Kate Groobey’s latest solo exhibition ‘I’m A Big Star’ explores emotions that cut across individual experience, like awe, success, joy, tenderness, adoration, and desire. Her work depicts the body, the primary site through which the world is felt and known. The recurring figure in Groobey’s paintings is her wife, but rather than functioning as recognisable portraits, they embody inner landscapes and shared emotional states.
Kate Groobey
Into the deep end, 2026
oil on canvas
120 × 90 cm (47¼ × 35⅜ in)
Opening next week, Daisy Parris will present ‘Fist Full of Dreams’, a solo exhibition curated by Guest Curator Gemma Rolls-Bentley and Simon Oldfield in a newly developed ground-floor gallery at Wolterton, running concurrently with Phyllida Barlow’s solo exhibition disruptor, curated by Guest Curator Clare Lilley in collaboration with Simon Oldfield. Bringing together a new body of paintings made in response to the house and landscape alongside the artist’s first large-scale textile installation, the exhibition establishes a dialogue with Phyllida Barlow’s sculptural interventions elsewhere in the building.
📷 Join artist @daisyparris in their Somerset studio as they reflect on the raw and expressive visual language that shapes their practice.
“I’m trying to stick these on how I would paint a gesture. It’s all heavy handed but considered in a way.”
As part of this year’s Arts and Culture Programme, Parris will unveil a new body of paintings alongside their first large-scale textile installation made in response to the house and surrounding landscape.
Conceived by Artistic Director and Lead Curator @simon_oldfield in collaboration with Guest Curator @gemmarollsbentley .
Supported by our partner @simsmith_ . Textile installation commissioned by @textorial.art .
Opening 20 May 2026.
Video @__patrickyoung
#DaisyParris #WoltertonHall
Kate Groobey’s solo exhibition ‘I’m A Big Star’ is open now until 30th of May. Sim Smith is open on Thursday and Friday from 10am to 4pm and Saturday from 11am to 5pm.
Kate Groobey
I’m a big star (black sky), 2026
watercolour on paper
29.7 × 21 cm (11¾ × 8¼ in) unframed
38 × 29 cm (15 × 11⅜ in) framed
We are delighted to present Daisy Parris' unique paintings, hand embroidered in silk.
Commissioned through Textorial, a collaborative initiative extending contemporary artists’ practices into textile production, the work translates the urgency of Parris’s work into woven form, creating a layered dialogue between traditional craftsmanship and the artist’s own intervention.
There is a history of textile work within Parris’s family, generations of women who knitted, sewed and made their own clothes. The sustained labour of stitching fostered a tangible connection to that domestic lineage.
Daisy Parris
Kiss the Storm, 2026
unique painting with hand embroidered silk, oil and acrylic on canvas
from a series of 20 plus 2 artist proofs
float mounted in lacquered artist specified pink frame, glazed with AR70 anti-reflective glass
25 × 48 cm (9⅞ × 18⅞ in) unframed
33.4 × 55.4 cm (13⅛ × 21¾ in) framed
Please email [email protected] for more information
Excited to be in issue #37 of @apartamentomagazine with my cover for an excerpt from my wife @jinakhayyer ’s debut novel In the Heart of the Cat, published in English for the first time from the original German.
Opening tonight; Sim Smith is delighted to present ‘I’m A Big Star‘ Kate Groobey’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery. Please join us for an opening celebration from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, at 6 Camberwell Passage, London SE5 0AX. All welcome.
@kategroobey
Kate Groobey’s latest exhibition with the gallery, ‘I’m A Big Star’, opens this Thursday. Please join us for the opening party Thursday the 7th of May, 6:30pm.
Kate Groobey
I’m a big star, 2026
oil on canvas
146 × 114 cm (57½ × 44⅞ in)
@kategroobey
Where woven precision meets raw, hand-stitched gesture 👐
At the centre of @DaisyParris ’ upcoming exhibition at Wolterton is Kiss the Storm, a five-metre textile installation commissioned by TEXTORIAL that marks their first work in
the medium.
Combining traditional hand-knotting in India with the artists’ own stitching, the piece balances precision with immediacy - reimagining their abstract painting into textile.
Opening 20 May.
Conceived by Artistic Director and Lead Curator @simon_oldfield in collaboration with Guest Curator
@gemmarollsbentley .
Images: Daisy Parris, Kiss the Storm, Courtesy of the artist and Sim Smith London. Photography Patrick Young (@__patrickyoung )
Sim Smith is delighted to share a film of Kate Groobey in her studio ahead of her upcoming solo exhibition at the gallery, I’m A Big Star, opening to the public on 7th May, 2026.
Please join us for the opening night of the exhibition next week, Thursday 7th May, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, at 6 Camberwell Passage, London SE5 0AX. All welcome, RSVP essential at [email protected].
Last chance to see Sung Jik Yang’s solo exhibition ‘Still Here’, open alongside Dido Hallett’s solo exhibition ‘Rumble’. Closing on Saturday, 2nd May.
Sim Smith is open on Thursday and Friday from 10am to 4pm and Saturday from 11am to 5pm.
“I am drawn to states of imperfection and unguardedness rather than idealized representation. Natural hair, faces at rest, fading gardens, and soil marked by trial-and-error resist polish or spectacle. In these conditions, painting becomes a way of remaining with fragility without exaggeration”.
Sung Jik Yang
Issac, 2025
oil on panel
45.7 × 35.6 cm (18 × 14 in)
@francis_sungjik
