CAP'CHA
2024-07-18 00:00 - 2024-08-04 23:59 (Europe/London) | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
CAP’CHA: ᶜᵒᵐᵖˡᵉᵗᵉˡʸ ᴬᵘᵗᵒᵐᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᴾᵘᵇˡⁱᶜ ᵀᵉˢᵗⁱⁿᵍ ᶜᵃⁿⁿᵒᵗ ᴴᵃᵛᵉ ᵁˢ ᴬᵖᵃʳᵗ is a multimedia group exhibition curated by 何伊凡 Yifan He, exploring the trust and mistrust we place in technology and the history and networks that support its functionality. It is supported by SET, and generously funded by the National Lottery and Arts Council England.

Featuring works by Axe Binondo, Mac Andre Arboleda & Rollyna Domingo, Mark A. Hernandez Motaghy, Johnny Henson, and Jasmine Zhang 張夢嬌, CAP’CHA intends to create an autonomous space for defining and building technology and trust, thereby fostering possibilities for coexistence and collaborative tool development. The selected works examine surveillance in the wild, diasporic translocal servers and food serving, arbitrary colour accuracy and landscape photography, caring for a newborn AI, abstracting a digital pet, and tasting unconfigured flavours together. These diverse entry points are presented through video, video essays, video games installation, and photographic propositions.

The opening event on 18 July, 2024 (6 PM – 9 PM) includes a participatory food performance by Nitesh Tailor and a panel talk by the research duo Identity 2.0.

📍SET Lewisham Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, Loampit Vale, London SE13 7RZEntrance coordinates: 51°27’52.9”N 0°00’57.6”W

Exhibition opens: 18 July, (6 PM – 9 PM) book here: CAP’CHA PV/Opening Event

Exhibition on view Thursday – Sunday ⏱︎ 11 July – 4 August (1 PM – 7 PM)

Greenhouse
2024-07-26 18:00 - 2024-08-14 21:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
Greenhouse, a group exhibition curated by Ben Raz and Jean Watt, will open on Friday 26th July at SET Woolwich. Responding to the unique characteristics of the Woolwich space, the artworks speak to the interplay between the artificial and nature. Featuring work by Gillies Adamson Semple, Coco Crampton, Oscar Crabb, Kirin Crooks, Tarzan Kingofthejungle, Maya Levy, Natalya Marconini Falconer, Annie Metzger, Lucy Neish, Antonio Parker-Rees, Raphaella Pester, Enzo Randolfi, Ben Raz, Bo Sun and Emily Webb.

PV: Friday 26th July, 6-9pmOpening Times: 27th July – 14 August. By appointment.

Contact @jeanwatt or @benr.az.~ jean@jeanwatt.com or benraz95@gmail.com

Design: @distant_traffic.

Lou Show
2024-09-05 00:00 - 2024-09-21 23:59 | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
Lou ShowAn exhibition with:@plsthanx@louis_appleby@lulu.bennett@louisjudkins@louiseoates@louisscantlebury@louisthompson1Opening nightThursday, 5th September 2024, 6pm-9pmReading by @louisscantlebury at 7.30pmExhibition openFriday 6th, 1-6Saturday 7th, 1-6Sunday 8th, 1-6Wednesday 11th, 1-6Thursday 12th, 6-9Saturday 14th, 1-6Sunday 15th, 1-6Wednesday 18th, 1-6Thursday 19th, 12-3Special film screenings during SET Kensington’s open studios dayThursday, 12th September, 6pm-10pm

SET Lewisham Open Studios
2024-09-05 18:00 - 22:00 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
Join us on Thursday, 5 September, from 6 PM to 10 PM for the first Open Studios event of the year! To kick things off, both of our Lewisham sites will be opening their doors to the public. Come along for free refreshments and an opportunity to visit artists in their studios and chat about their work. The exhibition Sirius – Lewisham Station, a duo show by artists and studio members Ellis Warren and Katie Mess, will also be on display in the Lewisham Retail Park project space. SET Lewisham Retail Park, our larger site, is located in the former Mothercare Centre within Lewisham Retail Park. It is now home to over 50 studio members working across a wide range of practices, from multimedia installations and video production to floristry and participatory performance. Our newest Lewisham site is just a 5-minute walk away on the High Street, above NatWest. This space is home to a close-knit community of 30 artists, many of whom have been with SET since its inception in 2016.

Schedule:

❃ 6pm-8pm – Artist Studios open to the public❃ 6pm-9pm – Free sketchbook making workshop with Pagemasters (Lewisham High Street). Booking required❃ 6pm-10pm – Exhibition on view in the SET Lewisham Retail Park project space ❃ 10pm – Event finishes

This event is free and open to all. Please RSVP via this link if you’re planning on attending.

Lewisham Retail Park Address: Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, Loampit Vale, London SE13 7RZLewisham High Street Address: 80-82 Lewisham High Street, Third Floor, London SE13 5JJ

SET Kensington Open Studios
2024-09-12 18:00 - 22:00 | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
Join us on Thursday, 12 September, from 6 PM to 10 PM for our next Open Studios event at SET Kensington! Come along for free refreshments and an opportunity to visit artists in their studios and chat about their work. A series of curated film screenings as part of the group exhibition Lou Show will be on display in the project space, along with music in the courtyard from @raregroove.artandarchive and Naturalite soundsystem.

Housed in the leafy former campus of Richmond University, SET Kensington is our most centrally located studio and is home to around 75 artists working across a variety of mediums and disciplines.

Schedule:

❃ 6 PM – 8 PM: Artist Studios open to the public❃ 6 PM – 10 PM: Dub, reggae, and rare vinyl from the Naturalite soundsystem crew❃ 6 PM – 10 PM: Exhibition on view in the project space❃ 10 PM: Event finishes

This event is free and open to all. RSVP here.

Address: Asa Briggs Hall, 7-17 Ansdell St, London W8 5BN

HEIST at SET Woolwich
2024-09-28 08:00 - 2024-10-28 17:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
PV: 28th September 6-10pm (during 𝗦𝗘𝗧 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼𝘀)

Open: 29 Sept – 28 Oct by appointment – Contact mp.marta.paula@gmail.com for appointments.

The collective @disrupting_mythologies presents 𝗛𝗲𝗶𝘀𝘁. An exhibition of 18 artists curated by @martapaulamp and @interst3llars.

“Exploring mythologies with a raucous edge, the collective beliefs surrounding verbal and visual narratives persist as motifs that explain humankind’s existential conditions. Yet, a modern awareness has us pestering the boundaries of folklore and iconography, clattering against the veneer of these symbols. This results in a reinterpretation of these meanings, brimming with riotous perceptions and offering a distorted lens on how they have evolved within our contemporary society.”

Peckham Food Bank Fundraiser
2024-10-10 18:00 - 23:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Peckham Food Bank Fundraiser! Come along to the Harvest Fest. Tickets by donation. This night features a run of life acoustic music with visual art installations across SET Social. Organised by the incredible Celeste Madden, come along and support your local foodbank!

[space]_shift
2024-10-10 18:00 - 2024-10-14 18:00 | SET Ealing, 105-113 Broadway, London, W13 9BE, United Kingdom
[space]_shift a body of research by Space Black, which delves into alternative practitioners in the built environment. Through learning about the works of significant emerging architects, artists, set designs, writers and activists, Space Black looks to expose how the profession is evolving to challenge the ideals that have long underserved those from historically marginalised backgrounds.To celebrate the project’s contributors, and showcase their works, an exhibition will be held at SET Ealing from 10/10 to 13/10 with a launch event with practitioners on Thursday 10th October from 6:30pm-9pm.

Follow the link to register for the launch event.

@spaceblack__

Introductions and Break Ups
2024-10-20 10:00 - 2024-10-26 18:00 | SET Ealing, 105-113 Broadway, London, W13 9BE, United Kingdom
Julie Brixey-Williams MRSSMandeep Dillon MRSS20 – 26 October 2024

Introductions and Break Ups is a research-based project in the SET Ealing Space that will take placeover 7 days. Both artists were recipients of residencies on the aa2a Practice Development Scheme2023-2024 at Bucks New University and will be using the time to appraise, unpick and develop theworks.A recurring theme are materials that have degrees of transparency, and whilst responding to thearchitecture the artists will explore their subconscious and conceptual draw to thetransparent. The large windows of SET Space will become the viewing arena for passersby towatch the process unfold.This is a process-led project and there will not be a traditional Private View, a soft opening on thefinal Saturday will be an opportunity to see how the space has changed through the explorationof ideas and interventions.

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time goes by so quietly
2024-10-27 08:00 - 17:00 | SET Kensington, 7-17 Ansdell Street, London, United Kingdom
Anathema presents: “time goes by so quietly”Curated by Sofia Rudi Kent & Andrew KernanAt SET Kensington

Private View: 17th OctoberExhibition runs until 27th October.By appointment only — please contact anathemabuild@gmail.com to schedule a visit.

Textures and tones of silence, where stillness holds meaning and waiting becomes patience.

Anatomy of a Soaring Lion
2024-11-07 00:00 - 2024-11-13 23:59 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
PV: Thursday 7 November, 6-10pmExhibition open: Friday 8 November – Wednesday 13 November, 12pm – 5pm each day.Curated by the artists Gabrielle Bejani @goublou and Lucinda Purkis @kingkingstringball442

“don’t tell me it wasthe wind!” Frank shouts

“THAT TREEWAVEDAT ME!”The Book of Frank [“don’t tell me it was”] by CAConrad

Anatomy of a Soaring Lion is a two-person show by Gabrielle Bejani and Lucinda Purkis, presenting a series of new, multi-disciplinary collages incorporating delicate papers, textiles, procion-dyed and ink-painted fabric, and plant matter. These works serve as windows into both artists’ imaginative worlds.

The latest of Bejani and Purkis’s long-term collaborations, Anatomy of a Soaring Lion explores the spirit of play in their work through a synthesis of folklore, mythology, and memory. Both artists approach making from a place of heightened vulnerability and work to complexify this initial rawness through the multilayered quality of their pieces. They seek to highlight the intricacies of fleeting psychological states, and infuse their works with a palette of rich, vibrant colours and fragmented avatars that translate into landscapes of feeling, forming a generative space for the viewer to explore.

Scritch Scritch Scratch
2024-11-21 00:00 - 2024-12-01 23:59 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
Please note this exhibition is open by appointment.

Scritch Scritch Scratch

Daphne de SonnevilleMarc Fleming feat. HankCarl GentJessa Mockridge

PV with performances: Saturday 23 November, 6–10pmExhibition open: Thursday 21 November – Sunday 1 December, 12–5pm by appointment

Brushing, rubbing, scraping and scratching generate sounds of resistance, of two materials working against, on or with each other, in a repetitive motion. Within the generative constraint of repetition lies queer failure: the goingagainstness of imposed values, function and purpose — even the finitude of time. Stuckness proposes an archive of repeating embodied gestures, hair clings to sculpture, and looping may be a freeing movement.

Scritch Scritch Scratch is a group exhibition organised by three SET members — Daphne de Sonneville, Marc Fleming and Carl Gent — and invited artists Jessa Mockridge and Henry Palmer. Featuring works built on brushing, rubbing, scraping and scratching, the exhibition explores material gestures as resistance in varying ecologies: the SET studio building, an institutional library, a museum collection, a free party/night club, and and and and and and and and and a cow field.

Scratching is indulgent: a moment to let go and surrender to an urge. If you scratch an itchy bite, it gets itchier! Scratching is resistant: a scraping, or marking, maps desire lines against the grain.

Barely even scratching the surface proposes there is more to do. Scratch your name into a toilet cubicle door. Scratching holds asymmetries, but the gunk beneath your fingernails sings of how materials touch you back. A fidget in your pocket is a tool for stimming. A scratch track in music recording is a template, a guide; it provides the beat and tempo, even as it will be erased later. Scratch that. Scratch out. Scratching a record materialises new sonic possibilities. The works explore what happens when rubbing defeats, contaminates, antagonises or reinterprets language, and thereby produces a sound — looping into infinity.

A matted tapestry of cow-fur clings between studded nails on a concrete W; a mass of dull human hair and dust wool winds around a book trolley wheel; a speaker is moulded from sounding sinewy plant matter; lime dirt wool soap Christmas pudding cow shit, caked and cracking on hands and forearms as a dead woman performs opportunistic reputational revenge against her dead lover’s dead enemy — we scratch indelibly at the otherwise pristine plaque.

With support from the Exhibitions Hub, Department of Art, Goldsmiths College.

BOUY'D
2024-11-28 10:00 - 2024-12-07 18:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
BUOY’D – SET LewishamPV: 28th November 6-9pmOpen: 29th Nov-7th Dec – 10-6pm

This two-person exhibition is dedicated to material investigations of systems teetering on the edge of collapse.

Florence’s work explore digital snowballing, mirror worlds, digital twins, half-truths and black swan events. Her work is a frenetically material investigation of apocalypse and the end of the world.

Eleanor has been trying to make a system that feeds itself. Her work deals with a system where a lot of things don’t function properly and are creating images that are wrong. Interested in wet feedback loops, she uses interwoven analogue and digital processes that record themselves as they operate, creating a leaky systemisation that operates through DIY weather monitoring systems.

Lewisham Illuminations
2024-12-13 18:00 - 2024-12-21 21:00 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
Lewisham Illuminations, opening this week at SET Lewisham, curated by Rhian Harris Mussi @rhianharrismussi & Charlie Goodhall @movingface

PV: 13th December 6:30pm-9:00pmOpen daily 6:00-9:00pmClosing Night: 21st December 6:30pm-9:00pm

Raising money for Lewisham Foodbank, please bring donations along to the exhibition.

Poster by Eleni Papazoglou @eleni_papazoglou_ & Rhian Harris Mussi @rhianharrismussi

900931
2025-02-07 00:00 - 2025-02-14 23:59 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
900931Private View: Thursday, February 6 | 6-9 pmExhibition Open: February 7-14 | 12-6 pmWhat happens when human bodies are no longer conditioned to exist in the real world? The 900931 brain device was conceived as an solution to this question – a speculative intervention designed to reintegrate post digital bodies into physical existence. In a time where prolonged immersion in virtual environments erodes mobility, sensory perception, and interpersonal connection, this device proposes a staged return to reality.

Inspired by early interactive devices like Tamagotchi and Digivice, the 900931 requires physical interaction to activate and grow. It doesn’t function alone; it relies on bodily movement, environmental response, and human connection.

The exhibition showcases this process through six handcrafted models, ‘eAves’, fictional entities undergoing rehabilitation to restore their atrophied bodies for real-world function. Through muscle reactivation, sensory recalibration, and environmental interaction, they move from digital sedation to tangible reality.

By exploring speculative design, the 900931 asks if technology can bridge the gap between our bodies and the increasingly disconnected world. Can design restore the value of human presence in a digital age? Visitors are invited to reflect on these questions and witness a speculative future where re-embodiment becomes a radical act of adaptation.

SORB: Hardcore Uproar
2025-04-10 00:00 - 2025-04-27 23:59 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
Opening: Thursday, 10 April6:00 PM – 8:30 PM

Exhibition continues until 27 AprilFriday – Sunday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM

‘The year is 1996, the month is July and a heatwave hits the usual dreary England in full force. John Major’s Criminal Justice and Public Order Act has plummeted young, disenfranchised brits into a new political landscape. A 31 year old, Keith D. Gerald, is preparing to perform at Lewisham’s infamous ‘Manifest’ club. Little did he know he was going to ignite the most defining moment in the history of music’.

‘Hardcore Uproar’ is an exhibition exploring the historical music movement of S.O.R.B (succession of repetitive beats) revolving around one era changing night in 1996. The show includes first person accounts, protest posters and rave flyers that led to The Public Enforcement of Sonic Restriction Act effectively banning music. Looking at the political climate and illegal rave culture from the 90s to modern day, we’ve been given special government permission to play chosen music outside of state mandated times.

Hardcore Uproar invites you to relive a pivotal moment in music history—where rebellion met rhythm and reshaped a generation. With rare permission to break state-enforced silence, this is your chance to experience the soundscape of resistance like never before.

FORESHORE
2025-04-10 12:00 - 2025-04-27 17:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
FORESHORE: SET Woolwich

Opening Night: 10th April 6-10pm

Opening Times: 11th-27th April 12-5pm

FORESHORE is a group exhibition showing a multitude of works which explore personal and collective connections to bodies of water and the central lifeline of our city: the River Thames.

Through expansive mediums, the artists concoct a series of homages to the river, delving into its rich history, materiality and symbolism.

As well as examining the Thames foreshore as a site of social and political significance; the exhibition considers its tributaries as liminal spaces to roam, for reflection and creation – water is explored viscerally through ritual and alchemy.

The breadth of responses invites us to see our city’s river – its tides, banks and surroundings areas – as a space we collectively own, for which we have a duty of care, to protect and honour, and acknowledge those for whom it flowed before and the future mudlarks, wanderers and admirers.

Woolwich is an area saturated with industrial history and ties to the river. FORESHORE will take place overlooking the Thames, a view increasingly shrouded by the continual construction of new developments. Developers have an increasing monopoly on the riverside landscape. We hope this show will celebrate the real depth and breadth of the Thames and it’s history and future as a space for memory, joy, resistance, creation and contemplation. ‘

FORESHORE: Film Screening
2025-04-24 19:00 - 21:30 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
Join the artists at FORESHORE us for a double-bill screening of Jack Thurgar’s The Swamp (2022) and Andrew Finch’s The Love Below (2022) at SET Woolwich as part of FORESHORE‘s exhibition programme. Showing at Riverside House at SET Woolwich overlooking the Thames and Woolwich Dockyard.

The films will be followed by a filmmaker discussion between Jack Thurgar, Andrew Finch and Thomas Chambers (Writer and Curator of Graffiti Review) with audience Q&A.

More info and book free tickets on Eventbrite.

List of artists include:

Katya AlisiaBlu BallAimee BannisterArthur BentleyJohn BentleyOrla CarolinColin FancyAndrew FinchMia GrahamEuan Francis GubbinsMatt HawkinsMorgan van’t HoffGeorge Jackson HorneMax M-KManyu MuStella PearceRobin Finch PickeringPoor MotherBeatriz Santos and Ula MorozFelix ScottJoe TebbuttKirsti TebbuttJack ThurgarEva TitheringtonAnders WallerAshley’s Fitup

Plus I’ve attached the reels we are using for publicity on instagram if you’d like to use them – hope you can access them

Trouble Makers Markets: Saturday Market
2025-04-26 12:00 - 18:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
Trouble Makers Markets present a MAKERS MARKET ⭐️

Hosted Saturday, April 26th from 12-6PM at SET Social, 55 Nigel Road, SE15 4RN.

Poster design by @kit.katdesigns

“An all-day springtime artist market event, celebrating local makers and creatives of all kinds, featuring 40+ stalls selling items from ceramics, jewellery, prints, handmade garments, accessories and MORE !

We’ve got activities running all day with tarot 🔮, pin-badge making 🧷, live portraits ✍️, tooth gems 🦷, make your own patches 🪡, nails 💅, henna ⭐️, screen printing 🖌️, and an extra special drag performance from @missmantis_evil ‼️

+ sweet treats from @faeri.fruits 🍰 and ice cream from @clingy__wrap 🍦

Going to be the best and perfect spring day out 🌷 Bring a friend ! Bring some cash ! and grab the perfect handmade good.”

Keep an eye out for MAKERS WORKSHOP DAY on the 27th April.

Project Stage
2025-05-09 12:00 - 18:00 | SET Woolwich, Riverside House, London, SE18 6BU, United Kingdom
“This isn’t background noise❗

It’s the main act — and it happens only once.

On May 9, 6PM–9 PM

Live performances take over the space — unfolding in rhythm, light, sound, and presence.

What sets dramatic performances, films, and visual art exhibitions apart?

Visual art exhibitions offer freedom—you can wander, pause, skip. But works are passively displayed, like objects in a room. Despite their diversity, a distance grows between viewer and artwork. The creative impulse—whether spontaneous or deeply researched—often fades in the static setting.

Starting from this observation, we conceived the idea of Project Stage—a project that evolves over time. what happens when sound, light, moving images, installations, and live performances are activated sequentially, like scenes in a theater—within the context of an exhibition space?

This is the question Project Stage seeks to explore. Through a series of timed activations, shifting atmospheres, and evolving spatial arrangements, we treat the exhibition space not as a static container but as a temporal stage.

After that?

From May 10 to 30

Monday to Friday 12PM to 6PM

Workshops, screenings, fragments coming soon.”

Artist:

Abbie Coombs @abbie_coombs_, Fan Bangyu @fan_bangyu, Jorge Jobim @jor.graphy, Liangqi Yao @liangqibabe, Miya Kosowick Mawatari @miyakmawatari, Roman Sheppard Dawson @romanshepdaw, Sarah Duffy @sarahcduffy, Sara Sternberg @merda_seca, Joe Smith @joepeter.sm

Also featured are sound artists:

Engin Eskici @dj_baklava, Hamish Ford, Henry Glover @hgglover , Xiaowan Yi @jazzy_yi, Xixi Wang @xixiwang_2024

Curator:

Mengmeng Luo @modalism12138, karl Xinghao Liang @liangxinghao48

The exhibition is organised by new arts group The Afterpiece.

Searching for Noon at 2pm
2025-09-11 12:00 - 2025-09-20 18:00 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
Searching for Noon at 2pm is a joint exhibition by SET Studio members, Saul Smith and Takumi Miller. Featuring new installation and film work dedicated to Gipsy Hill, the neighbourhood where they grew up, the show traces the lives of former residents and their connections to the City of London.

This exhibition forms part of SET’s Associate Members’ Programme, which gives studio holders the opportunity to independently curate events and exhibitions. The programme supports early-career artists by creating space to experiment, collaborate, and present new work.

Exhibition details

Private View: Thursday 11 September, 6–9pm

Exhibition dates: 12–20 September, 12–6pm daily

Appointments: After 11 September, visits are by appointment only – please email searchingfornoon@proton.me to schedule

Free of charge and open to all.

About the artists

Saul Smith (b. 2001)An artist from South London, Saul studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths. His practice explores overlaps between fact and fiction, the ways small details connect to larger structures, and alternative productions of care and community. Alongside his art, Saul has a deep interest in marine biology.

Instagram: @saul_sennen

Tumblr: saulsmithrlly.tumblr.com

Takumi Miller (b. 2000)Also from South London, Tak studied Architecture at the University of Manchester. His work explores the city, public space, and how people occupy it, spanning painting, installation, and film.

Instagram: @takmiller

Contact

For bookings and enquiries, please email: searchingfornoon@proton.me

Scaffolds – inaugural exhibition at SET 91
2025-09-11 18:00 - 2025-10-05 18:00 | SET 91, 91 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4JN, United Kingdom
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.

Public opening eventThursday 11 September, 6–9pmFree and open to all

Exhibition dates12 September – 5 October 2025

LocationSET 9191 Tabernacle StreetOld StreetLondon EC2A 4JN

Featuring 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.

Scaffolds also marks the beginning of a six-month programme of curated exhibitions, performances, and cross-disciplinary projects at SET 91.

Learn more

Look at this if you love me - Group Exhibition at SET Lewisham
2025-10-02 18:00 - 2025-10-09 21:00
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.

Alongside 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.

Event details

Dates: 3-9 October 2025

Opening Hours: Daily, 2–8pm

Private view: 2 October, 6–9pm (with food)

Closing event: 9 October, 6–9pm (performances and live music)

Location: SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, Loampit Vale, London SE13 7RZ

Tickets: Free entry to all events and workshops

Workshops (free to join, materials provided)

Saturday 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.

Book your ticket

Sunday 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.

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Tuesday 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.

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Wednesday 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.

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ArtistsAidan 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.

For updates, follow @lookatthisifyouloveme on Instagram.

Poster 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.

Altogether Without - Group Exhibition at SET Lewisham
2025-10-16 12:00 - 2025-11-08 18:00 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
Altogether Without opens at SET Lewisham on 16 October 6-9pm.

Bringing 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.

Exhibition details

Private 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.

Artists include:

Kit Derbyshire @kitd._Sofia Gil de Biedma @sofia.gildebiedmaJack Jeffreys @jack.zevSylvain LarrièreEric MargolisDaniela María & Kit Rimmer @daniela9maria @kitrimmerJunko Theresa MikuriyaOttilie Winfield Wilenski @ot_rt_

Closing Event – short film screening

The 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.

The 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.

Also 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).

A surprise film will also be announced before the screening begins.

Entry: £5 / Free drinks provided / Contactless or cash payment on the door.

Screening Programme

Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars | 2014 | 2 min | Tomonari Nishikawa

Tokyo – Ebisu | 2010 | 5 min | Tomonari Nishikawa

Shibuya – Tokyo | 2010 | 10 min | Tomonari Nishikawa

Time’s Wake (Once Removed) | 1987 | 12 min | Vincent Grenier

Surprise film | TBC

The Upper Matrix of Human Error - Exhibition at SET Lewisham
2025-11-13 17:00 - 2025-11-25 12:00 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
The Upper Matrix of Human Error opens at SET Lewisham on 13 November, 6-9pm.

Bringing 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.

Fogg’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.

McNelis’ film, drawing, textual, and sculptural works are structured around performances of legal and social contracts, and the fictions that underpin them.

Together, 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.

Paranoia 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.

Exhibition details

Private 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.

This exhibition is realised with support from the Exhibitions Hub, Department of Art, Goldsmiths College.

Artists 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.

Under Archives - Exhibition at SET 91
2025-11-14 18:00 - 2025-12-07 21:00 | SET 91, 91 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4JN, United Kingdom
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.

Artists include Leily Moghtader Mojdehi, Halina Edwards, Harmeet Singh Rahal, Veronica Bello, Mya Cavner, Francesca Telling, Toulip Wonder, and the Sri Lankan Archive Collective.

Exhibition details

Private 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.

This exhibition is realised with support from the Exhibitions Hub, Department of Art, Goldsmiths College.

Poster design: Callum Bridge

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A Coral Reef - Exhibition at SET Lewisham
2025-12-04 18:00 - 2025-12-19 21:00 | SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, London, SE13 7RZ, United Kingdom
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.

Wood (@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.

Exhibition details

Private 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

Illuminations – SET 91
2025-12-12 18:00 - 2026-01-04 18:00 | SET 91, 91 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4JN, United Kingdom
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.

Now 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.

At its core is a simple idea: offering light, and a sense of shared hope, during the darkest time of the year.

Artists 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.

Several of the artworks on display are also available for sale. To enquire, please contact rhianhmussi@gmail.com for details.

Follow the project on Instagram: @illuminations_exhibition

Exhibition details

Dates: 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

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Poster design: Callum Bridge

The World Shakes Out Her Sheets - SET 91 Exhibition
2026-01-16 18:00 - 2026-02-01 21:00 | SET 91, 91 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4JN, United Kingdom
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.

Bringing 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.

About the exhibition

The 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.

At 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.

Text, 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.

Details

Public 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

Poster design: Callum Bridge (@ellery3000)

The Black British School of Joy - Exhibition at SET Stage Gallery
2026-01-16 19:00 - 22:00 | SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, London, SE15 4NP, United Kingdom
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.

Staged 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.

Set 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.

Exhibition details

Opening night: Friday 16 January, 7-10pmExhibition open: Saturday 17 January, 2-9pm

Location: SET Stage Gallery at SET Social, 55a Nigel Road, Peckham, SE15 4NP

Visiting information

Free entry

Drop-in, no booking required

About SET Stage Gallery

Launched in 2023, SET Stage Gallery is a volunteer-led, non-profit contemporary art space based at SET Social. The gallery prioritises artists with limited access to exhibition opportunities and supports a programme of monthly workshops, talks, screenings, reading groups, and exhibitions. All proceeds go directly to participating artists, supporting accessibility and sustainability within the space.

Artist: Tia Tshabola (@souljas) Curator: Ayiesha Sankoh (@thereturnofshe)

Contact

For questions, please email setstagegallery@gmail.com
