Sophie Smorczewski
Pop the granny out of bed, 2026
Oil on calico, 85 x 135 x 4 cm. Smorczewski is a London based painter, recently graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2025), where she was awarded the Cass Art Painting Award.
Drawing from a period of illness in which the bed became a primary site of living, Smorczewski found in it a hotspot of activity rather than a passive, dormant space. Her active mind drifts, suspended between states of half-dreaming and half-awake, imagination folding into reality. Smorczewski’s process involves oil paint applied in thin, translucent layers, building up surfaces slowly over time, each mimicking the measured growth of her subject matter. The resulting images are little fragments of experience, capturing a soft and fleeting quality of light where interior and landscape are blurred.
This new body of work captures moments of ambiguity, dawns and dusks and the bulb planted in winter anticipating the promise of spring. In Smorczewski’s body of work, the season of slumber captures the essence of something on the cusp of bloom.
Opening Thursday | Sophie Smorczewski: Sown in Slumber
LAMB is pleased to present Sown in Slumber, a solo exhibition of new works by Sophie Smorczewski. The series of paintings were seeded in the quiet depths of winter, born from a period of hibernation and recovery, and emerge now in the season of rebirth, carrying with them a sense of slowness and fragility. Smorczewski’s works linger in states of ambiguity, the in-between spaces and places of nurture: the bedroom, the flower bed and the greenhouse.
Please join us from 6–8 PM on Thursday for a drinks reception celebrating the opening of Sophie’s solo exhibition at the gallery. For more information please contact [email protected]@smorczewski.s
Last few days to see Tiago Mestre solo show ‘French Season ‘at LAMB gallery until Saturday 25 th April. Mestre’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, emerges from his recent artistic residency in Paris. During this period, the artist extended the core lines of inquiry in his practice: architecture, painting and sculpture. Working across these disciplines, Mestre mediates the relationship between culture and nature, and the built environment and the natural world, while shifting his axis of observation from Brazil to the French capital
LAMB will be closed from Friday 3 April through Monday 6 April for the Easter holidays. We wish everyone a very Happy Easter and a restful holiday weekend!
We will reopen on Tuesday 7 April with Tiago Mestre: French Season on view for its final few weeks.
For more information please contact [email protected]
The exhibition will close on 25 April
TIAGO MESTRE
French Balcony, 2026
Oil on raw linen
60 x 50 cm
@_tiagomestre
Opening on Sunday | Several Eternities in a Day at the Hammer Museum @hammer_museum
Incredibly proud of Ayla Tavares who is apart of this wonderful exhibition opening on 5 April at the Hammer Museum! @aylatavaresb
Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials features twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials. These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.
Installation view of Tiago Mestre: French Season
French Season, Mestre’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, emerges from his recent artistic residency in Paris. During this period, the artist extended the core lines of inquiry in his practice: architecture, painting and sculpture. Working across these disciplines, Mestre mediates the relationship between culture and nature, and the built environment and the natural world, while shifting his axis of observation from Brazil to the French capital. The exhibition title French Season subverts the historical tradition of the Grand Tour, the nineteenth-century rite of passage through which young aristocrats completed their classical education in Europe. Mestre inverts this trajectory: no longer a formative quest toward the classical center but a contemporary return from the Americas back to Europe, critically reactivating this legacy.
For more information please contact [email protected]@_tiagomestre
