This year, Ben Hunter announced that his eponymous gallery would take over the entire historic townhouse of 44 Duke Street in St James’s, London – the building where Jay Jopling set up White Cube in 1993 – which it has occupied in part since 2020. It is a measure of how firmly the gallery has established itself in the heart of the London art world since it was founded in 2018. The gallery ranges in scope from contemporary artists working in the UK, including the Kenyan British multimedia artist and film-maker Phoebe Boswell, to big hitters of modern British art including Frank Auerbach, Ithell Colquhoun and Henry Moore, among others. Hunter began his career working for the Old Masters specialist Derek Johns and the sculpture dealer Robert Bowman before setting up his first gallery, Hunter/Whitfield, with Orlando Whitfield in 2015.