Cell Studios

Artist share studios in South Bermondsey. Set in a former Victorian factory building with many original features these studios are full of character and lots of natural light. We have shared spaces available soon from £253 - £506. Message us for full details and to book a viewing.

Bunny Hennessey (@bunnyhennessey ) is one of the artists based in our Cambridge Heath Road studios. Her work emerges from the physical and sensory conditions of painting itself. Driven by motion, pressure and tempo, her practice explores the body’s inner parameters; how sensation accumulates, disperses, and reorganises through movement.  Working intuitively across oil, acrylic, and watercolour, her work unfolds in a visceral, reactive process. Paint is applied, scraped back, and reintroduced, surfaces seesawing between density and exposure. Colour is drawn out through appetite; pigments that feel edible, evoking taste, texture, excess. Work exists in a continual state of flux, hovering between abstraction and somatic suggestion, where forms surface briefly before dissolving, as if caught mid-transformation. She describes approaching the canvas “as a surface that holds sensation outside the body”, the painting becoming an inhabited structure where sensation is displaced, reworked, and transformed rather than confessed. It is through this ongoing negotiation between body and material that Hennessey’s work opens up a space for release and renewal—not as resolution, but as a continual process of reappraisal. Born in 1991, Bunny Hennessey grew up in coastal Devonshire. She is currently in the final year of an MFA at Slade School of Fine Art, following an undergraduate at City & Guilds of London Art School, where she received First Class Honours. In 2024 she was awarded the Freeland’s Painting Prize. Her work has been shown at Chilli Art Projects, London in duo exhibition ‘Constrain’, as well as through Roamer Project II, where she was selected for the Val d’Aran edition of the group show in the Pyrenees. Image 1: Bunny Hennessey - photographer @masha.riev Image 2: Give Way, oil on canvas, 140 x 125cm, 2025 Image 3: High Tide, acrylic and oil on canvas, 150 x 120cm, 2025 Image 4: Waiting Room, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 100 x 100cm, 2025 Image 5: Rinse and Repeat, oil on linen, 100 x 76cm, 2026 Image 6: Merger, oil on linen, 35 x 45cm, 2025 Image 7: Dog Eat Dog, acrylic and pencil on canvas, 150 x 100cm, 2025 Image 8: False Start, oil on linen, 76 x 60cm, 2025

We have just had the third in a series of pop-up group show across our studios. This exhibition showed the work of 12 artists based in our Rollins Street studios. Thank you to everyone who came to see the show, and here are some photos of the amazing work for those who couldn’t.

Callum Eaton in his studio - 19.3.26 • Spending time in @callumeats studio and watching him at work feels a bit like how I imagine it would have been to watch one of those 15th century Italian’s spending 3 weeks painting the robe of some angelic apparition on a chapel roof. In Callum’s practice, that same devotion to icons is depicted in the form of Burberry heels and vending machines emblazoned with your favourite carcinogenic refreshment. It was a joy to watch him work on a commission in progress for a private collection the US. @callumeats @cell_studios

We have a couple of share studio spaces coming up at our Forest Park studios in Leyton for budgets under £300. Large windows overlooking a nearby park - perfect for the springtime sun. Link to our available studios webpage in our bio.

We are thrilled to announce Studio 1.2: A mixed-practice show, a pop up exhibition at our Rollins Street studios in South Bermondsey. Come to see the fantastic work of 12 artists who hold studios with Cell. PV: Thursday 26 March 17.00 - 21.00

Tom Budding (@tom.budding ) is one of the artists based in our Forest Park studios. “After launching his seminal Hackney history shop, and producing sculptures for several international artists, Budding has deepened his interest in local history, using sculpture as a vessel for narrative. He uses the medium to tell lost histories, letting sediment based failure and latency in the material give depth and authenticity to the forms. His recent ‘Haca’ sculpture is on view in the belfry of the medieval tower of St Augustine’s at Hackney Central.” All images courtesy of Tom Budding.

We have had the pleasure of having @l.a.timpa base himself at Cell from the past few months while preparing for his first solo UK exhibition at @cell_project_space Timpa developed the show over a period at our Arcola Street studios. Rooted in memory, the installation considers how sound leaves its trace on physical matter, proposing sculpture as a resonant architecture through which histories are held, carried and given agency. We had a lot of fun last night at the private view! The show continues through to May 3rd.

We currently have one studio available in our Wallis Road North building. This 406 sqft ground floor studio includes high speed Wi-Fi, on site parking, windows for natural light and tall ceilings. Located in Hackney Wick, this is a great location for Fine Artists looking for a versatile space in one of London’s creative hotspots.

Lucas Dupuy (@Lucas__Dupuy ) is one of the artists based at our Rollins Street studios. Lucas Dupuy is interested in the gaps between repetition and replication. His paintings begin as airbrush studies, which are then photographed, and rephotographed again. An exercise in translation, Dupuy extracts his final forms from this process before reproducing them in paint on large canvases. The results are fractal- like patterns, whose diaphanous sinews are reminiscent of the forms found in natural phenomena like dappled sunlight or river deltas. Text by Isabel Ling Lucas Dupuy (b. 1992) is an artist who lives and works in London. Dupuy draws upon architecture, semiotics, and natural phenomena to produce airy, quietly anxious paintings. Recent exhibitions include Urban Dwellers (LVH Art; London, UK), GIGER/ DUPUY (Mai36/Kalidescope Magazine; Basel, CH), One panoramic view after another will unfold (Belmonte; Madrid, ES), Unison (Incubator; London, UK)

We currently have studios from 80 to 960 sqft available at our Arcola Street site in Dalston. Heating, Wi-Fi and business rates are included, with 24/7 access and transport links from Dalston Kingsland, our Arcola Street studios are a great location for artists and designers at all stages of their careers. Full details available on our website, link in bio.

We currently have 3 spacious studios available at our Forest Park Site in Leyton. With prices ranging from £743 to £990 for studios between 450sqft and 570sqft, these studios are idea for artists or designers looking to expand their practice or for a group to share. 24/7 access, heating and wifi provided, with access to bike storage and parking.