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Thanks to Safi Bugel (@safxb) for this wonderful piece on ‘Rooms Of Neighbours’ for the @guardian.
For art to exist outside of institutional and gallery contexts is essential for its survival and continued relevance. Initiating this project made me rethink - again and again - my own relationship with art and, by extension, what society and community means to me and to others. It’s kind of changed my life.
Immensely grateful to my dear neighbours and to all of the artists involved: @lizjohnsonartur @i_c0st4bi @rachealcrowther @raheelkhan____ @kemkemlij @thatboiakathatboi @_inanina_ @j0sianep0zi @jessireaves_ Liam Gillick, Ben Kinmont, Ghislaine Leung, Marietta Mavrokordatou & Rirkrit Tiravanija.
23 Jun 2026
Announcing Rooms of Neighbours: a winding and unconventional group exhibition that I’ve been working on for the past two years. The exhibition takes place across 12 homes on the street where I live: Clifton Crescent, Queens Road Peckham. Each household was paired with an artist who worked with residents to install a work in their home, garden, or communal space.
Rooms of Neighbours features: Liz Johnson Artur, Isabella Costabile, Racheal Crowther, Liam Gillick, Ben Kinmont, Raheel Khan, Ghislaine Leung, Olukemi Lijadu, Jasper Marsalis, Marietta Mavrokordatou, Nina Porter, Josiane M.H. Pozi, Jessi Reaves, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.
Pictured: Ghislaine Leung, Care, 2024. Installed in the home of Toni & Tom, Clifton Crescent.
The wall is equivalent to all the days in a year. The 2016 child care hours the artist would need to cover working full time are shown as a banana rectangle. The 1140 free childcare hours supported by the UK government are shown inset as a cobalt square.
Edition of 3 + 2 AP. Thanks to Cabinet Gallery.
Photos by @jorge_stride
17 Apr 2026
Announcing Artist Membership Project: an initiative providing free entry to London’s institutional exhibitions for artists, art workers and low income individuals.
A recent University of Glasgow report, commissioned by DACS, found the median income for visual artists in the UK to be £12,500 per annum. There is a clear disconnect between the financial means of artists and institutional ticket prices. Exhibitions priced at £20+ have become untenable for many and, at this moment, there are no major institutions in London offering concessionary rates for artists. Artist Membership Project hopes to put pressure on institutions to offer free entry or concessionary rates for artists by initially implementing a DIY solution.
Artist Membership Project has stashed membership cards for nine London institutions in lock boxes secured to fencing or bike racks nearby each venue. The location of the boxes and the combination codes are accessible via a WhatsApp group with instructions for using and returning the cards. To receive the link for the Whatsapp group please email: [email protected]
The project requires a trust in the community, Artist Membership Project believes that it can be sustained and maintained collectively.
The institutions are: Tate Britain & Modern, The Barbican, V&A, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, The Courtauld, Whitechapel Gallery & The Royal Academy.
A huge thank you to the supporters of Artist Membership Project: @asquire.ltd, @adamtrampstamp, @brunette_coleman, @ginnyonfrederick, @herald_st, @hot_wheels_ath_ldn, @jackbellami, @jayizzard, @nicwermers, @roseeaston223, @simonmparris, @selvimayz
10 Jul 2025
Announcing the ARTIST GRANT 2026 winners.
A huge thank you to all those that submitted work, the judges overseeing the selection process and the galleries & institutions that supported the grant.
Artist Grant 2026 was been made possible with kind support from: @davidzwirner @galeriederouillon @hauserwirth @lafayetteanticipations @sadiecoleshq @thaddaeusropac
Judges: @selvimayz @aslikasli @bourgeois0490 @djrupture @rachealcrowther @nat_faulkner @david_johnso @jessireaves_ @p___staff @christopherkulendranthomas @_annykk_
Immensely grateful also to @new_curators whose 2026 fellows were instrumental in the Artist Grant 2026 shortlisting: @alohavip @dulceariadnna @sadiemaybnot @markmingucho @ruchika_blog @ladyhaitie @juanfelipeparedes @seth.kriger @b_daialal @chrisdreeder @5tsan
The winners (each awarded £2000) are:
@ayobami.ogungbe
@biogal
@renoiterrible
@stephanie.brossard
@tpik__________shakur
@dezyemeseye
Ayobami Ogungbe
“My practice combines photography, weaving, and collage techniques to explore the materiality of photographs. I am focused on exploring physical and mental spaces and how they affect us sociologically. My practice interrogates the relationship between humans and their environment, presenting the former as repositories of experiences, bearers of distinctive yet familiar identities and custodians of culture and memory.”
‘By Way of Water’ (pictured) is a large-scale public sculpture shaped like a teardrop; a form at once organic and memorial. Its bamboo skeleton, sheathed in woven reeds, evokes both the architecture of shelter and the structure of ritual vessels. To walk through it is to enter a dialogue between containment and release, loss and renewal. The work was conceptualized in Ogungbe’s home town of Badagry, a coastal town whose shoreline has borne witness to some of the most profound crossings in West African history. Once a thriving hub of trade and cultural exchange, Badagry later became one of the principal ports in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a departure point from which countless lives were carried away by water.
Biogal
“I’m an artist, showgirl, archivist, writer, & community organiser. A thematic refrain of my w
13 Nov 2026
Documentation from the Bridgehouse Meadows free show with @trashtalkhc @powerplantxx and @dynamitehardcore
With thanks to @shelterstudio.io and @marshall for the support
Photos by @izzyoffer
02 Sep 2026
Jasper Marsalis’ contribution to Rooms of Neighbours. Exhibited in Brimmington Park, opposite Clifton Crescent, SE15. Viewable all day, every day, forever. @thatboiakathatboi
Radical
2025
Bowling ball, sycamore tree, adhesive, steel bolts
With thanks to @emalinofficial and @connor.linskey.
Photography by @jorge_stride
01 Sep 2026
Documentation of Raheel Khan’s (@raheelkhan____) performance at French Ordinary Court, kindly supported by @nicolettafioruccifoundation.
This is the first performance in this series to be made without permission. Permits are not required by the City of London for non-amplified music. With performance programmes at institutions so poorly funded and inaccessible for most, we absolutely should be using civic space to host us.
Photography and video by: @izzyoffer
10 Aug 2026
Two of Rirkrit Tiravanija’s ping pong tables, adorned with his slogans, sit in the park at the far end of Clifton Crescent as his contribution to Rooms of Neighbours.
Their specific shade of orange is considered the color of illumination and the highest state of spiritual perfection in Thai Buddhism.
UNDER THE PAVING STONES THE BEACH is a famous slogan from the May 68 student protests in Paris. The phrase proposes that freedom and nature are hidden right beneath rigid urbanity.
Tiravanija’s ping pong tables are now a permanent fixture on Clifton Crescent although they’re not static: graffiti added since their installation will eventually render the slogans unreadable.
A huge thanks to Vera & Madeleine @pilarcorriasgallery for the help realising this.
Documentation by: @jorge_stride & @jayizzard
07 Aug 2026
These engravings by Cyprien Gaillard have been installed for a while, living inconspicuously in their subterranean home: a functioning public toilet in London. I’m happy to finally share:
“Cyprien Gaillard’s interventions - engraved into brass finger plates of the men’s & women’s toilet cubicles - are untitled. They exist amongst the scrawlings of others, not as individual named artworks, but as the artist’s own contribution to the scribbled discourses.
Gaillard borrows from German master Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528) for his own mark making, focusing on motifs that characterise Durer’s obsession with the inevitability of death and the march of time in an unjust hierarchical society. A bagpipe playing jester - from the Durer illustrated Ship of Fools (1494) by Sebastian Brant - adorns the panel facing the entrance. Inside the cubicle, on the verso, Alice - from the 1951 Disney movie - pulls (or pushes) at the door to her Wonderland.
A locked cubicle of a public toilet is the most private of public spaces…our own personal wonderland for that moment of use. Here, you might find yourself half naked, often alone, or if not, vulnerable to another. These subterranean refuges are places of solitude to check in with oneself - or perhaps with someone else - amidst a city that is the most surveilled in the world.”
Gaillard’s installation has been made possible with generous support from @fluxus_art_projects
Engraving by @john_cook_engraving
Photography by @jorge_stride & @jayizzard
Commissioned by Camden Council
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04 Feb 2026
Re-post to correct an error: Announcing the 2026 iteration of Artist Grant: a biannual programme providing unrestricted financial support to artists worldwide. Link in bio to apply.
For 2026, £12,000 will be distributed. Six £2,000 grants will be awarded to six individuals, providing a financial boost to further their artistic practices. A panel of 11 judges will decide the successful applicants by popular vote.
Artist Grant is designed to have as few barriers to entry as possible: open to anyone who considers themselves as having a fine art practice. This includes but is not limited to: painters, sculptors, video artists, performance artists, installation artists, sound artists and photographers. Applicants need no formal training or education to apply. Factors of age, locality, gender and ethnicity will be considered to ensure equal opportunities.
Artist Grant 2026 has been made possible with kind support from: @davidzwirner @galeriederouillon @hauserwirth @lafayetteanticipations @sadiecoleshq @thaddaeusropac
A huge thanks to the judges: @selvimayz @aslikasli @bourgeois0490 @djrupture @rachealcrowther @nat_faulkner @david_johnso @jessireaves_ @p___staff @christopherkulendranthomas @_annykk_ and to @olamiju for the support in organising this year’s grant.
Immensely grateful also to @new_curators whose 2026 fellows will be implementing the Artist Grant 2026 shortlisting: @alohavip @dulceariadnna @sadiemaybnot @markmingucho @ruchika_blog @ladyhaitie @juanfelipeparedes @seth.kriger @b_daialal @chrisdreeder @5tsan
Applications for the Artist Grant 2026 will be open for two weeks from June 18th to July 2nd (at 23:59) or until 1500 applications are received.
Flyers by the one and only: @lesimongerard
19 Jun 2026
Such a privilege working with Ladji Diaby (@ladji777diaby) to curate his exceptional exhibition ‘Who’s Gonna Save the World’ at Lafayette Anticipations (@lafayetteanticipations).
Grateful to @rebeccalamarchevadel for the invitation and trust, the incredible team at Lafayette for their unwavering support and @clement_delepine for his commitment and zeal in his new role as director of Lafayette Anticipations.
“Diaby uses these objects - many bearing the hallmarks of historical styles and trends now out of fashion - as vitrines for discarded (and now re-found) items from the lives of others. He considers each work a collaboration between himself and an object’s unknown former owner. While these artifacts carry no inherent material value, within an art space they are perceived differently. Through this act of exhibition, the artist interrogates the systems through which cultural value is determined in the West.”
06 Apr 2026
Zazou Roddam’s ‘Preconditions’ runs at Essais, Paris, until June 6th. Curated by Ben Broome. @zazouroddam @essais_paris
“Engrenages (2005 - 2020), the French detective show that ran for eight seasons on Canal+, provides the source material for Zazou Roddam’s moving image work Preconditions of Another Life (2026) presented here at Essais set into a purpose built pillar, forming a portrait of the French capital between 2005 and 2020 through the lens of this piece of mass media.
In the video, Roddam has zoomed into scenes from Engrenages to detach architectural elements from the narratives playing out in the foreground - the perfect image of Paris compromised, blurred or pixelated where it has been pulled beyond its resolution. The six framed photographs flanking Roddam’s video installation are similarly edited; only physically as opposed to digitally. Historical photographs of architectural models - proposals for mostly unrealised buildings designed for American cities amid the economic boom of the 1960s and subsequent recession of the 70s - are partitioned by blank frame mats. The window offers up only a sliver of the photograph underneath.”
27 May 2026
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