Nick Goss: Eel Pie Island Hotel

Before vanishing into smoke at the beginning of the 1970s, a legendary building nestled on the Thames housed the biggest rock icons. Nick Goss appropriates this fascinating story for his new exhibition at the Josh Lilley gallery. The British artist transforms oral testimonies and archival fragments into vibrant compositions, oscillating his subjects between figuration and abstraction. His ethereal-colored canvases capture the soul of this former counterculture stronghold, recreating an atmosphere that is both electric and spectral. Goss is interested in the margins of London, where memories fade to make way for myth. This series of previously unseen paintings offers a sensitive look at the ability of art to save disappeared places from oblivion. An immersive pictorial journey into collective memory to be admired from April 23 to May 27, 2026.