Saatchi Gallery in London is presenting Cold Sweat, a new body of work by British artist Luke Hannam, on its Ground Floor. The presentation runs from 22 October to 22 November 2026, with free entry, and was announced by the gallery on its Instagram account.

Hannam approaches painting instinctively, combining bold imagery, playful motifs and expressive mark-making to challenge traditional approaches to the medium. His work draws on influences from post-punk, hip-hop and dance culture, and the new paintings carry that energy into large, immediate compositions, where rhythm and repetition do as much work as representation.

The show offers a concentrated look at an artist whose practice is built on experimentation rather than formula. Each work is driven by gesture and impulse, with colour and line used to test how far a painting can go while still holding together as an image. The result is a body of work that feels physical first and analytical second: paintings to be encountered in the room, at scale, before they are read for meaning.

Cold Sweat sits within Saatchi Gallery's programme of presentations by contemporary artists working in London and beyond. The gallery, a registered charity based at Duke of York's Headquarters on King's Road in Chelsea, has long presented contemporary art to a wide audience, and this Ground Floor presentation continues that open-door approach with free entry throughout its month-long run.

For visitors, the show is a short, free window onto a painter working at full stretch, in a room devoted entirely to his latest work. It runs for just one month, so the chance to see this particular group of paintings together is brief by design.