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Persistence of Form
Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Persistence of Form, an exhibition exploring the dialogue between jewellery and functional art through a shared language of composition across scale. Bringing together leading female voices from the gallery’s roster, the show highlights how jewellery extends naturally from each artist’s broader sculptural practice—shaping, framing and activating space, from interiors to the body. Ingrid Donat transforms bronze, parchment and wood through her signature scarification technique. In works such as Bibliothèque Quatre Saisons and Commode 14 Tiroirs, intricate hand-worked surfaces elevate functional objects into sculpture. A similar attention to relief appears in Aki Cooren’s Tiss-Tiss Ring, whose linen-imprinted texture translates textile softness into metal—demonstrating how rhythm and surface unite wearable and functional forms. Léa Mestres introduces play and humour through colourful, anthropomorphic works. Crafted in her custom plaster “lélélite,” Nene balances whimsy with structural precision, defining its surrounding space through volume and silhouette. For Ane Christensen, sculpture moves fluidly between table and hand. Ghost Bowl and Shallow Ring share a pared-back geometry that frames emptiness as an active element, revealing jewellery as an exercise in spatial thinking. The exhibition also honours Line Vautrin, whose brooches and Soleil à Pointes n° 4 bridge adornment and reflective sculpture—embodying the show’s central idea: jewellery as intimate object and architectural presence. Additional artists include Gabriella Crespi, Johanna Grawunder, Ika Kuenzel, Charlotte Perriand, Simon Prouvé and Najla El Zein, whose works further explore the relationship between material, form and function across scales.
Komorebi
Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Komorebi, an exhibition of new lighting by Paris-based studio Aki+Arnaud Cooren. Known for serene, dreamlike designs rooted in nature, the duo expand their ongoing Ishigaki collection—lamps inspired by memories of freediving off Japan’s Ishigaki Island. The exhibition takes its name from komorebi, the Japanese word for sunlight filtering through leaves. This shifting interplay of light and shadow shapes the Ishigaki lamps, where bamboo, metal and linen merge in an abstract dialogue of fabric, liquid and light. A carbon-metallic base supports a bamboo stem and delicate linen shade, casting an upward glow that creates a soft, ocean-like halo across the ceiling. Each piece is meticulously handcrafted and uniquely sculptural. Seven new floor lamps in sunset coral hues—drawn from coral formations around Ishigaki—introduce warm reddish-pink tones. Shadows drift across their surfaces like slow-moving water, blurring the boundaries between forest and sea. Minimal yet poetic, the exhibition marks the latest evolution of Aki+Arnaud Cooren’s Ishigaki collection—where nature, memory and light quietly converge.
Monolithic Theatre Performance in Notting Hill, London
An electrifying night of intimate performance, live music, and storytelling, where bold voices, raw emotion, and rhythm collide in celebration of the greats of jazz. Monolithic Theatre presents Four Jazz, a curated evening of four 20-minute monologue performances exploring intimacy, rhythm, and the interior lives of contemporary characters. Inspired by jazz as both structure and metaphor, the programme unfolds like a set of solos in conversation – where language, silence, and live music combine to create a night of bold, emotionally resonant theatre. Bringing together award-winning writers, internationally recognised actors, and an acclaimed composer, Four Jazz offers a series of distilled works that centre the inner life. Each piece stands alone, while together they form a rich, rhythmic exchange exploring love, faith, memory, artistry, politics, and the courage it takes to live fully in the present. The programme features writing by Roger Robinson, T. S. Eliot Prize–winning poet, and Caleb Azumah Nelson, award-winning author of Open Water and Small Worlds, alongside original work by Jade Alvara and Ogorchukwu Krysta Ozor. Performances are delivered by actors whose screen and stage credits include Mission: Impossible, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Top Boy, Polite Society, The Wheel of Time, FBI: International, and leading UK theatres including the National Theatre and the Royal Court. Original music for the full programme is composed by Leon Jean-Marie, an acclaimed composer and musician whose work spans music, film, fashion, and contemporary culture. His credits include collaborations with Soho House (Becoming One featuring Janelle Monáe), Vogue x Bvlgari, Google Pixel, Virgin Media, and LONGINES, alongside documentary scores for Netflix, ITV and Patagonia Films. His original score provides a cohesive sonic architecture across Four Jazz, deepening the emotional and rhythmic life of each piece.
Alex Garnett, Live Jazz & Dinner
Alex Garnett Returns to Ladbroke Hall for a jazz performance celebrating the legacy of alto saxophone great Lou Donaldson, best known for his soulful, blues-drenched approach to the instrument, deeply informed by the bebop language of Charlie Parker. Lou was always concerned with pleasing the people, reaching audiences far beyond the realm of hardcore jazz fans long before critics coined the term “crossover” music. Garnett follows Lou’s ethos: “We’re trying to get this music settled back down, ’cause it’s kinda gotten outta hand!” He promises an evening of blues-infused bebop classics drawn from the grooviest depths of the Blue Note vaults.
EXO Institute
Climate disruption, conflict, geopolitical tension, technological acceleration, and social fragmentation … we talk about them as separate problems. But they aren’t. They’re deeply interconnected – symptoms of systems – and mindsets – pushed to their limits. We need a new way of thinking – a new science – that can help us see these challenges differently. Because only then can we begin to solve them. Please join us for the launch of EXO Institute, an evening for the curious and open-minded. EXO exists to convene that important conversation: rigorously, responsibly, and without dogma. Our aim is not to offer easy answers, but to ask better questions—and to explore whether a more complete understanding of reality might help us move beyond the cycles of fear, fragmentation and short-term thinking that define the current moment. Nick Cook, James Hersov, and Siân Sutherland, co-founders of EXO will be joined on stage by extraordinary experts for this interactive evening.
Piano*Grafik Paloma León | Jessica In
Piano*Grafik presents an artistic collaboration between composer and pianist Paloma León and architect, creative coder and programme director at the UCL Bartlett school of Architecture, Jessica In. Piano*Grafik combines a unique contemporary composition, in a concert setting, influenced by digital imagery written in code. Paloma León is a Los Angeles–born, London-based contemporary classical composer and pianist known for her debut album Piano Music for Movies. León is recognised for composing complex, memory-based piano works that both honour and subvert the rigour of her classical training. Her music often reimagines material drawn from pop and hip-hop, which she views as a repurposing of classical traditions, a kind of double recycling. Her work spans multiple disciplines, including scoring for fashion shows such as Saul Nash (Milan Fashion Week) and Daniel Del Valle (London Fashion Week), as well as television and other media. León has also debuted original compositions at The Royal Albert Hall and has worked as a pianist at The Royal Festival Hall (BAFTA). Her influences range from Frédéric Chopin, George Gershwin, and John Adams to Arthur Russell and Dr. Dre. Jessica In is an architect, designer and creative coder. She currently freelances independently and collaboratively on architecture, design + installation projects while teaching at the Bartlett School of Architecture, where she is the Programme Director of the Design for Performance and Interaction Masters programme. She has a particular interest in physically embodied interactions that explore semantic and relational conditions between immaterial + virtual space. Her current work is specifically focused on drawing with code, machine learning and generative AI methods for spatial reconstruction and architectural speculation. She can also be found programming visuals for identity and performance, creating virtual environments for string marionettes as well as making industrial robots dance with light.
