Past
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Antonia Caicedo Holguín
Uplifted 30 Oct - 10 Nov 2024 Incubator is pleased to present Uplifted, a solo exhibition by Colombian artist Antonia Caicedo Holguín that traces the heartbeat of London’s salsa scene through the vivid lens of cultural memory and hybridity. Originating from Cali, Colombia – known globally as the city of salsa – Caicedo Holguín draws on her... Read more -
Orfeo Tagiuri
The Great Bambino 17 - 27 Oct 2024 Incubator is pleased to present The Great Bambino, an exhibition of new wood carvings by Orfeo Tagiuri. Through his tender wood carvings, Orfeo Tagiuri engages with the human impulse to make one's mark. Like lovers carving their initials into trees or generations of students digging doodles into a school desk,... Read more -
Fungai Benhura
Both Directions At Once 3 - 13 Oct 2024 Both Directions At Once, the debut solo exhibition of Fungai Benhura, whose layered and tactile paintings resonate with the spirit of jazz improvisation. Borrowing its title from John Coltrane's posthumously released 1963 album, Benhura's work embodies the same duality of simultaneous forward momentum and retrospective reflection that defines Coltrane's sound.... Read more -
UTOPIA
28 Jun - 15 Sep 2024 “A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.”... Read more
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Paul Barlow
up dn 13 - 23 Jun 2024 This body of work marks a significant departure for Paul Barlow, who has transitioned from a vibrant use of colour to a profound monochromatic exploration of form and contrast. It is the tonal similarities between the paintings that draw out their distinctions, evoking a range of associations, from airwaves and... Read more -
Elena Angelini
Playing Sacred 29 May - 9 Jun 2024 Through both painting and drawing, Elena Angelini captures the fleeting purity of adolescence, delicately blurring the boundaries between innocence and experience, reality and imagination. Employing a meticulous technique that combines thin layers of diluted oil paint with confident pencil lines, Angelini imbues her work with an ethereal quality that places... Read more -
Corbin Shaw
Little Dark Age 16 - 26 May 2024 In an 1877 lecture, William Morris famously uttered the words, “I do not want art for a few”. The English arts and crafts pioneer concluded that same speech with a dream; that in “no private dwelling will there be any signs of waste, pomp, or insolence, and every man will... Read more -
Lucrezia Abatzoglu
Feminarium 2 - 12 May 2024 Through a multidisciplinary approach that spans drawing, painting and sculpture, the artist explores notions of identity, femininity and the liminal spaces that exists somewhere between reality and the imagination. Abatzoglu’s work draws on a variety of sources – from Italian Renaissance and classical sculpture to pagan mythologies – in order... Read more
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Leonard "Soldier" Iheagwam
When The Saints Go Marching 18 - 28 Apr 2024 Leonard Iheagwam has suffused Incubator with an air of the sacred, so that upon entering one feels as if they are stepping into a place of worship. Best known by his public moniker Soldier, the Nigerian multidisciplinary artist gazes determinedly at issues like immigration politics and the impact of war,... Read more -
Antrea Tzourovits
Hot, Cold, Pain, Pressure 4 - 14 Apr 2024 This new body of work is concerned with touch, memory and movement. Through a series of small paintings on carved walnut wood and site-specific sculptural installations, Tzourovits seeks to explore the profound implications of touch in human experience and how it serves as a fundamental link between the self and... Read more -
Five by Five
10 Jan - 28 Apr 2024 Read more -
Fleur Dempsey
How Much the Present Moment Means 29 Nov - 10 Dec 2023 Fleur Dempsey is interested in the idea of individual ‘slow-looking’ and to experience these paintings is primarily phenomenological. The title ‘How much the present moment means’ guides us to see the works as a painterly excavation of the present moment: an attempt to capture the multiplicity of sensations - colour,... Read more
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Lucas Dupuy
Unison 16 - 26 Nov 2023 Lucas Dupuy’s work is multi-layered, ambient and cerebral. Touching on subjects as varied as video games, natural landscapes, and semiotics, Dupuy brings together a new body of work across painting, sound and sculpture. Unison focuses on recurring themes in Dupuy’s work, such as ephemerality, escapism and memory, coloured by contrasting... Read more -
Elinor Stanley
Tropo 5 - 15 Nov 2023 In the paintings presented in the exhibition Tropo, Elinor Stanley puts on stage our daily life at the height of its intensity. It is no one’s life in particular. Anyone and everyone could hide beneath the locks of brown hair of the female characters, or behind the swollen heads of... Read more -
Oleksandra Marston
Still 2 - 12 Nov 2023 Made over the past two years, the work in this exhibition addresses suffering and survival. Martson draws on her own experiences, particularly the outbreak of war in Ukraine and her later migration to London with her son. Her large oil paintings and sharp charcoal drawings are charged portraits of emotion:... Read more -
Mia Graham
Burial 19 - 29 Oct 2023 The exhibition opens with an etching featuring the Angel Oak in Peckham Rye, near the artist’s home. This tree, historically revered for its longevity, is believed to have inspired William Blake’s first vision in 1765. He describes an encounter with “a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every... Read more
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Julia Thompson
Soft Furnishing 20 Sep - 1 Oct 2023 Julia Thompson’s practice moves in and between sculpture, video, installation and drawing — all stemming from an ever growing collection of saved images and letters of those no longer in reach yet persistent in presence. Thompson works from the process of mould making, which is to say, she fills a... Read more -
Lines in the Sand
6 Jul - 10 Sep 2023 When we see images of borders today, we see images of human suffering: photographs in the news of people squeezed between pallets inside a truck or crowded on a wooden raft in the Mediterranean. Look, the photograph says, this is what it’s like, this is what borders do. Lines in... Read more -
Marco Bizzarri
The Temple Still Stands 15 - 25 Jun 2023 Marco Bizzarri’s paintings grapple with the intricate realms of memory, remembrance and commemoration. Hailing from Chile and currently residing in England, the artist’s practice is deeply rooted in geography and the found objects that come to define a place. Bizzarri’s paintings embrace his surrounding landscapes and make visible the fleeting... Read more -
Jungwon Jay Hur
A Woman from the Bird Egg 31 May - 11 Jun 2023 Jungwon Jay Hur’s artistic practice is an intricate exploration of both intercultural and personal narratives, weaving together a diverse range of influences that span art history, Korean and Western folk music, and 20th-century European cinema. Through the delicate interplay between autobiography and fiction in her artistic process, Jungwon skillfully reframes... Read more
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Atticus Wakefield
The Song Remains the Same 18 - 28 May 2023 Through both painting and drawing, Atticus Wakefield investigates the most primal and visceral elements of human nature. He employs bold, yet harmonious, brushstrokes to create paintings that pulse with vitality, allowing him to unflinchingly capture the intensity of what it means to be alive and engaged in the human struggle.... Read more -
Graham Silveria Martin
Talisman 4 - 14 May 2023 Silveria Martin’s body of work engages deeply with Muñoz’s theory of the Queer Utopia: a state of queerness never realised but felt through its potentiality. In both his paintings and sculptures, the urinal is symbolic of a queer liminal space, charged with past and future coded exchanges, fleeting encounters and... Read more -
Kesewa Aboha
A Lightness 19 - 30 Apr 2023 Aboah’s paintings record the visceral immediacy of touch through intimate, enigmatic, and unmediated mark-making. Her monochromatic works on paper employ the artist’s own body as both the painting tool and the printing plate. Covering her body in ink, the artist presses herself onto paper spread out on the floor, allowing... Read more -
Emily Wilock
Delicate Kingdom 6 - 16 Apr 2023 Emily Wilcock’s work vibrates with unbridled zeal, anxiety and playfulness, emerging from her subconscious. Her charged psychological portraits are frozen in a state of becoming with imagined characters, rendered in vibrant oil and acrylic paint, often pinned to the canvas with needle and black thread. These tangled figures morph into... Read more
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Marius Steiger
Lust for Life 16 - 20 Nov 2022 Drawing on the age-old legacy of still life painting, Marcus Steiger’s work explores questions of authenticity, consumption and our increasingly fraught relationship with the natural world, creating works that are both alluring and unsettling in their polished, synthetic rendering of organic matter. One can view Steiger’s work as a contemporary... Read more -
Pia Octuno
A Blue Fire 9 - 13 Nov 2022 Through the spiritual rituals taught to her as a child in Costa Rica, Pia Ortuño finds, collects, unearths and reveals pockets of time. Like an ancient alchemist, she listens to the echoes of post-colonial religious iconography, colour and architecture as well as pre-columbian rituals and bridges these conversations with those... Read more -
Jose Rafael Mendes
Outskirts 2 - 6 Nov 2022 Jose Rafael Mendes’ practice is concerned with the imagination. Mendes is interested in the idea of painting as the material thinking that renders visible the processes of the imagination; as the midstream or line of dissolution, whose gesture performs the physical reach to the external world. In doing so, Mendes... Read more -
Losel Yauch
From Oblivion, With Love 26 - 30 Oct 2022 As a third-generation member of the Tibetan diaspora community, Losel Yauch employs paint, tapestry and sculpture to both recollect and reconstruct fragments of Tibetan culture that have been lost through systematic erasure. Many of the creatures, figures and settings in her work are half-remem-bered, half-imagined while some of the recurring... Read more
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Evelina Hlgglund
At One With The World 18 - 23 Oct 2022 Evelina Hägglund’s practice is concerned with language, or rather, the lack of it. In the attempt to silence words and render language mute, Hägglund draws us closer to the physical experience through her employment of metal, paint, concrete, canvas, clay and graphite. She describes her work as “making all the... Read more -
Clara Hastrup
Fool Me, Fool Me 12 - 16 Oct 2022 In two artistic languages Clara Hastrup unearths the transcendent potential of everyday objects with her distinct paradoxical poetry . Ideas and forms are radically and playfully recast in Hastrup’s hands into multiple visual, spatial and aural dimensions. The ground floor installation, ‘Rain Curtain’, is a delicate veil, dividing the room... Read more -
Alicja Biała
Beneath the Soft Ground, Hard Ground 2 - 5 Jun 2022 Titled in reference to both the medium and the subject, Beneath the Soft Ground, Hard Ground presents a collection of zinc and copper plate etchings that play with this history. Alicja Biala resurfaces fragments of collective ancestry and cultural tradition that she manipulates, often humorously, to bring the scars of... Read more -
C. Lucy R. Whitehead
When The Hammer Breaks 25 - 29 May 2022 C. Lucy R. Whitehead (b. 1991) is a painter and recent MFA graduate from the Royal College of Art. Whitehead’s work explores the fragile relationship between the physical and material self. With the blushing, stretching and swelling of flesh and skin, the artist constructs fragmented body-landscapes that oscillate between figuration... Read more
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Archie Boon
Windmill Hill 19 - 22 May 2022 ‘Windmill Hill’ brings together twelve paintings of the area in Saffron Walden that reveal the elemental energy of the natural world through the changing seasons. With intuitive splatters and moments of unbridled painterly gesture, Boon’s canvases seem to release the dormant energy pulsating in winter vegetation, and later celebrate the... Read more -
John Richard
Ocean 11 - 15 May 2022 John Richard is a photographer whose debut exhibition marks the third of the Incubator 22 series. Having had a career in portraiture, Richard has only recently turned his focus to the natural world, dedicating the past three years of his life to capturing the unfolding spectacle of the sea at... Read more -
Xavia Duke Richards
Beyond the Senses 4 - 6 May 2022 In Beyond the Senses , Xavia Duke Richards interrogates freedom from oppression as both physical and immaterial, intimate and universal. Some paintings spill and bulge beyond their frames; others are contained by strips of hessian burlap; others, still, have been hacked and clawed at revealing a glimpse of the layers... Read more -
Mary Stephenson
Suddener Than we Fancy 27 Apr - 1 May 2022 This exhibition marks a radically new body of work for the artist. The sense of presence in her paintings, previously found in a recurring cast of characters, now emerges in subtler ways: inanimate objects, such as a set of swaddled cutlery or a drooping daffodil, take on the polyvalent resonances... Read more
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Noah Berrie
Not Here 10 - 14 Nov 2021 A site-specific collaboration between composer & sound artist Noah Berrie and writer Angelica Jopling, ‘Not Here’ is a sound installation of intertwining, circular narratives emanating from found objects dispersed in space. The work contends with human absence inspired by walks around an empty city mid-COVID. Fourteen disembodied voices emerge from... Read more -
Nathalie Hollis
3 - 7 Nov 2021 Capturing the immediacy of the medium, Nathalie Hollis' drawings tread the careful line between chaos and composure, dictated by intuitive and moment-to-moment decision making. Lovers and fighters feature predominantly in Hollis’ most recent work; bodies lose their boundaries and transmute to new forms bound by both tension and softness. Some... Read more -
Nic Sanderson
Vivo to Vitro 27 - 31 Oct 2021 Nic Sanderson operates within an expanded definition of sculpture, one in which formal elements hold equal importance than the sculpture’s function as a connective agent. The artist’s choice of medium also reflects this ambition, having pioneered a combination of disparate materials that coalesce into a functional whole. This process of... Read more -
Hawazin Alotaibi
20 - 24 Oct 2021 Hawazin Alotaibi uses both sourced imagery and personal memorabilia. While many of the figures are collected from the Internet, others, such as the recurring theme of flowers, make their way into the work through memory. Growing up, flowers appeared as representations of womanhood and femininity in cultural and religious books... Read more
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Richard Burton & Annie Carney
14 - 17 Oct 2021 As well as cohabiting a studio space, the two artists have a shared interest in distilling and exposing the strangeness of quotidian life. These complimentary bodies of work engage in painting as an act of world-building. Burton creates synthetic environments that reflect contemporary states of solitude and aspirational living, whilst... Read more -
Charlie Gosling
7 - 12 Oct 2021 Focusing on portraiture, Charlie Gosling’s work examines the ways in which a subject’s peculiarities can act as windows into their inner world. Painting the skew of a tie with the same devotion as the lips of a loved one, Gosling’s practice reflects a sustained interest in capturing the quirks of... Read more
