Image: Gazelli Art House, London
Gazelli Art House announces ‘In Town Tonight’, the first solo exhibition by Allen Jones RA with the gallery, opening during Frieze Week in London. The exhibition runs from 12 October to 18 December 2026.
‘In Town Tonight’ brings together a substantial body of new work made between 2024 and 2026 with significant works from across Jones’s career. It focuses on Jones’s ongoing investigation of the human figure, performance, and the relationship between image and object.
At the heart of the exhibition is a new series of shaped-canvas paintings that brings the theatricality of performance into Jones’s latest work. In ‘Double Take’ (2024–26) and ‘Watch This Space’ (2025–26), bodies appear as fragments, gestures and silhouettes within fields of saturated colour, while the contours of the shaped canvases become active elements of the compositions.
The exhibition includes shaped-canvas paintings, sculptures and Shadow Photographs. A palette of intense green, yellow and red transports the viewer into the theatre, where dramatic spotlights pick out the sinuous bodies of performers on stage, observed by audiences from opera boxes.
A defining figure of British Pop Art, Jones emerged at the forefront of a generation that transformed British visual culture in the early 1960s and has worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography for more than six decades.
