Two new and different exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery: sculptures and paintings by the British artist Johnnie Cooper (born 1950), seen by some as continuing the tradition of the previous generation of artists such as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, and the radically-different Australian artist Jenny Watson with her ‘A Horses Tale’ created earlier this year when Jenny had a residency in the American Academy in Rome, her work combining images and text in a way that relates back to Pop Art of the 1970′s and 80′s.

What is interesting about the Jenny Watson exhibition is that is presented by the gallery Vigo, which has recently disappeared from its physical base near Bond Street, yet another art gallery which has decided that it does not exist, nor can afford, to fund property landlords and exorbitant Business Rates – one of the more unfortunate legacies of this government which is destroying High Streets up and down the country, while it happily spends billions on Brexit preparations.  The Saatchi also is changing and, rather than hosting a few blockbusters in a year, is showing a richer variety of changing exhibition, many in partnerships with galleries from the UK and abroad which of course creates a more lively programme and makes visitors return on a more frequent basis.