Our Relaxed Hours welcome visitors with disabilities, neurodiverse people and those with sensory processing sensitivities, alongside their families, friends and carers.
Join us for Relaxed Hours in the exhibition Cecily Brown: Picture Making.
Relaxed Hours is a dedicated time for anyone who might benefit from a more spacious and gentle environment.
This session is designed for visitors who experience sensory sensitivities, neurodivergent people and anyone who would appreciate a less crowded experience. Families, friends, and carers are warmly welcome.
During Relaxed Hours, there are no lighting effects or music in the gallery. It’s completely fine to talk or make noise in the gallery, and ear defenders are available upon request.
Visitors are also welcome to explore processing…, our exhibition exploring the Serpentine archive, located in the Education Space at Serpentine South.
This is a ticketed event to help maintain reduced capacity and ensure comfort for all visitors. Tickets are free and donations are welcome.
For any enquiries, please contact [email protected].
Artist Biography
Known for her vigorous brushwork, vivid colour and dynamic compositions, Cecily Brown presents paintings inspired by Serpentine’s unique location in Kensington Gardens, a site of personal significance to the artist.
Themes of nature and park life have long shaped Brown’s formal explorations. She experiments with scale, colour and recurring motifs, such as amorous couples, woodland scenes, and uncanny nature walks.
New works made specifically for the exhibition are shown alongside a selection of key paintings dating back to 2001, in addition to recent monotypes and drawings. The exhibition gestures to Brown’s early memories of the English landscape, her fascination with children’s book illustrations, and the darker undercurrents of cautionary tales.
Picture Making marks Brown’s first major solo presentation of paintings in a UK institution since her 2005 exhibition at Modern Art Oxford and represents a homecoming for the British artist who has worked in New York for the past thirty years.
