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deep in the bone, scarlet ocean buried
by ania mokrzycka17.07-20.07
16.07 / 6-9pm / PV
performance from 7pm: karolina lebek, softshadow, ecka mordecai
18.07 / 3-5pm / Holding breath, holding depth / workshop with maja ∀. ngom / book slot here
This public workshop invites participants to explore the body as an imprint-maker and clay as a responsive surface. Beginning with wax poured onto water, participants will create small unfired clay forms shaped through wax, touch, breath, and bodily imprint. Drawing on lichen, water, and the sea as models of porous and changing life, the workshop explores how form can emerge through contact, moisture, pressure, and time. Using simple hand-building and press-moulding techniques, participants will consider processes of dormancy, transformation, and reactivation in both bodies and materials.
We begin with wax meeting water: a temporary shape, drifting and cooling like a body briefly held by the surface. From this form, participants will build small clay objects shaped around the wax form, considering the body as something porous and responsive, and clay as a material that keeps the memory of pressure. Lichen, sea, and breath run through the session as figures of suspension, reanimation, and transformation.
[Open to all participants, the session focuses on simple, accessible actions rather than technical ceramic skill. The resulting objects remain deliberately raw and unfired, allowing fragility, dormancy, and incompleteness to remain part of the work’s meaning.]
bird hide
by catherine clover24-26.07
24.07 / 4pm - listening walk
25.07 / 4pm-6pm - performance with artists writers musicians and wild urban birds
26.06 / 4pm - listening walk
Bird Hide is a site-specific collaborative project. The gallery will become a bird hide, literally, a place for watching and listening to the wild birds in the park. Birds are key indicators of the environmental health of any location, in particular the impact of climate change. As humans we have deep connections with birds across all cultures and the project is oriented to the importance of that connection even in the centre of a huge metropolis. Gascia Ouzounian observes how the sonic agency of non-human life exceeds and disturbs what can be planned in the designing of cities, and Bird Hide focuses on how interspecies voice and language connect to urban space via cooperation, cohabitation and multiplication (Vinciane Despret).
The project includes artworks within/external to the gallery space, audioworks, readings, performances, listening and sounding walks.
Collaborators are
Roseanna Bartley, Tessa Farmer, Johanna Hällsten, Rosemarie McGoldrick, Katja Hillevaara, Yang Yeung, Colm McAuliffe, Viv Corringham, Israel Martinez, Rikke Hansen and Tanja Nellemann Kruse, Paul Tecklenberg and Mikey Georgeson, Joe Stevens, Wong Chun Hoi, Heather Ackroyd, Ian Wadley, Caroline Kennedy
half closed eye
by SADESIX31.07 - 16.08
PV: 30.07 / 6-9pm
An intimate group exhibition bringing together nine contemporary artists exploring moments of transition.The in-between moments we salvage, fall into, return to, run away from, run towards, and ultimately surrender to.Through the body, we move between awareness, rest, reflection and transformation.
𝘏𝘢𝘭𝘧 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘌𝘺𝘦 considers how these in-between moments shape our experiences, desires and ways of understanding the world through small-scale works.
SADESIX
Named after our mother, Sade, we are a collective of six siblings celebrating her creative legacy through our shared vision and diverse practices across London and Nigeria.
Our practice is rooted in familial bonds and the creative synergies between us. We value collaboration, creative exchange and community building, extending our family ethos into the wider communities we work with. Through curating exhibitions, events and workshops, we champion inclusive artistic dialogue, experimentation and shared learning.
Participating artists:
Akilah Chambers, Barbara Majek, Heera Gul, Ikesha Avo, Moon Hussain, Natalie Charles, Sophia Kaur Hambleton-Grey, Tanya Wilson, Tomilola Olumide
Poster Artwork: Barbara Majek @Barbara.majek
Ọjọ́ Ọjà, Ọjọ́ Ajé (Market Day, the Day of Wealth — Monday), 2026