To mark the beginning of a new year, October Gallery will show a collection of outstanding artists. Winter Show 2008 will provide a truly international insight into art from across the globe. Artists include El Anatsui, William S. Burroughs, Gerald Wilde, Aubrey Williams and Elisabeth Lalouschek.

A truly international look at art from across the globe. Artists include El Anatsui, Ira Cohen, Ablade Glover, Dominique Kouas, Elisabeth Lalouschek, Gérard Quenum, Laila Shawa, Julien Sinzogan, Kenji Yoshida, Gerald Wilde, Aubrey Williams, Wijdan and Hai Shuet Yeung.

The exhibition brings together major works by 12 artists who best represent the innovative and dynamic artistic practices across the African continent and the African diasporas and launches the book, Angaza Afrika – African Art Now - a highly visual survey of contemporary African art compiled by Christopher Spring, curator of the African Galleries at The British Museum, and published by Laurence King.

At 27, Samantha Hobson is one of a handful of young celebrated Aboriginal artists exhibiting widely both in her native Australia and abroad.

Samantha Hobson began painting with the Lockhart River Art Gang, a group of young Indigenous painters from Queensland. Her work is inspired by the beauty of the East Cape and by the fast disappearing traditional beliefs, with darker references to domestic violence and harsh social conditions experienced by many Aboriginal peoples in isolated communities. Her lucid visions have been described as pieces where the ‘sunshine grabs every colour in the rainforest, low mountain ranges, sandy beaches and deep sea, and illuminates it like a light box.’ (Kathleen Noonan. September 30, 2006. The Courier Mail)

Emerging, young artist Nnenna Okore will be exhibiting new works in her debut London solo show.

A former student of El Anatsui, whose magnificent bottle-top cloths were the highlight of the 52nd Venice Biennale, Nnenna Okore also transforms discarded materials into cultural objects, forms, and spaces.

Her work often employs ordinary media like magazines and newspaper, which are disposed of in her current home the United States, but are considered usable commodities in her native Nigeria. By re-imagining everyday waste, as well as natural materials, Nnenna’s works consistently challenges environmental neglect, consumerism and globalisation.

Featuring the first UK showing of Gysin's rarely-seen painting, 16.4-metre-long Calligraffiti of Fire. Calligraffiti is Gysin's magnum opus and final work.

A radical cultural visionary, visual artist, writer and performer, Gysin introduced his close friend, writer William S. Burroughs, to the techniques of 'cut-ups' and 'permutation'. Image Courtesy of Topfoto/Harold Chapman Together, they experimented in sound and image, using collage, tape recorder, light-painting, writing and film. They co-authored Third Mind, the term they used for such creative collaborations. Their work has had a pervasive influencein the arts and on underground and popular culture, affecting figures such as David Bowie, Patti Smith, Bill Laswell, Keith Haring, Michael Stipe, Genesis P. Orridge, and John Giorno.

Her work often employs ordinary media like magazines and newspaper, which are disposed of in her current home the United States, but are considered usable commodities in her native Nigeria. By re-imagining everyday waste, as well as natural materials, Nnenna’s works consistently challenges environmental neglect, consumerism and globalisation.