Continuing in Skin – Exhibition at SET Stage Gallery
20 February @ 19:00 – 22 February @ 22:00
Continuing in Skin is the second exhibition of the year by SET Stage Gallery. Created by Téa-Anya Sage Earle, the exhibition explores tattooing as ritual, archive, and memory, considering the body as a living record.
Presented at SET Social Peckham, Continuing in Skin traces connections between ancient and contemporary tattoo practices. Drawing on pre-colonial and Indigenous aesthetics and informed by ideas of collective memory, the exhibition examines how skin marking carries meaning across generations.
Through this lens, tattooing is approached not only as personal expression but as a method of remembering, recording, and transmitting experience, inviting a reappraisal of the relationships between body modification, skin, and recollection.
Exhibition details
Opening night: Friday 20 February, 7-10pm
Exhibition run: 20-22 February, 2-9pm
Location: SET Stage Gallery at SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, Peckham, SE15 4NP
Visiting information: Free + optional £5 donation. To help manage capacity, booking is required.
About SET Stage Gallery
Launched in 2023, SET Stage Gallery is a volunteer-led, non-profit contemporary art space based at SET Social. The gallery prioritises artists with limited access to exhibition opportunities and supports a programme of monthly workshops, talks, screenings, reading groups, and exhibitions. All proceeds go directly to participating artists, supporting accessibility and sustainability within the space.
Artist: Téa-Anya Earle (@a____9.o)
Curator: Ayiesha Sankoh (@thereturnofshe)
Contact
For questions, please email setstagegallery@gmail.com