We’ve survived Frieze Week for another year, the circus has left town, normal service is almost resumed and we surely don’t need to repeat the bit about the editorial here again do we do we? Another week, another Five London Art Things thing and on with all this endless art coverage? Years of it. Actually this week we probably do need an editorial, or a repeat, we won’t though, there’s no time, and we did say that last time, on with it…
Five art things, five more art things happening somewhere around right now (or any moment now). Five art shows to check out in the coming days as we repeat ourselves. We do aim to make this an (almost) weekly round up of recommended art events, five shows, exhibitions or things we rather think might be worth checking out. Mostly London things for that is where we currently operate and explore, and like we said last time, these five recommendations come with no claims that they are “the best five” or the “Top Five”, we’re not one of those annoying art websites that ignore most things whilst claiming to be covering everything and proclaiming this or that to be the “top seven things” or the “best things this weekend”. This Five Things thing is simply a regular list of five or so recommended art things happening now or coming up very soon that we think you might find as interesting as we think we will…
That image up there is a Pia Camil painting that you can see until November 22nd – Pia Camil’s Bestia at Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery and a show that is only one of many sides that all make for a compelling whole…
And we should add, that entry to these recommended exhibitions and events, unless otherwise stated, is free…
1: Collateral Drawing – A Living Archive at APT Gallery (Art in Perpetuity Trust) – 22nd October until 1st November 2026 over in Deptford – “The sixth iteration of Collateral Drawing presents work from eighteen artists alongside a living archive of over fifty artists’ byproducts and studio traces accumulated over more than a decade” and we do like those marks made while making art…
“Collateral Drawing: A Living Archive returns this autumn, marking the sixth iteration of the curatorial project founded by B E A S T O N projects in 2014. This new edition will be presented at APT Gallery, Deptford. There is more to an artwork than its finished state. Collateral Drawing focuses on the overlooked by-products of making — fragments, notes, test prints, maquettes, offcuts, models, material residues and accidental marks — revealing the decisions, revisions, intuitions and misfires through which work comes into being. These traces extend drawing beyond a medium and into an inquisitive way of thinking and making.
The exhibition introduces eighteen new artists working across multiple disciplines, each presenting a resolved artwork and related collateral. Alongside these new contributions and the archive itself becomes a principal subject of the exhibition: a living, evolving record of contemporary artistic process. Bringing together more than a decade of material generated by over fifty artists, the exhibition asks what changes when apparently secondary materials are treated not as waste, but as meaningful forms of cultural and critical documentation.
Exhibiting Artists: Mandy Bonnell, Paul Carey-Kent, Emma Cousin, Anne Desmet, Bella Easton, Beverley Duckworth, Peter Freeth, Alison Gill, Steph Goodger, Oona Grimes, Katherine Jones, Kathryn Maple, Barbara Nicholls, Michael Petry, Dillwyn Smith & Susan Stockwell
Living Archive Artists: Artists Anonymous, ATOI, Vasilis Avramidis, Biggs & Collings, Glenn Brown, Jemima Brown, Kayle Brandon, Scarlett Carlos Clarke, Gillian Carnegie, Claudia Carr, Gordon Cheung, Billy Childish, Graham Crowley, Bella Easton, Edgeworth, Stephen Felmingham, Ryan Gander, Luke Gottelier, Darrell Hawkins, Chris Hawtin, Matthew Herbert, Georgie Hopton, Gary Hume, Zebedee Jones, Andrew Kötting and Eden Kötting, Thoralf Knobloch, Juliette Losq, Lee Maelzer, Marta Marce, Rebecca and Mike, Nicole Mollett, Simon Mullan, Tim Noble, Jonathan Parsons, Julian Perry, Iris Plaitakis, Artemis Potamianou, Frances Richardson, John Stark, Michael Stubbs, Mark Titchner, Trisant, Daphne Warburg Astor, Grant Watson, Richard Wathen, Sinta Werner, Jonathan Wright & Rose Wylie
This is the sixth exhibition in the Collateral Drawing series and the first to present in London. Founded by B E A S T O N Projects in 2014, the long-running curatorial project has developed through exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including Athens, Berlin, East Anglia and Kent. What began as a curatorial enquiry into the relationship between finished artworks and the material generated around them has evolved into a living archive: one that makes visible the thinking and doing behind art, questions hierarchies of artistic value, and invites curiosity about what is usually left behind.
Collateral Drawing: A Living Archive marks a significant development in the project. For the first time, the archive itself becomes a principal subject of the exhibition, shown alongside new artists and activated through a public programme that will encourage audiences to look beyond the polished surface of finished artworks and engage with the often invisible processes that precede, surround and outlive them.
APT Gallery is at Harold Wharf, 6 Creekside, Deptford, London, SE8 4SA. The gallery is open Thursday to Sunday, Midday until 5pm
We haven’t been over to APT for a bit it is a rather fine space though…
And we did do something along the same lines outselves back in 2017 – ORGAN: Cultivate Presents The Accidental Marks Made While Making Art, an on-line exhibition
We really should get on with more online shows, a new one is rather overdue, we have curated 48 of them now – discover them all here
And on with what’s happening this week…
2: Open Studios 2026 at Deborah House, Martello and Bridget Riley Studios (East London) – over Friday and Saturday 23rd/24th October 2026 – “Space Open Studios returns this October, with artists across three of our East London buildings opening their studios to the public” so say Space. We do have a bit of a frustrating almost love/hate relationship with our long time right over the road neighbours at Space here in Hackney, these artist’s open studio things are always rewarding though, especially in the historic London Spaces like Martello
“This October, Space artists across three East London studio buildings will open their doors to the public for a special weekend of Open Studios. Visit Deborah House, Martello and Bridget Riley to step inside the working studios of Space artists, meet artists where they work and discover the range of creative practices taking place across our studio community. Open Studios is an opportunity to see work in progress, learn more about artists’ practices and get a glimpse behind the scenes of the spaces where ideas, projects and new work take shape. Whether you are familiar with Space or visiting for the first time, you are invited to explore the buildings and discover the artists working across our East London studios”
Yes, these open studios are well worth your time, especially if the artists haven’t cleaned up too much and turned their spaces into galleries. You get to see all kind of things that maybe the artists don’t want you to see (unless they’ve re-arranged their book shelves and CD collections as well). We have covered many open days on these pages…
And yes these open days are free and open to all. When? Friday 23 October, 5pm to 8pm / Saturday 24 October, 11am to 5pm
Deborah House, Retreat Pl, London E9 6RJ
Martello, 10 Martello Terrace, London Fields, Hackney London E8 3PE
Bridget Riley Studio, Dace Road, Hackney Wick, London, E3 2NG
Previously on these pages…
3: How to be in the Future: A Future Senorium at Chisenhale Studios – There’s an opening on 27th October 6pm until 9pm and then the show runs from 27th October until 1st November 2026 – “Salon for a Speculative Future presents: How to be in the Future: A Future Sensorium showcasing interdisciplinary artists exploring spatial sensibility through sound, movement, sculpture, print and film”.
“A Future Sensorium brings together eight women artists who examine our relationship to space, place, and memory from a multi-sensory perspective. Each work invites the viewer to experience and expand their sensory awareness whilst also exploring our sense of place, belonging and togetherness. The exhibition features sound sculpture, sonic voicing, rhythmic movement, body scan sculptures and moving image works. As Maurice Merleau-Ponty noted: “Our bodies are the anchors of our spatial experience. Every action and movement we make inherently ties time and space together”.”
Chisenhale Studios are found at 64–84 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ. There’s an opening on 27th October 6pm until 9pm and then the show runs from 27th October until 1st November 2026. Live Performances: Tuesday, 27 October, 6:30 – 7:30 pm / Sunday, 1 November: 2:30 – 3:30 pm
4: Caroline Yates and Arthur Neal, Role-Play at 155A Gallery – on now and until 31st October – “In Role-Play, Caroline Yates and Arthur Neal share the language of paint but speak it in distinctly different ways. Both are explorers, interested less in arriving at a fixed image than in discovering what a painting might become”.
“A two-person show is an interesting proposition. Bring two different artists together and the exhibition becomes a discursive space: a conversation that opens up possibilities for poetic synergies as well as intriguing contradictions. In Role-Play, Caroline Yates and Arthur Neal share the language of paint but speak it in distinctly different ways. Both are explorers, interested less in arriving at a fixed image than in discovering what a painting might become. Both painters live and work on the Kent coast, but hold past connections to the local area in SE London. The show comprises two floors of recent paintings”.
155A Gallery is found at 155A Lordship Lane, London, SE22 8HX. The space is open on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 11am until 5.30pm.
5: Open Return at Terrace Gallery – opening night Thursday 29th October, the show then runs until Sunday 15th November – Another artist-led group show at the modest gallery by Haggerston railway station, North East London, once again with a number of London’s artists who have featured on these pages. “Open Return, curated by Christina Niederberger, Emma lilly and Lucyjagger, brings together 16 artists whose work connects with ideas of repetition.
“Just as we can never return to exactly the same place and natural repetition leads to evolution, so repetition inevitably produces difference or change. Repeated forms or actions generate innovation, upend predictability and reshape meaning”.
“The paintings collected here use various kinds of repetition – playful formal exploration, attitude of obsessive return, a means of operating in the space of not-knowing, a response to digital reiteration – to create and destabilise pictorial logic, to play with ideas of space and time, echo and return, the space between geometry and gesture, constraint and expression, and object and image. This show sees iterative making as resisting predictability rather than reinforcing it, making it a dynamic and generative force in contemporary painting”.
Terrace Gallery is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm, opening night Thursday 29th October (6-8.30pm), the show then runs until Sunday 15th November. Terrace Gallery is hidden down the alley beneath the train line by the railway bridge at 4 Frederick Terrace, Haggerston, Hackney, London E8 4EW. Find it just a short walk from Haggerston Overground station.
Recently at Terrace…
And one piece of advanced news while we’re here…
2: Caitlin Flood-Molyneux – Reclaim at Pure Evil Gallery – Opening night, 6th November (Pure Evil Gallery is another one of those spaces who feel it is all about the opening night and don’t even bother telling us how longs these shows are on for. Hey some of us prefer to avoid opening nights and people standing in the way of the art, give us the rest of the damn details, we’d far rather go on a quiet Friday afternoon!) Right then, got it from the artist’s mouth, it runs until 19th November
Always good to see new work from Welsh artist Caitlin Flood-Molyneux, there’s a difference to the way Caitlin’s work flows: “We’re so excited to announce Reclaim, a brand new solo exhibition by Caitlin Flood-Molyneux, opening November 6th with us at Pure Evil Gallery, Shoreditch, East London. This is Caitlin’s first solo show since Going Away in Order to Return in 2024, Reclaim is a completely new body of paintings exploring the idea of reclaiming the parts of ourselves that can become defined by fear, loss and everything we’ve been through”.
“Caitlin Flood-Molyneux is a contemporary artist based in South Wales. Their practice explores the relationship between pop culture imagery and the ways in which we attach emotion and memory to images, using mixed-media techniques to express subjective experiences of hardship. Caitlin has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, with work shown at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in London. In 2024, they were shortlisted for the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 and attended the conference in Botswana as a delegate. More recently, they delivered a TED Talk at the Senedd, the Welsh Parliament building, and have been featured in publications including Elle, GQ, and The Financial Times. Alongside a recent collaboration with Seminal which saw their artwork translated onto clothing stocked by Next, Flood-Molyneux was awarded Welsh Visual Artist of the Year by KLAT” Caitlin also featured in a number of Cultivate shows back there before all that, Cultivate been an Organ thing of course, a gallery run as part of Organ, featured on the pages of Organ as well of course.
“Caitlin Flood-Molyneux’s work is both deeply personal and universally resonant, charting key moments from their life through bold imagery and vibrant colour. The resulting body of work forms a private yet enigmatic visual narrative, inviting viewers to forge their own emotional connections and interpretations. Caitlin is busy creating new work in the studio right now, and we can’t wait to share more with you…” so said someone from Pure Evil Gallery…
Pure Evil Gallery is at 108 Leonard Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4XS. Opening night is 6th November 2026, 6-9pm. The show then runs until 19th Nvember. The exhibition is curated by Carys Worsdale; “Everyone is welcome. Come and join in the celebration. Link in bio to reserve your ticket for the opening” well here’s that link
That’s all folks. Did you check out all the Frieze coverage?
