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SUMMARY:SET Ceramics Window Gallery Launch | 10 Years of SET
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday 10 SeptemberTime: 6-8pmLocation: SET Ceramics\, 35 Crutched Friars\, London\, EC3N 2AEAdmission: Free (RSVP optional) \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nCome celebrate the launch of the new window display space at SET Ceramics\, our community pottery studio\, as part of SET’s 10-year anniversary celebrations. \n\n\n\nCurated by four SET Ceramics studio members – Valeria Salinas Toro\, Max Kenny\, Tilly McLean\, and Felix Rose Bagwell – this inaugural exhibition showcases new ceramic pieces made right here in the studio\, fully visible directly from the street.  \n\n\n\nWe’ll also have a pop-up bar serving drinks\, so drop by after work for a drink\, check out the work\, and come say hello.More exhibition details to be announced soon. \n\n\n\nAccessibility and getting here\n\n\n\n\nAccess: Unfortunately\, the internal studio space is not wheelchair accessible. However\, the entire exhibition display is situated in the main window and can be fully viewed from the pavement outside.\n\n\n\nTransport: A few minutes walk from Fenchurch Street Station or Tower Hill Underground (Circle and District Lines).\n\n\n\n\nRSVP note\n\n\n\nThis launch is completely free and open to everyone. RSVPs via Outsavvy are optional and are available to help us manage numbers.  \n\n\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\nPart of 10 Years of SET\n\n\n\nThis event is part of SET’s month-long 10th anniversary celebrations taking place across our London sites throughout September. Come join us for open studios\, new exhibitions\, free workshops and late-night parties as we mark 10 years of SET. \n\n\n\nExplore our full programme at www.setspace.uk/10-years-of-SET \n\n\n\n10 Years of SET Wordmark design: @working__conditions
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/set-ceramics-window-gallery-launch-10-years-of-set/
LOCATION:SET Ceramics\, 35 Crutched Friars\, London\, EC3N 2AE
CATEGORIES:Art,Collaboration,community,Exhibition,Opening Night,SET Ceramics
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SUMMARY:That Which Grows in the Swamp is Swallowed by the Stomach
DESCRIPTION:Screenshot\n\n\n\nPublic opening event: Thursday 20 August\, 6-9pmExhibition dates: 21 August – 6 SeptemberOpening hours: Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday\, 12-6pm Location: SET Vauxhall (16th Floor)\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TPArtists: Andie Aylsworth\, Isis Powers Bird\, Keyannah Isaacs\, Holly Lou Jones\, Rinsanga Leivang\, Dani SmithAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nThat Which Grows in the Swamp is Swallowed by the Stomach is an ongoing exhibition project initiated and coordinated by Andie Aylsworth and Keyannah Isaacs\, which aims to invite new collaborators each year who share an interest in posthumanism\, ecology\, and material-led practice. The first iteration of the exhibition series was presented as part of Central Saint Martins’ 2023 degree show\, and the second was held at Hypha Studios in 2024. The upcoming exhibition will take place in SET Vauxhall’s project space on the 16th Floor as part of the SET Associate Members’ Programme\, with Dani Smith joining the curatorial team to develop the exhibition alongside the project’s founders. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition draws on posthuman thought through material\, bodily\, and ecological thinking\, considering the tension between organic and inorganic matter\, as well as human and nonhuman agency. It resists fixed hierarchies and binaries\, instead foregrounding entanglement\, instability\, and transformation. \n\n\n\nThis iteration places particular emphasis on materiality as a means of exploring these ideas. Through sensorial encounters and processes of material transformation\, the exhibition considers how materials themselves shape perception\, atmosphere\, and our relationships to bodies\, landscapes\, and ecological systems. \n\n\n\nRather than positioning landscape as a passive backdrop to human experience\, the exhibition considers landscape and body as mutually constitutive: porous\, shifting\, and continually shaping one another. Organic forms\, found materials\, and processes of transformation foreground the permeability between self and environment\, inviting audiences to consider how bodies are embedded within wider ecological systems. In doing so\, the exhibition offers temporary moments of displacement from everyday modes of perception\, encouraging visitors to inhabit spaces of ritual\, contemplation\, and imaginative possibility. \n\n\n\nWhile these ideas provide a conceptual framework for the exhibition\, they are intended as points of departure rather than fixed themes. We are interested in how each participating artist approaches these ideas through their own material language and practice\, and we welcome diverse interpretations that expand\, challenge\, or complicate the exhibition’s ongoing conversation. \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nDani Smith\nDani Smith is a visual artist working across painting\, drawing\, video and installation. Her practice explores material transformation\, symbolism and intimacy\, constructing dreamlike worlds that blur familiar and imagined realities.Instagram: @_danismth \n\n\n\n\nAndie Aylsworth\nAndie Aylsworth (b. 2000) is a London-based textile artist whose practice explores kinship with the more-than-human world through the lens of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)\, learned via her indigenous heritage.Instagram: @andie.aylsworthWebsite: https://andieaylsworth.com/ \n\n\n\n\nHolly Lou Jones\nHolly Lou Jones is a multidisciplinary artist exploring bodily tension through sculpture\, installation\, photography\, and jewellery. Her practice examines queerness\, femininity\, disability\, resilience\, and the grotesque beauty of embodied experience.Instagram: @hollylou.jonesWebsite: https://www.hollyloujones.com/ \n\n\n\n\nKeyannah Isaacs\nKeyannah Isaacs is a London-based artist whose practice explores ideas of transformation and decay through material hybridity. Disrupting the boundaries between organic and inorganic\, stability and collapse\, they seek to uncover potentials of ambiguity and liminality. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @keeiiksWebsite: https://www.keyannahisaacs.com/ \n\n\n\n\nIsis Powers-Bird\nIsis Powers-Bird is a multi-disciplinary artist working across sculpture\, text\, drawing\, moving image and sound. Her work is made as a response to the growing estrangement between the human body and the natural world. Instagram: @isispowersbird \n\n\n\n\nRinsanga Leivang\nRinsanga Leivang is a multi-disciplinary installation artist exploring themes of memory\, scarcity\, and obscurity within the lens of digital accumulation and intangible spaces.Instagram: @angaleivWebsite: https://www.angaleiv.com/ \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space\, alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate or participate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London. \n\n\n\nPoster Image courtesy of Isis Powers Bird
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/that-which-grows-in-the-swamp-is-swallowed-by-the-stomach/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:"On the Nose"
DESCRIPTION:Public opening event: 13 August\, 6-9pmExhibition dates: 13-15 August\, 12-6pmLocation: SET Lewisham\, Unit 1 Lewisham Retail Park\, Loampit Vale\, London\, SE13 7RZArtists: David Sappa\, Erif Brooks Price\, Gabriel Moreau\, Iris McConnell\, Joseph Dalton\, Laura Hornsby\, Lily Bunney\, Rosa Klerkx\, Sam Bramwell\, Florence AppleAdmission: FreeOpening next Thursday 13 August at SET Lewisham\, “On the Nose” is a dynamic group exhibition focusing on humour\, eschewing and challenging the falsely assumed severity of contemporary art. \n\n\n\nThrough painting\, installation\, and sculpture\, various artists are given space to approach the subject matter in unique and captivating ways while maintaining the integrity of their respective crafts: paying homage to popular forms of culture\, childhood play\, and folklore. \n\n\n\n“On The Nose” also uses SET Lewisham as a space to showcase a range of artists and practitioners working in zine production\, featuring the work of illustrators and designers dedicated to print\, forming a modern archive of tactile and experimental publishing. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is co-curated by Sasha Mills and Joseph Dalton\, MA students within the Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths\, University of London.  \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nDavid Sappa\nDavid Sappa works between sound sculpture\, improvisation and field recording\, with a dense smudge between. Their projects emerge via site-responsive processes\, exploring found and discarded things. \n\n\n\n\nErif Brooks Price\nI want to use my body as a tool to communicate the somatic to an audience. Being horny\, being scared\, being upset\, finding it all funny\, passing from me to you. \n\n\n\n\nGabriel Moreau\nGabriel Moreau is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice examines the conditions of contemporary image culture and the accelerated circulation of digital media. \n\n\n\n\nIris McConnell\nIris McConnell is a multimedia artist from London currently studying on the MFA Fine Art programme at Goldsmiths University. \n\n\n\n\nJoseph Dalton\nJoseph Dalton is a writer and artist. His work concerns the interplay between virtual\, digital aesthetics and online social practices and how these dynamics relate to more traditional forms. \n\n\n\n\nLaura Hornsby\nLaura is a British interdisciplinary artist and designer. Often interested in labour and visibility\, their work moves between the silly and the serious. \n\n\n\n\nLily Bunney\nLily Bunney is a London-based artist whose work explores the emotional landscapes of digital culture. \n\n\n\n\nRosa Klerkx\nRosa Klerkx is an artist working across video\, performance\, photography and sound. She creates layered compositions and installations that emptiness\, disconnection\, alienation and belonging. \n\n\n\n\nSam Bramwell\nMy practice explores how objects mediate built environments\, examining maintenance\, infrastructure and systems of organisation through sculpture\, installation and site-specific interventions. \n\n\n\n\nFlorence Apple\nAcross video\, sculpture\, and performance\, Florence explores shifting states of damnation and salvation\, drawing equally from high-culture canon and low-culture detritus.
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/on-the-nose-exhibition-set-lewisham/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Comedy,Exhibition,Opening Night
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SUMMARY:Take Your Pleasure Seriously
DESCRIPTION:A new\, playful structure for the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens – Built for the People\, by the People. \n\n\n\nThis August\, join SET Vauxhall-based practice Studio Long at SET Vauxhall to co-design and build prototypes for a new temporary structure in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. Across two weeks of drop-in workshops and a public exhibition\, you’re invited to share ideas\, test materials and help shape the project. \n\n\n\nThe initiative draws inspiration from the rich history of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens as a site of escape and gathering\, where grand\, temporary wooden structures were once built overnight for public performance. Amongst intense urban development\, Take Your Pleasure Seriously asks: what would we build today that reflects our community’s needs and respects our local environment? \n\n\n\nThe project brings together local partners DSDHA (Architects)\, House of NEON\, and Live + Breathe\, with support from Vauxhall One BID and Vauxhall City Farm. \n\n\n\nFollowing this initial design and prototyping phase at SET Vauxhall\, the team will build an innovative modular structure in the Gardens for the Colours & Cultures Summer Festival\, with the potential to tour other urban green spaces in the future. \n\n\n\nSchedule & key dates\n\n\n\nAll sessions and exhibition hours will take place at SET Vauxhall’s 16th Floor Project Space. \n\n\n\nPhase 1: WIP Drop-In Sessions \n\n\n\nBring your ideas\, energy\, and curiosity to these open work-in-progress exploratory sessions. Drop in to collaborate\, build\, and shape the direction of the project. \n\n\n\n\nDates: Tuesday 4 August & Thursday 6 August 2026\n\n\n\nTime: 11am – 3pm\n\n\n\nAdmission: Free / Drop-in (no booking required). Check in at the Camelford House Reception.\n\n\n\n\nPhase 2: Exhibition\n\n\n\nView the preliminary designs\, outcomes\, and physical work-in-progress. \n\n\n\n\nPublic Opening Event: Thursday 13 August 2026\, 6-8pm\n\n\n\nExhibition Open Hours: Friday 14 August – Sunday 16 August 2026\, 11am-3pm daily\n\n\n\nLocation: SET Vauxhall\, 16th Floor Project Space\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, Vauxhall\, London\, SE1 7TP.\n\n\n\n\nAbout the project & collaborators\n\n\n\nStudio Long / Vicky Long\n\n\n\nVicky’s practice spans drawing\, painting\, sound\, installation\, and scenography. It frequently addresses ecological themes and explores human interaction with the natural world. She has exhibited widely across public space\, gallery\, museum\, and theatre settings\, including Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens\, Kew Gardens\, Eden Project\, Southbank Centre\, Grand Union Canal\, Royal Geographical Society\, and Orleans House.  \n\n\n\nInstagram: @studiolonguk \n\n\n\nDSDHA (Architects)\n\n\n\nKnown for high-profile urban strategies\, landscapes\, and innovative buildings\, DSDHA (Architects) fosters positive change and empowers communities through its projects. Working in complex and sensitive environments\, the studio explores how relationships between architecture\, ecology\, and people shape contemporary city life. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @dsdha_architecture \n\n\n\nHouse of Neon\n\n\n\nHouse of NEON envisions a future where creative talent is never limited by background\, income or access to space\, and where inclusive cultural infrastructure allows children\, young people\, artists and creative communities to thrive. NEON’s cultural hub is at SET Vauxhall.  \n\n\n\nInstagram: @hon.ldn \n\n\n\nLive + Breathe\n\n\n\nLive + Breathe is a South London campaign\, working to achieve clean air\, climate and social justice. Led by musician and artist Love Ssega\, its arts led approach celebrates community use of public space.  \n\n\n\nInstagram: @weliveandbreathe
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/take-your-pleasure-seriously/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Collaboration,community,Exhibition,Performance,Workshops and Talks
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SUMMARY:Holding Company
DESCRIPTION:Dates: 31 July – 23 AugustPublic opening event: Thursday 30 July\, 6-9pm Gallery hours: Thursday – Friday\, 1-7pmAdmission: FreeSET 91 presents Holding Company\, the second exhibition of our second six-month curated programme. Bringing together new or unseen works and performances by H M Baker\, José García Oliva\, Luke Gould\, Markéta Slaná\, Maya King-Dabbs\, Samra Mayanja\, and Tawfik Naas\, the show probes the holding company as a fundamentally intangible corporate structure. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition\n\n\n\nHolding Company is a group exhibition spanning object-based and event-based practices. Beginning from the place of neoliberal financial capitalism\, the exhibition considers the affordances of ‘passive’ or ‘umbrella’ legal entities in the arts. While holding companies—corporate structures set up purely to hold assets and shield liability rather than produce goods—are everywhere in the contemporary art world\, this show looks to the structure itself as a productive conceptual anchor. \n\n\n\nEmbracing rather than resisting the cultural rise of ‘corpcore’\, the exhibition approaches this specific form of company on its own terms. If the gallery model is a kind of traditional company structure\, perhaps the future of the gallery is holding companies all the way down: uber-streamlined\, with staff and physical space abstracted out of the equation\, and risk neatly packaged.Alongside the exhibition\, ‘Holding Company’ features a public programme of three scheduled meetings\, collectively titled ‘Out of Office (OOO)’\, with talks between Aram Masharqa\, Tawfik Naas\, José García Oliva\, and Samra Mayanja. \n\n\n\nLearn more\n\n\n\nAdditional viewings on the weekend are available by appointment. For more information and to book an appointment\, please contact: aram@masharqa.com \n\n\n\nAbout SET 91\n\n\n\nSET 91 is SET’s first in-house curated contemporary arts gallery\, located in Old Street. Dedicated to supporting early-career contemporary artists\, the gallery provides a non-profit platform for experimentation\, collaboration\, and the presentation of new work beyond commercial pressures. \n\n\n\nLearn more
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/holding-company/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Opening Night,Performance,Workshops and Talks
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SUMMARY:SET Stage Gallery – Off The Record
DESCRIPTION:Off the Record is an upcoming immersive installation at SET Stage Gallery\, unveiling the vital contributions of the unsung heroes of London’s underground rap scene. Behind every viral video\, sold-out event\, and career-defining moment\, there is a dedicated photographer who captured the scene\, a journalist who narrated the story\, and an event producer who orchestrated the show. For one weekend only\, the London artists working “off the record” take centre stage to celebrate their efforts in documenting and building the underground rap scene. \n\n\n\nCurated by the multi-talented Mobolaji Babalola (@toomanyfishb)\, this gathering brings together photographers\, videographers\, A&Rs\, event producers\, set designers\, lighting designers\, journalists\, and visual artists.  \n\n\n\nMobolaji is a set designer (@bfixedit_) and event producer. Having built sets for prominent rappers like Ceebo and Saiming\, whilst also working as an art director and event producer for @prettytwistedlive\, she has fast become a major force behind the scenes. Earlier this year\, she held her debut solo exhibition\, showcasing her work within the underground rap scene and the wider creative landscape. Now\, she is turning the spotlight back onto her own community. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nPublic opening event: Friday 24 July\, 7-10pmExhibition run: Saturday 25 – Sunday 26 July\, 2-8pmLocation: SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, Peckham\, SE15 4NPAdmission: Limited free RSVP\, then £5 donations \n\n\n\nBook tickets\n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nAbbie SuiBydanourCnnct3rDjxhnwavElisaha SmallsKendrafilmzKhadsarkMachedpotatoNatNazfromNewhamNiall SmithPtrckjsrRino SisonSachaUKUndergroundRapSplit60SheldonTia \n\n\n\nAbout SET Stage Gallery\n\n\n\nLaunched 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.Curator: Ayiesha Sankoh (@thereturnofshe) \n\n\n\nContact\n\n\n\nFor questions\, please email setstagegallery@gmail.com
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/set-stage-gallery-off-the-record/
LOCATION:SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, London\, SE15 4NP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,community,Exhibition,Social
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260628T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260628T210000
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SUMMARY:hmmmm festival: First Edition
DESCRIPTION:Date: Sunday 28 June 2026Time: 3-9pmLocation: SET Lewisham\, Unit 1 Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZAdmission: Tickets £10/£15/£20 (All proceeds go to Lewisham Food Bank) \n\n\n\nAnnouncing the first edition of hmmmm festival at SET Lewisham. \n\n\n\nBringing together 14 artists and musicians\, the festival is a one-day celebration of experimental music and sound. SET Lewisham’s stunning\, light-filled\, and reverberant project space will play host to an afternoon of live performances spanning improvisation\, sound art\, DIY instruments\, and electronics. \n\n\n\nAlongside the audio line-up\, we’ll have home-cooked vegan soup served up by Cafe OTO’s very own Thea Jeffery Sands. \n\n\n\nThis is a completely non-profit event\, with all proceeds from the day going directly to support the crucial work of Lewisham Food Bank. Come down\, listen to some incredible live sound\, and support a vital local cause.  \n\n\n\nThis event is programmed by Regan Bowering\, David Sappa\, Rory Salter\, and Li Song. For more information on the festival and organisers\, visit: https://hmmmmm.org/ \n\n\n\nBook a ticket\n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nBen Waggett\nLondon-based musician\, artist and technician Ben Victor Waggett\, also known as Burhlap. Heyl Towans (2022)\, released on Infant Tree\, was assembled around a damp and drafty cabin in the sand dunes of Hayle\, West Cornwall\, where he sometimes works and shows\, with previous projects presented at Hweg Gallery Penzance\, Lewisham Arthouse\, Cornwall Community Darkroom\, PINK\, Van Gogh House\, Spanners and The San Mei Gallery amongst others. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @benvicwagBandcamp: https://burhlap.bandcamp.com/ \n\n\n\n\nBen Murphy\nInstagram: @wallaceplusgromit \n\n\n\n\nSeán Being\nSeán Being is an Irish musician working across a range of modes of composition and performance. They have collaborated widely among circles in Ireland\, Portugal and London\, including lately in the Irish group Princ€ss and as instigator of the riverside event series\, Car Musick (Liffey\, Thames\, Tejo). Here they will present new songs at the edges of pop and rock music\, following up on their previous solo release\, FAUX WINDOW (wherethetimegoes\, 2022). \n\n\n\nSeán has performed across artist-run and institutional settings in such venues as Somerset House (UK)\, Spanners (UK)\, Douglas Hyde Gallery (IE)\, Plugd (IE)\, St Paul’s Chapel at Columbia University\, NYC (USA)\, Fluent (ES)\, Cosmos (PT)\, and Galeria Zé dos Bois (PT). Their music has been reviewed in Pitchfork\, Boomkat\, Crack Magazine\, and The Thin Air. They have been resident on Dublin Digital Radio and a guest on NTS Radio and BBC Radio 6. They have an MA from the Dutch Art Institute (2024). \n\n\n\nInstagram: @seanbeingBandcamp: https://wherethetimegoes.bandcamp.com/album/faux-window \n\n\n\n\nRegan Bowering\nRegan Bowering is a percussionist\, improviser and sound artist based in London. Her solo work explores various combinations of drums and percussion\, objects\, amps\, speakers\, and feedback. Her debut album “Solos for _ _ _ _ Spaces” (Dec 2023 on Bezirk Tapes) was described as “a play of contrasts\, contradicting voluminous expressions with confined phrases\, taming resounding feedback with faint percussive flutters\, but one that feels driven by the desire to craft electrifying drama rather than pure autotelic dissonance.” (The Quietus). She is one third of a collaborative project with Li Song and Conal Blake\, with two releases: “2 Movements” (Feedback Moves\, 2024) and “Music for Snare Drums and Portable Speakers” (Infant Tree\, 2023). Her debut LP A Technology of Feeling is set to be released January 2026 on Infant Tree. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @reganalanaBandcamp: https://reganbowering.bandcamp.com/ \n\n\n\n\nLi Song\nLi Song is a London-based musician and computer programmer. He performs improvised music with his computer and composes music using electronics and acoustic instruments. His collaborative project with Zhu Wenbo\, No Performance\, focuses on compositions using environment sounds\, acoustic instruments\, computer algorithms\, and random sequence. He is also a member of computer network music ensemble and research group\, [ _ _ _ ]\, focusing on algorithmic collaboration. Recent works include Two Snare Drums (Infant Tree 2022)\, [ _ _ _ ] (with Jia Liu and Shuoxin Tan\, SUPERPANG 2022) and Text (with Zhu Wenbo\, Zoomin’ Night 2021). \n\n\n\nInstagram: @slow.softwareBandcamp: https://lisong.bandcamp.com/album/two-snare-drums-on-a-table \n\n\n\n\nDavid Sappa\nDavid Sappa works between D.I.Y sound sculpture\, improvisation and field recording- with a dense smudge between. Their projects emerge via site-responsive processes\, exploring found and discarded things – reconfigured and animated to reveal instability and leaky thresholds between bodies\, material\, time and place. Recent performances include Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival\, Moers Festival\, Horse Hospital\, Cafe OTO and Sadie Coles HQ. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @dalosap \n\n\n\n\nSam Andreae\nSam Andreae has been active across Europe over the last decade as a saxophonist\, composer and organiser. Through improvisation and composition he explores a music of colliding sound gestures and aural detritus\, built up from an intentionally fractured instrumental language and playful spontaneity. His compositions place a focus on gestural processes which in their unraveling reveal a trail of sound artefacts to be picked through. \n\n\n\n“what Sam Andreae does is liminal music\, he shows you the clicks\, the noises\, the breaths\, the rattle and hum” – John Doran\, The Quietus\, 2017 on BBC 3 Late Junction. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @samandreaeBandcamp: https://tombedvisionsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/solo \n\n\n\n\nRory Salter\nRory Salter is based in London\, working mostly with sound and performance\, as a musician and sound technician. Recordings are available via Index Clean\, TEETH\, Research Laboratories\, Zoomin’ Night and others. A new album ‘a sky cold as clay’ is out now on Infant Tree.Instagram: @rorysalter__Bandcamp: https://malvernbrume.bandcamp.com/ \n\n\n\n\nFeghoots\nA master of wet electronic and uncanny sound collage. Contact-mic clutter and electricity fed through an encyclopaedic knowledge of foley and the hinterlands of music. Music released on Chocolate Monk; ran the Crater Lake festival in Leeds.Instagram: @feghootsBandcamp: https://feghoots.bandcamp.com/ \n\n\n\n\nIsabelle Pead\nIsabelle Pead is a London-born artist working across sculpture\, sound\, video and performance. Often utilising large-scale installation\, her work is informed by actions of storytelling and collectivism\, exploring the relationship between the voice and the sounding body. Working predominantly with metal\, her two- and three-dimensional sculptural works draw on imagery from opera\, choral and folk singing\, churches and acoustic spaces\, electronic music\, synthesisers and waveform displays.Instagram: @isabelle_pead \n\n\n\n\nLuciano Maggiore\nLuciano Maggiore is a Palermo-born\, London-based musician whose work is characterised by the use of speakers and several analogue/digital devices (samplers\, CD players\, walkmans\, tape recorders) as well as acoustic objects and addresses the performativity of the musical act\, the perception of it\, and the obscurity that emanates from it. \n\n\n\nHis main interests include mechanisms of sound diffusion\, performance\, repetition\, endurance\, non-human animal languages\, dance\, and folklore. With Louie Rice\, he runs NO-PA/PA-ON\, a project that deals with performing score-based works\, both acoustic and amplified.Instagram: @lucianomaggioree \n\n\n\n\nAgata Genissel\nAgata Genissel perforates sound\, producing disembodied sonic environments. Working with texture\, density and materiality\, her practice unfolds through unresolved exploration. She is based in London. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @agatagenissel \n\n\n\n\nWillow Swan\nWillow Swan (they/them) is a sound artist based in London. Their work centers on long-form composition\, acoustic phenomena\, and the durational possibilities of drone. Working primarily with pipe organ\, field recordings\, and minimal processing\, Swan explores harmonic instability\, resonance\, and texture through restrained\, process-driven structures. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @willow___swan \n\n\n\n\nDanny Pagarani \nDanny Pagarani is an artist and musician based in London. Their work spans performance\, sound\, installation and moving-image contexts\, with recent projects including Unstable Nature at Chilli Gallery\, Edinburgh Art Festival\, Super Organic at Somers Gallery\, Gradient Descent at Gossamer Fog and GUM at ASC Gallery. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @danny_pagarani \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThe hmmmm festival is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate and participate in exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/hmmmm-festival-first-edition/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,community,Exhibition,Fundraiser,Music,Performance
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SUMMARY:A Great Big Net
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition dates: 11-28 June 2026Location: Project Space 3\, Ground floor\, SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP Opening hours: Friday\, Saturday\, and Sunday\, 12-5pm\, and by appointment. To book\, please contact daisynutting@hotmail.co.ukPublic opening event: Thursday 11 June\, 6-9pmArtists: Massimo Franco\, Ned Elliott\, Daisy Nutting\, Agnes Treherne\, Tara Versey\, Johannah Gibbons\, Kate Walton\, Ben Williams\, Olly WilliamsonAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nOpening Thursday 11 June at SET Vauxhall\, A Great Big Net brings together nine artists working across drawing\, printmaking\, and painting\, curated by Daisy Nutting. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition takes the motif of the net as a dual structure: one that can simultaneously isolate us from our world and link us to it.  \n\n\n\nHere\, the net serves as a cipher for systems of power\, borders\, and geometric fences\, as well as the networks we use to navigate them. Using the net as a compositional structure that forms both the skeleton and exoskeleton of the works on display\, A Great Big Net considers the precise moment when the freedom of the grid hardens into a trap. \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nMassimo Franco\nMassimo Franco currently lives and works in London. Recently he’s made a return to printmaking\, specifically a return to the book format. Notably this work displays an interest in part to purely abstract imagery. Massimo completed his training painting at Glasgow School of Art\, drawing at Royal Drawing School and printmaking at Camberwell College of Art. \n\n\n\n\nNed Elliot\nNed Elliott is an artist from London. His subject is nature\, and his focus moves from the small to the cosmic. His gaze is drawn to those things which are simultaneously frail and beautiful; a moth\, a feather\, a flower. He depicts how different elements of existence\, sentient\, insentient\, intersect and coexist in the world\, creating pictures which grow out of the confusing and elusive beauty of life. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @ned_elli0tt \n\n\n\n\nDaisy Nutting\nDaisy Nutting is an artist exploring memory\, storytelling and perceptions of ownership. Documenting moments of balance and imbalance within nature\, Daisy’s etchings\, drawings and paintings are made from a desire to connect with her surroundings and an attempt to take ownership of land that is not hers\, suggesting that the memory of a place is a kind of possession to rival capitalist notions of accumulation and proprietorship. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @daisynutting \n\n\n\n\nAgnes Treherne\nAgnes Treherne lives and works in East Sussex. Drawing from life underpins her painting and printmaking – her drawings are a response to the transcendent nature of the world. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @agnestreherne \n\n\n\n\nTara Versey\nTara Versey works across painting\, printmaking and drawing\, exploring the emotional and physical experience of being alive. Combining observation\, memory and imagination\, she creates works that seek balance between the human form\, architecture and the natural world. Raised in London\, her interest in geometry\, anatomy and shifting identities informs compositions that reflect the complexity and fragmentation of human experience. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @tarajversey \n\n\n\n\nKate Walton\nKate Walton lives and works in Glasgow. Working across painting\, drawing\, and printmaking\, she records people\, objects\, and landscapes through observation. These notations form a visual memory\, used to construct images where figures and environments are compressed within pictorial space. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @kateswalton \n\n\n\n\nBen Williams\nBen Williams lives in Glasgow making paintings from arranged objects and figures which he comes up with either from drawings or by other means. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @williams_b_a \n\n\n\n\nOlly Williamson\nOlly Williamson currently lives and works in London\, and grew up in a village outside of Preston. He makes work about quiet situations of life; utilising intense observation and experimental structures of composition. His images reflect the underlying rhythms of the people and world he sees around him – hoping to make the everyday feel monumental. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @omw_painting \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space\, alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate or participate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/a-great-big-net-set-vauxhall-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:By Hand By Eye By Ear
DESCRIPTION:Location: Project Space 3\, Ground floor\, SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TPExhibition dates: 11-27 JuneOpening hours: Saturdays (13\, 20\, 27 June)\, 1-5pm\, and by appointment. To book\, please contact handeyeear@gmail.comPublic opening event: Thursday 11 June\, 6-9pm (features performances by artists)Artists: David Sappa\, Domènec Miralles\, Ewan Peng\, Jenny Pengilly\, Pei\, Rob Shuttleworth\, Rupert Earl\, tongktongktong\, YUNA阿尘 Admission: Free \n\n\n\nOpening Thursday 11 June at SET Vauxhall\, By Hand By Eye By Ear is a new group exhibition bringing together analogue and digital DIY sound objects and light installations curated by artist and SET Studio member Jenny Pengilly. \n\n\n\nBuilt from found materials\, discarded items\, and everyday electronics\, the works on display explore how sound and visuals can be coaxed from unexpected sources and overlooked technologies. Rejecting polished interfaces and digital convenience\, the participating artists embrace hands-on experimentation\, chance encounters\, and material limitations as creative drivers. \n\n\n\nSurfaces vibrate\, circuits respond to natural phenomena\, and kinetic gestures become instruments. Here\, sound and visuals are treated as something discovered—unearthed through play\, trial\, and close observation. Together\, the works propose alternative ways of making\, listening\, and visualising\, where ingenuity replaces excess\, and the familiar is reimagined as strange\, expressive\, and alive.  \n\n\n\nConceived as a shared space for connection\, creative crossover\, and peer learning\, the exhibition functions alongside a public programme of collaborative workshops\, live performances\, and ongoing invitations for visitors to interact and play. \n\n\n\nPublic programme and events\n\n\n\nDIY instrument and sound making workshop\n\n\n\nSaturday 20 June\, 2-6pm \n\n\n\nJoin artists from the 嘢嘢YardYard collective to experiment with sounds and making. This hands-on\, drop-in workshop invites visitors to make DIY wind instruments (such as a canister xūn and straw flute) from material waste. You can also customise electronic circuit-bent synth instruments with Pei and try out Ewan Peng’s modular synth.Note: The general exhibition remains fully open to visitors while the workshop is running. \n\n\n\nBook a spot\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing and performance night \n\n\n\nSaturday 27 June\, 6-8.30pmAn evening of live\, improvised audio-visual sets and sound experiments using DIY instruments and light installations\, taking place across the exhibition space. \n\n\n\nLive Performance Lineup\nJoy For Stuff (JFS): Artists Eva Freeman and Jenny Pengilly physically exploring the sound of everyday objects. \n\n\n\nResonant Bodies: A live kinetic light and video collaboration by Rupert Earl and Jiawei Chong (76%). The duo will perform an improvised dialogue between vibration and light\, showing how energy moves through physical materials. \n\n\n\nRob Shuttleworth: Improvised performance using his site-specific instrument installation. \n\n\n\nDavid Sappa: Live performance with handmade\, repurposed sound objects. \n\n\n\nPei: Experimental circuit-bent synth noise. \n\n\n\nYUNA: A mobile phone and vocal performance exploring moments of shared presence. \n\n\n\nTitus Barker: Mobile phone sound practice. \n\n\n\ntongktongktong: Live performance featuring a DIY acoustic instrument with real-time visuals. \n\n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nRob Shuttleworth\nRob Shuttleworth is an artist exploring the creative potential of accessible techniques and materials\, highlighting the process of making as a language of expression. He performs and composes under the moniker Haddow\, improvising with handmade instruments and found sounds\, and shares these methods via the ‘Unprecious Instrument’ workshops. He also co-runs live sound art event SAOM\, produces monthly radio broadcasts for arts journal FIELDNOTES\, and works as an illustrator and designer for various music related projects. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @robshuttz / @haddowsound \n\n\n\n\nDavid Sappa\nDavid Sappa works across sound sculpture\, improvisation and field recording. Their projects take shape through site-responsive processes\, using found or discarded objects—such as iron nails\, driftwood\, shells\, glass\, rope\, brick\, willow\, plastic\, frayed metal\, burnt cinders and bone—reconfigured and animated to reveal tender frictions and material instability. Sappa’s work explores material memory\, porous temporality\, care\, neglect\, and their relationship to wider social systems. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @dalosap \n\n\n\n\nJenny Pengilly\nJenny Pengilly is a multidisciplinary artist working in learning and social engagement. Her practice focuses on the sensory exploration of materials and making to facilitate play\, experimentation\, and collaboration. Key projects include Static Studios\, a nomadic recording studio and label developed with children; the Experimental Tunes and Children radio show on RTM.fm; and the Electronic Audio Club\, a peer-led community group exploring DIY electronic audio. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @colourcillider \n\n\n\n\nRupert Earl\nRupert Earl is a multimedia visual artist using video-feeds\, found objects\, and naturally occurring reactions as the foundation of his work. Merging live-feed video projections and light-emitting installations\, his practice explores organic interactions through real-time improvisation with physical materials.Instagram: @visuals_ru \n\n\n\n\n嘢嘢YardYard\n嘢嘢YardYard is a DIY subculture space and artist-led micro label connecting digital communities with physical gatherings. Established in 2024\, YardYard operates as an experimental collective centred  around sound\, presence\, and shared attention. The group pushes back against commercialised culture and rigid hyper-specialised roles\, preserving a space for open listening and alternative voices. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @yard_yard_space \n\n\n\n\nYUNA阿尘\nYUNA阿尘 is a musician and multimedia sound artist who animates physical objects and digital environments. Working with site-specific listening\, minimal mechanisms and game logic\, she cultivates fragile moments and glimmering states of presence between bodies and communal technologies. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @yunaa_sparasii \n\n\n\n\nDomènec Miralles\nDomènec Miralles is a Catalan-Italian digital artist based in London. Working with code-based tools\, game engines\, and custom-made visual and textual AI models\, Domènec explores how new technologies change the way we think\, communicate\, and express ourselves. His work examines ideas like self-deception\, human reliance on technology and non-linear ways of creating and acting. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @boladelolor \n\n\n\n\nTongktongktong\nLondon-based multimedia artist Tongktongktong builds immersive\, surreal worlds where invisible forces become tangible. Through real-time audio and visual systems\, her work blurs the boundary between the virtual and the physical. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @tongktongktong \n\n\n\n\nPei\nPei is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice focuses on sound art\, DIY instrument making\, and sculpture. Their work explores the connection between marginalised identities and noise. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @pppppphhhh6759 \n\n\n\n\nEwan Peng\nEwan Peng is a multidisciplinary artist based in London\, specialising in installation and sound art. He is dedicated to exploring the edges and connections between sound\, body and machinery. His current work primarily explores the relationship between modern technology and the body through rituals of cybernetics and esotericism. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @ewan_peng \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London. \n\n\n\nPoster design: Jenny Pengilly
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/by-hand-by-eye-by-ear/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition,Music,Performance,Workshops and Talks
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SUMMARY:Circles on the Floor
DESCRIPTION:SET is pleased to present Circles on the Floor\, a new group exhibition opening Friday 29 May at SET Vauxhall.Bringing together four artists working across interdisciplinary practices\, including installation\, performance\, and video\, the exhibition is informed by years of inquiry into the contemporary art phenomenon of placing virtually anything in a circle on the floor. \n\n\n\nCentral to the installation is a custom-built bar\, with drinks served by The Pegram Collection. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nOpening: Friday 29 May\, 5-9pmDates: 29-31 MayOpening hours: 12-5pmLocation: SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TPAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nCecilia Sargent\nCecilia Sargent explores notions of aspiration\, desire and failure within her interdisciplinary practice. Often with a performative D.I.Y materiality – her work aims to visualise the tragicomic emotions of trying but never quite getting it right. \n\n\n\n@ccsargent \n\n\n\n\nLucas D’Praser Corp\nLucas D’Praser Corp restages images and objects to create speculative memory. He sets relics in a material tension to interrogate the politics of backwardness\, and its aesthetic potential. \n\n\n\n@whocas_ \n\n\n\n\nPolly Plowden\nPolly Plowden explores the rehearsal of reality within everyday life\, examining how chaos\, repetition\, and mediation shape meaning through quieter\, overlooked narratives embedded in domestic spaces. \n\n\n\n@pollyplowden \n\n\n\n\nAlex Heard\nAlex Heard makes performance\, video and installation which often explore frictions of bitterness\, refusal\, or absurdity. A concern of his has been the carbon-capture of ‘meaning’ in the field of contemporary art. \n\n\n\n@alexheardalloneword \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London. \n\n\n\nPoster design: Lucas D’Praser Corp
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/circles-on-the-floor-set-vauxhall-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Heat Seeking
DESCRIPTION:SET 91 presents Heat Seeking\, the inaugural exhibition of our second six-month curated programme. Bringing together new works by Millie Earthy\, Joe Garcia\, and Francisco Zhan\, the show explores printing techniques as processes of transformation\, reproduction\, and desire. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition\n\n\n\nHeat Seeking is a group exhibition exploring printing techniques as processes of slippery reproduction and desire. Using a variety of methods including 3D printing\, paper clay\, decals and UV printing\, the exhibition brings together works shaped by slow\, almost devotional processes requiring precision\, alongside playful and often humorous exchanges between image and material. \n\n\n\nFundamentally\, it is a show about desire\, attending to its different forms: commodification and branding\, transubstantiation in Chinese joss paper traditions\, the politics of excess\, texture\, and the buffoonery of rebranding and repurposing industrial materials with personal imagery. \n\n\n\nThe pairings inhabit their own kind of poetry as images are forged with light\, heat and exposure onto unexpected surfaces\, producing fragile\, mutable containers. Heat Seeking understands printing as a process shaped as much by risk as control\, where material and image meet in unstable and often surprising ways. \n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\nDates: 29 May-12 July Public opening event: Thursday 28 May\, 6-9pm Gallery hours: Thursday-Sunday\, 1-6pm Admission: Free \n\n\n\nLearn more\n\n\n\nAbout SET 91\n\n\n\nSET 91 is SET’s first in-house curated contemporary arts gallery\, located in Old Street. Dedicated to supporting early-career contemporary artists\, the gallery provides a non-profit platform for experimentation\, collaboration\, and the presentation of new work beyond commercial pressures. \n\n\n\nLearn more
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/heat-seeking-set-91-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260518T180000
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SUMMARY:Rule of Thumb - SET Lewisham Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Rule of Thumb investigates the systems of discipline and authority that shape the human body. Bringing together four artists working across painting\, sculpture\, and installation\, the exhibition examines how power is naturalised through physical presence. \n\n\n\nPresented at SET Lewisham as part of the Associate Members Programme\, the exhibition is co-curated by the participating artists. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition\n\n\n\nThe exhibition takes its title from the idiom “rule of thumb”\, a phrase denoting approximate measurement famously\, if controversially\, linked to a legal loophole for domestic violence. Rule of Thumb uses this etymology as a point of departure to explore how power is mapped onto the body within both domestic and institutional spheres. \n\n\n\nThroughout the space\, symbols of power are rendered as bodily objects: bodybuilders flex alongside legal iconography and heraldry; armour-like structures offer a tense balance of protection and restraint; and garments hang like evidence\, relics or unresolved testimonies. \n\n\n\nBy deconstructing these forms\, Rule of Thumb draws attention to the hidden codes of conduct that dictate movement and behaviour. The works invite us to consider how the body carries the weight of these systems\, and how the traces of authority remain visible even in the aftermath of an event. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nPublic opening event: Friday 15 May\, 6-9pmWeekend opening hours: Saturday 16 & Sunday 17 May\, 12-5pmWeekday viewings: Thursday 14\, Friday 15\, and Monday 18 May (By appointment only)Appointments: To book a weekday viewing\, please contact phoebe.ea.randall@gmail.comLocation: SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, SE13 7RZAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nEmilia Auersperg\nEmilia Auersperg works with readymade fragments gathered through chance encounters in urban environments. Her work explores objecthood as a way of thinking through consumer culture\, bodily discipline\, and the shifting boundaries between human and nonhuman agency. Through processes of deconstruction andassemblage\, discarded objects are transformed from passive commodities into charged sites\, exposing social\, symbolic\, and political afterlives embedded within material culture. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @emiliaauersperg \n\n\n\n\nJiyoung Pyo\nInformed by collective memory\, personal experience\, and found imagery\, Jiyoung Pyo’s practice engages with cultural forms\, power dynamics\, and moral ambiguity through an expanded multimedia approach centred around painting. Her work explores psychological states and the ways individual experience intersects with broader social and historical narratives. At its core\, the practice investigates vulnerability and power\, the seen and unseen\, and the unstable boundaries between them\, creating layered and emotionally charged spaces where viewers may feel exposed and implicated. \n\n\n\n\nPhoebe Randall\nPhoebe Randall translates photographs of performance and human spectacle into oil paintings on canvas. Recent works examine demonstrations of masculinity\, heroism and violence staged under the guise of sportsmanship. Working selectively from her source material\, she remains only partially faithful to the original image. In doing so\, she unsettles the choreography of conflict and the performative mechanics of violence embedded in Western painting traditions. She is particularly interested in the theatrics of rivalry\, from arena sports to the social ‘arenas’ where our identity and power relations are at stake. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @phoebe.randall \n\n\n\n\nFlorence Sweeney\nFlorence Sweeney is a London-based artist whose practice spans sculpture\, photography\, moving image and textiles. Her work interrogates the intersection of personal history and societal injustices surrounding the representation of women\, delving into themes of memory\, loss\, and familial injury while searching for meaning within the complexities of contemporary life. \n\n\n\nInstagram: @florencesweeney \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.Poster design: Phoebe Randall
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/rule-of-thumb-set-lewisham-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Crits,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:SET Stage Gallery – Softer/Harder
DESCRIPTION:Social’s SET Stage Gallery presents Softer Harder\, a performance night and exhibition examining female sexuality and desire. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition considers how women are reclaiming their bodies and sexualities in a digital-first world. Inspired by millennial and Gen Z adolescence shaped by nights on Omegle\, reading erotica on Wattpad\, and reposting lewd gifs on Tumblr\, it offers an intimate and often humorous exploration of digital culture and sex. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nPublic opening night and performance: Friday 17 April\, 6-10pmExhibition run: Friday 17 April – Sunday 19 April\, 2-8pmLocation: SET Stage Gallery\, 55a Nigel Road\, Peckham\, SE15 4NPTickets: \n\n\n\n\nEarly Bird – £6.13 \n\n\n\nGeneral – £8.30\n\n\n\n\nBook tickets\n\n\n\nExhibiting visual artists\n\n\n\nAarony Bailey\nAarony Bailey is a filmmaker and photographer based in South London. Through an honest and intimate lens\, Bailey uses the camera to capture semi-autobiographical narratives surrounding femininity and sexuality\, looking at the complexities of womanhood and the female body. Her honest and nostalgic explorations of intimacy\, both platonic and romantic\, invite the viewer to indulge in their own voyeurism\, unpacking the nuances of shame and desire.  \n\n\n\nShe materialises her work through the use of analogue film\, specifically super 8\, 16mm\, and 35mm\, as well as using various other vintage methods of image capture and production\, such as polaroid photography and risograph printing. \n\n\n\n\nLily Bunney\nLily Bunney is a London-based artist whose work explores the intersection of vulnerability and digital consumption. Bunney’s process and aesthetic is key to reading her work. Inspired by the interwoven history of the computer and the jacquard loom\, her pointillist drawings play with the analogue and the digital; offering work which looks hyper-digital on the screen\, and tactile in person.  \n\n\n\nHer practice investigates how we construct and witness our own stories in an age of overwhelming narrative abundance\, particularly examining the ways we use social media and popular culture. \n\n\n\n\nCharlie Henzi\nBorn in 2001\, Seattle\, USA\, Charlie Henzi grew up in the UK just outside of London. In 2023\, she graduated from Central Saint Martins\, UAL. She recently received her Masters in Contemporary Art Practise (2024) at the Royal College of Art. She is fascinated by images of women in popular culture\, the gaze\, the performed female\, consumption and consumerism. After studying visual codes and language for years\, she now creates works that draw directly from this and her personal experiences\, that comment on the current zeitgeist. \n\n\n\n\nPerformance artists\, readers\, and poets\n\n\n\nFopé Ajanaku\, Tara Baukovic\, Chloe Borthwick\, Daisy Norris\, Sabirin Osobole\, Maricel Reinhard \n\n\n\nAbout SET Stage Gallery\n\n\n\nLaunched 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.Curator: Ayiesha Sankoh (@thereturnofshe) \n\n\n\nContact\n\n\n\nFor questions\, please email setstagegallery@gmail.com
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/set-stage-gallery-softer-harder/
LOCATION:SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, London\, SE15 4NP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Comedy,community,Exhibition,Music,Opening Night,Performance
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SUMMARY:Trojan Horses - SET Vauxhall Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Trojan Horses explores how images can hold and carry meanings that are not immediately visible. Taking its cue from a text by Andrew Cranston\, the exhibition considers how aesthetics can act as a point of entry into complex and often uncomfortable subjects. \n\n\n\nBringing together twelve artists working across painting and drawing\, the exhibition is co-curated by SET studio members Tom Houlihan and Elisa Terranera\, and is presented at SET Vauxhall. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition\n\n\n\n“Beauty can be a useful Trojan horse to smuggle in darker ideas”\, writes Andrew Cranston in his book Never a Joiner. He is reflecting on his painting Vague feelings of dread (2022)\, where a small group of fish hover above the pearlescent tiled floor of a pond. For Cranston\, their subtle\, shifting movement recalls submarines and warships in the Mediterranean\, becoming a way of expressing unease shaped by conflict and its ongoing presence. \n\n\n\nTrojan Horses takes this idea as its starting point. Bringing together painting and drawing\, the exhibition asks how artists use aesthetics to engage with social and political realities.  \n\n\n\nAcross the exhibition\, the works touch on themes including class\, feminism\, war\, mortality\, identity and religion. Here\, beauty is not simply decorative or resolved; it operates as a point of entry – something that draws viewers in before revealing more layered and challenging ideas beneath the surface. Or\, as Cranston puts it\, “darker ideas”. \n\n\n\nAll twelve artists share a background in observational drawing. At a time marked by political and technological uncertainty\, Trojan Horses reflects on what this longstanding language of picture-making can still hold\, and how painting and drawing continue to offer ways of engaging closely with the world today. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nOpening: Thursday 9 April\, 6-9pmDates: 9-26 AprilOpening hours: Thursday – Sunday\, 12-6pmLocation: SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, LondonAdmission: FreeThe exhibition is also viewable by appointment. Please contact: tomhoulihan7@gmail.com \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nSasha Alfillé\, Joe Allen\, Rebecca Ashton\, Arthur Boothby\, Lucy-Bruce Gardner\, Bruno Diaz\, Bart\, Hajduk\, Thomas Houlihan\, Jack McGarrity\, Keziah Mornin\, Elisa Terrenera\, and Dylan Williams \n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London. \n\n\n\nPoster image: Elisa Terranera (@elisaterranera)
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/trojan-horses-set-vauxhall-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition,Opening Night
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SUMMARY:Doublewalker - SET Vauxhall Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Doublewalker explores processes of repetition and fragmentation\, and the differences that emerge through them. Taking its title from the etymology of ‘doppelgänger’\, meaning ‘twin stranger’\, the exhibition considers how objects and spaces can appear familiar while remaining slightly out of reach. \n\n\n\nBringing together seven artists working across sculpture\, installation\, and sound\, the exhibition is curated by SET studio member Laura Higgins and presented at SET Vauxhall. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition\n\n\n\nUsing processes of fragmentation and remaking\, Doublewalker examines the presence of distant yet recognisable symbols within contemporary culture. Through this\, works repeat and rework familiar forms\, drawing attention to the small differences between things that might at first appear the same. \n\n\n\nAcross the exhibition\, artists explore personal relationships with place\, often focusing on sites that might otherwise go unnoticed. \n\n\n\nPresented as one of the first exhibitions in SET Vauxhall\, Doublewalker responds directly to its surroundings. As a repurposed building shaped through reuse\, elements of its previous life remain visible. Through site-specific installation\, the exhibition nods to these prior uses and the building’s existing structure\, while giving it a new identity within the exhibition. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition also focuses on the spaces between objects and how we experience them alongside others. By repeating and breaking down forms\, the works invite us to look more closely at objects and environments as their meaning begins to shift. \n\n\n\nSome works also touch on wider themes including colonial histories\, inheritance and self-positioning within the current postmodern context.  \n\n\n\nThrough these approaches\, Doublewalker considers how repetition and difference shape the way we understand objects\, spaces and the world around us. \n\n\n\nA live performance by Nell Castor will take place on the opening evening at 7:30pm. The work imitates the selling of medicine\, creating opportunities for interaction between the artist and visitors. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nOpening: Thursday 9 April\, 6-9pmDates: 10-26 AprilOpening hours: Thursday-Sunday\, 12-6pmLocation: SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, 89 Albert Embankment\, LondonAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nNell Castor\nNell Castor is a sculptor and digital artist. Her work is founded on a personal lexicon of color and symbolic characters that wrestle with universal human emotions. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area\, she now lives and works in London.Website: https://nellclo.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nell.castor/ \n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Elven\nSuzanne Elven navigates time at an angle\, often recording collision and motion from several temporal stand points. Her current focus lies in foregrounding objects that come into zones of impact – drums\, tennis rackets. Elven’s research lies in the balance between fiction and reality\, drawing from recent work in set building which has her considering the lifespans and solidity of worlds.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzanne.elven/ \n\n\n\n\nKairi Tokoro \nKairi Tokoro is a Japanese artist based in London. His practice explores sound\, sculpture\, and performance. His work focuses on the interdependence of objects and human life—how human interaction with materials alters their shape\, color\, and function\, and in turn\, how these changes affect us.Website: https://kairitokoro.com/worksInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kairitokoro/ \n\n\n\n\nLaura Higgins\nLaura Higgins is a sculptor and visual artist who documents an ongoing process-led inquiry into connecting material with meaning. Often interested in fabrication processes\, ways of bespoke making and the sites that facilitate making\, the findings around new processes are employed and reimagined to evoke contemplation around hidden sites and personal memories. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lhiggins1616/ \n\n\n\n\nBeatriz Mayorga\nAt its core\, Bea Mayorga’s art practice investigates the concept of the replica\, exploring how copying can both transmit knowledge and act as a tool of cultural control by focussing on materials that are dismissed as “fake”\, such as imitation marble\, artificial tears and false gold. \n\n\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/beaamayorga/ \n\n\n\n\nElena Garcia-Sirvent\nElena Garcia-Sirvent is a sound and video artist based in London. Her practice explores the intersection of sound\, materiality\, and perception. Focusing on how sound can interrupt\, penetrate\, and reshape both physical and psychological environments. Inspired by ‘Foley’\, She references the reproduction of everyday sounds\, how sounds can be reimagined\, reproduced and displaced. \n\n\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/elegarciasirv/ \n\n\n\n\nIsabel Jones\nIsabel Jones’ work converges painting and sculpture. Exploring personal and communal cyclical mourning rhythms. Integrating personified objects with the found and handmade. Archiving care\, love\, and death. \n\n\n\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/izzygj0nes/ \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London. \n\n\n\nPoster design: Isabel Jones and Suzanne Elven
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/doublewalker-set-vauxhall-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition,Opening Night,Performance
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SUMMARY:Everything Must Go - Closing Exhibition at SET Byward Street
DESCRIPTION:SET Byward Street presents Everything Must Go\, a week-long group exhibition\, artist sale\, and durational performance by Associate members Leily Moghtader Mojdehi\, Kasturi Kiritharan\, Poppy Driver\, and Abi Palmer. \n\n\n\nSince 2022\, wedged between souvenir shops and office towers\, SET Byward Street has operated as both an artist studio and an undercover gift shop. To passers-by\, Tower Hill Trinkets was a mysterious shop window offering a tongue-in-cheek look at what artists “do all day.” To its residents\, it’s been a studio\, an exhibition space\, and a collaborative home for emerging artists to grow and unfold. \n\n\n\nEverything Must Go is a final wake for SET Byward Street\, which closes its doors in April 2026. As the artists empty their shelves\, we invite the public to witness the dissolution of the studio and take a piece of its history with them. \n\n\n\nAbout the programme\n\n\n\nEverything Must Go reflects on the experience of making art in a city defined by constant movement and disappearance. It is an exhibition that doubles as a closing-down sale\, where the boundaries between “art” and “stock” are intentionally blurred. Visitors can browse a curated selection of new works\, artist-made merchandise\, and studio ephemera\, all available for purchase as the space is cleared. \n\n\n\nAt the heart of the exhibition is the final chapter of Crip Casino. Originally created by Abi Palmer between 2018 and 2022\, the Casino was an interactive gambling arcade that used hacked fruit machines to explore the “luck” of the healthcare system. Instead of money\, the machines produced absurd medical diagnoses and bureaucratic fragments of difficult conversations disabled people are forced to have with doctors and carers. Following the death of collaborator Jackie Hagan in 2024\, the arcade became a site of grief. \n\n\n\nIn a performance titled Death of a Casino\, the machines will be systematically dismantled and their components dispersed. This act of destruction is not just a logistical necessity of the move\, but a reflection on the loss of disabled spaces\, artworks\, and communities. As the studio is vacated\, the work itself ceases to exist in its functional form\, leaving only its fragments behind. \n\n\n\nProgramme schedule\n\n\n\nWhile the exhibition\, talks and performances are free and open to all\, weekday viewings and appointments can be booked via studiobyward@gmail.com. Weekend hours are 12-6pm. \n\n\n\nPublic Opening EventTuesday 24 March\, 6-9pm \n\n\n\nA celebratory opening featuring ice cream\, stick-on tattoos\, artist-made postcards\, and drinks. This is the final opportunity to experience the Crip Casino in its “living\,” functional state before the dismantling begins. \n\n\n\nExhibition: ‘Everything Must Go’Wednesday 25 – Sunday 29 March (Weekdays by appointment; Saturday & Sunday 12pm–6pm)A final showcase and “closing down sale” of the Byward Street studio. The public is invited to browse and buy new works\, artist-made merchandise\, and studio ephemera by the four resident associate members.Performance: ‘Death of a Casino’Wednesday 25 – Sunday 29 March (Weekdays by appointment; Saturday & Sunday 12pm–6pm) \n\n\n\nA five-day performance by Abi Palmer and friends. Over the course of the week\, the Crip Casino arcade will be physically dismantled. Visitors are invited to witness this process and take home a piece of the working casino as it is broken apart and dispersed. \n\n\n\nTalk: ‘An Oral History of Crip Casino’Sunday 29 March\, 2pm \n\n\n\nArtist Abi Palmer in conversation with Jay Dalton and Nick Murray. The discussion explores collaboration\, the legacy of performer Jackie Hagan\, and what it means when disabled-led artworks disappear due to lack of space. \n\n\n\nTalk: ‘Everything Has Gone’Sunday 29 March\, 4pmA “house-cooling” conversation between the resident artists. As the final items are cleared\, the group will reflect on the two-year history of the Byward Street studio and what happens next for their practices.Both talks are free to attend. No booking required. \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nLeily Moghtader Mojdehi\nWebsite: leily-mojdehi.comInstagram: @mojjyart \n\n\n\nLeily Moghtader Mojdehi is a London-based artist and a BA Fine Art graduate from Goldsmiths\, University of London (2021). Her practice intertwines painting\, textiles\, and sculpture to create mixed-media works that function as “woven diaries.” By drawing inspiration from ancient traditions\, digital algorithms\, and personal narratives\, Mojdehi explores the boundary between the real and the representational. Her densely layered collage compositions serve as embellished stories of unplaceable experiences. \n\n\n\nShe exhibited at galleries and museums internationally\, including Quench (Margate)\, South London Gallery (London)\, Ferens Art Gallery (Hull)\, Saatchi Gallery (London)\, Zhan Art I Space (Selangor\, Malaysia) and SET 91 (London). She was selected for the 2022 Bloomberg New Contemporaries\, shortlisted for the Ingram Prize (2023)\, and awarded the City of London x Outset Studiomakers Prize (2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbi Palmer\nWebsite: abipalmer.comInstagram: @abipalmer_bot \n\n\n\nAbi Palmer is an artist and writer whose work explores “sick bodies\,” viscous textures\, and ecological landscapes through film\, text\, sculpture\, and sensory intervention. Her notable solo projects include the mixed-media exhibition Slime Mother (Chapter\, Cardiff; Site\, Sheffield)\, the film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel)\, and the interactive gambling arcade Crip Casino (Tate Modern\, Somerset House\, Wellcome Collection). She is the author of Slugs: A Manifesto and Sanatorium. \n\n\n\nPalmer’s group exhibitions include Channelling for the Frieze Corridor Commission (2023) and Crip Arte Spazio at the Venice Biennale (2024). She is a Bloomberg New Contemporary Artist (2023) and has been recognised with the Henry Moore Foundation’s ‘Award for Sculptors’ (2025) and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s ‘Award for Artists’ (2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKasturi Kiritharan\nInstagram: @shoesatthe_door \n\n\n\nKasturi Kiritharan (b. 1998\, London) explores the blurring of the real and the imagined\, investigating how the act of recollection can tip memory into fiction. Using a process-led approach\, she employs thin washes of oil paint\, surface scratching\, sanding\, and staining to mimic the fluidity of memory. This speculative method allows everyday images recorded in her sketchbook or camera roll—from moths and horses to brick structures and rocky beaches—to re-emerge through the material possibilities of paint and surface. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPoppy Driver\nInstagram: @poppaea.driver \n\n\n\nPoppy Driver (b. 2000) is a Trinidadian-British artist. Drawing from childhood nostalgia\, her work tells cautionary tales of womanhood. The dynamics in her work vary\, ranging from romantic to platonic to moments of self-discovery. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nWhen: 24-29 March Address: SET Studio\, 7 Byward Street\, London\, EC3R 5ASAccess: Level access and a large\, wide-entry toilet (no handrails). Sunday talks will not be mic’d or captioned live; captioned recordings will be shared online afterward \n\n\n\nEnquiries: studiobyward@gmail.com
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/everything-must-go-closing-exhibition-at-set-byward-street/2026-03-29/
LOCATION:SET Tower Gateway\, 7 Byward Street\, EC3 R5AS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition,Market,Performance,Workshops and Talks
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SUMMARY:Brown Burton’s Suit - a retrospective of works by Harry Bix
DESCRIPTION:Harry Bix turns 40 this year\, and you’re all invited to celebrate.  \n\n\n\nBrown Burton’s Suit is a retrospective of works by the artist\, taking place on Wednesday 25 March in the Sky Suite on the 17th floor of SET Vauxhall. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition also comes as Harry reaches ten years of having a studio at SET\, and will be the inaugural exhibition at SET Vauxhall since the building opened last October. SET Co-Founder Roland Fisher-Vousden will also give an introductory speech on the night. \n\n\n\nIf you can’t make the opening\, the exhibition will open again on Saturday 28 March. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nPublic opening event: Wednesday 25 March\, 6-10pmOpen day: Saturday 28 March\, 11am-6pmLocation: SET Vauxhall – Sky Suite (17th floor)\, Camelford House\, Vauxhall\, London\, \, SE1 7TPAdmission: FreeAccess information: Take the lift to the 15th floor\, turn left through the double doors\, walk down the corridor and go up two flights of stairs. \n\n\n\nBook free ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the artist\n\n\n\nHarry Bix is an artist and lecturer in fine art and design\, whose work has been shown at major UK galleries including Tate Modern\, South London Gallery\, ICA\, J Gallery Shanghai\, Cubitt Invites\, Camden Arts Centre\, Southwark Park Galleries\, City Gallery Glasgow\, Stanley Picker Gallery and The Horse Hospital. \n\n\n\nAlongside his studio practice\, he runs East Anglia Records\, which began as a party night showing friends’ work and releasing compilation albums. His work often explores the role of the MC as a community ambassador. \n\n\n\nHe recently completed a residency at High House in Norfolk\, where he was making filming devices from hazel sticks. Bix is also part of the performance act ‘<3 (Less Than 3)’\, who will perform in April at Cafe OTO and Counterflows Festival in Glasgow.In 2024 he received a DYCP grant from Arts Council England\, which took him to Vienna to work with Austrian art collective Gelitin\, helping them build a public fountain.Instagram: @eastangliarecords
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/brown-burtons-suit-a-retrospective-of-work-by-harry-bix/2026-03-28/
LOCATION:SET Vauxhall\, Camelford House\, Albert Embankment\, London\, SE1 7TP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:No You’re Not\, Yes I Am: A Portrait of Autistic Women - SET Lewisham Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:No You’re Not\, Yes I Am is a photography project by documentary photographer Rosie Barnes.Developed over six years between 2018 and 2024\, the exhibition brings together portraits and extended interviews from women across diverse communities\, many of whom describe themselves as ‘high-masking’ autistic women who were diagnosed later in life.  \n\n\n\nEach portrait is shown alongside the participant’s own words\, reflecting on diagnosis\, identity and everyday life. Their stories reflect the long path many women take before receiving a diagnosis\, and the ways autistic women and girls can often be misunderstood or overlooked. \n\n\n\nTogether\, the works offer insight into the inequalities\, misunderstandings and barriers they face\, while calling for greater understanding of neurodiversity. \n\n\n\nAlongside the exhibition\, a panel discussion on Thursday 26 March will bring together contributors and specialists to explore the themes raised by the project and discuss how society can better support autistic women and girls. \n\n\n\nResidents\, families and community groups are invited to visit the exhibition and engage with the stories on display. \n\n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\n\nPublic opening event: Monday 23 March\, 6-8pmExhibition run dates: Open daily between 24-28 March\, 2-6pmPanel discussion: Thursday 26 March\, 6-8pmLocation: Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, Lewisham\, London\, SE13 7RZAdmission: Free; no booking required for exhibition. If you’d like to attend the panel discussion\, please RSVP at outreach.admin@drumbeat.lewisham.sch.ukAccessibility visits can be arranged through Drumbeat Outreach:S.Gannon@drumbeat.lewisham.sch.uk \n\n\n\nAbout the artist\n\n\n\nRosie Barnes is a fine art documentary photographer whose work explores the human condition\, neurodiversity and our relationship with the non-human world. \n\n\n\nOver a thirty-year career she has developed long-form photographic projects that challenge assumptions\, expand public understanding and give visibility to overlooked subjects. Her work has appeared in The Guardian Weekend\, the Financial Times and projects with the Wellcome Collection. \n\n\n\nShe is widely recognised for her work exploring autism. Her book Understanding Stanley was widely reviewed and exhibited across Europe\, while the portrait series No You’re Not\, Yes I Am was funded by the Wellcome Collection\, with two portraits selected for the Taylor Wessing National Portrait Prize. \n\n\n\nBarnes lives in London and her practice is informed by her own experience of neurodivergence. \n\n\n\nPartners and support\n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented with support from Drumbeat Outreach and marks the beginning of Autism Awareness Month in Lewisham. \n\n\n\nIt is supported by Lewisham Council Public Health as part of the Lewisham All Age Autism Strategy\, and contributes to the Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools (PINS) programme.
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/no-youre-not-yes-i-am-a-portrait-of-autistic-women-set-lewisham-exhibition-rosie-barnes/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:community,Exhibition,Workshops and Talks
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SUMMARY:Continuing in Skin - Exhibition at SET Stage Gallery
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nPresented 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. \n\n\n\nThrough 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. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nOpening night: Friday 20 February\, 7-10pmExhibition run: 20-22 February\, 2-9pmLocation: SET Stage Gallery at SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, Peckham\, SE15 4NPVisiting information: Free + optional £5 donation. To help manage capacity\, booking is required. \n\n\n\nBook tickets\n\n\n\nAbout SET Stage Gallery \n\n\n\nLaunched 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. \n\n\n\nArtist: Téa-Anya Earle (@a____9.o)Curator: Ayiesha Sankoh (@thereturnofshe) \n\n\n\nContact\n\n\n\nFor questions\, please email setstagegallery@gmail.com
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/continuing-in-skin-exhibition-at-set-stage-gallery/
LOCATION:SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, London\, SE15 4NP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Social
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260221T230000
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SUMMARY:Monique Neglige
DESCRIPTION:SET 91 presents Monique Négligée\, an immersive residency and durational bedroom installation by French designer and artist Monique Fei\, opening across Valentine’s Day weekend\, just ahead of London Fashion Week.   \n\n\n\nTransforming the gallery into a lived-in bedroom\, Fei unveils a new wardrobe of sleepwear and lingerie\, alongside selected archival pieces. Across the week\, the space is activated through live performance\, workshops\, film nights\, boutique encounters\, and live documentation\, inviting visitors to move between exhibition\, ritual\, and intimate participation.  \n\n\n\nWorking at the intersection of craft\, couture\, fashion\, and performance\, Monique Fei merges crochet\, knitwear\, and latex into meticulously handcrafted wearable sculptures that challenge conventions of form\, material\, and identity. A graduate of Central Saint Martins\, Fei has staged performance-based runway presentations during Paris Fashion Week and has collaborated with artists and performers including FKA twigs\, Chappell Roan\, Arca\, Caroline Polachek\, Jennie\, Oklou and Lily McMenamy.  \n\n\n\nMonique Négligée is SET 91’s sixth and final show within its first six-month curated programme.  \n\n\n\nFor full programme and line up\, please see the main exhibition page below. \n\n\n\nLearn more\n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\nDates: 14-21 February  Public opening weekend: Valentine’s Day\, Saturday 14 – Sunday 15 February  Public closing party: Friday 20 FebruaryAdmission: Free (some workshops are ticketed via Eventbrite)
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/monique-neglige/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Dance,DJs,Exhibition,Music,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260211T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260228T180000
DTSTAMP:20260129T122845Z
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SUMMARY:Spores - SET Lewisham Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Image: Autumn\, Ben Raz (2025)\, oil on canvas\, 30 x 40 cm. Part of the exhibition\, ‘Spores’. Courtesy of the artist.Image: Leprous\, Ben Raz (2025)\, oil on canvas\, 100 x 150 cm. Part of the exhibition\, ‘Spores’. Courtesy of the artist.Image: Fisherman\, Ben Raz (2025)\, oil on velvet\, 73 x 103 cm. Part of the exhibition\, ‘Spores’. Courtesy of the artist.Image: Battersea Park\, Ben Raz (2025)\, oil on canvas\, 57 x 110cm. Part of the exhibition\, ‘Spores’. Courtesy of the artist.Images: Leprous\, Ben Raz (2025)\, oil on canvas\, 100 x 150cm. Part of the ‘Spores’ exhibition. Courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nSpores brings together a body of work exploring natural processes\, cycles\, and the shifting dynamics of meaning\, function\, and language. Across a series of landscape paintings\, nature emerges not as a passive backdrop but as an active\, adaptive presence. Paths\, clearings\, and subtle traces of occupation appear throughout\, yet growth\, erosion\, and seasonal rhythms continuously reshape what remains. These landscapes become sites of quiet tension\, where imposed order and organic change intersect\, dissolve\, and transform over time. \n\n\n\nAt the centre of the exhibition stands a raised root cellar structure\, functioning as both artefact and monument. Traditionally designed to preserve food under controlled subterranean conditions\, the structure is removed from its original context\, repositioned within the gallery\, and wrapped in archived exhibition texts. \n\n\n\nBuilt using only a single cross-sectional diagram as reference\, the cellar is deliberately misinterpreted\, exposing an interior logic intended to explain function while remaining unusable in practice. Nearby\, lanterns removed from their holders and rendered redundant by the gallery’s light operate as imperfect repetitions of a familiar form\, suggesting an absent action. The work foregrounds systems of preservation—temporal\, architectural\, and cultural—and the instability that arises when these systems are displaced from their intended purpose. \n\n\n\nTogether\, the works reflect on transience\, obsolescence\, and endurance. In Spores\, nature preserves itself through decay and renewal\, revealing transformation through instability. Figures in many of the landscapes are partially absorbed by darkness\, while the lanterns lie abandoned\, their utility uncertain. Through these shifts between visibility and concealment\, function and failure\, the exhibition highlights the gradual erosion of authority in both structures and ideas. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nDates: 11-28 FebruaryOpening: 11 February\, 6-9pmLocation: Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, Loampit Vale\, London SE13 7RZAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will be viewable by appointment only except for the opening. \n\n\n\nContact:benraz95@gmail.comtarzankingofthejungle123@gmail.com \n\n\n\nContributing artists\n\n\n\nTarzan Kingofthejungle\nWebsite: tarzankingofthejungle.comInstagram: @tarzan_kingofthejungle \n\n\n\nBased in London\, Tarzan Kingofthejungle (b. 1998) works works across film\, sculpture\, performance\, and writing. His practice involves constructing scenes from borrowed elements—props\, lines\, symbols\, or characters—isolated and stripped of their original contexts\, such as a discarded lantern\, a lens flare\, or a soundtrack. Through dismantling\, manipulating\, and rearranging these fragments\, he explores how meaning shifts and emerges through narrative potential and residue. \n\n\n\nRecent exhibitions include Metropolis (curated by Jacob Sirkin)\, Greatorex St\, London; Alpine XP\, Plicnik Space Initiative; Reset Atelier\, Brussels; Planned Obsolescence\, Seager Gallery\, London; Log 2: NovoStruct Hard Hat Area\, Plicnik Space Initiative; Half Truths (curated by Vanessa Murrell)\, London; OTO (Lux Moving Image\, RCA)\, Fold\, London. \n\n\n\n\nBen Raz\nWebsite: www.benraz.orgInstagram: @benr.az \n\n\n\nBen Raz (b. 1995) lives and works in London. He graduated from the Slade School of Art in 2021. Raz’s paintings synthesise varied interests\, experiences\, observations\, and imaginings\, engaging themes of desire\, the clandestine\, the sublime\, and modern decadence. These ideas are reinforced through the coalescence of disparate images and information.  \n\n\n\nMany of the paintings are characterised by ambiguity and a lack of clarity; Raz is interested in how an image can simultaneously reveal and withhold meaning. \n\n\n\nRecent exhibitions include presentations at Bolding Gallery\, Pusher Gallery\, Xxijra Hii\, and Hew Hood Gallery. \n\n\n\n\nAbout SET’s Associate Members Programme\n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme\, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions\, workshops\, and events. \n\n\n\nThe programme supports a wide range of practices\, from performance and installation to music\, sound\, print\, and textiles\, and is designed to provide space\, visibility\, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/spores-set-lewisham-exhibition/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260117T210000
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SUMMARY:The Black British School of Joy - Exhibition at SET Stage Gallery
DESCRIPTION:The Black British School of Joy is the first exhibition of the new year at SET Stage Gallery\, curated by new director Ayiesha Sankoh and presented by artist Tia Tshabola. \n\n\n\nStaged as a classroom set within a garden-like environment\, this immersive exhibition brings together moving image\, CRT televisions\, sound\, and spatial installation. The work explores how joy operates within Black British youth culture as a source of resilience\, informal learning\, and collective imagination. Drawing on music\, friendship\, memory\, and community\, the exhibition positions joy as both a personal and political force. \n\n\n\nSet within the social space of SET Social in Peckham\, the exhibition invites audiences to gather\, reflect\, and experience the work within an active\, lived-in environment. Visitors are encouraged to spend time with the installation\, encountering joy as a shared practice shaped through everyday life. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nOpening night: Friday 16 January\, 7-10pmExhibition open: Saturday 17 January\, 2-9pm \n\n\n\nLocation: SET Stage Gallery at SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, Peckham\, SE15 4NP \n\n\n\nVisiting information \n\n\n\n\nFree entry\n\n\n\nDrop-in\, no booking required\n\n\n\n\nAbout SET Stage Gallery \n\n\n\nLaunched 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. \n\n\n\nArtist: Tia Tshabola (@souljas) Curator: Ayiesha Sankoh (@thereturnofshe)  \n\n\n\nContact\n\n\n\nFor questions\, please email setstagegallery@gmail.com
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/the-black-british-school-of-joy-new-exhibition-at-set-stage-gallery/2026-01-17/
LOCATION:SET Social\, 55a Nigel Road\, London\, SE15 4NP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260201T210000
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SUMMARY:The World Shakes Out Her Sheets - SET 91 Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:The World Shakes Out Her Sheets is SET 91’s fifth and penultimate exhibition within its six-month curated programme. Curated by Isobel Harper\, the exhibition brings works by Nicola Organ\, Rhian Harris-Mussi\, Kes Wilkie\, and Freddie Wise\, presented in dialogue with a commissioned text by artist and writer Sophie Wright. \n\n\n\nBringing together practices that reflect on landscape\, environment and speculative forms of world-building\, the exhibition explores how image\, text and material intersect. Seen through panes of engraved glass etched with fragments of Wright’s text in Harper’s distinctive letterform\, the works shift with light and shadow\, inviting viewers to move between looking and reading. \n\n\n\nAbout the exhibition\n\n\n\nThe World Shakes Out Her Sheets brings together works by four artists whose practices are united by processes of uncanny world-building. Across the exhibition\, there is a shared sense of play with space\, perspective and scale\, unsettling familiar worlds and translating them into disquieting visual languages. Human systems\, structures and machinery appear alongside strange natural phenomena\, suggesting environments that hover somewhere between science fiction and the otherworldly.  \n\n\n\nAt the centre of the exhibition is Wright’s commissioned text\, written in response to a conversation that reflected on the shared sensibility running through the four practices. Rather than offering explanation\, Wright’s text functions as a kind of poetic distillation\, drawing out the common threads of estrangement\, curiosity\, and speculative possibility. Etched into the glass that frames each work\, the text becomes a material presence that subtly reconfigures perception through light and shadow.  \n\n\n\nText\, glass and image form a layered encounter in which meaning is continually deferred and reshaped. The exhibition proposes the engraved glass as a conscious lens – one that mediates the relationship between viewer and artwork\, while inviting an attentive navigation of these strange and mystical worlds. In doing so\, The World Shakes Out Her Sheets proposes a way of looking that is open to uncertainty\, and to the possibility that these works may be addressed not only to human viewers\, but to something beyond us.  \n\n\n\nDetails\n\n\n\nPublic opening event: Friday 16 January\, 6-9pm Dates: 17 January – 1 February Gallery hours: Thursday – Sunday\, 1-6pm Location: 91 Tabernacle Street\, Old Street\, London\, EC2A 4JNAdmission: Free \n\n\n\nPoster design: Callum Bridge (@ellery3000)
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/the-world-shakes-out-her-sheets/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,writing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251212T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260104T180000
DTSTAMP:20251216T181001Z
CREATED:20251216T134923Z
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SUMMARY:Illuminations – SET 91
DESCRIPTION:Illuminations returns to SET 91 with a new display of artist-made lights\, visible both from within the gallery and from the street. The exhibition raises funds for The Sameer Project\, a Palestinian-led initiative providing urgent support to displaced families in Gaza. \n\n\n\nNow in its second iteration following its debut at SET Lewisham in 2024\, Illuminations brings together 33 artists whose light-based works celebrate the Winter Solstice and stand in solidarity with Palestine. \n\n\n\nAt its core is a simple idea: offering light\, and a sense of shared hope\, during the darkest time of the year. \n\n\n\nArtists include: Gillies Adamson Semple\, Eleanor Arnold\, Joseph Barrett\, Leo Benavides  \, Jack Bodimeade\, Rob Branigan\, Hazel Brill\, Lily Bunney\, Peter Carrick\, Joe Davies\, Alex Du Preez\, Maddie Banwell\, Archie Fooks-Smith\, Daniel Gatenio\, Alia Hamaoui\, Willa Hilditch Milo Kester\, Aimée Lyon\, Tawfik Naas\, Gonçalo Neto\, Sam Nicholson\, Oliver Offord\, Eleni Papazoglou\, Ralph Parks\, Sally Plowman\, Anouska Samms\, Nic Sanderson\, Chloe Solomon\, Kirico Ueda\, Tabitha Weddell\, Olivia Wiles\, Yolanda Mitchell\, and Francisco Zhan.   \n\n\n\nSeveral of the artworks on display are also available for sale. To enquire\, please contact rhianhmussi@gmail.com for details. \n\n\n\nFollow the project on Instagram: @illuminations_exhibition \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nDates: 13 December – 4 JanuaryPublic opening event: Friday 12 December\, 6-9pm Light show hours: 4.30-9pm Gallery hours for public: 13-14 December and 21-22 December\, 2-6pm Admission: Free  \n\n\n\nLearn more\n\n\n\nPoster design: Callum Bridge
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/illuminations-exhibition-at-set-91/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,community,Exhibition,Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251204T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251219T210000
DTSTAMP:20251215T142730Z
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SUMMARY:A Coral Reef - Exhibition at SET Lewisham
DESCRIPTION:SET is delighted to present A Coral Reef\, a new exhibition\, opening at SET Lewisham on 4 December\, 6-9pm.Bringing together new drawings\, paintings\, and sculptural works by artists and SET Associate Members Aidan Quinn and Hallam Wood\, the exhibition explores fragility\, connection\, and the unstable systems that bind living things together.Quinn (@maggot.kingdom) makes drawings and sculptures that reflect on the strangeness of living in a collapsing\, disorienting world. His works begin with fragments—archival images\, scraps of text\, or simple patterns—which are redrawn\, layered\, and tiled until their origins blur and new connections emerge. \n\n\n\nWood (@hallamtwood) works between painting\, drawing\, and occasional sculpture\, guided by the belief that all matter is connected. From this open-ended premise\, he aims to realign the pedestrian elements of life. His recent paintings use looping lines to form links between objects and organisms. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nPrivate view: Thursday 4 December\, 6–9pmExhibition dates: 5-7 December\, 12–5pmAdditional viewings: 8-19 DecemberVenue: SET Lewisham\, Lewisham Retail Park\, SE13 7RZAdmission: Free entry\, by appointment
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/a-coral-reef-exhibition-at-set-lewisham/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251114T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251207T210000
DTSTAMP:20251110T182833Z
CREATED:20251110T182341Z
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SUMMARY:Under Archives - Exhibition at SET 91
DESCRIPTION:SET 91 presents Under Archive\, our third exhibition in our six-month programme\, in dialogue with the 2025 SET Film Festival\, taking place at SET Social in Peckham\, from 6 November-4 December. Please join us for the public opening on Friday 14 November\, 6-9pm.Co-curated by Ellie Dobbs and Verity Monroe\, Under Archives brings together seven international research-based artists and the Sri Lankan Archive Collective\, exploring the personal and collective dimensions of archiving. The exhibition highlights practices that expose and resist decades of inequities\, neglect\, and erasure in the process of archiving and remembering\, questioning whose narratives are protected and whose are obscured.  \n\n\n\nArtists include Leily Moghtader Mojdehi\, Halina Edwards\, Harmeet Singh Rahal\, Veronica Bello\, Mya Cavner\, Francesca Telling\, Toulip Wonder\, and the Sri Lankan Archive Collective.  \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nPrivate view: Friday 14 November\, 6–9pmExhibition dates: 15 November-7 DecemberGallery times: Thursday–Sunday\, 1–6pmLocation: 91 Tabernacle Street\, Old Street\, London\, EC2A 4JNTickets: Free entry. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is realised with support from the Exhibitions Hub\, Department of Art\, Goldsmiths College. \n\n\n\nPoster design: Callum Bridge \n\n\n\nLearn more
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/under-archives-exhibition-set-91-gallery/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T120000
DTSTAMP:20251125T125912Z
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SUMMARY:The Upper Matrix of Human Error - Exhibition at SET Lewisham
DESCRIPTION:The Upper Matrix of Human Error opens at SET Lewisham on 13 November\, 6-9pm. \n\n\n\nBringing together new works by Associate Members\, Peter McNelis and Charlie Fogg\, the exhibition explores communication\, paranoia\, and power within the structures that shape digital and social life. \n\n\n\nFogg’s films dissect the mechanics of speech and narrative in digital spaces\, manipulating both filmic and verbal language to expose how meaning slips even as it’s being constructed. His fragmented scripts and narrators—whether real or artificial—highlight the instability of communication\, particularly when filtered through systems designed to distort and replicate. \n\n\n\nMcNelis’ film\, drawing\, textual\, and sculptural works are structured around performances of legal and social contracts\, and the fictions that underpin them. \n\n\n\nTogether\, their works critique the technologies and networks of power that govern contemporary visual culture. Rather than dismissing those caught within conspiratorial or paranoid thinking\, they explore how such ideologies emerge from systems of alienation and control. \n\n\n\nParanoia becomes a defining condition of both production and spectatorship\, and yet\, within the texts and images they sample\, the artists uncover traces of humanity; in the awkward politeness of British speech\, the familiar banality of work and consumption\, and in moments of humour. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nPrivate view: 13 November\, 6–9pmExhibition dates: 13-25 NovemberTimes: Wednesday-Friday\, 4.30–8pm; Saturday-Sunday\, 12-6pmLocation: SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, Loampit Vale\, London SE13 7RZTickets: Free entry. No need for appointments. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is realised with support from the Exhibitions Hub\, Department of Art\, Goldsmiths College. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists Peter McNelis @l15.pmcne Peter McNelis (b. Newcastle Upon Tyne\, 2000) makes work concerned with internal structures of ideology and nationhood\, and the naive actors who perform and make them external. He received a BA in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths in 2023.Charlie Fogg @charlienewfbfogg Charlie Fogg (b. Newcastle Upon Tyne\, 2000) works primarily with digital moving- image. His works interrogate narrative forms\, exploring themes of the post-internet condition and its effect on everyday life. He received a BA in Fine Art from Manchester School of Art. 
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/the-upper-matrix-of-human-error-exhibition-at-set-lewisham/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Art,Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251016T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251108T180000
DTSTAMP:20251105T183607Z
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SUMMARY:Altogether Without - Group Exhibition at SET Lewisham
DESCRIPTION:Altogether Without opens at SET Lewisham on 16 October 6-9pm.  \n\n\n\nBringing together photographic works\, projected video and light installations in a darkened space\, Altogether Without stages an encounter with the (in)discernable gap between the still and the moving image. Through a play between darkness and light\, the show seeks to shift and trouble perceptions of duration and the ephemeral. \n\n\n\nExhibition details\n\n\n\nPrivate view: 16 October 6-9pmPublic exhibition dates: 16 October – 8 NovemberTimes: Friday 3-7pm\, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pmLocation: SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, Loampit Vale\, London SE13 7RZTickets: Free entry. No need for appointments. \n\n\n\nArtists include: \n\n\n\nKit Derbyshire  @kitd._Sofia Gil de Biedma  @sofia.gildebiedmaJack Jeffreys @jack.zevSylvain LarrièreEric MargolisDaniela María & Kit Rimmer @daniela9maria  @kitrimmerJunko Theresa MikuriyaOttilie Winfield Wilenski @ot_rt_ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Event – short film screening\n\n\n\nThe exhibition will conclude with a special screening of 16mm short films\, co-curated with Cici Peng. The programme is centred on the work of filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa\, who passed away in April of this year\, celebrating his playful experiments with 16mm film. \n\n\n\nThe screening includes Nishikawa’s Tokyo Ebisu/Shibuya duology\, featuring in-camera visual effects capturing Tokyo’s busiest metro line\, alongside Sound of a Million Insects\, Light of a Thousand Stars\, in which Nishikawa buried a 100ft roll of Tungsten film beneath fallen leaves near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from sunset until sunrise. Through this methodical approach\, chance emerges within his structured cityscapes as traces of light\, commuters\, and cars appear as unexpected surprises. \n\n\n\nAlso included is Vincent Grenier’s Time’s Wake (Once Removed). Grenier\, a colleague of Nishikawa at Binghamton University\, describes his film as “a strange contradiction between liveliness and frozenness.” Using home movie footage and an earlier\, unseen version of his film\, Grenier constructs an “endearing but removed artefact” of personal memory\, highlighting the nature of the image as “altogether outside\, without intimacy\, and yet more accessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being” (Maurice Blanchot). \n\n\n\nA surprise film will also be announced before the screening begins. \n\n\n\nEntry: £5 / Free drinks provided / Contactless or cash payment on the door. \n\n\n\nScreening Programme \n\n\n\n\nSound of a Million Insects\, Light of a Thousand Stars | 2014 | 2 min | Tomonari Nishikawa\n\n\n\nTokyo – Ebisu | 2010 | 5 min | Tomonari Nishikawa\n\n\n\nShibuya – Tokyo | 2010 | 10 min | Tomonari Nishikawa\n\n\n\nTime’s Wake (Once Removed) | 1987 | 12 min | Vincent Grenier\n\n\n\nSurprise film | TBC
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/altogether-without-group-exhibition-at-set-lewisham/
LOCATION:SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, London\, SE13 7RZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T210000
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SUMMARY:Look at this if you love me - Group Exhibition at SET Lewisham
DESCRIPTION:Look at This If You Love Me is a group exhibition curated by Fidelia Schlegl and Lucinda Purkis\, bringing together artists who work with comics\, zines\, and DIY visual storytelling. The show reframes the intimate\, often solitary act of drawing and reading as something that can spark connection\, play\, and community. \n\n\n\nAlongside the exhibition\, visitors can join a week of free artist-led workshops\, explore a community kitchen\, and enjoy live music and theatre. The programme culminates in a vibrant closing event as part of SET Lewisham Open Studios. \n\n\n\nEvent details\n\n\n\n\nDates: 3-9 October 2025\n\n\n\nOpening Hours: Daily\, 2–8pm\n\n\n\nPrivate view: 2 October\, 6–9pm (with food)\n\n\n\nClosing event: 9 October\, 6–9pm (performances and live music)\n\n\n\nLocation: SET Lewisham\, Unit 1\, Lewisham Retail Park\, Loampit Vale\, London SE13 7RZ\n\n\n\nTickets: Free entry to all events and workshops\n\n\n\n\nWorkshops (free to join\, materials provided)\n\n\n\nSaturday 4 October\, 1–4pmQuick-Fire UFO Drawing with Lucinda Purkis and Kate Morris MillarA playful\, collaborative workshop of fast-paced drawing. Explore geometric\, freehand\, and collage exercises\, then combine everyone’s contributions into a large\, collective UFO artwork. \n\n\n\nBook your ticket\n\n\n\nSunday 5 October\, 6–8pmImaginary Poster Making with Nice GmoUnlock your imagination by designing posters for events that don’t exist. Using only pens\, pencils\, and paper\, participants will invent and illustrate new worlds through handmade poster art. \n\n\n\nBook your ticket\n\n\n\nTuesday 7 October\, 5–8pmCollective Story Construction with Fidelia Schlegl and Elisa TerraneraWork together to create a three-dimensional comic through drawing\, painting\, and collaborative storytelling. Expect to experiment with form\, narrative\, and transformation as your stories take on sculptural life. \n\n\n\nBook your ticket\n\n\n\nWednesday 8 October\, 6–8pmStorytelling in One Image with Isaac HeardExplore how selection\, emphasis\, and composition can shape narrative. Learn how to distill complex ideas into a single powerful image that carries an entire story. \n\n\n\nBook your ticket\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtistsAidan Ramsdale Quinn\, Alex Treskman\, Anaïs Sière\, Eduarda Craveiro\, Fidelia Schlegl\, Gabrielle Bejani\, Hallam Wood\, Isaac Heard\, Jack Trewin\, Janne Dauer\, Joe Kessler\, Jordan Taylor\, Kate Morris Millar\, Louka Butzbach\, Lucia Coppola\, Lucinda Purkis\, Nima Shafiani\, Rebekka Homann\, Saul Smith\, Tommy Brentnall\, Toni Stakenkötter\, and Wai Wai Pang. \n\n\n\nFor updates\, follow @lookatthisifyouloveme on Instagram. \n\n\n\nPoster design by Edward Ström\, with drawings by Fidelia Schlegl\, based on works by Kate Morris Millar\, Wai Wai Pang\, Hallam Wood\, Alex Treskman\, Joe Kessler\, and Louka Butzbach.
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/look-at-this-if-you-love-me-group-exhibition-at-set-lewisham/
CATEGORIES:Associate Members' Programme,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250911T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251005T180000
DTSTAMP:20250902T092836Z
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SUMMARY:Scaffolds – inaugural exhibition at SET 91
DESCRIPTION:SET 91 opens its doors this September with Scaffolds\, curated by Ellie Dobbs (Curator\, SET) and Verity Monroe (Assistant Curator\, SET). The exhibition brings together UK-based and international early-career artists exploring how rules\, structures and self-imposed frameworks shape image-making today. \n\n\n\nPublic opening eventThursday 11 September\, 6–9pmFree and open to all \n\n\n\nExhibition dates12 September – 5 October 2025 \n\n\n\nLocationSET 9191 Tabernacle StreetOld StreetLondon EC2A 4JN \n\n\n\nFeaturing works by Albie Richardson\, Archie Fooks-Smith\, Jessie Evans\, Lucinda Purkis\, May Darbyshire\, Kevin Jerome Everson\, Natasja Mabesoone\, Oliver Offord\, Sam Marshall Lockyer\, Chloe Soloman\, Sofie Vandevoorde\, and Tawfik Naas\, the exhibition highlights the inventiveness of early-career artists navigating contemporary practice today. \n\n\n\nScaffolds also marks the beginning of a six-month programme of curated exhibitions\, performances\, and cross-disciplinary projects at SET 91. \n\n\n\nLearn more
URL:https://setspace.uk/event/scaffolds-inaugural-exhibition-at-set-91/
LOCATION:SET 91\, 91 Tabernacle Street\, London\, EC2A 4JN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,SET Projects
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