SET 91

This afternoon at @set91set 🩷 thank you everyone for coming

Help revive the 15th-century tradition of communal lacemaking this Sunday 10 May with a session led by @londonlaceclub , part of SET 91’s ongoing Open Series. Founded by practitioners and researchers, @ameliadaisywhite and @laurenwsn , the club is a community-led response to bobbin lace appearing on the Heritage Crafts Endangered ‘Red List.’ By bringing people together to learn and share, the session ensures this historic craft remains a living, accessible practice rather than a lost one. Over the course of two hours, both experienced lacemakers and total novices are invited to share tools, knowledge, and works-in-progress, with the goal of building your confidence to explore lace making in your own way. Date: Sunday 10 May Time: 12-2pm Location: SET 91, 91 Tabernacle Street, Old Street Admission: Free 🪡 The essentials 🪡 -Please bring your own equipment, including a lace making pillow and current projects. **Beginners** - if you require equipment and support, please DM @londonlaceclub in advance so they can ensure a setup is ready for you. As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are certain you can attend. If you can no longer make it, please cancel your ticket via Outsavvy and contact us at [email protected] so your spot can be offered to someone else. 🔗 Head to link in bio for more details & book a spot #lacemaking #heritagecrafts #bobbinlace #openseries #londonworkshop

Join us on 9 April for a Crit Circle led by writer, editor and artist @elida.silvey , part of SET 91’s new Open Series programme. Elida’s practice explores visual culture, identity and memory. She is an Editor at @montezpress and co-runs @dream_sequence_london , an experimental film club focused on non-linear and hybrid cinematic practices. This session offers a supportive, discussion-led space for artists and writers to share work in progress and receive feedback. Participants can join as ‘readers’ (sharing work) or ‘listeners’ (contributing to critique). 
Date: 9 April, 6-9pm
Location: SET 91, 91 Tabernacle, Old Street Capacity: 15 participants
- 7 reader slots
- 8 listener slots Pay what you can (suggested £5 donation) 📕 Reader guidelines 📕
– Up to 1,000 words of text, or
– Up to 5 minutes of video/moving image **As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are able to attend so that others who would benefit from the session are able to take part. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket and contact us at [email protected] so the space can be offered to someone else.** 🔗 Head to link in bio for more details & book a spot

SET 91’s Open Series continues this April with ‘A PATCH Sunday Salon’, an exhibition and live programme led by PATCH, an interdisciplinary collective working across architecture, art and research. Bringing together works by the collective and its members, the exhibition explores diasporic experiences of the city and considers how architecture can be understood through alternative, community-led lenses. Alongside the exhibition, the evening includes a live talk and Q&A, as well as a conversational salon returning to questions of home and holding space, asking how diasporic communities can be centred within fast-paced metropolitan environments in ways that are tangible, supportive and meaningful. This session is free to attend, open to artists, architects, spatial practitioners and those interested in the intersections of community, identity and the built environment. Date: Sunday 12 April Times: 4.30-7pm Location: SET 91, Tabernacle Street, Old Street 🔗 Book your free spot on Outsavvy via the link in bio. **As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are able to attend so that others who would benefit from the session are able to take part. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket and contact us at [email protected] so the space can be offered to someone else.** Photo credits: Courtesy of the @patch_collective_

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for our inaugural Open Series session last night! Such a great evening ✨ Led by Magda Musisi-Kaggwa, Relationship Manager for Visual Arts (London) at Arts Council England (@aceagrams ), the session covered how the National Lottery Project Grants programme works, how applications are assessed, and shared practical advice on putting together a strong application, followed by lots of useful questions and a discussion. A big thank you to Magda and Arts Council England for such a insightful session. We’ll be hosting more Open Series sessions soon, so keep an eye out over the next few days for announcements.

@juliedemont performing during opening night for Monique Négligée. Latex and knitwear by @moniquefei Photos by @giorgia_galatino

@chisomibh performing during opening night for Monique Négligée. Latex, crochet and knitwear by @moniquefei Photos by @giorgiagalatino

Introducing SET 91’s new Open Series! 🌟 SET 91 is now launching a new programme of talks, workshops and discussions supporting artists in navigating contemporary practice, taking place periodically at the gallery throughout the year. Kicking things off is a practical advice session on applying to Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants, with a particular focus on the strand for applications under £30,000. Led by a Relationship Manager for Visual Arts at Arts Council England (@aceagrams ), the session will offer insight into how applications are assessed, common challenges applicants encounter and how to communicate ideas clearly when developing a proposal. Applying for funding can feel complex or inaccessible, particularly for early-career artists or those working outside traditional institutional pathways. This session aims to demystify the process and offer practical guidance. The session is free to attend. Details Date: Tuesday 24 March Times: Arrival 6pm | Session 6:30-8:30pm Location: SET 91, Tabernacle Street, Old Street Book your free spot on Outsavvy via the link in bio. **As places are limited, we kindly ask that you only book if you are able to attend so that others who would benefit from the session are able to take part. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket and contact us at [email protected] so the space can be offered to someone else.**

Performative reading by Ozziline Mercedes (@mercedes666_2 ) within the bedroom during the Closing Night of Monique Négligée. Latex wear by @moniquefei Photos by @dominiquecro

Install shots from Monique Négligée. Conceived and curated by @moniquefei , the exhibition transformed the gallery as a lived-in bedroom, positioning the domestic interior as both private refuge and public stage, open to the street, the camera and anyone willing to step inside. Monique Négligée marked SET 91’s sixth and final exhibition of our first six-month programme. More announcements to come soon. Photos by Charlie Goodall @movingface . Ceramic mugs by @prnoramics

@gabowlcboy performing during the Closing Pyjama Party for Monique Négligée, a week-long residency and bedroom installation by @moniquefei at SET 91. Photos by @dominiquecro

The bedroom has gone quiet, which means only one thing: Monique Négligée has come to a close at SET 91. For one week only, the gallery became a lived-in bedroom: a site of ritual, performance, fittings, film nights, readings, latex lessons, vacuum séances, crochet circles, boutique encounters and late-night gatherings. Bodies were sealed and reshaped. Garments were tried on and taken home. And as the bedroom faced the camera and the window remained wide open, private gesture and public spectacle blurred. Thank you to everyone who crossed the threshold with us - those who came to the opening weekend, shopped the boutique, entered the vacuum bed, joined the workshops, danced at the closing pyjama party, or simply stood and watched. To our hugely talented performers, readers, DJs and collaborators, we couldn’t thank you enough for making this week so much fun. You made the bedroom pulse. Finally our deepest thanks to @moniquefei and @shshksslr for inviting us into the bedroom and holding the space so carefully behind the scenes. We already miss you! Monique Négligée marks our sixth and final exhibition of the first six-month programme. But stay tuned as we’ll be announcing more exciting things to get involved in, as well as our next programme shortly. See you soon. More pictures of the week to come. —— @celeste @chisomibh @chrisowen__ @juliedemont @katieshannon23 @maurice.tv @xiaoqiao0o @blackfondu @k.i.s.s.prncpl Nonchalanté x Partners @sohoreadingseries @shshksslr @izabella.z.scott @toad_prince_jago @holly_connolly @olive_parker @_s0ren @mercedes666_2 @tallu_tm @gabowlcboy @opia__________ Slide 1 - @juliedemont , Opening Night Slides 3-5 - @chrisowen__ , Opening Night Slide 6 - @chisomibh , Opening Night Slide 8-9 - @gabowlcboy , Closing Night Slide 10 - @tallu_tm , Closing Night Slide 11 - Host @_s0ren , Closing Night Slide 12 - @mercedes666_2 , Closing Night Photos 1-6 by @giorgiagalantino Photos 7-12 by @dominiquecro