Past exhibitions 2022
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Creative Minds Art Exhibition
10-15 May 2022
Private View: Friday 13 May 6-9:30pm
​Admission free

The Creative Minds Art Exhibition showcases works of established, emerging and often overlooked artists. Modern and contemporary art combine to host this collective at Espacio Gallery, London. Other activities include talks and workshops, giving you an insight into the art world.

Curated by Graciella Harger, All Visual Arts Community
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Exhibition Events:

No Word from Glue
10-15 May 2022
Private View: Tuesday 10 May 6-9pm
​Admission free

​Art Between Fibers presents:
Our Flower Garden
10-15 May 2022
Private View: Friday 13 May 6-9:30pm
​Admission free

Universo Brasil
Project by Pollyanna Ferreira
​Private View: Friday 13 May 6-9:30pm
​Admission free

Unity
2-8 May 2022
Private View: Monday 2 May 6:30-9:30pm
Gallery 1

Participating artists:

Rev Deb Connor, Sally Ann Flanagan,
Albert Lazslo Haines, Tracy Harper,
Gerald Francis O'Dowd, Giles Delamare,
Dr Natalia Jezova

Admission free

Opening hours:
Tue-Sat 1-7pm
Thurs 4-9pm
Sun 1-5pm

Soft Earth
UAL, Wimbledon College of Art, Painting Class of 2021
2-8 May 2022
Private View: Saturday 7 May 7-10pm
Gallery 2

Soft Earth is an exhibition which has been a while in the making all artists are graduates from 2021, Wimbledon College of Arts Painting Course. Soft Earth is a celebration and meshing of artists tackling a variety of themes within their pieces. Whilst every artist rightly has their own practice, it is our hope that you can still feel a strong connection between works. A connection which was built at Wimbledon College of Arts and will impact on our work for many years to come.

Participating artists:
@benwatsonart  @flo_wrightsart  @jennymckimmart  
@aoife.rae.pink  @margarita.i.loze  @lila_boutari  @ephillips_art  
@sallyprays @Helfenri  @issygrew.art  @Charluzg 
​@eleana.kostiani  @alexander.appleby  @michaczewski

Opening hours:
Tue-Fri 12-5pm
Sat 7-10pm
Sun 12-5pm

Come as You Are
27-30 April 2022
Private View: Friday 29 April 6:30 - 9:30pm

Come As You Are Contemporary Art will be at Espacio Gallery at the end of April. 

Upstairs, they will be hosting fluid, an exploration of the power and potential of fluid. fluid is movement, flexibility, a substance, an attitude, an identity, a necessity for life and a fatal environment. fluid can pass through a fine mesh, etch a tracery, deposit continents or wear away mountains.

In the peaceful downstairs space there will be their powerful Trauma & Healing exhibition, an opportunity to see artists' responses to their physical and mental experiences, exploring wellbeing and the journey to recovery. 

There will be a private view on Friday 29th, and tickets can be booked here via Eventbrite. 

Opening hours:
Daily 11am - 6pm
Picture
Image: "The Eyes Have It" (c) Dennis Durack

Royal Photographic Society
London Region Annual Exhibition and Gala Weekend
20-24 April 2022

A very special Exhibition for the London Region Members.  Please note extended evening opening hours on Thursday and Friday.

108 photographs from 108 RPS London Region photographers, chosen democratically by the members whereby every member entering the competition gets one picture in the Exhibition.

20 Panels from the RPS London Region members' contributions to the RPS-wide Edgelands Project.

Photowalks led by Peter Crane, Stewart Wall and Susi Luard on 22, 23 and 24 April, with separate booking pages here:

23rd April: Ginko Photobook Photowalk with Stewart Wall here.

23rd April: Street Photowalk with Peter Crane here.

Opening hours:
Wednesday 20 April 2022: 11.00am to 6.00pm
Thursday 21 April 2022: 11.00am to 9.00pm
Friday 22 April 2022: 11.00am to 9.00pm
Saturday 23 April 2022: 10.00am to 6.00pm
Sunday 24 April 2022: 10.00am to 5.00pm

Bookings not necessary - just come along and enjoy the pictures.

The Museum of the Church of Bleeding Gums
11-17 April 2022
Private View: Tuesday 12 April 6-10pm

A glorious exhibition covering over 3,000 years of the history, myths and legend of the Church of Bleeding Gums.

​From the Battle of Jericho to the back streets of Soho, from Italy’s Ostia Antica to Medieval England, the gambling dens of 18th century London, and the Cambridge spies in the 1950s, St Michael of Coles and his team have researched DE ECCLESIA CRUENTIS GINGIVIS, aka the CHURCH OF BLEEDING GUMS.

Gathering evidence where there is none, wading through a confusion of facts, gossip and rumour, they’ve pieced together and re-created the fragmented history of this elusive church and its seven chapels. A glorious conglomeration of paintings, prints, artefacts and ancient relics.

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flux
5-10 April 2022
Private View: Wednesday 6 April 6-9pm

Participating artists:

Paulina An_Zorge, Hugh Goodfellow, Jiaxin Duan,
Helen Elizabeth, Reda Grigaraviciute, Leila Lebreton,
Yi Lin, Jennifer Moore, Loraine Monk, Nicolau Garrido,
Emily North, Gus Nweke, Margarida Pinheiro, Jeremy Scott,
Jo Gabriele Sheppard, Pawel Tajer, Francisco Timóteo,
Gemma Thompson, Mel Woo, Alex Long Yuan,
Marta Zanatti, Mengmeng Zhang

Opening hours:
Daily 11am - 5pm

Paradoxical Pirates
29 March - 3 April 2022
Private View: Wednesday 30 March 5-7pm

Year 1  + 2 BA Fine Art UCA Farnham are having a show of their work at the Espacio Gallery in East London. Please come and see what they have been up to recently. Show is open Tuesday 29th March to Sunday 3rd April 11am – 4pm (closing at 2pm on the 3rd April). Show features painting, sculpture, print, collage, photography and film to mention a few approaches.

Please join us for our Private View on Wednesday 30th March 5-7pm to raise a glass to them!

Exhibition is funded by the @ucastretched initiative – many thanks to all those who supported the project!

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@espaciogallery

Poster image by @artcalo

Opening hours:
Tue-Sat 11am - 4pm
Sun 11am - 2pm

Stories in Stitch
22-27 March 2022
Private View: Tuesday 22 March 6-9pm

Stories in Stitch is the theme for textiles2020 group show.  Members will illustrate events past and present, real or imagined using contemporary and traditional textiles techniques.

Spurn Point which is being eroded over time, is a place imbued with memories of people who once lived there.  Patti Taylor’s work gives glimpses into an old way of life - children playing on the beach, fisherfolk with their catch and poignantly, the brave volunteer lifeboat men wearing their flimsy cork lifejackets.

Veronica Thornton’s work tells tragic stories of the people affected by the devastating 1953 flood; there will be fantastical organic creations using recycled materials by Ceridwen Sooke, and Yvonne Watts uses complex dyeing techniques to create landscapes and compositions inspired by trees and plants.  Gill Swanson is also inspired by nature recreating the vibrant colours and textures of flowers, plants and their fruit using a range of techniques and fabrics. 

Rachel Gillard Jones brings to life snippets from a fascinating and sometimes hilarious wartime diary in which world changing events and daily trivia are juxtaposed.  Kathryn Hollingsworth has created fragile, broken and mended 3D textile vessels, and Kate Beale uses Shibori dyeing techniques to produce exciting colour combinations in dramatic wall hangings.  Karina Haake explores childhood memories of travel with a series of miniature suitcases, which float weightlessly, and contain memories and moments of their journeys.  Annika Strandberg uses story telling in her artwork to awaken the imagination of the onlooker and Nina Gross will show some of her hauntingly beautiful mixed media textile work and animations. 


Exhibiting artists:

Kate Beale, Nina Gross, Karina Haake, Kathryn Hollingsworth,
Rachel Gillard Jones, Ceridwen Sooke, Annika Strandberg,
Gill Swanson, Patti Taylor, Veronica Thornton, Yvonne Watts

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This Art Exhibition
15-20 March 2022
Private View: Thursday 17 March 6-9pm

Exhibiting artists:

Kristina Kavrakova, Ma Jiayue, Runyao Wei, Pandora Wanga,
Jiayu Lu, Siyi LIu, Jonathan Hillson, Lauren McNicoll, 
Yu Huam, Xinbo Zhang, Tonye Ekine, Hu Xinyi, Michaela D'Agari,
Bao Ho Yee, Hyesu Kim, Poyu Shen, Bernadette Enright,
Mina Fouladi, Julie Zhu, Wentao Liu, Tom Harper, Ilan Valdes Green,
Yuanjing Yin, Sammi Mak, Laura Porter, Huiting Yan, Yutong Jiang,
Ying Liu, Zheqi Jia, Yunnan Gai, Min Zeng

Opening hours:
Tue-Fri 1-7pm
Sat/Sun 11am - 5pm

Patterns of Enquiry
8-13 March 2022
Private View: Thursday 10 March 6-9pm

​“As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge”.  Bridget Riley  

Patterns of Enquiry brings together ten artists who met whilst pursuing postgraduate studies at Central Saint Martins on the MA Fine Art, MA Art & Science and MA Contemporary Photography courses.   The exhibition marks their emergence as artists, picking their way along in an uncertain world, accepting and rejecting as they go, seeking their own patterns of enquiry.

The show includes work from a diverse range of media including video, photography, printing, painting and sculpture by artists with a wide range of interests.

Patterns of Enquiry brings together the works of 

Charles Binns (@charles_binns)
Teresa Zerafa Byrne (@teresazerafabyrne) 
Laura Madeley (@laurara_borealis) 
Di Wingate (@wingate794)
Marion Mandeng (@mandengmarion)
Richard Paton  (@chudpaton)
Catherine Herbert (@catherineherbert20)
Phil Barton (@philbxyz)
Simon Hodgkinson (@slasharts)
Ken Turner (@tensepressure)

Opening Times:   
Tuesday to Saturday 1-7pm,
Sunday 1- 5pm

Transformations
1-6 March 2022
Private View: Friday 4 March 6-9pm

Transformations showcases new work from a diverse group of artists working in a range of media as they reflect on their own transformations, both personal and artistic. The show combines a wide range of media, and it is bound to be an exciting, transformative experience, who knows, it could be life-changing.

Exhibiting artists:

Moich Abrahams, Vera Akotuah, Paul Butler, 
​​Cherman, Jonathan Dean, Adrian Gibbs, Rosana Miracco, 
Nick Munier, Andreas Schöyen, Marianne Moore, 
João Trindade, ​Natalie Webb, ​Meg Wroe

Opening hours:
Tue-Sat 1-7pm
Fri 4-9pm
Sun 1-5pm

Buddies, Let Us Pop over and Join the Fete!！
Opening times：
Fri 25th 12-9pm
Sat 26th 10am - 9pm
Sun 27th 10am - 5pm

Welcome to the “Pop Over and Join the Fete” art bazaar. As the first stop of the Spring Art Season of RCA-CSSA, it will be held at the Espacio Gallery in East London, from 25th to 27th of February.

For this event, we have resembled more than 26 groups of remarkable cultural creative workers from various fields and cultural backgrounds to sell their goods in a white, decent, commercial art space in the most human-oriented, natural, street-like way, to give art back to life, to those who need it. Out of their studios, artists and designers bring the outcome of their artistic thinking and emotions, such as hand-drawings, jewellery, ceramics, and outfits to the public. The right one among those you find in a random encounter wondering around the bazaar will act as a media as emotional collections, bringing different hearts together. The one you bring back home will be a victim of a priceless piece of memory.
 
“Pop over and join the fete”. Softly, emotions, thoughts, creativity, expressions from the corners of this metropolis will be gathered on this space-time riverbed where we are intertwined. All those will run like a colourful stream and return somewhere far away.

​Pull Over and Take a Cig
19-24 February 2022
Private View: Tuesday 22 February 6-9 pm

​When perpetual motion, entropy and human’s complicated nature are intertwined, they swing between order and chaos, constructing a vivid metaphor of the present. In The Burnout Society, Byung-Chul Han accurately describes predominant anxiety and depression in modern times. In a social environment that advocates achievement and vitality, individuals are caught up in the exhaustion of their mental energy and often step onto another side of their emotions. 

Therefore, pulling over is not only a skill but also a work of art in itself. For Baudrillard, the disappearance of objects comes from the integration of fragmented consciousness into the gaps of reality, whereas the cease of reality constitutes an essential part of the integrity of things. Within the vanishing process, we are able to distinguish more concrete ideas, imagery and pieces once neglected as now they emerge progressively on the surface. Stepping on the path of indefiniteness, the pause in-between indicates our self-reflection and self-recognition, crashing the blindly straightforward direction, clichés and stereotypes. Through contemplation, it may jeopardise our original intention, or on the other hand, by looking back into the journey, we accumulate our strengths and power for the next big move.

Driving my car, it’s up to us whether to continue on the same path or leave all the rules behind. Determination is in this time of a cigarette. Underneath the smoke, we urge to navigate ourselves through the art of disappearance and re-investigate the origin of our self-existence.


Exhibiting Artists:

Anna Marris, Aoibhin Maguire, Binghui Song, Chaoming Zheng,
Deividas Vytautas, Dengke Li, Francesca Dobbe, Jiachen Zeng,
Jiao Shi, Jie Zhang, Jue Hou, Kirsty Flockhart, Lucas Bullens,
Min Zeng, Qianhui Sun, Qianwen Hu, Qipeng Deng,
Ruobing Xue, Sara Varady, Saruha Kilaru, Shunshun Qi,
Shupin Li, Subai Zheng, Tiange Yu, Xinlong Lin,
Xinming Cai, Xinyu Li, Yicheng Li, Yichun Huang,
Yizheng Liu, Youheng Guo, Yue Yin, Yujie Li, Yuewan Chen,
Zhaoqi Yu, Ziqing Ran, Ziwei Wang

POP
​Friday 11th - Monday 14th February 2022
10AM -8PM

POP IN AND JOIN US 
A CHANCE FOR YOU TO INTERACT WITH ALL THINGS POP! 

Explore a range of activities to unleash your personality and explore your creativity. 

Tote-al Punkover with @lukeneil.studio 
An experimental crafty 60-minute workshop is taking you to an energetic, colour-filled universe.

Makeup with @its.hels_
Create something as vibrant & unique as you are in this body painting workshop. Paint your hands, arms or your face (don't forget some glitter!)

Origami with @love_dna
Explore how we can manipulate paper and turn something flat into a 3D element. Guaranteed to leave with a smile.

Nail Art with @andys_nails_uk
Learn the basics of nails and what products Andy uses to create his artwork as well as the art of foiling, matt effect, mixed or pattern.

Mia Sakai, currently independently curates, designs and directs the production of Aether and will be exhibiting her creative work in the POP basement gallery - aether-magazine.com 

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SUBSUMING
17-23 January 2022 
Private View: Thursday 20 January 6-10pm

SUBSUMING is an exhibition exclusively at Espacio Gallery which brings together six emerging artists, spanning ceramics, film, painting and photography. 

Each artist explores the theme of how objects and ideas might take on different forms and meaning, and what is gained and lost in this transformation. 

Commonalities occur in the works, as much as differences. Innovation, unique personal experience and concerns are explored. 

SUBSUMING celebrates the fundamental connections between humans, across many different experiences, beliefs and ideas.

Exhibiting artists:

Aya Kirresh (Palestine)
Clare Wilson (UK)
Cristina Prudente (UK & Italy) 
Jeni Johnson (UK)
Joshua Lapena (UK & Spain)
Victoria Smith (UK)  
Past exhibitions 2021