Aidan Stuart is one of the 2024/25 recipients of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust Trustee Award. “From a very young age I have always had a huge passion for performing. This pretty much started off by performing for my family in the living room and progressing to taking part in primary school productions. At the […]
Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop is an exhibition and residency space in London and unique in its approach to bringing artists and their practices to the public. They support a diverse range of emerging and mid-career contemporary artists by providing them with space and time to develop their practice, network within our growing community, be mentored […]
A to Z of London, A to Z Arts’ most recent programme, is currently being delivered throughout the academic year in London primary schools. From the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the humble pigeon, to Vivienne Westwood and the creation of punk, these immersive classes introduce a wide variety of fascinating subjects, unique to the capital, […]
Katie Shannon (b. Glasgow, UK) is an artist based between Glasgow and London, working across drawing, installation, printmaking, textiles, writing, performance, curation, music and collaborative formats. Her practice centres on the event as medium, exploring temporalities, collective intimacy, and states of energetic unrest. Rooted in a socialist, feminist, and materially led approach, her work navigates themes […]
Sonic Support Group is an interdisciplinary collaboration seeking to release the innate therapeutic potential within certain art exhibitions for NHS staff and frontline workers. This project was piloted in a disused sorting office in Chelsea – during the winter lockdown of 2020/2021 – as a joint initiative between Neurofringe – a group of Neurologists working […]
Skirt an edge for long enough and eventually you might fall off… Ben Doherty makes sculptures and multimedia installations that inhabit the edges. Representation begins to give way to the uncanny or unknown as structures and objects hover between absurdly interpreting reality and downright defiling it. The work tips over into a parallel present where […]
I’m Ashleigh Williams and I’m average at best, aggressively mediocre- whatever you wanna call it. But, what do I have that you don’t? Materially, not much. But- I do have a mother that thinks I’m part of a gay cult, a diagnosis/medication list longer than any of my weaves, and unresolved trauma which makes […]
Lucy Oates is a multi-disciplinary artist, with a MA in Mixed Media Textiles from the Royal College of Art. Her central concerns are around transformation, materiality and process. Lucy’s work is informed by her surroundings both aesthetically and by the physical objects that she finds left behind. She has developed her own hybrid printing […]
Madalina Zaharia (b.1985, Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania) is a Romanian artist who lives and works in London. She graduated from the Royal College of Art (London) with an MA in Printmaking in 2012, having gained a Postgraduate diploma in Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art (CSM) in 2010. Zaharia’s practice combines design and personal […]
Lauren Keeley’s practice encompasses multiple processes of image-making mixing the cool, computer-precise style of digital fabrication with the warm, tactile quality of hand-made processes. Her lifelike works are made up of wooden panels which are layered together to create a relief: whilst portraying two-dimensional imagery they are physically very sculptural, acting as a sort of […]
