APT Studios & Gallery

This weekend in the gallery: Last chance to catch the Mitochronia exhibition! EVENTS: Finissage & Artist Tour Sunday 17th May Finissage 2pm-5pm Artists Tour starts at 3pm All welcome Refreshments provided / /mitochronia/ Image Credit: Sarah Locke Artist: Nicola Rae

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN! This year will be the first year of The APT Mentoring Award. Following on from previous awards like The Clyde Hopkins Mentoring Award and The APT and Fenton Arts Trust Mentoring Award, APT strives to continue providing a space for two mentees to join our community for the year. The yearlong award is designed to provide space and support during the period between education and professional practice, with a communal mentoring relationship. To apply please visit our website: /aptmentoringaward and complete the application form alongside an image catalogue sheet. Deadline: 29th June 2026 For more info or to ask any questions, please email us at [email protected]

Get @reshare_app • @thefineartsoc Join us on a tour of our new exhibition on abstract painter John McLean. Featuring over 100 works, the exhibition charts work from the mid 1960s through to 2019, all drawn from the artist’s estate, John’s early interest in Abstract Expressionism, his time spent in the US and Emma Lake, Canada, and his London life where he lived from the 1960s is recorded. Make sure to check our online exhibition which includes many more works. Follow the link in our profile. Thee late @aptstudiosgallery artist John McLean @thefineartsoc

The Books of Lilith - @aptstudiosgallery (June 4-14, PV June 5th) The Books of Lilith is an exhibition composed of seven abstract and figurative female painters coming together in an hymn to Lilith, most commonly known as Adam’s ‘first wife’. According to tales emerging from the Talmud (especially the Alphabet of Ben-Shira, a text from the Middle Ages), Lilith was made from an equal cast as Adam, but refused to submit to him. As a result, she was banned from Eden and now exists as a demonic figure, ‘the evil Lilith, who causes the hearts of men to go astray and appears in the dream of the night and in the vision of the day, who burns and casts down with nightmare, attacks and kills children, boys and girls’. Lilith symbolises in Abrahamic religions the disobedient, uncontrollable, and alluring woman. For feminists, she is the matriarch who rebelled against patriarchal authority. Lilith has been represented throughout art history as a symbol of female sexuality (Dante Gabriel Rossetti), a mythological figure part of the wider history of women (Judy Chicago), to cite a few examples. The Books of Lilith is a continuation of this important lineage, bringing contemporary voices in the retelling of Lilith’s story and the carving of her legacy in the wider history of feminism and contemporary painting. Curated by @efratmerin and I ❤️ with an accompanying text! Opening event June 5th ❤️ Hope to see you all!

Get @reshare_app • @marcus.cope I'm really happy to share that my painting 'Reflector' (2021) is showing in the inaugural exhibition, 'Don't Have Hope, Be Hope', works from the @fondazionesandretto collection, in their new venue on the Island of San Giacomo in Venice, which looks absolutely amazing 💯 @eugeniorerebaudengo 🙏 👏 @patriziasandrettorerebaudengo 🙏 👏 @theartuner 🙏 Artists: Michael Armitage Lucas Arruda Christine Ay Tjoe Matthew Barney Cecily Brown Glenn Brown Justin Caguiat Maurizio Cattelan Ian Cheng Marcus Cope Berlinde De Bruyckere Trisha Donnelly Jana Euler Sasha Gordon Klára Hosnedlová Sanya Kantarovsky Anish Kapoor Josh Kline Sarah Lucas Victor Man Danielle McKinney Brandon Morris Antonio Obá Albert Oehlen Toyin Ojih Odutola Eva Helene Pade Jem Perucchini Walter Price Enrico David Mohammed Sami Thomas Schütte Avery Singer Pol Taburet Andra Ursuța Adrián Villar Rojas David Patrick Walsh Joseph Yaeger Lynette Yiadom-Boakye 🙏 @l_dovica 📸

Join us tomorrow for the opening of 'Mitochronia' Opening: Thurs 7th May 18:00 - 20:00 Exhibition continues from 7th - 17th May 2026 Life was nothing but green slime over a billion years ago, consisting of mats of bacteria. They didn’t do very much but were good at staying alive. Then, after a few million years, one of these decided it would be a good idea to live inside of another. These were called mitochondria. They provided energy to the host and in return were granted protection from the elements and various predators. This Mitochronia exhibition pursues this theme, exploring the properties of these organelles as they evolve though time, their archaean ancestry and the role they have in contemporary therapeutic solutions. Mitochondria thrive on red and infra-red light. These are components inherent in sunlight and, as such, form an important element in metabolic health. It is only recently that this form of light has been recognised for its importance. Andrea Abbatangelo, David Ian Bickley, Mona Bourbia, James Mark Brown, Bernice Donszelmann, Shuhei Kono, Paul Malone, Chi Kiu So, Zhenzhen Tian @chanceveronique @shuheionok @katyamora_c @nrae_studio @jackso.art @wang_huan_wh @fionachen1818 Curators: Paul Malone and Nicola Rae Assistant curators: Haoyue Chen and Yuen Zhou

OUR GALLERY SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! Our gallery submission process is now open until 9am on the 15th June 2026! We welcome applications from artists / curators who would like to be included in our exhibition programme at APT Gallery. The exhibition programme combines a curated programme along with selected exhibitions and APT initiated projects that reflect local, national and international practice. This open call is for our 2027 Programme with dates ranging from March – December 2027. For more information and to download an application, visit our website: /submissions Curation and artwork: @sebastian_thomas_art and @isabelwilko Image Credit: Tim Bowditch Exhibition: The Necker (May 2021) #aptgallery #exhibitions #oppurtunities #opencall

Get @reshare_app • @artistsopenhse LAURENCE NOGA @laurence.noga Laurence Noga works with mixed media, exploring themes of memory and nostalgia through collections of objects, colour and surface. His work often draws on personal artefacts - many found in his father’s garage - transforming everyday, industrial materials into something more poetic and reflective. Influenced by artists such as Kurt Schwitters and Eduardo Paolozzi, as well as Bauhaus ideas around structure and form, his paintings layer fragments of the past with colour and composition shaped by childhood memories - from smoky jazz clubs to time spent in restaurants and workshops. In the run-up to the exhibition, Laurence has been developing new paintings that continue this exploration, building compositions that invite viewers to connect with the emotional resonance of these objects and moments. LAURENCE NOGA IS SHOWING WITH @stephanienpartistcurator @peternewellprice SE22 MAY 9/10 & 16/17 Download the AOH catalogue - link in our BIO #dulwichfestival #artistsopenhse #dulwichfestivalartistsopenhouse #laurencenoga dulwichartistsopenhouse

@aptstudiosgallerartist @davidwebbpaintings is featured in CONTRARIWISE 7 -31 May Private View 7th May "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Contrariwise is the first exhibition of the refreshed studio1.1 in partnership with Sluice. To mark this comina together we're celebrating the communities that support our respective initiatives, presenting an exhibition drawn from Members (studio1.1) and Friends (Sluice), Running artist-led projects has always required a willingness to believe in unlikely things: that spaces will survive, that conversations will continue, that artists with very different approaches but bound by a shared ethos can flourish together. Collaboration itself can feel contrary - improbable, occasionally illogical - vet it persists. This exhibition gathers works that sit beside one another without demanding agreement. Different voices, materials, and intentions coexist here in productive tension. Participating artists: @domingoarjonilla @julie_caves @deepa.chudasama @colecorner @jamesdearlove_art @liz_elton @gobetween_projects @donnellpatrick @ruthphilo @marion_piper @markscottwood @shawn_stipling @sharon.swaine @davidwebbpaintings @mswiftvart

Featuring @aptstudiosgallery artist @laurence.noga Interior Worlds: Artists who have taught at Central Saint Martins over the last 60 years, curated by @alexipanayiotou Private View Thursday 23rd April 6.30-9pm Exhibition is supported by M School Fund at CSM @joshua.beaty @petraborner @babbym @helendebullock @karensdavid @dunhillandobrienstudio @dunhillandobrien_ @harrie.bradshaw @natthecatnine @atthecatlondon @mollygrad @brian6882harris @paulkindersley @charlotte__mann @annemmccloy @laurence.noga @oonaghohagan @exipanayiotou @nellydansen @alexschady @joanna_simpson @erika_trotzig @julieverhoeven

Opening this Thursday: UEL BA Fine Art and Photography Join us for the Private View from 18:00-20:00 on Thursday 23rd. The show continues until Sunday, open everyday from 12:00-17:00. Work exhibited by Aaron Diaz, Abhay Kumar Sharma, Alek Rys, Alex Lowe, Camilla Lecznar, Delphi Cameron, Dine Oum Nkana, Emanuela Graziano, Filippo Robaldo, Hawaa Kamilah Ahmed, Khadija Uddin, Lilly Rose Day, Lois Doo, Luke Donnelly, Lydia Wallace, Massimiliano Taddei, Miguel Rosa, Nimaratta Kaur Singh, Raodah Ibrahim, Sammyrose Scamp, Sawyer Stevens, Shanuza Arumainayagam, Slavomiras Savickis, Stella Morris, Svetlana Tikhonova and Tyra Iles. @uel_fineart_ba

Get @reshare_app • @dexterdymoke This week, 20-25 April, I’m in residence at the amazing Newhaven Art Space as part of the Newhaven Art Projects residency programme in the brilliant coastal Sussex town of Newhaven. Newhaven Art Projects is a not-for-profit community interest company promoting the visual arts, and bringing people together through art in Newhaven, led by @nicmarsh13 and @helenturnerartist . The Art Space is at 24 High Street, BN9 9PD. I’ll be developing new work here in the space, with an open day on Saturday 25th. #artistresidency#sculpture#sussexcoast#sussexart