Rupture’s Founder and Artist in Residence Kate Howe, talks about RuptureXIBIT and our ethos with Wenyi Qian and Jiachen Zeng, curators of the Wild Parlour Philosophy Collective’s whole studio takeover ‘Alternative Airport’, May 2023.
Shots from Georgios Mavridis’ ‘Everything Flows’ PV.
Shots from the PV of OUB’s ‘Coming to Our Senses’
Mood Indigo Jazz Band, performing in our Tropical Garden.
RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) is an artist-run space in Hampton Wick, London. A 30-minute train ride from Waterloo, 20 minutes from Clapham Junction, a five minute walk from the centre of Kingston Upon Thames and steps away from the station in Hampton Wick.
Suitable for solo and group shows
Highly competitive rates
Promotion of your show across numerous platforms
Support from an experienced in-house team
We offer a 350 sq. ft. High Street shop-front gallery. Additional 800 sq. ft. and 360 off-street sq. ft. exhibition and studio spaces available.
RuptureXIBIT exists to encourage the development of artistic practice in all disciplines, focusing on showing rather than selling. While artists are welcome to sell their work, our purpose is to highlight the potential for growth that comes from conversations that arise during a show. Read more about our ethos in the Rupture Manifesto HERE.
This experimental space runs out of the studio of RCA painting alumnus Kate Howe. RuptureXIBIT is shared as a flexible exhibition space to give artists an affordable place to expand and define their practice by showing their experimental work and talking about it across disciplines and communities devoid of hierarchy. Experimental means experimental to you: how you ask more of your practice. We accept proposals based on the artist’s desire to develop through showing.
RuptureXIBIT is interested in the new, and believes the new comes from an engagement with a willingness to stretch, push, and fail. We are a lab, a workout space, a place to try things you are unsure of. We are your trampoline.
To apply for an exhibition we require the following:
A written proposal for your show (up to 500 words). This describes your concept for the show
Up to ten images of work. This is a portfolio of current work, which should represent what you intend to show
A statement (up to 500 words) about why or how your practice will benefit from showing at the RuptureXIBIT Gallery. This is where you can talk about how you hope to push yourself and your practice by showing in the space, and talk about experimental ideas
We ask that you include the following with the proposal, should we accept your show:
An artist bio (max 250 words)
A brief description of your show for social media (150 - 200 words)
A brief description of your show for our website (up to 250 words)
Nicki Rolls’ ‘Carbon and Cellulose’.
Kate Howe’s ‘…and Feathered’.
What You Get:
A typical show includes:
An exhibition in the front gallery, the front gallery plus garden, or the front gallery, garden, and rear gallery.
Advertising of your show on all of our social media platforms.
Advertisement of your show on prominent art sites including Art Rabbit and others.
Use of our ARTSVP booking system.
Oversight of your installation by our Project Manager.
Coverage in our zine/newsletter.
Subject to availability, support of our local volunteer network to work your PV and help to invigilate shows.
An opportunity to talk about your work to a wide and diverse audience of art lovers.
You can hold events in the space during the show. People hold talks, lectures, podcasts, catalog launches, crits, drawing days, and workshops.
The emphasis is on the development of your practice and professional skills. We are not a traditional gallery.
All sales go directly through the artist. Artists are required to donate 30% of their overall sales back to the studio.
A quick fly-through of the space to give you an idea of the unique opportunity that this unusual, artist-run, flexible exhibition space offers your practice.
Please note the final room with the stove is the private studio of the artist in residence, and is open during PVs at the artist’s discretion.
*In order to accept your images our form requires you to use a Google email address. If this isn’t possible please email info@rupturexibit.com for a form.
