Exhibition preview·London
Tiderip relocates to Fitzrovia, reopening with Baraitser's first commercial solo since 2007
Young London gallery Tiderip moves to 17 Percy Street in Fitzrovia, opening tonight with 'I Just Gotta Do It' — a solo presentation of new and 2007 paintings by Alexandra Baraitser, tracing her three-decade dialogue between design, photography and painting.
Tiderip, the young London gallery founded by curator Marjorier Ding and collector Louis Jacquier, is relocating to 17 Percy Street in Fitzrovia. The new space opens today, 7 October 2026, with I Just Gotta Do It, a solo exhibition by British painter Alexandra Baraitser running until 7 November. The opening is tonight from 6 to 8pm, with free admission; the show then runs Thursday to Saturday, noon to 6pm. The exhibition brings together a new body of paintings with an earlier work from 2007, and marks Baraitser's first solo presentation at a commercial gallery in almost twenty years. It revisits the designed objects and interiors that have occupied her practice for more than three decades, tracing the shifting relationships between design, photography and painting. Its title speaks to the persistent impulse behind these returns: not repetition, but looking again — with changed eyes, changed technologies, and a changed sense of what painting can hold. Tiderip opened in spring 2025 just off Battersea Square, a short walk from the Royal College of Art where Ding trained as a curator. Its name evokes the turbulence where opposing currents meet, and the programme will alternate solo presentations with thematic group exhibitions, setting up conversations between emerging and established artists across contemporary practices. The move puts Tiderip in one of London's busiest young-gallery clusters, alongside Edel Assanti, Workplace, Vitrine and Alice Black — part of a Fitzrovia migration that has seen several small galleries trade cheaper south-London rents for central visibility in recent years. The founders describe Fitzrovia as a "natural next step" for the gallery's evolving programme, and the bigger room will let them deepen their relationships with artists and collectors as the programme expands.


