Studio Ex Purgamento is a small gallery in Camden Town owned and curated by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas. The 7m x 2m white box attached to a domestic space opens two or three times a year to show work by contemporary artists in all media. It aims to present work of well and lesser known international artists alongside their British counterparts.

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Tate Modern is getting bigger. A corporate-style video on the ground floor informs me that the ‘Project’ will include ‘an urban plaza’ and ‘a fabulous restaurant’. The first thousand visitors will get an inflatable day-glo rabbit signed by Jeff Koons. I made that last bit up, or maybe I didn’t, but not the first. To which I can only respond: the intimacy and congeniality of Natalia’s studio, whose human scale (6 by 2.3 metres; the Tate’s turbine hall is 152 metres long and 35 high) encourages playfulness without any loss of discrimination, have never been more necessary or welcome.

Charles Boyle - CBeditions