We’re excited to invite you all to our next Group Show ‘Lawless Imagination’. This multidisciplinary show from international artists opens on the 30th November until 9th December, 11am - 6pm daily.

We’re excited to invite you all to our next Group Show ‘Lawless Imagination’. This multidisciplinary show from international artists opens on the 30th November until 9th December, 11am - 6pm daily.

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We’re excited to invite you all to our next Group Show ‘Lawless Imagination’. This multidisciplinary show from international artists opens on the 30th November until 9th December, 11am - 6pm daily.

Join us for an evening of performance, poetry and spoken word on Saturday 2nd December, 6pm - 9pm.

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Martin Wharmby studied product design in the late fifties and worked as a designer in industry for several years before founding Wharmby Associates, a specialist product design consultancy. In 2014 he completed a masters in drawing at UAL Wimbledon and since then has continued to draw, paint and make things, reflecting his interest in accessible art and expressing ideas in a 'getable', almost commercial way. How objects are designed and constructed are (unfashionably) important to him. A working life as a product designer has been a strong influence.

'An Exhibition celebrating the resilience and vulnerability of women and the ever changing female state, expressed through the elemental flow of our connection with nature ' 

Open 12pm- 6pm Daily from the 7th - 13th September.

PV: 9th September 6pm-9pm

Rebecca Lacey is an Abstract Painter and an Actor . Her Art is expressive and gestural using colour and form. Her practice begins by connecting with whatever is going on within her ; holding states of being and then "getting out of her own way" and seeing what happens as the paint hits the paper . She believes it is in the gaps between conscious thoughts where life and creativity grow and happen. She studied Fine Art Foundation at Richmond School of Art and has subsequently been self-taught . She had her first solo exhibition in 2020 and her second at RuptureXIBIT in 2022 . She has been a professional Actor since her youth, working across all mediums . Appearing in many popular television shows and frequently on stage in the West End and most recently at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon -Avon.

in Flux is an exciting and diverse group show from recent RCA and Slade graduates! curated by Daisy Wang, Celeste Viv Ly and Cherry Song.

Join us for the LAST party of Summer!

Opening: 31 August 6-9pm
31 August - 5 September 2023 11am-6pm
6 September 2023 11am-4pm

Participating Artists:
Sophie Mei Birkin @sophie.m.e.i , Fiza Ghauri @fizaghauri , Kaiona Gruspe @quinoa__salad , Peter James Nasielski @peterjames.design , Claudia Rose @claudia___rose , Marcos Wolodarsky @marcoswolodarsky , Jiayu Zhang @jiayuzhang.art , Hal H. Lewis @haaaallllllllllll , Anouk Verviers @anouk.verviers , Daisy Wang @daisydiziiii , Celeste Viv Ly @virtio.djvu , Cherry Song @rvouger

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JOIN US FOR THE CLOSING PARTY OF ‘HEAT’ AND ENJOY THE LAST MOMENTS OF SUMMER IN OUR TROPICAL GARDEN BEFORE WE CLOSE THE REAR STUDIOS FOR AUTUMN!

‘HEAT’ serves as a celebration of hot new talent emerging from various corners of the country and is an exceptional opportunity for artists to engage with a broader audience and connect with fellow creatives. Selected artworks will be displayed at RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) from Tuesday 22nd August - Saturday 26th August, with the finissage on the 26th August from 6pm - 9pm.

‘HEAT’ will showcase multidisciplinary artworks in our most ambitious group show to date. At RuptureXIBIT, we provide artists with the opportunity to show experimental work, in an environment that allows you to take risks and push the boundaries of your practice in search of the New.

The exhibition will be open between 11am – 6pm on Tuesday 22nd August - Saturday 26th August

Finissage Night Saturday 26th August 6pm - 9pm.

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The Collective Imaginaries is a play amongst images and poetics of inner worlds. It is a moment of becoming homo narrans, curandera, poet. Storytellers, healers, poets. Becoming Carers of the World without, by caring for the World within. Nourishing the World within, With the Winds and Waves, of the World Without.

The Collective Imaginaries stimulate Symbolic expression using visual, poetic and embodied art forms. Inspired by Indigenous traditions of Narrative Medicine, the ateliers hope to encourage the visibility of Narrative Medicine as a much needed system of Humane and Creative care, for the Visibly and Invisibly Wounded.

In this particular atelier, participants will be accompanied in exploring their “History of Difference” through Symbolical storytelling and Positive Imagination. The creative sessions are interwoven with Practices of Care facilitated by healers, including Somatic Dance and Music Therapy.

Susan Sentler, from her shared research practice with Glenna Batson:

the f/ol\d as somatic/artistic practice

What can a fold be? A vessel, womb, pocket, pleat, crease, cavern … an/other way to enter

corporeality through the discovery of the vibrancy of thinginess.  In this time together, we will

explore the f/ol\d – a practice of somatic/artistic making – of letting things appear.* The f/ol\d

becomes alchemical through improvised languaging, gesture and collaging of material and

media. Come dive into and out of our enfolded topographies.

Participants will partner with material/media – paper, fabric, photography, text, drawing, and

filming. The mix of materials with moving matter helps to propagate a multiplicity of

possibilities, becoming an archive/anarchive** of process.

* from Tufnell & Crickmay 1988 A Widening Field: journeys in body and imagination.

**anarchive, https://3ecologies.org/immediations/anarchiving/anarchive-concise-definition/

Susan Sentler, from her shared research practice with Glenna Batson:

the f/ol\d as somatic/artistic practice

What can a fold be? A vessel, womb, pocket, pleat, crease, cavern … an/other way to enter

corporeality through the discovery of the vibrancy of thinginess.  In this time together, we will

explore the f/ol\d – a practice of somatic/artistic making – of letting things appear.* The f/ol\d

becomes alchemical through improvised languaging, gesture and collaging of material and

media. Come dive into and out of our enfolded topographies.

Participants will partner with material/media – paper, fabric, photography, text, drawing, and

filming. The mix of materials with moving matter helps to propagate a multiplicity of

possibilities, becoming an archive/anarchive** of process.

* from Tufnell & Crickmay 1988 A Widening Field: journeys in body and imagination.

**anarchive, https://3ecologies.org/immediations/anarchiving/anarchive-concise-definition/

Here at RuptureXIBIT we are proud to be taking part in Arts Richmond’s ‘Art House Open Studios Festival’ this month. This festival is a chance for artists and craftspeople across Richmond upon Thames to open their homes, studios and community venues to members of the public and gives visitors a chance to explore our artistic community and engage with artists, designers & makers from all corners of the borough. We are opening our studios to seven artists who will displaying their work in our garden studio and garden from the 14th - 24th July. These artists are: Stephen King, Mairi McLeod, Caroline Priestley, Michelle Hawes, Sallie Eley, Lee Kay and Catherine Sweet. 

This is your opportunity to visit creative spaces all across the borough, connecting with the artists themselves to browse, chat and explore!

Friday 14th - Monday 24th July

Open 11am - 6pm, Monday - Saturday

Private View 19th July, 6-8pm

Amelie is a London based artist and textile designer who, for the first time at RuptureXIBIT Gallery, will be exhibiting a unique collection of contemporary artworks, painted in handmade oak gall ink on pure linen. 

Visitors can expect to view ten wall hung artworks including three large-scale pieces as well as a display of oak galls. The materials required for extracting the ink and a note of its history. Also, a selection of Amelie’s linen cushions, hand painted in oak gall ink, will be shown. 

Each individual artwork starts with a solid wash of oak gall ink and It is only through the removal of the ink that the paintings start to be revealed. The works are abstract yet contain a bold geometric structure. Some linen pieces have been cut and stitched back together to look like relics from the past and in some instances, threads have been left deliberately exposed on the edges of the canvases, as if fragments of historic cloth or textile. 

Amélie seeks the opportunity to inspire others to further consider their part in the global industries of art and textiles. Challenging ideas and preconceptions about what traditional artists’ materials might be, where they come from and how they are derived. 

In this exhibition, Amelie aims to draw people’s attention on the subtlety and beauty of natural dyes and inks, how stunning it is as a medium to work with.

Open:

Friday 14th July, 12pm – 6.00pm (PV 6pm - 9pm)

Saturday 15th – Wednesday 19th July, 11.00am – 7pm 

Thursday 20th July, 11.00am – 6.00pm

Showing at RuptureXIBIT, close to the heart of Kingston, 'Fledglings' a celebration of the artists time studying and working here, as they approach graduation, welcoming a time of change and departure. 'Fledglings', reflects a collective angst felt as the group ‘flies the nest’ : although some flight feathers have been developed under the guidance and support of the Kingston tutors, this show will be their first solo venture. It also describes the final opportunity to collectively show work in the same location, before flying in different directions.