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2026
COLLISIO pairs work from the practices of artists Amy Douglas and Lou Winwood . In a disruptive sensory bombardment encompassing painting, collage, drawing and ceramics.
Douglas and Winwood met as teenagers when dating two brothers and have remained friends for over three decades. Amy is an established ceramic artist, print maker and painter based in Brighton, while Lou had a successful career in the fashion industry before pursuing her long-standing love for making art from her studio in Hertfordshire. Their interrelated approach offers shared themes of memory, family, nostalgia and pets funnelled into a kind of gimcrack dystopia, where materials ranging from clobbered china to paint, cut up discarded books, discontinued wallpaper and textile scraps vie for the eye.While working discretely, each draws on concepts of interference and disorder, deliberately probing accepted boundaries, perception, protocol and comprehension to provoke a reassessing of meaning.COLLISO marks their first time exhibiting together.
Anne Mullee
SMARTsheds : The Bel fire fayre
THE BEL FIRE FAYRE May 2025
These last 6 months I have been working on a large community arts project for SMARTlondon .
https://www.smartlondon.org.uk
Formulating this concept and curation for an art trail to evolve in a series of derelict pig sheds, on an old farm nestled in the South Downs .Selected artists responded to themes inspired by the fairground on Devils Dyke, health, nature & folklore .The artists involved in this project are Alexi Marshall, Amy Macmillan, Katy Bienart, Hazel Reeves, Seas Collective, Figment Arts, Danny Manning and Carrie Stanley.
The project won 2 awards and we are thrilled, you can see the progress and artworks here on their instagram feed.
Kitchan Shamanka was exhibited in Stoke Newington at REJECTS curated by Art Friend 3-13 July 2025
It is a mixed media painting of my mate T channeling her outer wolf lady in her kitchen in Patcham . Framed in a water gilded moon gold.
The Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show
Thursday 17 July – Sunday 21 September
Opening times:
Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays + Bank Holidays, 10am to 4pm
Address:
Burgh House, New End Square, London, NW3 1LT
FREE ENTRY
This year’s Summer Show takes place in Burgh House a beautiful 18th Century Queen Anne Style Home built in 1704 in the middle of Hampstead. A private residence for most of its history the building was saved by local residents in 1979 and has since become a dynamic exhibition and events space. Remnants of the colourful life of the house are still present with its extraordinary ‘sugar twist’ staircase, panelled rooms and lovely garden terrace designed by pioneering landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll.
Given this unusual location, this year’s exhibition takes as its inspiration the innovative series of Post War touring exhibitions organised by the Arts Council under the title ‘Sculpture in the Home’. These exhibitions explored and celebrated the important role sculpture plays in a domestic environment.
Seeking to highlight the significance of sculpture in everyday life, curator Polly Bielecka hopes that this contemporary revision will transform the Wade and Heath rooms at Burgh House and highlight the varied membership of artists at the Royal Society of Sculptors.
About her choice of 'Sculpture in the Home' as the theme for the Summer Show 2025, Polly has said:
'Whilst there will be practical concerns that artists will need to consider in terms of size and weight, I have no doubt that the Royal Society of Sculptors will put forward a really interesting range of works that will create a fabulous exhibition in this unusual space - a home from home.'
