{"id":155574,"date":"2025-11-23T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155574\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T15:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T15:18:23","slug":"reuben-dangoor-this-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/155574\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuben Dangoor &#8216;This Lime Green and Pleasant Land&#8217; London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary<\/p>\n<p>British artist Reuben Dangoor unveils This Lime Green and Pleasant Land in London<br \/>\nThe showcase features a range of paintings, sculptures and art objects that explore contemporary British identity through play and humor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/reuben-dangoor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuben Dangoor<\/a>, the London-based artist remixing modern British culture, is stepping into the solo spotlight for the first time with This Lime Green and Pleasant Land, running until November 23. A cheeky riff on William Blake\u2019s famed words on the English landscape, the showcase trades pastoral serenity for contemporary chaos, perhaps best embodied by Lime bikes littered across an otherwise idyllic countryside.<\/p>\n<p>Gathering new works and archival favorites, the exhibition takes a tour through the nation, guided by Dangoor\u2019s tongue-in-cheek gaze. Rich oil paintings of Grime icons, multi-medium odes to the art of sport and nods to car culture sit comfortably beside quaint Lost Mary cottages and playful spins on still life, each capturing the humor and contradiction that carve out the contours of a quintessentially British identity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt is for everyone, but sometimes it doesn\u2019t feel like it,\u201d Dangoor told Hypebeast. \u201cI just wanted the vibe to feel open \u2013 whoever can come by is welcome and hopefully find something they are into.\u201d In addition to the physical presentation, the artist will be hosting a series of events and workshops, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/tags\/salomon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Salomon<\/a>-backed run club on each night of the show\u2019s run.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there is sometimes a feeling that galleries can feel stale and I wanted to keep some life in the space even after the opening night. It\u2019s really nice to invite people into my world not just as observers, but actually taking part and hopefully enjoying themselves.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>1 of 6<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/image\/2025\/11\/21\/reuben-dangoor-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-exhibition-london.jpeg\" alt=\"Reuben Dangoor 'This Lime Green and Pleasant Land' London Art Artworks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text credit-wrapper\">Courtesy Of The Artist\n<\/p>\n<p>2 of 6<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/image\/2025\/11\/21\/reuben-dangoor-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-exhibition-london.jpeg\" alt=\"Reuben Dangoor 'This Lime Green and Pleasant Land' London Art Artworks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text credit-wrapper\">Courtesy Of The Artist\n<\/p>\n<p>3 of 6<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/image\/2025\/11\/21\/reuben-dangoor-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-exhibition-london.jpeg\" alt=\"Reuben Dangoor 'This Lime Green and Pleasant Land' London Art Artworks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text credit-wrapper\">Courtesy Of The Artist\n<\/p>\n<p>4 of 6<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/image\/2025\/11\/21\/reuben-dangoor-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-exhibition-london.jpeg\" alt=\"Reuben Dangoor 'This Lime Green and Pleasant Land' London Art Artworks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text credit-wrapper\">Courtesy Of The Artist\n<\/p>\n<p>5 of 6<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/image\/2025\/11\/21\/reuben-dangoor-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-exhibition-london.jpeg\" alt=\"Reuben Dangoor 'This Lime Green and Pleasant Land' London Art Artworks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text credit-wrapper\">Courtesy Of The Artist\n<\/p>\n<p>6 of 6<\/p>\n<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/hypebeast.com\/image\/2025\/11\/21\/reuben-dangoor-lime-green-and-pleasant-land-exhibition-london.jpeg\" alt=\"Reuben Dangoor 'This Lime Green and Pleasant Land' London Art Artworks\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text credit-wrapper\">Courtesy Of The Artist\n<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re in London, head to 9 Caledonian Road to check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ7XtKijFdU\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">show<\/a> for yourself.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                                            <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary British artist Reuben Dangoor unveils This Lime Green and Pleasant Land in London The showcase features a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-155574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}