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Check out our new film Foot Steps on the Wind.

https://t.co/g4gTq8riy5?amp=1 link to buy tickets for the Cinequest premiere of Footsteps on the Wind

11/07/2025

A real treat to visit Tracey Emin in her studio and see her brilliant work at her residency in Margate where she fosters new emerging talents. Thanks to V&A museum and the patrons team. Very inspiring ✨

26/06/2025

Unmissable London show presented this week by featuring the exceptional work of Moroccan artist . Yamou’s work is a breathtaking exploration of nature, science, and form - where plants life and cellular structures bloom into poetic, abstract compositions. With a background in biology and sociology, his paintings offer a rare blend of scientific insight and artistic vision.

Part of FRINGE

For full bio and artworks pls visit

23/06/2025

Repost not to be missed this week free culture events • 🫧 FRINGE WEEK 🫧
23 – 29 JUNE 2025

FRINGE WEEK will bring a week of art, music, and unexpected moments in public spaces.

Expect daily street performances, road closures, talks, markets, spontaneous opera, art tours + art installations - it is different to the usual Art Week and Art Trail.

🔗 Programme is live on kcaw.co.uk.

25/05/2025

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Meet Maya Sanbar, a multi-disciplinary award-winning artist, curator, and filmmaker whose dynamic practice is rooted in the power of storytelling. Blending installation, sculpture, painting, spoken word and film, her work traverses the liminal spaces of identity, memory and belonging - challenging borders both physical and emotional, with an intention to bridge cross-cultural understanding. British French Lebanese of Palestinian descent, she speaks six languages and channels her richly layered identity to inspire new ways of seeing and feeling. Her art is a vessel for rethinking narratives, and embracing empathy through visual poetics.

Sanbar’s journey began with classical life drawing and sculpture in Paris and evolved into a global practice encompassing film, public interventions, and immersive installations. Conceptually driven and anchored in research, her work draws from the diverse languages, symbols, and visual grammars through which we define and interpret the self. She invites us to rediscover the subconscious codes we live by, and imagine anew through the lens of beauty, curiosity and connection.

12/05/2025

Currently on show at till end of this month is Nayla Romanos Iliya. A Lebanese architect and artist whose formative years in a war-torn country, combined with cross-cultural experiences in Paris, London, Hong Kong, and Dubai, have deeply influenced her artistic journey. She began her career in architecture, renovation and interior design, before fully dedicating herself to sculpture in 2011. Her work explores identity and social themes, merging critical subjects with an inherently uplifting aesthetic. Working across different scales - from monumental public art to small series - her sculptures are part of private and public collections worldwide.

The Institut du Monde Arabe and the Bagri foundation hold complete sets of the twenty-two letters from her Phoenician Alphabet series, and her recent sculpture Hope (in the above picture) is part of the permanent collection of the American University of Beirut Museum.

The Phoenician Alphabet series is Nayla Romanos Iliya’s deeply personal yet culturally resonant interpretation of the ancient Phoenician writing system. By distilling the forms and idioms of this bygone script - one of the world’s oldest and the foundation of most modern alphabets, including Latin and Arabic - she brings it back to life through sculptural forms that are abstracted yet evocative. Each work is imbued with a singular poetic and optimistic vision that bridges past and present, reviving ancient symbols within a timeless language - one that transcends history and speaks powerfully in the contemporary world.

HOPE (I), 2023 is in the first picture
Bronze, mirrored stainless steel
170 x 55 x 50 cm, Edition 2/5 + AP
Artist talk tomorrow

Check all the available works on the website inquiries at [email protected]

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10/05/2025

Frequency, colour, play, rhythm, symbol, text and biomorphic form are mapped out and echoed in the alchemical compositions by Laurence Watchorn. Created on un-stretched canvas with rounded corners, they release the artist from the geometric rigidity of his immediate environment in pursuit of the soft, round and organic. They form biomorphic and code-like structures mapped alongside symbolism and poetry, in an animistic relationship with the world.
is with The Language of Symbols group show till end of this month ✨

Studio and check updates for Fringe in June

07/05/2025

Current show of works by compellingly balances vulnerability with strengthening power - see it up close at our artist talk 11am on Tuesday 13 May

Lana Matsuyama’s work embraces the transient yet continuous nature of art-making and seeks to expose the creative process as a cyclical practice of doing and undoing, as mirrored in manmade environments and nature. She is interested in the inherently unfinished, imperfect, and impermanent properties of objects. Wrapped up in these concepts and drawing upon her previous studies in the intersection of art and psychology, she explores themes such as shifting identities and ever-evolving symbols and forms in the collective unconscious and experiments with metamorphosed and ephemeral materials.

06/05/2025

Artist spotlight currently on show she'll be speaking about her work in 'The Language of Symbols' exhibition Tuesday 13 May at 11am - 12pm.

Hanna ten Doornkaat studied BA (sculpture) at Kingston University and MA (sculpture) at Wimbledon School of Art (UAL). Her work was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, London , the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and Derwent Art Prize in 2015. In 2017 she was shortlisted again for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and the ING Discerning Eye.

In 2019 she showed in ‘Personal Structures’ during the Venice Biennale. and in Arthouse1, London followed by many solo and group exhibitions both in the UK and internationally.
She has also curated many exhibitions as co-founder and curator of WhiteNoise_Projects

Remember to check out for updates on this year's Fringe.

05/05/2025

Join us for our artist talk on the Language of Symbols next Tuesday 13 May 11am - 12pm with

25/04/2025

FRINGE 2025
2025 Art Week is having a gap year however, due to unprecedented demand, our creative communities have decided to host a series of activities across the borough to celebrate the creative wonder of this part of London.

We have opened registrations of interest to take part.

Much is planned, including road closures, art installations, talks, markets and much more.

We call it Art Week FRINGE - it will be different to the usual Art Week and Art Trail. More to be revealed soon.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

19/04/2025

Last day to visit SUBLIMIS - and the dreamy ethereal paintings by : they transport the viewer to a world of tactile transcendence.

Posted • Meet Eugenie Vronskaya, Russian born artist currently living and working in London and Highlands of Scotland.

Vronskaya studied icone painting technique at an early age. She attended Krasnopresnenskaya School of Art and a Fine Art University in Moscow. In 1989 Vronskaya arrived in the UK and in 1991 she became the first Russian Student ever attending MA at the Royal College of Art.

Vronskaya was invited by Sir Anthony Caro to participate in the International Triangle Workshop in New York state USA and subsequently was involved in running a number of Triangle International workshops in Africa (Zimbabwe, South Africa and Botswana). Vronskaya teaches at Heatherleys School of Art.
Her work could be found in many private collections across the world as well as at The Tate Britain, V&A Museum in London, Borchard collection, Art UK, Pushkin and Tret’yakov Gallery in Moscow. While represented by John Martin Galleryin London (2014-23), Vronskaya participated in many group shows and projects as well as her paintings have been chosen for the RA summer show for a number of consecutive years.

Painting in the background currently on view:
Riding with my Shadow, 2025
Oil and pigments on canvas, 155 x 125 cm

Picture courtesy of Marie Jose Gallery

17/04/2025

The beautiful work of Jean Huang, a London-based Canadian artist who creates site-specific works in collaboration with nature. Huang’s practice is an exploration of the natural world and how it in turn reflects the change of time, weather, and seasonality of her inner landscape.

Each painting begins as an unstretched canvas carried on a hike, inviting the local ecology—such as tree bark, ocean waves, rock textures, and snowmelt—to directly participate in the process. An intimate and reciprocal relationship is formed in balancing her marks with the traces left by the environment, resulting in paintings that resemble well-travelled maps embedded with stories: dirt on the edges, marked places of significance, and wrinkles from the many times they were folded and unfolded.

Painting occurs through play and physical engagement with the site: Huang’s body movements appear as gestural marks, apparent in muddy boot prints or the subtle tracing of how she lay on the painting to rest. Incorporating her full body evokes a sense of belonging and suggests that Huang is as much a part of the landscape as it is of her.

Process shots of "The shadows appear larger than the trees (51.5608° N, 0.1629° W; Autumn, Winter)" currently on view at the gallery. This painting began up in an oak tree at Hampstead Heath-a place that reminds Jean of the Hundred Acre Wood and childhood play.
art on view at (text by gallery)

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