Lisa Slominski

✨ The Super Trouper Constellation archive is here! ✨ Come grab a copy @stanleypicker during this weekend’s closing events for Attack Deacy Sustain Release: Experiments in Sound! As part of my PhD practice-as-research, I invited artists, curators, and writers to encounter and respond to Super Trouper, an evolving sound and sculptural project by #NnenaKalu and #RebeccaKressley Rather than explaining the work, each person is invited to respond from where they stand: through looking, listening, proximity, memory, sensation, or reflection. These contributions will be gathered as Constellations — an ensemble of perspectives that sit alongside one another without hierarchy or a single interpretation, forming a collective archive of encounters. Responders include Stella Sideli @stellasideli , Abbas Zahedi @abbzah , Celeste Baracchi @celestebaracchi , Bunmi Agusto @bunmiagusto , Meej Douglas @meejdoug , Richard Phoenix @richardjphoenix , Charlotte Hollinshead @wildcitycharlotte , Denis Colbourne @denis.colebourne , and AImmanuel Adelowo @actionspace . @artfund @ksa_research_hub

✨Curating and Coalition Symposium✨ Challenging and Expanding the Art World in the Wake of Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize Win Presented by ActionSpace (@actionspace ) Stanley Picker Gallery (@stanleypicker ) & Kingston School of Art PhD Candidate Lisa Slominski (@slominski_projects ) 📍 Thursday 26 March 2026
🕙 10–4:30 | Town House, Kingston University
🥂 5–6 Reception | Stanley Picker Gallery 🎟 Full programme + booking via link in bio. In the wake of Nnena Kalu’s 2025 Turner Prize win — a landmark moment for learning disabled artists working within supported studio contexts — this one-day symposium creates space to reflect on how practices that challenge normative modes of communication are curated, interpreted, and advocated for. Chaired by Lisa Slominski, the programme brings together curators, writers, and cultural leaders across two themes: 📌Curatorial Methodologies: Expanding Strategies and Representation
📌Cultural Intermediaries: Facilitation, Coalition, and Advocacy The symposium will be opened by Peter Heslip, Director of Visual Arts, Arts Council England, and concludes with a reception at Stanley Picker Gallery alongside Attack Decay Sustain Release: Experiments in Sound, featuring artists Sophie Huckfield (@sophiehuckfield ), Nnena Kalu & Rebecca Kressley, and Abbas Zahedi (@abbzah ). 
Supported by Arts Council England (@aceagrams ) 📸 Kalu’s Turner Prize presentation, Cartwright Hall © David Leven — #CuratingAndCoalition #NnenaKalu #ActionSpace #StanleyPickerGallery

Article out in the November issue @art_monthly_uk 📖 ⚡️link in bio Framed by some of my PhD research the article looks at how Nnena Kalu’s nomination for 2025 Turner Prize raises important questions about ethics, interpretation and responsibility; and invites broader reflection on how representation is negotiated including biography and acknowledging faciliation and access; and proposes a coalitional thinking as a way forward. It explores approaches used in exhibitions including ‘Judith Scott:Bound and Unbound’, Brooklyn Museum (2014); ‘Trickster Figures: Sculptures and the Body,’ MK Gallery (2023) and ‘Nnena Kalu: Creations Care,’ Kunsthall Stavanger (2025). It draws on recent conversations and considers the feminist and decolonial work of Maria Lugones, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Alison Kafer and Chandra Talpade Mohanty. Thank you everyone who helped make this article come together! 🙏 @actionspace #NnenaKalu @matthewhiggs2015 @catherinejanetmorris @creativegrowth @jesfernie @sc99_uk @wildcitycharlotte @kristinaketola #BrooklynMuseum #MKGallery #KunsthallStavanger #JudithScott

👋 I’m running the Hackney Half for Submit to Love Studios + Headway East London 💙 A charity and community supporting folks living with brain injury. I’ve collaborated with the art studio for years including as a @art.etal curatorial advisor for their ‘differently various’, their Barbican takeover. If you’re able to support, please donate — link in bio. Every contribution makes a difference! 💋 @hackneymoves @submittolovestudios @headwayeastlondon @slominski_projects

Going through documentation and ephemera from Super Trouper, as part of Attack Decay Sustain Release @stanleypicker over the past few months where I worked as the curator for the ongoing project of #RebeccaKressley working alongside #NnenaKalu - facilitated by @actionspace @wildcitycharlotte As part of this, photographer and gallery team member @denis.colebourne went old-school, using rolls of black and white film to capture each residency week. A few glimpses of Super Trouper doing our thing. @ksa_research_hub @kingston.school.of.art

“In Super Trouper, rhythm emerges not from resolution but from accumulation.” 🪩Locating Rhythm🪩 During the evolving project Super Trouper at Stanley Picker Gallery, I spent time moving between the practices of Nnena Kalu and Rebecca Kressley — between sculpture and sound, repetition and interruption, presence and absence. My curatorial text “Locating Rhythm” reflects on how rhythm develops through accumulation: materials layered and wrapped in Kalu’s sculptures, fragments of sound appearing and receding in Kressley’s compositions. The essay appears within Constellations, a collection of responses bringing together reflections written from different positions of encounter — looking, listening, memory and sensation — forming an aggregated field of perspectives around the project. → Constellations is available online and in print. Read the publication via the link in bio. — Constellations: Responses to Super Trouper Stanley Picker Gallery, 2026 🙏 @artfund @cranford.collection @stanleypicker @actionspace @ksa_research_hub #RebeccaKressley #NnenaKalu

Behind a recent work commissioned by @slominski_projects for The Super Trouper Constellation archive. “As part of [Lisa Slominski’s] PhD practice-as-research, [she] invited artists, curators, and writers to encounter and respond to Super Trouper, an evolving sound and sculptural project by #NnenaKalu and #RebeccaKressley Rather than explaining the work, each person is invited to respond from where they stand: through looking, listening, proximity, memory, sensation, or reflection. These contributions will be gathered as Constellations — an ensemble of perspectives that sit alongside one another without hierarchy or a single interpretation, forming a collective archive of encounters.“ 🖼️‘Dusk (after Nnenna Kalu)’ (2026). Coloured pencil and acrylic on sanded pastel paper, 23.5 x 15.8 cm.

Last week we gathered at Kingston University’s Town House for ‘Curating and Coalition: Challenging and Expanding the Art World in the Wake of Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize Win.’ Chaired and convened by Lisa Slominski (@slominski_projects ), the symposium brought together curators, supported studios and cultural leaders for a day of thoughtful and generous conversation around agency, representation, facilitation and coalition.💬 A huge thank you to our speakers and panellists for their openness, insight and care in shaping the discussions — and to everyone who joined us in the room and contributed to the exchange. 🤝 With thanks to Arts Council England (@aceagrams ) for supporting the symposium, and to Stanley Picker Gallery (@stanleypicker ) and ActionSpace (@actionspace )for their partnership in making the day possible. The conversations from the day will continue to inform Lisa’s ongoing PhD research into cultural intermediaries, facilitation and representation. It was a real privilege to bring this group together, and we look forward to seeing how the ideas and questions raised continue to shape practice and collaboration in the years ahead. 📸 Photography by Denis Colebourne (@denis.colebourne ). Courtesy Stanley Picker Gallery. @kingstonuniversity @ksa_research_hub @kingston.school.of.art

Friday 27 March, 5–8pm A Stanley Picker Gallery Late with talks and live performances Free Drinks | All Welcome! Stanley Picker Gallery presents ‘Release’, a public programme marking the culmination of the exhibition ‘Attack Decay Sustain Release’. Bringing together live sound, collaboration and collective celebration we open the gallery after hours on Friday 27 March. This is the first in a series of Stanley Picker Gallery Friday Lates as an opportunity for visitors, local residents and students to experience our exhibitions and public programmes after hours. On Friday evening, the gallery hosts sound performances and resonant experiments. The programme begins at 5pm with a panel discussion led by sound curator and archivist Andrea Zarza Canova, in conversation with exhibiting artists Rebecca Kressley, Sophie Huckfield and Abbas Zahedi. The evening continues from 6pm with a series of performances and sonic activations, including Rebecca Kressley’s composition developed in response to Nnena Kalu’s working practice as part of Super Trouper, Abbas Zahedi’s collaborative performance with students from Kingston School of Art, and Sophie Huckfield’s performance as Lady Ludd with Alternative Uses a group of Kingston School of Art Foundation Students. The night concludes with a dancefloor soundtracked by Nnena Kalu’s studio playlist. Come and celebrate ten weeks of sound based residencies! Documentation of the exhibition by @denis.colebourne @andreazarzacanova @abbzah @sophiehuckfield @slominski_projects @actionspace @aceagrams @kingston.school.of.art @kingstonuniversity @kingstonstudents @kaoskingston @inkingstonuk @fuseboxkingston @hawksroadartists @kingstonsociety

✨We’re really looking forward to next week.✨ Curating & Coalition brings together cultural intermediaries to reflect on how practices that don’t align with normative modes of communication are supported, interpreted, and represented — and why this feels especially urgent right now. Framed in the wake of Nnena Kalu’s Turner Prize win, the symposium opens a space to think collectively about agency, facilitation, and how these practices are encountered within the contemporary art world. The symposium is now at capacity and we’re managing a waitlist — thank you for such a strong response. 🙏 For those unable to join us on Thursday, documentation from the symposium will be shared online. 💻 You’re also warmly invited to the Release events Friday 27th and Saurday 28th at Stanley Picker Gallery — including a chance to experience Super Trouper, new works by Nnena Kalu and Rebecca Kressley. 🪩 🔗 Details via link in bio @stanleypicker @slominski_projects @actionspace #NnenaKalu

Join us on Friday 27 March for Release as we open the gallery after hours for an evening of live sound performances, collaborations and resonant experiments celebrating our current exhibition Attack Decay Sustain Release. Saturday 28 March marks the final day of the exhibition and we are hosting a daytime programme of activities and events with our community After ten weeks of sound-based residencies, we’re sharing the sounds that the space has absorbed, held and amplified. 🎧Hear Rebecca Kressley’s sonic correspondence with Nnena Kalu’s studio practice as part of Super Trouper by Kingston PhD candidate @slominski_projects 🔔Experience Abbas Zahedi performing with Kingston School of Art BA & MA Fine Art students 🔊 With Sophie Huckfield performing as Lady Ludd with Alternative Uses (Foundation students) 💃 Then stay for a boogie to the disco and pop soundtrack that fuels Turner Prize-winning @actionspace artist Nnena Kalu’s sculptural work. 💫Friday 27 March 5–8pm FREE drinks / All welcome Schedule 5.00 – Panel with Andrea Zarza Canonva, Rebecca Kressley, Sophie Huckfield & Abbas Zahedi @andreazarzacanova 6.00 – Rebecca Kressley performance (Super Trouper) 6.30 – Abbas Zahedi @abbzah with Kingston School of Art students 7.00 – Sophie Huckfield @sophiehuckfield as Lady Ludd & Alternative Uses 7.30 – Nnena Kalu’s studio playlist (dancefloor open) ✨ Saturday 28 March 12–4pm – Family Drop-In Day Celebrate the final day of Attack Decay Sustain Release with a relaxed programme of activities and events for all ages. Experience sonic experiments made with local communities. No booking required. Free and open to everyone. @kingston.school.of.art @kingstonuniversity @aceagrams @inkingstonuk

🌀 🔈 🌀 🔈 It’s Super Trouper’s week in residence @stanleypicker , come look and listen to latest iterations of Rebecca Kressley’s sound work and Nnena Kalu’s newest sculptural forms. My curatorial project Super Trouper, as part of Attack Decay Sustain Release: Experiments in Sound, marks Kalu’s first exhibition of new works in London since her winning the 2025 Turner Prize. Over Friday and Saturday, I’ll be meeting contributors in the gallery to gather their reflections for the Constellations archive, come say hi 👋 @actionspace @kingston.school.of.art @kingstonuniversity @ksa_research_hub #TurnerPrize2025 #NnenaKalu #RebeccaKressley 🙏 @artfund