The Art Newspaper

London Gallery Weekend 2025: our critics pick their top shows
Ben Luke and Louisa Buck, The Art Newspaper, June 4, 2025
A double-header addressing urgent concerns. Climate justice looms large in If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower (a Talking Heads lyric). It brings together Adham Faramawy, whose diverse work has a knack for finding powerful metaphors to address political and social issues, with Cecilia Fiona, whose similarly varied practice addresses everything from microbiology to myth in connecting the human body, the natural world and cosmos, and Jen O'Farrell, who addresses the climate emergency by using the material residues of environmental destruction in paintings that evoke its effects on the land- and cityscape. Diana Puntar’s sculptures, meanwhile, reflect with acid humour on the history of 18th-century American colonists and their use of anti-monarchist symbols—in particular, an object called the pickle tray—in relation to present-day US politics.