curated by Cathy Wills
Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, NW1 3DP
PV: 14th October, 6 – 9pm
Curators Tour: 18th October, 11am
Open: 15th October – 19th October 202511am – 7pm
Adding to the mix of cultural events across London coinciding with Frieze art fair, Hypha Studios are pleased to announce their exhibition A Moveable Feast. A curated exhibition of over 40 artists selected by renowned curator and art collector, Cathy Wills, all works will be available to purchase directly through Hypha Curates, a new sales platform designed to support the charitable work of Hypha Studios.
The title of the exhibition references Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of the same name. Presented in a dense and exciting salon style hang, the diverse mix of works – selected from over 900 applications to Hypha Curates – invite the visitor to draw new, unexpected, and rich connections across the mixed media curation. Just as Hemingway weaved together encounters with a diverse coterie of friends and figures of the time, Wills’ curation is intended to initiate new conversation rather than draw conclusions.
Highlights include Katherine Giordano’s oil painting Roaming Turf, a fragment of which is used on the exhibition promotional literature. Exploring the shifting ground between familiarity and estrangement, Giordano has a singular style here capturing in soft light a body at once relaxed and in comfort, but also compressed and seemingly confined. Another work, Weight / Tension / Restriction, by Gemma Holzer, is inspired by Neolithic sites and relics, but recomposed into a steel-framed construction with uncanny representations of unknown elements suspended by chains. Himani Gupta’s Lunar Crossings is an oil and pigment work inspired by a Tarkovsky film, foreground and background combining into one contemplative scene.
The Hypha Studios HQ gallery will be punctuated by sculpture. Sheffield-based artist Gillian Brent’s Not a Pair of Scales is a pillar topped by an assemblage of discarded materials, reforming nostalgia and familiarity. Lizzie Cardozeo explores the softness of breath and material volume with Folded Breath, a poetic conjoining of blown glass and rock. Aren’t you going to light them? II is an oak totem by Robin Bigret investigating industrially scarred landscapes and industrial fragments found within them.
The exhibition traverses pictorial to conceptual: Michalis Karaiskos’ Untitled (Partner) is a tender oil painting of a body leaning against a radiator, intimate and silently charged, while Rafa Roeder’s Useless Device is a sculptural “experimental machine” created to question the relationship between capital and technology.
A Moveable Feast marks the launch of Hypha Curates, a new purpose-driven online art sales platform designed to open the doors of collecting to wider audiences, directly supporting UK artists. Launched by arts charity Hypha Studios, the platform gives 70% of sales income directly to artists, with the remaining 30% funding Hypha Studios’ charitable work, which has already provided free studio and exhibition spaces for over 2,100 artists in 64 UK locations since 2021.
artists
Sarunas Berinas
Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Robin Bigret
Gillian Brent
Cas Campbell
Lizzie Cardozo
Sara Christova
Gregory Daines
Freddie Darke
Pablo Delahaye
Batool Desouky
Naomi Ellis
Archie Fooks-Smith
Daniel Freytag
Maxim Frolov
Katherine Giordano
Tom Grace-Whittaker
Himani Gupta
Filip Haglund
India Hanlon
Gemma Holzer
Harriet Horner
Fan Ji
Stuart Jones
Michalis Karaiskos
Matt Kavanagh
Yewon Lee
Margarita Loze
Zoe Maxwell
Andia Coral Newton
Chantel Okwesa
Anna Reading
Vivien Carolyn Reinert
Rafa Roeder
Diana Savostaite
Benjamin Sebastian
Ella Shepard
Ewelina Skowronska
Emily Tracy
Marina Tsaregorodtseva
Lily Wei
Aleksandra Zawada
