Cultural Reforesting / Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival Residency Open Call
Accepting applications now!
RUPTUREXIBIT is proud to be a part of the Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival 2025. We are offering an opportunity for a four-week residency with a £250 stipend to an artist or artist collective with an established practice to develop work in response to the theme of Cultural Reforesting.
Creative Retreat
22-24 August, 2025
Our immersive and transformative retreats are designed for anyone seeking to explore their creativity in an inspiring, supportive setting. Hosted by artists and mentors Kate Howe and Sally Minns, our retreats cater to all creative individuals at any stage of their journey.
Invitational Residency
April, 2025
Sol Golden Sato, a painter, installation artist, and public agitator, joins RuptureXIBIT for a month-long residency. Sol’s mission is to “empower those who feel 'not empowered' to express themselves through art.”
Sol’s creative reach extends to the public through large-scale art projects in partnership with diverse communities.
Richmond Arts and Ideas Festival
13-29 June, 2025
RUPTUREXIBIT is proud to be participating in the second annual Richmond Arts & Ideas Festival. We will be hosting workshops, open studio times, a PV, and more.
Intensive Mentoring Residency
May, 2025
Shirley Archibald (b 1968) is an MFA graduate from University of Brighton Distinction (2023) and BA Fine Art graduate from Liverpool University 2:1 (1990). Her practice examines historical events from the positionality of a queer/neurodiverse/feminist perspective.
Invitational Residency
September, 2025
Sharyn Wortman’s practice explores liminal spaces that quiver on the edge of their own disappearance. She is constantly working to escape the boundaries of medium, and present her audience with realms of otherness.
Invitational Residency
November, 2025
Laura E. Migliorino. The Hidden Life of Books
Laura’s current photography project The Hidden Life of Books, explores various book collections with the goal of resurrecting history that has been forgotten, erased, marginalized and censored
Art Mentoring & Coaching: Examining and Expanding your Practice Workshops (Monthly)
Practice can be a powerful thing. It drives creative expression. It can feel distant and undefinable. Kate and their partner in practice, Sally will share what they have learned about life in the generative. They will explain how everyone, even with no training, can build a framework to support the urge and impulse to make and use inspiration and reference to find the individual generative which leads to the new.
In this workshop we will ask the questions:
What is it to BE an artist?
What IS practice?
Considering WHY and HOW we make and looking at the steps that can be taken to build and expand an individual sustainable practice.
We look forward to working with you.
RuptureXIBIT Spark Crit (Monthly)
Artist crits are often absent from our professional practices post education, so following the success of our group crits during our open call shows and residencies, we're currently focusing the energies of the studio on artists developing their individual practices.
Alongside bespoke practice mentoring, we have found crits to be the most powerful tool to help artists at all stages of their careers.
This crit will be held in the intimacy of our back studio space, where Kate and Sally will lead the sharing of work and supportive discussion with other artists.
NOTE: Please bring up to 1 piece of work or images of the work and lunch.
RuptureXIBIT Coffee Mornings with Sally (Fortnightly)
Join RuptureXIBIT mentor & resident artist Sally Minns for a relaxed get together of like-minded artists at our fortnightly coffee morning.
Join our Open Studio with Sol Golden Sato, Kate Howe, Sally Minns.
Art & Jazz Soirée: Spring Drinks, Live Music & Open Studio with Sol Golden Sato, Kate Howe, and Sally Minns
Katya Granova Private View
PRIVATE VIEW: Katya Granova, artist-in-residence at RuptureXIBIT (+Studio)
Open to the public on Hampton Wick's High Street, join us as we celebrate a brilliant month in the Front Gallery for painter and Rupture-alum, Katya Granova.
Feel free to join us at any time between 17:00 - 21:00 on the evening of 23rd November.
Katya Granova In Conversation
To begin the series of events at RuptureXIBIT's Hampton Wick gallery, Katya Granova will be hosting an artist talk, in conversation with RutpureXIBIT’s Kate Howe and Sally Minns.
They will discuss Granova’s artistic journey thus far, tell about her current practice, its roots in personal and political experiences, aspirations, and work process.
Topics include:
What is painting for her
Her artistic journey thus far
Aspirations and intuitions on the way
Other events in this series include a Private View and two open days in the Front Gallery to summarise her residency with RuptureXIBIT.
Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams.
Discover the world of collaborative poetry improvisation in three workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams. MORE INFO HERE.
Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams.
Discover the world of collaborative poetry improvisation in three workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams. MORE INFO HERE.
PRIVATE VIEW: Kate Howe Open Studios.
This June at RuptureXIBIT (+Studio), join us for our long-awaited Open Studio Event, featuring the new collection of work from Founding Artist in Residence Kate Howe. This special opportunity is your chance to take a peak behind the curtain and experience Howe’s practice in an intimate way during this crucial stage of their ongoing research project. RSVP HERE.
Kate Howe - Open Studios
This June at RuptureXIBIT (+Studio), join us for our long-awaited Open Studio Event, featuring the new collection of work from Founding Artist in Residence Kate Howe. This special opportunity is your chance to take a peak behind the curtain and experience Howe’s practice in an intimate way during this crucial stage of their ongoing research project. We’re excited to invite you all to join us from the 5th - 9th June for this event. Come explore the studios and discuss the work in the early stages of this expansive and important project.
Spring Residency: ‘2nd Shift’ Open Studio
From the Winners of our Residency Open Call, Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin, collective ’2nd Shift’ will be taking over Rupture’s Front Gallery for a three week experimental residency, beginning this Tuesday 14th May.
With a goal of amplifying the discourse around the impact of motherhood on artist’s careers (the ‘motherhood penalty’), ‘2nd Shift’ aims to minimise some of the existing hurdles for artist mothers, showcasing work in a professional and critical environment. ‘2nd Shift’ is a creative collaboration established by Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin in response to their own lived experience as artist-mothers. RSVP HERE!
Spring Residency: ‘2nd Shift’ Half-Term (Child friendly) Open Studio
From the Winners of our Residency Open Call, Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin, collective ’2nd Shift’ will be taking over Rupture’s Front Gallery for a three week experimental residency, beginning this Tuesday 14th May.
With a goal of amplifying the discourse around the impact of motherhood on artist’s careers (the ‘motherhood penalty’), ‘2nd Shift’ aims to minimise some of the existing hurdles for artist mothers, showcasing work in a professional and critical environment. ‘2nd Shift’ is a creative collaboration established by Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin in response to their own lived experience as artist-mothers. RSVP HERE!
Spring Residency: ‘2nd Shift’ Private View / Finissage
From the Winners of our Residency Open Call, Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin, collective ’2nd Shift’ will be taking over Rupture’s Front Gallery for a three week experimental residency, beginning this Tuesday 14th May.
With a goal of amplifying the discourse around the impact of motherhood on artist’s careers (the ‘motherhood penalty’), ‘2nd Shift’ aims to minimise some of the existing hurdles for artist mothers, showcasing work in a professional and critical environment. ‘2nd Shift’ is a creative collaboration established by Leonora Lockhart and Isis Dove-Edwin in response to their own lived experience as artist-mothers. RSVP HERE!
Collaborative Poetry Improvisation Workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams.
Discover the world of collaborative poetry improvisation in three workshops with Robin Vaughan-Williams. MORE INFO HERE.
The Entranced Essence Finissage
Finissage / Private View:
Saturday 4th May, 6pm - 9pm.
Our very special closing event, come and meet the artists and listen to live jazz from ‘Mood Indigo’. RSVP HERE.
Performance Event
Poetry & Performance Event:
Saturday 27th April, 6pm - 9pm.
Join us for an evening of poetry, performance and spoken-word, meet the artists and performers and explore the exhibition at this intimate event. RSVP HERE.
The Entranced Essence
RuptureXIBIT is proud to present upcoming Whole Studio Group Show ‘The Entranced Essence’.
Showcasing multidisciplinary work from over forty international artists, ‘The Entranced Essence’ will feature drawing, film, installation, painting, performance, and sculpture. During the show, there will be a poetry and performance evening, as well as a closing finissage with live music and more performances to be announced.
As part of ‘The Entranced Essence’ we’re inviting poets, performers and spoken-word artists to apply to our Open Call. Selected artists will be asked to perform at the event on Saturday 27th April.
‘The Entranced Essence’ is open:
Thursday 25th April - Saturday 4th May, 11am - 6pm daily.
Poetry & Performance Event:
Saturday 27th April, 6pm - 9pm.
Join us for an evening of poetry, performance and spoken-word, meet the artists and performers and explore the exhibition at this intimate event. RSVP HERE.
Finissage / Private View:
Saturday 4th May, 6pm - 9pm.
Our very special closing event, come and meet the artists and listen to live jazz from ‘Mood Indigo’. RSVP HERE.
A full programme of performances will be released very shortly, along with a full catalogue the show released upon opening Thursday 25th.
Shortlisted Artists:
Alison Poon, Anna Kiparis, Anya Tong, Atimanyu Vashishth, Bangte Xu, Bethenie Carriaga, Blandine Martin, Carrie Wu, Catriona Gray, Charlie Betts, Charon Hu, Darcy Whent, Debra Pollarini, Dina Jin Bae, Ella Deregowska, Emilija Pilaukstaite, Enxi Liu, Eva Merendes, Fan Yang, Fran Speicher, Jieming Lan, Kate Howe, Kirsten Franks, Lindsay Pickett, Lisa Heath, Louise French, Mandy Eugeniou, Marcy Richardson, Maria Bampali, Martin Wharmby, Maud Wheldon-Posner, Myungmin Liu, Nabil Aniss, Natalia Millman, Nelson, Olivia England, Olivia Hicks, Poojan Gupta, Qinyang Li, Rafael Pedrosa Dorado, Sally Minns, Sophia Rosenthal, Xiangxiang Huang, Xiaoqi Yang, Xuran Guo, Yanzi, Zhiyang Ding.
‘The Entranced Essence’ is curated by the Rupture team: Kate Howe, Sally Minns and Olivia England.
ArtCan - Unravelled
International non-profit arts organisation, ArtCan, will be popping up in South West London this March for a dual venue group exhibition focused on its artist members working with fibre and textiles. ‘ArtCan - Unravelled’ is co-curated by ArtCan members Catherine Sweet and Melanie Jordan.
The exhibition will be in two halves, including in the front gallery space at RuptureXIBIT in Hampton Wick between 11th - 17th March, plus, running concurrently, ArtCan will have a dedicated pop-up space at the Landmark Arts Centre during their bi-annual Contemporary Textiles Fair (15th - 17th March). The venues are 10 minutes from one another on public transport.
RuptureXIBIT will be open 10am - 6pm from Monday - Saturday, plus 10am - 2pm on Sunday. The Landmark Arts Centre will be open 10am - 5pm over the weekend, with a preview on Friday evening.
Jacqui Barrowcliffe - Residency
We’re extremely excited to have Jacqui at RuptureXIBIT for their residency this February. Their proposal drawing on the experimental nature of Rupture, with the enquiry of exploring connection and interaction with a space when physically absent from it.
"As a mother and sole parent to a school aged child and living in North Yorkshire, my access to artist residencies is very limited. The balance between my caring responsibilities and my art practice is a daily challenge. My immediate reaction to this residency open call is that I would love to, but I can't. The usual obstacles of distance, time, and childcare are a huge barrier to such opportunities. But then I stopped myself. What if I explore this and it becomes the work itself? My proposal, therefore, is an exploration of the relationship between motherhood, nature, and creative practice…”
- Excerpts from Jacqui's proposal.
💥 The residency runs from Tuesday 6th February 2024 - Monday 26th February 2024.
👉 Watch this space… more details coming soon! 👀
Whole Studio Takeover Group Show
🌟 We are delighted to announce the winners of our Winter ‘24 Whole Studio Takeover Open Call:
Ivet Monova @ivetmonova , Marta Burhan @bartamurhan , Samuel Capewell @samjcapewell , Didi Hu @didihudidi , Rudi Noble @rudi.__ and Otis Chetwynd-Woods @@otiscw , who will curating their own Whole Studio Show, which runs from 30th January - 5th February... More details to be announced soon! 🤩
👉 This Whole Studio Takeover runs from 30th January 2024 - 5th February 2024.
🔥 More details to be announced soon! 👀
Lawless Imagination - Finissage
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.
Lawless Imagination - Performance Event
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.
Private View: Martin Wharmby
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.
SHOP EVENT
Our Front Gallery has been transformed back into a SHOP from now open until mid-October. featuring new and exciting artwork from our Artists in Residence Sally Minns, Kate Howe and Rupture Alum Guy Shoham.
To celebrate Frieze London, we invite you to our SHOP Event, Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th October, 11am - 6pm. Meet the artists and buy original artwork and limited edition prints! SEE FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS AND BOOKING LINKS HERE!
Rebecca Lacey 'Semper Femina'
'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.
PRIVATE VIEW: '_In Flux'
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
RSVP HERE!
HEAT PRIVATE VIEW
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.
RSVP HERE!
Garance Paule Querleu: My History of Difference.
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: enter the f/ol\d: somatic/ artistic artmaking. (Afternoon Session)
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: enter the f/ol\d: somatic/ artistic artmaking. (Morning Session)
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/
Katya Granova: Abstraction to Figuration.
Join us for a five day intensive and experimental workshop led by artist and curator Katya Granova. This workshop will focus on how abstracted imagery can flow into figuration and vice-versa. By looking at how the materiality of paint can inform our painterly decisions and how we can find inspiration from accidents and mistakes, participants will have the chance to play and creatively merge three artistic techniques. Through monotype prints, the Gerhard Richter technique and paint dripping on wet paper, we will create diverse abstract images and explore new insights to employ into our unique artistic languages.
Through individual tutorials, analysing relevant sources and ideas, exchanges and group discussion, we will transform our abstracted images into figurative forms. Viewing the creative process as a journey, instead of a purpose oriented task, we can explore visual languages and delve into different sides of ourselves and our practice.