Women’s Work: London, currently in the space
This month between exhibitions we’re hosting Women’s Work: London by @partwcollective , an ongoing mapping project foregrounding the contributions of women to the built environment across the city.
Part W is a collective advocating for greater gender equity and visibility across architecture and the built environment. The map, designed by @edit.cllctv , brings together built projects, narratives and contextual materials celebrating the women who have contributed to London’s built environment and whose work has often been historically under‑recognised.
Over the coming weeks, the map will remain active in the space through a series of conversations and gatherings as part of Forefront In Dialogue.
On display until 12th June 2026 at:
Forefront
134 Old Street
London EC1V 9BL
Announcement: Forefront is pleased to present Women’s Work: London, featuring Part W's celebrated mapping project designed by @edit.cllctv and accompanying captions.
Featuring the collective’s acclaimed project, the display brings together built projects, narratives and contextual materials celebrating the women who have contributed to London’s built environment and whose work has often been historically under‑recognised.
On display from Thursday 7th May
@partwcollective
Forefront
134 Old Street
London, EC1V 9BL
'Dancing Women’ is a key piece in the exhibition, An Offering. A 2600 mm timber sculpture in laminated cherry, ash and Douglas fir that begins a new series for Jan Hendzel Studio.
Rising from laminated cherry stems, the sculpture moves in a gentle upward rhythm, its hand‑carved twisting texture shifting from deep, expressive cuts into a shallow fade. The forms meet at a delicate “kissing point” of balance, and the work rests on a heavily brushed Douglas fir base.
As part of the studio’s exploration of multi‑compositional works, 'Dancing Women' brings sculptural forms together as a unified whole, drawing on four core methods - segmenting, laminating, turning and carving - and reflecting a continued evolution in practice.
An Offering has been developed through a curatorial collaboration between Jan Hendzel and artist and architect Giles Tettey Nartey.
On view until 17th April
Forefront
134 Old Street
London EC1V 9BL
An Offering is showing for just under two more weeks at 134 Forefront.
The exhibition showcases Hendzel’s working methodology of Timber and Technique, a practice demonstrated by repeated gestures such as carving, turning, stacking and precise alignment. These acts form a rhythmic, material‑driven approach that sits between contemporary craft and spatial design.
An Offering on view until 17th April
Forefront
134 Old Street
London EC1V 9BL
An Offering by @janhendzelstudio
New opening hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10am–5pm.
An Offering has been shaped through a curatorial collaboration between Hendzel and British‑Ghanaian artist and architect Giles Tettey Nartey (@gilestetteynartey ).
An Offering on view until 17th April
Forefront
134 Old Street
London EC1V 9BL
We are pleased to announce our next exhibition at 134 Forefront, opening this Friday, 27 February: 𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 by Jan Hendzel, @janhendzelstudio .
𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 presents a series of works by Jan Hendzel that unfold between material knowledge and embodied making. Wooden sculptures, crafted furniture pieces and small maquettes form a collective installation conceived through a logic Hendzel calls 'Timber and Technique', where carving, turning, stacking and alignment become rhythmic acts of assembly.
The exhibition is shaped as a reciprocal gesture: Hendzel’s work is offered to those who encounter it, emerging from the offering made by the gallery through the commission and platform. As a result, the space is transformed into an intimate place of process, memory and making.
𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 has been formed through a curatorial collaboration between Hendzel and British-Ghanaian artist and architect Giles Tettey Nartey, @gilestetteynartey .
𝘈𝘯 𝘖𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨
Forefront
134 Old Street
London, EC1V 9BL
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday; 10am – 5pm and by appointment
We have loved having work from artist @hanna_benihoud_studio at our HQ gallery over the last month and a half. Hanna is an incredible interdisciplinary artist who left architecture to found her studio in 2016. Her practice combines public art, wayfinding, illustration and animation, challenging where architecture ends and art begins. Flick through to see some of her bright and inspired work across public space. It's the last week to catch Hanna's 'Living Room' brightening up Old Street!
Introducing: ‘The Living Room’ by @hanna_benihoud_studio ❤️🔥
'The Living Room' proposes a radical act: celebrating ordinary women in public space. The work forms part of the artist's ongoing practice of taking up space with larger-than-life women who share real, lived experiences.
ABOUT HANNA BENIHOUD STUDIO
Hanna Benihoud is an interdisciplinary artist who left architecture to found her studio in 2016. Her practice combines public art, wayfinding, illustration and animation, challenging where architecture ends and art begins.
We’re so pleased to have this brilliant, engaging artwork up for the next few weeks. Come by and see it at 134 Old Street, EC1V 0BL!
The 'Living Cornice' exhibition at our HQ gallery has been a brilliant first run. @jbruges and his team at @jasonbrugesstudio have brought an energising vision to life, and we’re so grateful for the curiosity, and conversation it has sparked.
Collaborating with artists (and architects and designers and creatives and city makers) who push boundaries is at the forefront (😉) of what Forefront aims to do, and this project has been a powerful intro to all of it. We’re excited to continue opening our space to creators whose work invites new ways of seeing and thinking.
The exhibition will continue to run through the rest of this month. If you haven’t visited yet, come! And be sure to follow Jason Bruges Studio's work to see where this exploration of movement, architecture and technology goes next.
Open Tue, Wed + Fri, 10–5:30
Milieu, 134 Old Street, EC1V 0BL
Some lumino-kinetic views and vibes on a cold and wet London day... from @jasonbrugesstudio 's "Living Cornice", on at the Forefront gallery through December.
🎥: @carinthakrarphoto
