ARCHIVE
A collection of our Past Shows and Events.
The RuptureXIBIT Archive is an up to date collection of all previous shows and events.
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We’re very excited to continue supporting all the artists who’ve shown with us at Rupture, so if your show has not been included in our archive, this was not our intention; please get in touch with us and we will add you as soon as possible!
november2024
November 2024
Residency in the Front Gallery
Katya Granova
A Song of Unrequited Love for Britain
4th - 24th November
RuptureXIBIT alum, Katya Granova, has begun her residency in the Front Gallery, entitled ‘A Song of Unrequited Love for Britain’.
For Granova, Kingston was the first place she lived in Britain and the starting point of her 7 years of complex relationships with the UK and its culture. For her residency project, Granova is using black-and-white archival photographs from the UK, spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, transforming their compositions into large, visceral paintings to explore her feelings and painterly responses to their content.
Through the language of colour, gesture, and touch, she engages with the shared history of a culture that is still, in many ways, alien to her, in order to reconsider or redefine her connection to it. Through these photographs, she embraces the experiences, times, and the interactions of Britons in the 20th century, which have shaped the family histories of many contemporary Britons. Through this body of work, Granova is finally able to question herself — was it love? Was it requited?
july2024
July 2024
16th June - 22nd July: Dawn Woolley
Dawn Woolley’s residency saw processes of instillation, collaboration and engagement. As a mode of cultural examination and research, Dawn invited numerous artists, performers and viewers to engage with the work - a collection of digital works, costume and
9th July - 15th July 2024: Christine Chua
“Alive Matters with a Lust for Fiction” saw the Front Gallery space transformed into a stage” championing the in-between sites of construction, demolition and constant rebirth. Chua’s room was unrecognisable as she made herself comfortable within her week-long residency.
2nd July - 8th July 2024: Feifan Hu
Through the narrative of a personal folk story, Feifan Hu explores the history and embodiment of femininity within their textiles work. Bringing in a collection of natural found materials, wool, threads and fibres, they took the week to get to know their practice in more depth.
june2024
June 2024
26th June - 30th June: Drawn Together
Stuart Simler & Tahira Mandarino’s Front gallery Show exploring ideas around vulnerability, familiarity and how a modern partnership might evolve within our everyday.
11th June - 17th June: Ella Deregowska
Ella Deregowska’s Invitational Residency in our Front Gallery.
19th June - 24th June 2024: Oliver Morris and Joshua Cook
Multidisciplinary show featuring film, painting, poetry, photography and installation, Oliver Morris and Joshua Cook’s ‘Exhibit One’.
5th June - 9th June 2024: Open Studios
Kate Howe’s long-awaited open studio event at RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) previews emerging paintings driven by Howe’s important and timely PhD research, alongside work from Artists in Residence Sally Minns and Olivia England.
may2024
May 2024
14th May - 9th June: 2nd Shift’s Front Gallery Residency
With a goal of amplifying the discourse around the impact of motherhood on artist’s careers (the ‘motherhood penalty’), ‘2nd Shift’ aims to minimise some of the existing hurdles for artist mothers, showcasing work in a professional and critical environment.
9th May - 12th May: Guy Shoham’s ‘Post-’
RuptureXIBIT Alum Guy Shoham returns with his solo show ‘Post-’. “Following a year of personal obstacles and the break up of a long-term relationship, I started to revisit some of my old paintings. In the process, I left some notes for myself.” - Guy Shoham.
april2024
April 2024
25th April - 4th May: ‘The Entranced Essence’
RuptureXIBIT Presents: our third ever Open Call Group Show ‘The Entranced Essence’, featuring multidisciplinary work from over forty international artists and held throughout our entire gallery and studios.
march2024
March 2024
26th March - 1st April: Georgie Mason’s ‘The Soft Animal of Your Body’
Multi-disciplinary show featuring sculpture and installation from Georgie Mason. Through use of found materials, from old bicycle tires to animal teeth, Georgie’s exhibition explores ideas of spirituality and the natural world.
11th March - 17th March: ‘ArtCan Unravelled’
International Arts Organisation ArtCan brings a textile based group show to Rupture, running concurrently with the Landmark Arts Centre’s Biannual Textiles Fair.
february2024
February 2024
6th February 2024 - 25th February 2024: Jacqui Barrowcliffe’s ‘Mother. Nature. Balance.’
Three week remote residency from the winner of our Winter ‘24 Open Call Residency Jacqui Barrowcliffe.
january2024
January 2024
30th January 2024 - 4th February 2024: ‘The Horse and Trap’
Group show and whole studio takeover from the winners of our Winter ‘24 Open Call: Ivet Monova, Marta Burhan, Samuel Capewell, Didi Hu, Rudi Noble and Otis Chetwynd-Woods.
november2023
November 2023
30th November - 9th December 2023: RuptureXIBIT Presents Group Show
Featuring over 50 artists and performers in this multidisciplinary show, our biggest and most ambitious to date.
october2023
October 2023
25th - 29th October: Martin Wharmby’s “Caution - Conceptual Art”
How objects are designed and constructed are (unfashionably) important to Martin’s practice. See a collection of recent work in this multi-disciplinary show.
september2023
September 2023
14th September: SHOP at RuptureXIBIT
Rupture is evolving; from the 22nd July, Artist in Residence Sally Minns will be producing work in her front studio space, as well as selling work produced by herself, Kate Howe, along with Rupture Alumni Guy Shoham.
7th - 13th September: Rebecca Lacey’s Solo Show ‘Semper Femina’
'An Exhibition celebrating the resilience and vulnerability of women and the ever changing female state, expressed through the elemental flow of our connection with nature '
august2023
August 2023
31st August - 6th September: Group Show and Whole Studio Takeover ‘_In Flux’
In Flux is an exhibition that composes and coalesces time signatures through the hybridity and synergy of matter and the speculative confluence of systems, proposing a radical reimagining of our shared ecological and post-anthropocentric futures.
22nd - 26th August: RuptureXIBIT Presents ‘HEAT’
‘HEAT’ serves as a celebration of hot new talent emerging from various corners of the country and is an exceptional opportunity for artists to engage with a broader audience and connect with fellow creatives.
31st July - 4th August: RuptureXIBIT’s Summer School
An exciting and long awaited five day course, as part of our busy Summer Programme, take part in one of six, intensive five day courses delving into a wide range of artistic topics.
july2023
July 2023
22nd July: RuptureXIBIT’s SHOP Launch
Rupture is evolving; from the 22nd July, Artist in Residence Sally Minns will be producing work in her front studio space, as well as selling work produced by herself, Kate Howe, along with Rupture Alumni Guy Shoham.
14th - 24th July: Arts Richmond’s ‘Art House Open Studios’
This festival is a chance for artists and craftspeople across Richmond upon Thames to open their homes, studios and community venues to members of the public and gives visitors a chance to explore our artistic community and engage with artists, designers & makers from all corners of the borough.
14th - 20th July: Amelie Crepy’s ‘Relics’
Amelie is a London based artist and textile designer who, for the first time at RuptureXIBIT Gallery, will be exhibiting a unique collection of contemporary artworks, painted in handmade oak gall ink on pure linen.
10th - 14th July: Kate Howe’s ‘Infinite Intimate’
‘The Infinite Intimate’ is a site-specific installation for Lychee One Gallery, as part of the Wild Parlour Philosophy Collective’s Group Show ‘Light Being’, 28th-30th June, now displayed in a new and experimental way by Artist in Residence Kate Howe.
4th - 9th July: Group Show ‘Fledglings’
'Fledglings' is a group show showcasing the grad show work of six recent BA Fine Arts graduates from Kingston University.
2nd July: ‘Colours of the Thames’ Watercolour Making Workshop
Join us at RuptureXIBIT Gallery on the 2nd July for ‘Colours of the Thames’, a unique and immersive workshop where participants will have the opportunity to create their own watercolour paints using rocks gathered by avid mudlarker Christine Chua directly from the banks of the Thames River.
june2023
June 2023
26th June - 2nd July: BobCat Gallery Presents ‘Pushing Paper’
At RuptureXIBIT we’re excited to announce our upcoming group show ‘Pushing Paper’, from online art retailer BobCat Gallery.
21st June: RuptureXIBIT’s Film Night
With the launch of our Summer Programme, we are incredibly excited to announce our first Film Night.
14th - 18th June: Haesol Kim’s ‘PLAY’
For modern people who feel emotionally insecure and lonely, her work centres around childhood pranks and fun and making people feel happy through joy and pleasure.
2nd - 12th June: Kate Howe’s ‘Final Feeding’
RuptureXIBIT (+Studio)’s Artist in Residence Kate Howe occupied the front gallery space, workshopping new ideas, developing their latest WIP and working on their next immersive installation.
may2023
May 2023
27th May - 1st June: Nicki Rolls’ ‘Carbon and Cellulose’
Carbon and Cellulose is an exhibition of large-scale charcoal drawings of plants that live in the wild.
20th - 25th May: Whole Studio Takeover ‘Still Lyrical’
Still Lyrical invites a process of slow looking to appreciate varied materialities, qualities of paint, and approaches to mark making.
6th - 17th May: The Wild Parlour Philosophy Collective’s ‘Alternative Airport’
RuptureXIBIT is delighted to announce their latest exhibition titled Alternative Airport. Featuring the work of twenty artists who are recent graduates and current students of the Royal College of Art, the show is a mix of sculpture, painting, performance, and installation.
april2023
April 2023
22nd April - 4th May: Andy White’s ‘Eye of the Beholder’
“I am intuitive rather than considered or planned in my approach and I try not to overthink my work. What I am not trying to do is to challenge the viewer, there are no hidden subtexts or complicated inspirations…”
22nd - 26th April: Robert Lafon’s ‘Seeing the Wood for the Trees’
The idea of this exhibition emerged as part of a review of my work to date; thinking about what has changed in my painting and what has grown in importance.
15th - 20th Sally Minns’ ‘Now My Eyes Can See’
Sally's practice is rooted in research and observational drawing, from which she develops imagined narratives that raise debate around societal issues. Inspiration is found in multiple sources including current affairs, art history, literature, film, and music.
10th - 12th April: Alex March’s ‘Missive’
Missive is a collection of works by collage artist and painter Alex March. It includes new paintings and her 365 projects of collages; a collage a day, every day for 2022.
march2023
March 2023
25th - 29th March: Group Show ‘In the Midst of a Melting Garden’
The spirit of the exhibition is we value softness as a flow of healing power and see how it relates to artists’ practice by touching human senses.
20th - 23rd March: Group Show ‘Pleiades’
Through a diverse range of techniques and mediums, this exhibition presents six artists’ developing art-making practices.
10th - 15th March: Wendy Winfield’s Retrospective ‘Life Lived’
‘Life Lived’ is a retrospective celebrating the life work of artist Wendy Winfield.
february2023
February 2023
17th - 23rd February: ‘CANYON’ and ‘The Erotics of Power’
Featuring works from Kate Howe’s Erotics of Power series, large and small, plus small works and works on paper by Fresh Salad artists in a Mixtape curation.
10th - 16th February: Georgios Mavridis’ ‘Everything Flows’
"Everything flows and nothing remains constant, motionless." — Heraclitus.
3rd - 9th February: Kate Howe’s ‘Eeee’
“When E moves, I am fascinated. As she interrogates her relationship with gender, this expressive beauty continues…”
january2023
January 2023
27th January - 2nd February: William Kirby-Rambling
Kirby-Rambling showcases their new series of oil paintings in this solo exhibition of paintings looking at the misperception of animal aggression and the resulting separation.
13th - 19th January: Helen Hitchens ‘The Woman with the Power of Birds’
Helen Hitchens is an artist of no abode that is fixed. From this creative practice that exists in in-between-ness, comes The Woman With The Power Of Birds, an illustrated fairy tale with themes of nomadic encounters.
7th -11th January: Crispin Holder ‘smART’
Crispin Holder’s hand-painted compositions are a celebration of color, form, and technical excellence.
december2022
December 2022
29th December - 5th January: Kate Howe ‘Thoughts and Prayers’
Thoughts and Prayers (after Rubens). Kate Howe, 2020, particulate pollution collected from the tail pipes of lorries in London (thoughts) and Dehli (prayers) muddled with water, 180 x 300 cm. Dyptich.
15th - 23rd December: Christmas Art Market
Our first-ever Christmas Art Market, a fun, buzzing opportunity to buy original work before the holidays.
november2022
November 2022
11th - 17th November: Fresh Salad’s Juice Box
An exciting showcase of emerging artists and creatives in Fresh Salad’s Open Call exhibition ‘Juice Box’.
5th - 10th November: Walking the Water’s Edge
The works presented in this group show take individual yet intertwined views of the river and the larger impact of humans on their environment.
october2022
October 2022
21st - 27th October: 46 Degrees North
Tamar Payne’s mixed-media collages, silk-screen prints, photography, and paintings reframe contemporary landscape.
15th - 20th October: word play / power play
A solo exhibition by Sofia Sanchez, writer, fashion designer and digital performance artist studying for her MA in Fashion at the Royal College of Art.
8th - 12th October: Embodied Space
This exhibition features performance, painting, drawing and sculptural pieces as a collaborative effort in creating ground for organic, intimate interaction between artist/viewer/space.
august2022
August 2022
21st - 30th August: In Between
In Between follows Lea Rose Kara’s ongoing research-based practice in representing nature through scientific methods of investigation.
7th - 11th August: Here and Now
This exhibition presents a new body of work, which explores the correlation between human feelings and the expressive shapes and lines of dried flowers.
july2022
July 2022
Kashin Patel’s work lets you catch a glimpse of a situation. A brief overview that, without a legend to tell you how to read it, leaves you reflecting on your own surroundings.
"The summerhouse is a collaborative programme born out of sharings between 9 artists and 4 curators after spending a residency weekend together learning from the ecology of the land and its interconnected communities through workshops, conversations and experiments with the space. We have spent time in and around Richmond park learning together and forming the seeds of the programme."
june2022
June 2022
22th - 29th June: What is Becoming Us?
"What is becoming us" is an extension of the graduate show at the Royal College of Art. A group of sixteen graduates from the painting program will showcase new works, giving you the chance to see more than just one glimpse of what they have been developing during their two-year course.
5th - 9th June: Guy Shoham ‘The Anguish of The Earth Absolves Our Eyes’.
Guy Shoham present his 6m long triptych painting in his solo show. Freehand lines sweep across the canvas, creating a map of junctions; a bare, skeletal, collapsing grid. On top of the drawn “carcass”, fields of colour are painted to create the “flesh”, draped between earth and sky.
may2022
May 2022
14th - 19th May: Lyndsay Russell’s ‘ELEMENTAL CIRCLE’.
The artist’s new solo show links the four elements in an immersive, overlapping circle. Involving sculpture, painting, and silks, the experience will be heightened by a haunting soundscape in collaboration with music producer Barbara Mendes.
7th - 12th May: A Journey Towards Abstraction
This is a group show comprised of students from Kingston Adult Education painting class, all of whom share a love of painting.
april2022
April 2022
29th April - 5th May: Rebecca Lacey ‘Broken Colours’.
In this exhibition, Rebecca is exploring the synthesis of senses that happen when working with colour.
21st - 23rd April: OUB Collective’s ‘Coming to Our Senses’.
A Group Show from graduating students of BA Fine Art, Kingston School of Art.
15th - 18th April: Sacraments.
Sacraments are outward expressions of inner grace, a way of acknowledging the Divine in human experience. In many African traditions, pots created by older women serve this purpose.
10th - 12th April: Eyes, Dusk, Phantasmagoria.
In this exhibition, the artists delve into the plural dimensions of sensory languages and aim to understand the multiplicity involved with inhabited thinking.
1st - 7th April: Intuitive Oils
Anna Dyson reaches of unexpected colour as she works quickly and intuitively, on multiple canvases at once, covering them in swirling, flowing, vibrating forms.
march2022
16th March - 17th March: Can You Reach Me?
Invitational Artist Prize, Eastern European Edition.
Can you reach me? focuses on breaking through barriers, boundaries, and power struggles to present a physical show, even if physical work itself could not be shipped as in the “old” method of curation.
What is Carapace? (A group show?)
Curated by Kara Hondong. Artists: Johanna Ehmke, Ivana Matic, Sophie Meurer, Danijel Sijakovic, Kara Hondong, Rahel Sorg .
5th - 10th March: Aleksandra Durman
Lady of the Rocks / Emotional Landscapes. Aleksandra's work reflects themes of emotional landscapes, it represents artistic views of both; the physical landscape vs internal emotions and ongoing interaction between.
february2022
16th Feb - 22nd February: Kate Howe ‘The Erotics of Power’
Rupture’s Artist in Residence Kate Howe has their Debut London Solo Show featuring their ‘Erotics of Power’ series and works on paper.
5th - 10th February: Andy White ‘Painting Pictures with Sound’.
Andy is a self-trained artist whose work focuses on shape and colour, through his oil paintings, gouache paintings and graphite sketches.
january2022
14th January - 20th January: Nick Everitt ‘Lost and Found’
Nick Everitt local artist, creates large-scale, bold, rhythmic, energetic, and closely observed drawings in black and white.
december2021
9th December: All in a Day’s Work
From Displaced Studios, comes a show of graduating BA Fine Arts students from Kingston School of Art.
november2021
27th November - 3rd December: Coping in Colour
In this exhibition, the six artists all turn to colour to explore the complexities of contemporary society.
5th - 8th November: Kate Beaumont.
Local designer Kate Beaumont uses different coloured wool on a frame to create patterns and shapes in the positive and negative space.
october2021
October 2021
23rd October - 1st November: Things That Were About to be Lost.
A Group Show from 8 recent RCA MA Painting graduates ‘21.
6th - 10th October: Revenge of the Real.
A Group Show from Chelsea College of Arts MA Fine Art graduates, after their degree show was cancelled due to COVID - 19 restrictions.
august2021
August 2021
12th - 14th: Brandon Seedhouse solo show.
Recent BA Fine Art Grad from Kingston School of Art, Brandon Seedhouse takes over the front gallery.
1st - 7th: Husna Memon ‘South Asia on the Brink’.
A Recent Kingston School of Art Graduate of BA Fine Art and Art History.
july2021
July 2021
7th - 17th: Nina Stallwood ‘Lucid Waters’.
5th July: Imogen Andrews ‘Voyeur’.
A Recent Kingston School of Art Graduate of BA Fine Art.
29th June - 1st July: Stephanie Correll ‘ Life in Materials…’.
Stephanie creates whimsical forms out of charity shop clothes, repurposing old quilts as flowing robes and impossible fashion, all while showing us what is possible.
