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Alison Jacques

London, United Kingdom
Alison Jacques

London, United Kingdom

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A Cork Street gallery with a sharp eye for artists who deserved more visibility before the art world fully caught up. Alison Jacques is one of London’s most thoughtful contemporary galleries — elegant, serious, and quietly powerful.

Alison Jacques is a contemporary art gallery in London, founded in 2004 by Alison Jacques. It is now located at 22 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG, placing it right inside one of Mayfair’s historic gallery streets.

The gallery is known for an international programme that brings together contemporary artists and important estates, often with a strong commitment to artists whose work has been under-recognised or recontextualised over time. Its programme has included artists and estates such as Sheila Hicks, Lygia Clark, Hannah Wilke, Dorothea Tanning, Robert Mapplethorpe, Betty Parsons, Gordon Parks, Mária Bartuszová and others.

What you’ll see here

At Alison Jacques, expect temporary exhibitions rather than a permanent collection. The experience is usually focused and refined: one artist, one strong body of work, and a calm gallery setting that rewards slow looking.

You may encounter:

  • Contemporary art exhibitions
  • Artist estates and historically important rediscoveries
  • Painting, sculpture, photography, textiles and installation
  • Women artists and under-recognised figures brought into sharper focus
  • A serious Cork Street / Mayfair gallery atmosphere
  • Free access to exhibitions that often feel research-led and museum-adjacent

Worth the trip

Yes — especially if you want contemporary art with depth rather than spectacle.

What makes Alison Jacques special is its curatorial instinct. The gallery is not only showing what is fashionable now; it often helps reposition artists, estates and practices that deserve to be seen with new attention.

For Artlovers, it is worth including because it shows one of London’s most important gallery strengths: the ability to rewrite art history quietly, through exhibitions that make you look again at artists you thought you already knew — or discover ones you should have known all along.

ArtLovers Tip

Visit Alison Jacques as part of a Cork Street / Mayfair gallery walk. Pair it with Frith Street Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ, Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner or the Royal Academy. It is one of those places where the London gallery ecosystem feels intelligent, curated and very alive.

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