Spanning six weeks, two group shows will show the work of two groups of ten artists. The first part will run from 30 July to 15 August, and the second part will running from 19 August to 4 September. Works on show will include painting, sculpture, textiles, photography and installation, exploring themes of desire, memory, intimacy and transformation through a diverse range of material and conceptual approaches.

Across painting, sculpture, textiles and installation, the artists in this exhibition explore ideas of memory, desire, intimacy and transformation. Jane Preston’s organic forms imagine a more reciprocal relationship between humanity and nature and Taiba Akhuetie considers hair as a carrier of personal and cultural histories. Georgina Odell’s woven works reflect on the fragility of memory, while Amelia Cross elevates the tools and traditions of garment making through her distinctive sewn paintings.

Questions of fantasy and the body emerge in Ella Lynch and Jingyi Li’s work, with Li’s delicate exploration of paradise and desire in lace and Lynch’s grotesque reimagining of feminine stereotypes. Victoria Ruiz’s mask sculptures are a meditation on fear, mortality and the spirit. Zoya Smirnova’s protective clay forms and Phoebe Corker-Marin’s shifting sculptures similarly examine the body as a site of vulnerability, transformation and belief.

Elsewhere, George Wilkin’s reverse-twin paintings draw on ideas of opposition and emergence, while Jack Laver collapses the distinction between painting and frame, treating both as a unified whole. Anna-Lena Krause assembles digital fragments into imagined intimacies, and Sophie-Mei Birkin creates a material ecosystem from crystallised photographic surfaces inspired by microbial life.

Drawing on folklore, spectacle and collective narratives, John Spyrou’s cropped circus scenes evoke archival and religious imagery, while Rizza Zahid translates South Asian diasporic myths into speculative urban worlds. Louis Petit combines painting with ambient field recordings to explore how place shapes perception and Tom Hallimond redirect attention from individual identity towards the emotional dynamics between figures. Completing the exhibition, Antonia Caicedo Holguín reflects on proximity and disconnection in shared urban spaces, considering the unseen psychological tensions that exist between bodies.

Sarabande Summer Group Show 2026

Overall Dates: 30 July–4 September 2026

Part 1

Exhibition Dates: 31 July–15 August 2026
Opening Evening: Thursday 30 July, 6–8 PM

Exhibiting Artists: Anna-Lena Krause, Antonia Caicedo Holguin, Amelia Cross, Cha’ky Donnelly, Ella Lynch, Furmaan Ahmed, George Wilkin, Jack Laver, Jane Preston, John Spyrou, Phoebe Corker-Marin.

Part 2

Exhibition Dates: 20 August–4 September 2026
Opening Evening: Wednesday 19 August, 6–8 PM
Closing Event: Friday 4 September, 6–8 PM

Exhibiting Artists: Bisila Noha, Georgina Odell, Jingyi Li, Kay Doble, Louis Petit, Rizza Zahid, Sophie Mei Birkin, Taiba Akhuetie, Tom Halimond, Victoria Ruiz, Zoya Smirnova, Siphiwe – Nokukhanya Mnguni.

Venue: Sarabande Foundation
22 Hertford Road, London N1 5SH

Exhibition Opening Hours:
12–6 PM

Closed: 31 August

Admission: Free
Website: www.sarabandefoundation.org