A curated art show featuring a collection of galleries and contributors, showcasing innovative works that transform everyday environments into dynamic, expressive spaces. This exhibition celebrates the intersection of contemporary art and design, offering visitors a unique experience that redefines how we interact with and perceive our surroundings.

Select works from the exhibition

  • Red Lights by Eleanor Johnson

    GILLIAN JASON GALLERY

  • Ticcioli by William Peers

    JOHN MARTIN GALLERY

  • Tembo Console Table by Tom Vaughan

    HELEN CHISLETT GALLERY

  • When Stars are Born by Makiko Nakamura

    JOHN MARTIN GALLERY

  • Sublimis by Adiskidan Ambaye

    ADDIS FINE ART

  • The Fall of Summer by Megan Baker

    GILLAN JASON GALLERY

  • Hand Blown Glass by Shuster and Moseley

    MDS FINE ART

Contributors

  • Artroom London

    Vanita Barany studied the post-graduate ‘Works of Art’ course at Sotheby’s, followed by ‘Modern Art’ and ‘Art Economics ‘ at Christie’s. She founded Art Room London in 2010 to provide an accessible, friendly and specialist service covering all aspects of art collecting.

    Artroom London prides itself in having expertise that spans Art genres, Movements and Mediums, from Old Masters to the present day, from works on paper to sculpture. Combined with a detailed understanding of our clients' tastes, appreciation of space and juxtaposition when installing artworks, this allows us to carefully curate bespoke, individual, and prized collections.

  • John Martin Gallery

    John Martin has been the director of John Martin Gallery for 25 years. He was Co-Founder and Fair Director of Art Dubai (2007-2009), launching the Global Art Forum and Abraaj Art Prize. He has been a Trustee of the Shubbak Festival and the Artists’ Collecting Society and was a founder board member of Mayfair Art Weekend. Martin has also founded Cromwell Place, a new location for international and UK-based galleries, curators and art institutions, scheduled to open in the autumn of 2019.

  • Formation Architects

    Kees began his architectural career with renowned firms such as KPF, Sir Terry Farrell and Patel Taylor, working on a variety of award-winning high-rise, transport and public realm projects in the UK, America and the Far East.

    Joining Formation Architects in 2008 Kees’ team gained worldwide recognition for their work restoring Dudley House at 100 Park Lane. They have since gone onto many other high end exquisite restoration projects including Dropmore Park, Cliveden, and Forbes House. 

    Recent architectural endeavours include 7 St James Square, 1 Carlton House Terrace and Lancelot House in Knightsbridge, many of which have included significant art collections and curation.

    With a passion for London, listed buildings, and a commitment to precise delivery, Kees is an active member of SPAB and the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects.

  • John Cullen Lighting

    Sally Storey, Creative Director of John Cullen Lighting, is one of the world’s leading lighting experts.  Much of her time is spent travelling all over the globe to design lighting schemes for individual and corporate clients.  In 2021 Sally received the highest award in lighting - the LIT Lifetime Achievement Recipient for her contribution to lighting. Sally has written four very successful, well-received books about lighting - her fourth book entitled “Inspired by Light” was published by RIBA in 2022.

    For over 40 years, John Cullen Lighting has been enhancing spaces with the power of light in over 50 countries. Sally Storey worked with John Cullen, the visionary founder who set up the business in 1981. When John died, Sally stepped in at the helm and continues to innovate the brand as Creative Director, with a deep belief and passion to inspire through the power of light. Her philosophy has permeated through a growing team to deliver beauty, functionality and durability in their lighting designs and luminaires, working on projects across the world.

  • Helen Chislett Gallery

    Helen Chislett launched her eponymous online gallery in 2015 to promote the work of talented artists and makers within the super-prime sector of interior design and architecture. She is a passionate advocate of true artisanship, determined to champion the message that commissioning unique pieces keeps skills alive.

    As a writer, she has specialised in luxury, design-related subjects, encompassing everything from furniture, interiors, art, antiques and architecture to craft, gardens and decoration. She has written over twenty books to date, including Craft Britain: Why Making Matters (OH Editions), co-authored with David Linley, in which she beats the drum for contemporary craft and craftsmanship.

  • Addis Fine Art is a leading African contemporary art gallery based in Addis Ababa. The gallery was founded in 2016 by Rakeb Sile and Mesai Haileleul, with a focus on artists from Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and its diasporas. Since then, it has championed African artists on the international stage and established itself as a significant voice in the contemporary African art market, with Artsy dubbing it one of the “Most Important Young Galleries in the World” (Artsy 2019). It has developed an international programme showcasing emerging and mid-career artists.

    The gallery's Addis Ababa location has evolved into a regional incubator for undiscovered talent, exhibiting and developing the careers of emerging artists. Working alongside other local galleries and foundations, Addis Fine Art works to promote sustainable art ecosystems from the continent.

  • Gillian Jason Gallery

    Outgoing and articulate, with a gift for understanding, Millie guides the gallery's agile collaborative attitude, working with the historical expertise established by her grandmother, while continuously approaching things through a dynamic start-up mindset. Her background in investment banking and tech start-ups informs her efficiency and problem-solving skills, underlined by an eye for detail which applies as much to artworks as it does to operations.

    “The art world can’t remotely reflect the kind of equality society should be striving for until it includes artists of all colours and genders as equals rather than as additional considerations.”

    A strategic thinker, she blends her relational approach with market-driven acumen, drawing excitement from emerging markets that, as she puts it, "should have been welcomed into the spotlight long ago and are incredibly important for local artists themselves." For Millie, female holds the power to drive change through the way people see, and in turn how they think.

  • Saskia Kate Interiors

    After a transformative career change 9 years ago, Rebecca Edmunds embarked on a journey into interior design. Initially working on smaller residential projects, she gained valuable experience working as part of a wider property group, focused on joinery, interior and construction.

    Saskia Kate Interiors was established 3 years ago, founded on three fundamental pillars: integrity, transparency, and quality. Today, we work on whole house projects, collaborating with private clients and developers on high-end residential projects which encompasses both new builds and refurbishments. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional design that reflects the unique essence of each client, elevating everyday living into an art form.

    As a writer, Rebecca has specialised in luxury, design-related subjects, encompassing everything from furniture, interiors, art, antiques and architecture to craft, gardens and decoration. She has written over twenty books to date, including Craft Britain: Why Making Matters (OH Editions), co-authored with David Linley, in which she beats the drum for contemporary craft and craftsmanship.

  • MDS Fine Art

    Michelle D'Souza is an art advisor based in London, trading as MDS Fine Art since 2011. Having worked in the visual art industry across several continents covering Japan, the US and the UK, she has unique understanding and extensive knowledge of the art market. Her service is discreet, and her expertise lies in her resourceful curation of modern and contemporary art collections, collaborating with collectors, private foundations, architects, and interior designers across Europe, Middle East, Asia and the US.

    Her portfolio showcases a breadth of experience, from orchestrating large-scale outdoor sculpture commissions in collaboration with architects and developers, to locating paintings and two-dimensional works for both residential and corporate spaces. Her tenure at Lisson Gallery in London, spanning 15 years, provided her with the opportunity to work closely with the owner of the gallery in promoting artists, including the likes of Anish Kapoor, Tony Cragg, Lee Ufan and Sol Lewitt. She also spearheaded the execution and curation of prestigious exhibitions worldwide, further solidifying her reputation in the art world.

    Her relationships with galleries, private dealers and artists provides her with exceptional access to source some of the most high-calibre works for her clients—often those that others cannot readily obtain.

  • Photo credit: Hannah Smiles

    Miria Harris is a London based critically acclaimed and award winning landscape designer. In 2024, she presented her first ever show garden on main avenue, at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

    Before training as a landscape designer, Miria worked as a contemporary art curator and producer and was responsible for delivering large scale installations and exhibitions for organisations including Modern Art Oxford, Artangel and Milton Keynes Gallery.

    Ever conscious of making new things in a world where we produce and consume so much, she advocates for organic principles and looks to integrate and implement a circular ethos into her designs - often favouring moving or reusing materials and plants with integrity and character.

    Miria Harris’s studio is based in London where she works with a team to design and implement a wide range of landscape projects across the UK and abroad. Her work ranges from contemporary reimagining of historical gardens for listed buildings, to family and wildlife friendly gardens in urban and rural settings and large-scale public planting schemes. She has worked with a number of celebrated architects and interior designers including Ilse Crawford, Julian Harrap, Sergison Bates and Surman Weston.

  • Scenario Architects

    MA DipArch Architect ARB RIBA Chartered - Project Director

    Katerina studied at the University of Sheffield and Oxford Brookes, completing her Part 3 at UCL.

    Her role is to oversee all projects following them from the very early stages until completion.. She coordinates projects from inception to completion, acting as their main point of contact, advising clients on budget, timeframes and overall progress of the project. As a dedicated client agent within the practice, Katerina deals with resourcing and allocation of tasks to ensure smooth communication with clients and compliance with challenging deadlines.

    She has extensive and varied experience in the industry, having worked for architects, developers and contractors and has a deep understanding of the process of design and construction. Over the years Katerina has developed a love for residential architecture, particularly the design of homes.

    Before training as a landscape designer, Miria worked as a contemporary art curator and producer and was responsible for delivering large scale installations and exhibitions for organisations including Modern Art Oxford, Artangel and Milton Keynes Gallery.

    Ever conscious of making new things in a world where we produce and consume so much, she advocates for organic principles and looks to integrate and implement a circular ethos into her designs - often favouring moving or reusing materials and plants with integrity and character.

    Miria Harris’s studio is based in London where she works with a team to design and implement a wide range of landscape projects across the UK and abroad. Her work ranges from contemporary reimagining of historical gardens for listed buildings, to family and wildlife friendly gardens in urban and rural settings and large-scale public planting schemes. She has worked with a number of celebrated architects and interior designers including Ilse Crawford, Julian Harrap, Sergison Bates and Surman Weston.

  • Birdie & Co

    After a long career in advertising and a lifelong passion for design and interior styling, Helen founded Birdie & Co last year to pursue a more creative path. She collaborates with independent property developers to create commercially driven design concepts for new-build projects, partners with the real estate industry to maximise sale potential through home staging, and works with private clients on residential and commercial projects. Central to Birdie & Co’s ethos is Helen’s belief that interiors are a reflection of our personalities, with art playing an essential role in expressing that.

  • Adiskidan Ambaye was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she lived until sixteen. Ambaye then moved to Frankfurt, Germany to study, before moving again four years later to Minnesota to study fine art at MCAD, specialising in furniture design. For Adiskidan Ambaye, sculpture and drawing are deeply interwoven. The abstract sculptures she produces are nearly always preceded by gestural two-dimensional sketches, which delineate the foundations for her three-dimensional compositions.

    The wooden sculptures appear moulded from a single block of wood but are actually composed of as many as sixty handcrafted smaller slices of plywood. The ringed markings orbiting the surface of each segment represent an individual piece fused to form the whole. Ambaye has described this process as sculpting ‘from the inside out.’ These cyclical markings also conjure images of the naturally occurring concentric circles found in trees, signifying age, and life and death, as they are only visible once the tree has been cut down. Ambaye’s work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States, as well as in Abu Dhabi, Ghana, and Addis Ababa.

  • Clare Noel Shenstone is an English artist, considered notable for her cloth relief heads and her figurative paintings. Shenstone's portraits hang in  major British collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich.

    Shenstone did a foundation year at Central School of Art & Design (1972-3), gaining a degree in painting from Chelsea School of Art (1973-6), then her master's at the Royal College of Art (1976-9). Commissions included drawings for Oxford Playhouse Company and Manhattan Theatre Club Theatre, New York, both 1981. Among mixed shows were Artist of the Colony Room Club: a Tribute to Muriel Belcher, Parkin Gallery, 1982, and Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, 1983 and 1984. In 1998 Michael Parkin held an exhibition, Portraits of Francis Bacon, which stemmed from Shenstone's close connection with Bacon after he had enthused about her degree show at the Royal College in 1979. The National Portrait Gallery holds a Bacon portrait by her.

  • Dawit Adnew's (b.1973) paintings conjure a sumptuous, dream-like idyll, where figures pose languorously in beautifully patterned dresses in gardens overflowing with luxuriant plants, flowers, and fruits. An atmosphere of perpetual calm prevails, a suggestion of twilight, where colour and pattern are sources of pure pleasure, as in Matisse or Gauguin. His practice is informed by studies in African masks and iconography, and his use of patterns and fabric emerges from his experience as a textile designer. Dawit is based in Addis Ababa and studied at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design. He previously practised as a textile designer. Dawit has been included in various exhibitions in London, Addis Ababa, Kenya, and Malta.

  • Eleanor Johnson produces vibrant paintings that combine a sense of irreverent absurdity with a playful aesthetic and an element of irony within the grotesque. In doing so, the artist tackles taboo subjects such as the abject body and sexuality. Through confrontational imagery, Johnson's aim is to provoke thought and encourage viewers to discuss the unconventional; her canvases celebrate imagination, rekindling a sense of wonder often dulled by time.

    Johnson's colourful, large-scale paintings teeter on the edge between abstraction and figuration. She plays with the dichotomy of presence and void, creating a unique balance of positive and negative spaces where biomorphic forms are captured in the process of becoming. Johnson's production shows explicit inspirations from old master paintings, evident in the choice of colour palettes, forms, and figurative elements. It is also discernible a reference to Cecily Brown's aesthetics, with Johnson's works echoing the bustling chaos reminiscent of Brown's style.

    Eleanor Johnson (b.1994, UK) has a BA in Art History from UCL, London, and an MA in Fine art from City & Guilds of London Art School. In 2019, she participated in a two-month residency at the Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. Johnson's work is in private collections and institutions in the UK, US, Europe, West Africa, Asia and South America. Eleanor Johnson currently lives and works in Oxfordshire, UK and is represented by Gillian Jason Gallery.

  • Gisli Snaer, is an award-winning film director and artist. After a successful career in film and photography, Snaer has returned to his earliest practice of painting. Enthralled by the intricate dance between nature's raw elements and the human eye, Snaer ventures up close to Iceland’s primordial landscape, seeking to capture the elusive symphonies of form and texture woven by Mother Nature herself.

    In this series of paintings, Snaer invites viewers to immerse themselves in the vibrant tapestry of abstraction, where the essence of earth, moss, ice and water reveal themselves in their sublime complexity.

  • Jason Martin channels a minimal approach to painting through an expansive yet controlled use of colour, brush and medium. Working in pigment, acrylic, oil paint, graphite and cast metal, Martin interrogates the fundamentals of painting, veering from epic and luscious compositions of swirling forms to pared-down and muted abstractions in precisely blended tones. 

     

    Jason Martin was born in Jersey, in the Channel Islands, in 1970 and lives and works between London and Portugal. He has a BA from Goldsmiths, London (1993). Solo exhibitions include: Lisson Gallery Shanghai (2021); Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany (2017); Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany (2016); Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (2009); Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporary de Palma, Majorca, Spain (2008); Kunstverein Kreis Gŭtersloh, Gutersloh, Germany (2007); and Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain (2005).

  • Jemima Stehli is widely known for her photography of the late 1990s and early 2000s, working between sculpture performance and photography and often using her naked body. Stehli sees the more recent abstract painting as a natural evolution of the physicality of the earlier work.

    These large scale performance paintings are determined by the reach, movement and limitations of her body. The deeply visceral approach has always been at the core of Stehlis practice. Paint is poured onto the canvas and moved and drawn with the artists hands in direct contact with the surface. Working fast with layers of fluid washes and waxy, oily texture Stehli is fully immersed in the material immediacy, accident and pleasure of painting.

  • Makiko Nakamura’s finely worked abstract paintings are based on the meditative repetition and erasure of grid like structures and are distinguished by a highly burnished, reflective surface. Using a paintbrush and knife, the artist builds up layers of oil paint and then sands these back before finally 'glazing' the surface of the work. Linseed oil is used as a glaze and this process is repeated up to five times to achieve the desired lacquered-like finish.

  • Megan Baker's works explore moments of stillness within nature, capturing a feeling of comfort in solitude where the vastness of landscape makes us conscious of our contained state as human beings. Unfolding through layers of impasto, Megan Baker's oil paintings suggest an ever-changing state of being, where fragmented and gestural figures are continually interrupted by the immediacy of the paint. Focusing on the physicality of the medium itself, Baker's practice is centred on the way time can be experienced through painting, for the perception of time shifts and evolves as one is absorbed by the search and discovery of the next hidden detail.

     

    Baker appears in international private collections across the UK, USA, Europe and Qatar. Born in the UK (1996), Baker graduated from the prominent school Central Saint Martins in 2018, when she received the Kate Barton Painting Award and the Cass Art Prize. In 2023, the artist was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize. Between 2022 and 2023, the artist was exhibited at Eye of the Collector art fair in collaboration with Christie's Auction House, was part of the international show 'Homecoming' at Sharon Golan Art Projects in Tel Aviv, and took part in multiple group exhibitions. Baker's most recent solo exhibition at GJG in November 2023 focused on Titian's painting of 'Bacchus and Ariadne' (1520-23) as a point of reference for the exploration of temporality in art history. 

  • Mario Lobedan was born in 1961 in Magdeburg, DDR and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Solo exhibitions have been held at the Neues Rathaus, Leipzig (1995) and most recently at the Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg (2018) which was accompanied by a publication on his work, Allegro.

    Public collections include, Petrikirche, Leipzig, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Regierungspräsidium Leipzig, Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium Magdeburg, Kunstsammlung del Landes Sachsen-Anhalt.

  • Riccardo Monte is a multidisciplinary architect and maker working across product, furniture and architectural design. His practice is defined by slow craftsmanship and a dedication to material authenticity, revealing an archaeology of texture, time and place within chosen materials. The furniture he creates is sculptural, organic and consciously raw, with a depth of texture and a radiance of warmth. All materials are sourced locally in the Ornavasso region of Italy where he lives. He began exploring timber charring – his signature technique – after firing the bottom of wooden posts that propped up swathes of grape vines he had planted in the grounds of his home.

    When Riccardo first left London where he had worked for eight years as an architect, he spent six months living in a mountain cabin with no electrical power. The remoteness and solitude of his time there brought him closer to nature and the values of a simple life. Riccardo approaches furniture-making as a form of art, creating unique designs inspired by the principles of beauty, simplicity, longevity and craftsmanship.

  • Shuster + Moseley is the conceptual art studio of Claudia Moseley (b. 1984) and Edward Shuster (b. 1986). The artists create light-mobiles comprised of assemblages of suspended lenses, and sculptural installations of abstracted screens and deconstructed prismic geometries, using glass interfaces to mediate light. Reappropriating the media of technological apparatus—both in response to the exposure of consciousness to informational light and to create openings towards spectrality—the work attempts an alchemy of light, tuning the ambience and tonality of mind in relation to the surrounding environment.

    Central to the practice is an approach to a language of light, exposure and spectrality, through which the artists synthesise their engagement with the meditative traditions and related cosmologies; an esoteric approach towards space and place, which employs a diagrammatic poetics; and a critical engagement with technoscience. Considering the horizon of the interface as the medium through which to reflect on the nature of consciousness, embodiment and technological mediation, the artists collaborate with world-renowned scientists working in neuroscience, cosmology and imaging technologies, as well as architects, engineers and technicians.


  • Object Studio

    Object Studio has been described as a workshop for making, a laboratory for experimentation, and the meeting point of traditional craft with modern processes. Founder, Tom Vaughan, is an artist-maker who trained in Cabinet Making at London Guildhall University and in Three-dimensional Design at Brighton University. He then took a Masters in Contemporary Product Design at the Royal College of Art under the tutelage of Ron Arad (he himself is now a visiting lecturer at the RCA). He is a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust [QEST] Scholar, who used the experience to investigate the casting of metals and associated crafts such as welding, chasing, figuring and patinating. As Object Studio, he and his team of specialist craftspeople take on ambitious commissions for galleries, public institutions and private clients, including the fabrication of complex three-dimensional structures in woods and metals.

  • William Peers studied at Falmouth Art College after which he was apprenticed to a stone-carver, Michael Black, who urged him to work slowly and entirely by hand. Peers worked in the marble quarries of Carrara, Italy, and later spent time in Corsica where he found a tranquil retreat to work and develop his ideas. His earliest carvings were figurative and followed the long history of English stone carving brought to prominence by Henry Moore and Eric Gill. In the 1990s Peers moved to north Cornwall and there followed a period of fifteen years carving relief sculptures in Hornton Stone and slowly moved towards abstraction. In 2007 he began working in Portuguese Marble, a material which had a dramatic effect on the style of his work. In 2010 he embarked on a series ‘100 Days: Sketched in Marble’ in which he carved a marble sculpture each day for one hundred days. Working repeatedly within a time limit led him to a bolder approach to carving and allowed him the freedom to create more dynamic forms. The switch to marble also allowed Peers to develop his technical skills to allow him to work on a far larger scale, creating several monumental sculptures designed for the landscape. 

Location

John Martin Gallery

38 Albemarle St

London

W1S 4JG

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10am–6pm

 

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