Alexandra Baraitser Returns with 'I Just Gotta Do It' at Tiderip's New Percy Street Space

Key facts

• Alexandra Baraitser's solo exhibition I Just Gotta Do It runs 7 October – 7 November 2026 at Tiderip, 17 Percy Street, London W1T 1DU.
• It is her first solo exhibition with a commercial gallery in nearly twenty years, following The Future Past at Mark Jason Gallery in 2007.
• Baraitser was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1971 and earned an MA in Painting from Chelsea College of Art.
• She exhibited at the Barbican Centre and in the John Moores Painting Prize in 1996, held the Abbey Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome in 1996 and 1997, and was a NatWest Art Prize finalist in 1998.
• The show opens with typewriter paintings, including Typeface (British Olivetti 82 Vintage Manual Typewriter) and Typing Test (Olivetti Studio 45 Manual Typewriter).
• A second room pairs Bellini Side Chair 1 (2006) with Evolution of the Chair (2026) and Vignette (2026), all centered on single chairs.
• The exhibition concludes with Eames and Co, New Orange, and Upstairs, Downstairs, the latter featuring a more complex structure and elaborate composition.
• Tiderip recently relocated from Battersea to Percy Street; founders are Marjorier Ding and Louis Jacquier. Curator Yiran Zhu wrote the preview.