What’s On?
An About Turn
9th - 12th April 2026
Opening: Thursday 9th Apr 18:00 - 20:00
These paintings are an attempt to consider and reflect on what painting is, what it can be, first and foremost, for me. I making paintings that aren’t necessarily about something, but which can simply be. An anti-aboutness as it were. Some paintings may depict scenarios, hinting at interaction and consequence, other works come together as a series of coincidences, an unexpected alignment of regular motifs that sit awkwardly and flicker towards recognition without it arriving. The paintings are not only a means of world-building, but also a ‘world un-building’ and an ‘un-world building’. It’s an unravelling but not towards collapse, but towards openness and potentiality of where the painting is, where it’s been and where it can go. Paintings that aren’t sure of themselves, that are on the edge of losing their footing.
UEL BA Fine Art Show 2026
23rd - 26th April 2026
Opening: Thursday 23rd April 18:00 - 20:00
Mitochronia
7th - 17th May 2026
Opening: Thursday 17th May 18:00 - 20:00
Life was nothing but green slime over a billion years ago, consisting of mats of bacteria. They didn’t do very much but were good at staying alive. Then, after a few million years, one of these decided it would be a good idea to live inside of another. These were called mitochondria. They provided energy to the host and in return were granted protection from the elements and various predators. This Mitochronia exhibition pursues this theme, exploring the properties of these organelles as they evolve though time, their archaean ancestry and the role they have in contemporary therapeutic solutions. Mitochondria thrive on red and infra-red light. These are components inherent in sunlight and, as such, form an important element in metabolic health. It is only recently that this form of light has been recognised for its importance.
This is a thing to know (landscapes)
21st - 31st May 2026
Opening: Thursday 21st May 18:00 - 20:00
Jane Frances Dunlop’s this is a thing to know (landscape) stages a series of choral works interlocking and overlaying across the gallery. It begins by presenting a set of ‘knowledge system videos’; a dataset constructed from personal anecdote and stock footage to capture a particular effort to know the world. As the exhibition continues, the artworks explore rapid information translation, and the accompanying disintegrations, as the artist uses performance, digitised 8mm and composite choruses to process and rearrange these knowledge system videos. The knowledge system becomes increasingly fragmented, taken apart and reconfigured, handled and shaped by new systems and old mediums.