Tickets sold out within 24 hours! Super excited to be joined by @fredarchives on the 5th June to host a workshop where we will explore the meaning of ‘home’ through our hands and the medium of clay🧡 Thank you to @ikokobrixton for providing the space! Stay tuned for our future workshops planned!

Freda’s work in a lived space. Outside of the exhibition setting, smaller details, textures and expressions begin to reveal themselves more slowly over time.

I feel incredibly blessed to be able to constantly show this body of work in different ways. During my final year, I remember mentioning to my tutors that I want to show the works for as many times as I can and just talk to people about my work and what inspires my practice. What We Carry explores themes of duality, how experience transforms us, while the rituals we return to each day steady and define us. In these repeated gestures, a quiet balance emerges, between change and continuity, becoming and being. The works in the exhibition explores my journey with spirituality, fear, and memory, through clay. The sculptures are extremely personal and intentionally made to appear as though they existed long before me, echoing the timeless nature of the story they tell. Thank you so much to who came to the show to celebrate but also have a conversation with me! I’ve met some more incredibly beautiful & intelligent people and I forever feel grateful for the conversations we had! Also thankful for @lofty.spot for believing in me and prioritising me as an artist 💐💐 This is just the beginning 🥂 I am opening myself up for commissions for this show with a limited edition of six pieces, ranging in scale with prices starting from £750. If you’re interested please contact @lofty.spot

A series of clips Freda captured over 9 months of researching, drawing, making and refining her process. Returning to the work over time.

Meet Freda Osayuki Igiogbe (@iitsfreda ), the artist behind What We Carry. Freda was born and raised in Nigeria before moving to the UK. Her work draws from the overlap of cultural and spiritual belief systems she grew up around, shaping both how she understands belief and the forms she returns to. Working in clay, she builds and reworks figures through a slow, tactile process. The act of making becomes a form of ritual, where through repetition and touch, she sits with ideas that don’t easily align, allowing them to take form rather than forcing resolution. At first glance, the sculptures can feel playful, with soft forms and bold features. But the longer you spend with them, the more they begin to shift, holding fragments of memory, ritual and inherited experience beneath the surface. What We Carry reflects this. An ongoing process of returning, reworking, and making sense of what is carried over time.

Lofty Spot EDITION II: What We Carry 1–3 May, 65A Charlotte Street We’re pleased to present work by sculptor Freda Osayuki Igiogbe (@iitsfreda ) Working primarily with clay, her practice explores memory, belief and inherited experience, shaped through a slow and iterative process. The exhibition will run for three days over the bank holiday weekend, with a limited number of artist-led commissions available. Flyer design: @timpolo_

Circle Time continues this week 20th March 6-8.30pm Free Please comment if you want to come and dm your email address and we’ll book you in🙌

Circle Time❕❕ Our first circle time workshop took place on Friday evening, and it’s safe to say it was a great success. A huge thank you to everyone who braved the rainy weather to join us. It was wonderful connecting with everyone and enjoying meaningful, fun conversations about life. We’ll be hosting more workshop sessions soon; so keep an eye out! Thank you @sculpdit

Last week’s artist talk felt like a much needed pause inside ember and ether. One of those moments that felt intimate, slow and considered. We spoke about material memory, thresholds, collaboration, the significance of letting artworks remain unresolved and what it all means in view of crafting new modes of storytelling diasporic experience. It was also very special to ask each other questions, revealing new layers and deepening our understanding, not just of our practices in conversation, but of ourselves as individual artists as we journey forward in our careers. Thank you to everyone who came and sat with us so attentively, and to @theresidencegallery for holding such a thoughtful space. We’re excited to see how this conversation continues through to the final workshop tomorrow 😆

I’m so full with love for the amount of attention, community and support this exhibition is receiving 🥹🤩 This is an incredible experience that I will forever cherish💫 @kandrearamidehassan and I are having our artist talk this Saturday (7th February) at @theresidencegallery where we’ll be sharing insights into our practice + the dialogue between our works! We also have our final workshop on Wednesday 11th February at @thetrampery old street See you soon!!

It’s been a week since the private viewing of Ember & Ether: Studies in Transformation. I am still sitting with so much gratitude. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to everyone who came through to show love and support at the private viewing exhibition. Being surrounded by so much care, intention, and genuine community so early in the year feels incredibly special. I want to give the deepest thank you to @kandrearamidehassan What started as a shared vision in identity & creativity grew into something much more meaningful, doing this show together and sharing our stories through our art has been such a powerful and grounding experience, and I’m endlessly grateful for the way we’ve held space for one another throughout this process. I’ve learnt so much from this experience and gained a friend🌻 The year has only just begun and already there’s so much love flowing. I’m truly excited for what’s ahead: the workshops and the artist talk feel like beautiful continuations of this shared moment, and I can’t wait to keep building together. Thank you so much @theresidencegallery for curating the space for us! Your work hasn’t gone unnoticed. Endless thanks to the photographers who captured the energy and intimacy of the night so perfectly 📸 @sarahejionye @timpolo_ My mentor @raafaye for the amazing photos as well!!
 And heartfelt appreciation to our drink sponsor for supporting and nourishing the space 🥂 @chapmansoflondon

1 WEEK TO GO! Now that it’s officially out, I’m so excited to finally share the full world of Ember & Ether 🥹 What began as a duo show has slowly grown into something more expansive. We’re kicking things off with an opening reception on Friday 16 January, 7–9pm at @theresidencegallery . No RSVP, everyone welcome. Come by, enjoy the art, speak to someone new and mingle. We’d really love to see you there 🫶🏾 Alongside the exhibition, @fredarchives and I are hosting a small public programme to open up the work beyond gallery walls. From hands-on workshops to live conversation, these events are moments for slowing down, gathering, and making together. 👉🏾 Swipe to see what’s coming up. 🔗 Full press release, programme details and event tickets (via Eventbrite) are linked in my bio. Everything is open, gentle, and designed for people at different stages of their creative journey. You don’t need to be an artist to take part - just curious! Huge thanks to our partner @cassart1984 for generously supporting the workshops with materials 🤍 ———————————————————————— Concession workshop tickets are available. Please contact @theresidencegallery /@trgworkshops directly for a discount code. Accessibility info for workshops can also be found via @thetrampery website