Art Mentoring & Coaching

Mentoring for the Artist, not the Outcome

  • Now Showing at RuptureXIBIT

    She’s whispering. Come in, lay on the floor, listen closely. Only four people at a time. (Jazz and PV in the back studio)

    >> This SATURDAY 18th Jan 5-7pm <<

    A truly unique, immersive installation experience.

    Patience and Time, Kate Howe, 2024.
    Waxed Kraft paper, aluminum and lights.
    Site-specific installation for RuptureXIBIT, London.

    On display through 24 January 2025

    View from outside or join us for an intimate private view with Kate Howe at our Winter drinks & Jazz evening, featuring Mood Indigo.

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  • Art Mentoring & Coaching

    Join artists and mentors Kate Howe & Sally Minns to explore the tools required to build an authentic art practice.

    Discover Individual Practice Mentoring coaching sessions held via zoom or in person.

    Join our group workshops and crit sessions located in our welcoming studio for one weekend of each month.

    Expand your practice during a four-week intensive mentoring residency concluding with an open studio event.

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  • Upcoming Events & Exhibitions

    Check out our calendar of upcoming events - from private views, mentoring workshops and artist in residence shows - we look forward to welcoming you to London’s home from home for artists.

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RuptureXIBIT (+ Studio, Art Mentoring & Coaching)

RuptureXIBIT is an inclusive, artist-run space located in Hampton Wick, London, home to Art Mentoring & Coaching workshops, intensive immersive Residencies, and experimental exhibitions.

Over the past three years, the Rupture team has worked with over 1,000 international artists at all stages of their careers, providing a prolific platform for artistic growth and collaboration.

We meet each artist where they need to be met, and provide the time, space, and rigor to examine and expand individual practices.

RuptureXIBIT offers a flexible exhibition space where artists can showcase experimental and resolved work, engage across disciplines, and expand their practice in a non-hierarchical environment.

Opening Hours vary weekly. Please see our upcoming events for details

Testimonials from our Mentoring Workshops & Sessions

  • “The critique event expanded my perspective on my artistic identity, allowing me the freedom to discuss my art openly. It also sparked a curiosity to explore my work through performance and mixed media. Kate and Sally's dedication to what they do at Rupture is a pure joy and an inspiration. Thank you for creating a space where artists can thrive and be celebrated. This experience has ignited my passion to continue my artistic journey with newfound confidence and creativity.”

    - Anna SparkCrit Attendee

  • "It’s been a wonderful experience to exhibit at Rupture. It truly is a space for art. I’m especially impressed by the critique session Rupture organized; we got to share insights about our works. It was very supportive and helpful."

    Boyuan, Rupturist, Crit atendee, 2024

  • “Being part of the Lawless Imagination exhibition has been a transformative experience for me as a young artist. The gallery team's level of involvement and enthusiasm has left a lasting impression. I wish more galleries embraced such deep exploration of artists' universes and personalities. The atmosphere of involvement was refreshing—where my voice was heard and valued. I felt a sense of responsibility for my work and gained tremendous motivation to continue pushing boundaries. The critique event expanded my perspective on my artistic identity, allowing me the freedom to discuss my art openly. It also sparked a curiosity to explore my work through performance and mixed media. Kate, Sally, and Olivia's dedication to what they do at Rupture is a pure joy and an inspiration. Thank you for creating a space where artists can thrive and be celebrated. This experience has ignited my passion to continue my artistic journey with newfound confidence and creativity.”

    Anna, Rupturist.

  • "I am so grateful for the chance to work with Kate. She is a fierce, committed and loving mentor who brings both a deeply thoughtful and deeply felt approach to the work. She is pushing and stretching me! As a therapist and spiritual director myself, I particularly appreciate her psycho/spiritual intelligence and sensitivity, which is helping the way I come to my creativity be better informed by my own inner process. Be ready to be turned inside-out!"

    Annette Kayew Mentee 2024

  • "I first encountered RuptureXIBIT through Turps, when Kate gave a talk and then the residency opportunities. The first conversation we had at the interview started as I’m not interested in what works you would make but in what ways you would play. This has shaped my approach to spaces - not as sites of production but a training space".

    Mentee, 2024

  • "When I read the blurb for Kate’s mentoring session is exactly where I am at the moment. I feel a disconnect or there’s a distance between me and my work, at the moment it isn’t there. Need to fill that gap and want to be and settle more into me. I came to this place to think about texts alongside the practice, honing in / focusing in more, how I push the core - the things that I understand and how it sits in the world. With this space - I want to get to the core and know what I value".

    Mentee, 2024

  • "With Sally & Kate Being part of this mentoring program has encouraged me to explore and challenge myself in new ways, and I feel so lucky to bump into your mentoring programme and to have so much growth within a few sessions, not just artistically but personally too. I leave every conversation feeling lifted and open and encouraged. I’ve never manifested performances before, I feel I was able to challenge myself and experiment outside of my comfort zone and push my boundaries—all made possible through your guidance and support. how to foster and protect that space where vulnerability would occur and to hold it. There have been so many questions that have occurred for me to ask about myself and the practice and is a constant in conversation".

    Mentee, 2024

  • One thing that I’m really grateful for looking back on the past few months - is that it opened up my understanding of the importance of fostering relationships. I came from where I’m quite comfortable working on my own, like to lock myself in a room, holding up my protective shield. But this program has opened me to the relational part of people, realising that’s what life really is - that relationship with people who are around and to foster what and who that is. I’m still processing."

    Yuhong, Mentee, 2024

  • ""There were a number of reasons I decided to sign up for a short course of mentoring with Kate Howe; I had recently completed a MA at the RCA and was very much feeling out on a limb; I had an up-coming solo show and the opportunity for guidance and support from a real live Gallerist was too good to pass up! I could not have been more pleased… The three sessions took place over an 8 month period to tie in with varying developments in my practise and each had a different emphasis – the planning stage of a solo show; the development of a new body of work and the execution. All were met with enthusiasm by Kate who was brimming with ideas, references, suggestions for materials, technical advice and fine tuning and I highly recommend this experience for anyone who desires to better their artistic journey."

    Annie, Mentee, 2024

  • "The Mentoring Sessions with RuptureXIBIT has helped me focus on my Art Practice. I am a SEN Mum who has a lot to deal with. I am also a Tutor of Arts for SEN children who cannot access education in school. My practice had kept flatlining. It has been very exciting and pleasing to see this contemporary and experimental artspace being locally. I very much appreciate the RuptureXIBIT Manifesto, this is right up my street. I had enjoyed visiting art shows in this space and when offered the Mentoring I felt this to be a great opportunity. This Mentoring has helped my practice very much. I met with Kate Howe and Sally Minns where the Mentoring sessions have been with Sally. This has helped me keep focus and I have been both creating and expanding. This is great for my mind and being. Sally Minns is very experienced. I very much look forward to meeting with her in this amazing environment. I have been able to talk through my work, I am asked questions that help me understand what I am doing. It is great to chat about art, culture and research in relation to my practice and otherwise."

    Susan, Mentee, 2024

  • "Sally and Kate have been fabulous mentors so far! I feel like they have given me a sense of direction after I had come to a natural stop in my art-making and their emphasis on inner work has been particularly illuminating. Would 100% recommend!"

    Verity, Mentee, 24

  • "As an emerging artist needing an overview of my practice the one-to-one sessions I have had with Kate Howe recently have been incredibly useful and inspiring. Kate has extensive experience and has guided me in many areas of my practice, including rethinking my artist statement and bio. They have also helped me to consider what’s important in my practice by defining my motivations and processes and they have given me invaluable advice. Above all they have enabled me to discover my authentic voice as an artist and I am excited about the work that is emerging from this process. I would definitely recommend them."

    Shirley, Mentee, 2024

  • "I had felt very stuck and spasmodic with my art work for quite a while and very frustrated with myself ..not really having established as regular an art practice as I would have liked since art college many years ago.. I found the mentoring support from Sally gave me hope and encouragement that I could get my ‘ engine going ‘ again and after a few false starts im now feeling more dedicated to my practice and I do mostly half an hour to an hour or so soon after waking in the morning and as I do this it encourages the momentum…So I would highly recommend mentoring with Sally, having been very supported,and encouraged along the way with my creative journey".

    Mentee, 2024

  • “Mentoring with Kate and Sally has changed the way I think, approach and feel about Art. They have helped me discover what I am trying to say and how that connects with the world; understanding what ‘practice’ actually means and igniting a self-respect towards it. There is always humour alongside the serious intensity of the work which makes it a pleasure to be with them. I always leave vibrating with ideas and excited to give myself the space to explore them. A Wonderful experience “

    Rebecca Lacey, Mentee, 2024