ABOUT US
RuptureXIBIT (+ Studio, Art Mentoring, Writing Mentoring, and 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. It offers a flexible exhibition space where artists can showcase experimental, unresolved work, engage across disciplines, and expand their practice in a non-hierarchical environment.
The space prioritises experimentation, creativity, and community, serving as a supportive lab for artists to push boundaries, try new things, and explore new ideas. Artists are encouraged to engage with failure as a necessary and welcome force in creative practice. RuptureXIBIT challenges the primacy of commodification as the driver of an artist's practice. Though we believe all artists should be paid for their work, we believe selling of work is a separate job from creating it.
Our passion and commitment is to the artist's development. Learning how to sell work is another aspect of the artist's life, and there are plenty of books and programs on how to get a gallery, and how to sell work. That is not the focus here. To sell work, one must have work to sell. Where does that work come from? Can we make more space between the making and the selling concepts? What is the work about? Why does it exist? Why did you need to make it? What is the impulse to make, where does it come from, why do you respond to it, what are you trying to say, what questions does your work ask?
This is what we are interested in - What are the conditions that allow the artist's work to arise vs what is the market telling artists they should make because it is popular?
We value practice, development of practice, and time with practice. We share our studio for work to emerge through space, time, and dialogue, offering artists a safe, non-competitive community to deepen and evolve their work. This development is sparked through practice which is examined and developed through Art Mentoring, Coaching and Immersive Intensive Residencies.
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.
Meet the Mentors
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Kate Howe
(they/them)
Mentor, Artist in Residence and Founding Director.
Kate Howe is an American Artist living and working in London. Their work is the result of a research-based practice that examines relationships to self and others through the lens of longing, loss, power, and control.
As the founder of Kate Howe Studios and RuptureXIBIT, Kate is the person who stands watch over the excitement that occurs at the studio and gallery whilst they pursue their artistic goals.
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Sally Minns
(she/her)
Mentor, Artist in Residence, Partner in Practice, and Gallery Director
Sally Minns is a London-based Artist and has joined RuptureXIBIT as Kate’s Business Partner, bringing her creative and business experience to the team. Sally develops opportunities to offer emerging artists, which include affordable exhibition spaces, mentoring, and residencies. Sally also leads community outreach, growing RuptureXIBIT's links with local artists and the London art world, all while pursuing her own creative practice.
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Dr. James Miller
(he/him)
Dr. James Miller is the author of the novels LOST BOYS (Little, Brown 2008), SUNSHINE STATE (Little, Brown 2010) UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES (Dodo Ink 2017).
He is senior lecturer in creative writing at Kingston university and has a PhD on James Baldwin and civil rights.
His short fiction has appeared in many anthologies. As an activist, he is a founding member of the activist group Writers Rebel and ran Twitter for Extinction Rebellion for several years. He is interested in literary, experimental and quality genre writing and writing that blurs the boundaries between fiction and theory.
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Dr. Anna Johnson
(they/she)
Anna is a writer, poet, lecturer, and mother, with a background in visual art. Anna’s prose/poetry life writing practice centres around the complexity and ambivalence of motherhood experience, haunting, and failure. They draw on, amongst other things, disability theory, queer and feminist theory.
Anna explores the ways in which we attempt to express difficult-to-articulate experiences, such as the strangeness of early motherhood. They have published broadly within maternal studies and as a poet. Their full-length prose-poetry work, Motherhood: A Ghost Story, (as Anna Brook) is out with Broken Sleep Books in September 2025.
Anna lectures in creative writing and English literature at Kingston University, where they have also recently completed their PhD in creative writing. In addition, they run writing workshops, are a guest editor of Studies in the Maternal journal and co-founder of the Visceral Bodies research network.
Meet the Team
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Amy Arman
(She/ her)
Marketing & Communications Lead at IncSpeed Ltd., Collaborating with RuptureXIBIT
Amy Arman is a dynamic marketing and communications leader. Passionate about sustainability and collaboration, she thrives in environments where vision, creativity, and innovation come together to drive impactful solutions. Amy brings her expertise to RuptureXIBIT, helping align their artistic vision with strategic goals to achieve meaningful results.
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Tom Wight
(he/him)
Director of Education
Tom Wight has a decade of experience developing online learning and coaching services.
Giving Back
At RuptureXIBIT we believe in the power of creativity and the transformative impact of art. We are deeply committed to fostering artistic growth and ensuring that all artists, regardless of financial background, have access to the resources, mentorship, and opportunities they need to thrive.
Through the generous support of our funding partners, we are able to offer a range of community-driven initiatives, including:
Subsidized Workshops – Making artistic development accessible to creatives from all financial backgrounds.
Free Mentoring Introductions – Helping artists assess if our program aligns with their needs.
Intensive Mentoring Residencies - Month-long on-site residency which includes studio space, mentoring, and support from the RuptureXIBIT team, subsidized approximately 50% by funding partners.
Invitational Residencies – A fully inclusive, one-month residency with open studio events, fully supported by RuptureXIBIT.
Community Events – Engaging gatherings such as coffee mornings, Jazz & Drinks Salon evenings, and workshops and critique sessions, all fostering creative exchange, collaboration, and artist-led community building.
By prioritizing inclusivity, mentorship, and community engagement, we aim to cultivate a thriving artistic ecosystem where creativity flourishes and artists can reach their full potential.
OUR ETHOS
RuptureXIBIT specializes in separating the generative from the commodification of work and challenge hierarchical concepts around how we value work, whose work is valued, how we talk about work, whose opinion about work is valued, and in what way.
The ethos of RuptureXIBIT: commodification and “like-ification” of art work on social platforms has muddied the artist’s brief. Those who are in search of the new are instead bathed in the dopamine stream of creating work which will garner more likes.
Unfortunately, we like that which we are familiar with, and so there is a “same-ification” occurring across painting at the moment. RuptureXIBIT believes that one of the few benefits of the pandemic was the complete disruption of the art world: we decided that a rupture had occurred, and in a rupture, the fullness spills out, everything mixes with everything, and boundaries dissolve.
We choose to stay boundary-free (as much as is possible). As a lab (a spaceship, a clubhouse, a workout space) we are interested in artists who believe that the new lies outside of their comfort zone, and we offer a space to go there.
That said, we believe all artists can and should push and develop their practice. Pushing into the new for you may look very different than pushing into the new for someone else. We are passionate about helping you unlock growth in your practice wherever you are in your journey. Our concern is, again, not the aesthetics of your practice but that the concept of your show, and the boundaries of your practice, are offered a safe space in which to push, grow, and experiment.
We have deep ties with the local community who continue to support our Artists in Residence alongside our artistic community. We choose our Resident Artists based not on the aesthetics of the work but on the strength of creativity and the willingness to push and respond to space in an engaging way.
Listen to RuptureXIBIT Founder Kate Howe
