic project titled Refaire Collection, offering a feminist re-reading of the canons of art history.
The ground floor is devoted to the work of Sylvia Sleigh. A Welsh painter who settled in New York in 1962, she produced the bulk of her oeuvre during the 1960s & 1970s, a period in which she interrogated the gendered conventions inherited from Western art history. Her approach is distinguished above all by an inversion of roles, substituting the male nude for the classical female nude, and by intimate portraits of the New York artistic and intellectual community captured in domestic settings. An engaged member of feminist collectives such as A.I.R. and SoHo 20, Sleigh structures the exhibition in five parts: a revisiting of art history icons (the odalisque, Orientalism, the Renaissance) through the lens of gender; a section dedicated to self-portraiture and the Sister Chapel project; a tribute to the New York scene of the 1970s; and finally, two spaces exploring the nude, highlighting how Sleigh privileged individuality, ornamentation, and the textures of the hippie counterculture.
Echoing this practice, the lower level presents the exhibition Refaire Collection, which provides a historical framework for Sleigh’s approach while posing a fundamental question: how to reimagine a collection when works by women are structurally underrepresented? Confronting biases in acquisition and valorization, this project imagines new lineages by drawing on the holdings of the MAMCO as well as Swiss institutional & private collections. Spanning a century of creation, from Jacqueline Marval to Jenna Gribbon, the display brings together paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, & photographs by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Meret Oppenheim, Pipilotti Rist, Joan Semmel, & the Guerrilla Girls. Centered on themes of bodily representation, sorority, & empowerment, these works dialogue with those of Sleigh to question our relationship to art history. @mamco_geneve #sylviasleigh

One of our favourite works from Art Brussels. ANNA ZEMANKOVA from Christian Berst #annazemankova @artbrussels

Kumagai Morikazu (1880-1977)
Leopard Plants and Snail, 1959
oil on board
24 x 33.5 cm | 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 in
28.5 x 38 cm | 11 1/5 x 14 9/10 inches

*NEW Announcement SYLVIA SLEIGH
THE BRIDGE

Opens 8 May 2026


Open Fridays & Saturdays, 11 AM - 6 PM

and by appointment

MALARKEY
48 Russell Square WC1B 4JP, London, UK

Exhibition Dates: 8 May - 15 July 2026

Daniel Malarkey is pleased to present the first commercial solo exhibition of works by Sylvia Sleigh in the UK in over 60 years, opening on 8 May 2026 at 48 Russell Square, Bloomsbury. The exhibition opens on the 110th anniversary of the artist’s birth.

#sylviasleigh

Sylvia Sleigh (1916 – 2010), Untitled (Robert Wamsganz), 1980. Oil on canvas. Photograph: Eleonora Agostini/©Estate of Sylvia Sleigh. Courtesy the artist and Daniel Malarkey

Jean-Marie Appriou acquired for a private collection with Daniel Malarkey Art Advisory many a moon ago from Presenhuber. #jeanmarieappriou

Jean-Marie Appriou acquired for a private collection with Daniel Malarkey Art Advisory many a moon ago from Presenhuber. #jeanmarieappriou

Jean-Marie Appriou acquired for a private collection with Daniel Malarkey Art Advisory many a moon ago from Presenhuber. #jeanmarieappriou

Opening in one hour @patdimass @rodolphejanssen @artbrussels #patriziodimassimo @juliesen

Great art ! Roy Oxlade. AJ. @roy_oxlade_archives @alisonjacquesgallery #royoxlade

Great art ! Roy Oxlade. AJ. @roy_oxlade_archives @alisonjacquesgallery #royoxlade

Great art ! Roy Oxlade. AJ. @roy_oxlade_archives @alisonjacquesgallery #royoxlade

Great art ! Roy Oxlade. AJ. @roy_oxlade_archives @alisonjacquesgallery #royoxlade

That’s me.

ON VIEW NOW AT TATE MODERN : Monsieur Vénus
Sylvia Sleigh
Dorothea Tanning
Henri Matisse
Leonor Fini
Salvador Dali
And more
#sylviasleigh #dorotheatanning #henrimatisse #leonorfini #salvadordalí @tate

ON VIEW NOW AT TATE MODERN : Monsieur Vénus
Sylvia Sleigh
Dorothea Tanning
Henri Matisse
Leonor Fini
Salvador Dali
And more
#sylviasleigh #dorotheatanning #henrimatisse #leonorfini #salvadordalí @tate

ON VIEW NOW AT TATE MODERN : Monsieur Vénus
Sylvia Sleigh
Dorothea Tanning
Henri Matisse
Leonor Fini
Salvador Dali
And more
#sylviasleigh #dorotheatanning #henrimatisse #leonorfini #salvadordalí @tate

ON VIEW NOW AT TATE MODERN : Monsieur Vénus
Sylvia Sleigh
Dorothea Tanning
Henri Matisse
Leonor Fini
Salvador Dali
And more
#sylviasleigh #dorotheatanning #henrimatisse #leonorfini #salvadordalí @tate

ON VIEW NOW AT TATE MODERN : Monsieur Vénus
Sylvia Sleigh
Dorothea Tanning
Henri Matisse
Leonor Fini
Salvador Dali
And more
#sylviasleigh #dorotheatanning #henrimatisse #leonorfini #salvadordalí @tate

Kim Bohie @kaufmannrepetto #kimbohie

Kim Bohie @kaufmannrepetto #kimbohie

Kim Bohie @kaufmannrepetto #kimbohie

Kim Bohie @kaufmannrepetto #kimbohie