In The Company Of

In The Company Of

Joshua Armitage, Charlie Billingham, Ray G. Brown, George Butler, Dan Curtis, Anna Frijstein, Tom Hammick, Anna Ill, Jimmy Merris, Isabel Munoz-Newsome, Martha Lamont, Thomas Langley, Neil Raitt, Kitty Rice, Sophie Sekine, Frances Stanfield, Gianna T, Melania Toma & Luana Duvoisin Zanchi

Opening Reception: 18 July 2025 | 6-8pm

Join us for a walkthrough of the exhibition on Saturday 6th September at 11am. Please RSVP.

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Open Thursdays & Fridays 12-6pm, and by appointment the rest of the week
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The gallery is pleased to announce 'In The Company Of', a group exhibition of selected artists who practice in the surrounding streets of the gallery.

Showcasing painting, sculpture, photography, ceramic, video and textiles the exhibition highlights the wealth and range of emerging and established artists working in South East London today.

The exhibition concludes on the 5th & 6th September with the South Bermondsey Art Trail, a two day event of open studios, exhibitions and creative events set up by Sid Motion Gallery to celebrate the breadth and diversity of artists and creatives working around the gallery.

Artist Biographies  

Joshua Armitage (b.1986, UK) graduated from Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Selected exhibitions include: ‘The Good Intent’. Guest Gallery, Brooklyn, USA, 2024; a presentation at The Sunday Painter Gallery (as part of Condo), curated by Lulu Gallery, Mexico City, 2020; ‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers’, South Parade, London, 2021 and ‘Moderato Cantabile’, Stoppenbach and Delestre, London, 2022. Through 2023 Josh worked on a self-initiated residency project with Wakefield based artist Zoë Carlon resulting in a publication and exhibition in Leeds and London.

Charlie Billingham (b.1984, UK) graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2013. Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Views on Floral Patterns’, Hayward Gallery Cafe, London, 2025; ‘Frocks and Buckles’, Paul Smith, London, 2025; ‘Solitaire’, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, Mexico, 2024; ‘Habillé pour le Week-End’, Bernier/Eliades, Brussels, 2023; ‘Swell’, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain, 2022; ‘Hand Gestures’, Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2020; ‘A Rake’s Progress’, SCAD Museum, Savannah, US, curated by Humberto Moro, 2020; ‘Cornucopia’, MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico, 2019. Group shows include: ‘LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE’, IV Industrial Art Biennale of Croatia, 2023; ‘Within Reach’, Sid Motion Gallery, London, 2022; ‘Pounding The Pavement’, Galería Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2022; ‘Landscapes of Desire’, The 4th Art Biennal, Labin, Croatia, 2022; ‘REIGEN-A’, Fabian Lang Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, 2021 and ‘New Old Histories’, Kasmin Gallery, New York, US, 2021. His work is part of the permanent collections at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, FR; David Roberts Art Foundation, UK; Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy; Saatchi Collection, United Kingdom; Fundación Calosa, Mexico; Ramin Salsali Private Museum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Franks-Suss Collection, London, United Kingdom; HSBC Collection, London, United Kingdom; and Pérez Simón Collection, Mexico. 

Ray G Brown (b.1987, UK) graduated from School of Art, Architecture and Design (London Metropolitan University) with a BA Furniture Making & Product Design in 2016. He had the solo exhibition ‘Spiritus Mundi’ with Disegno Design Journal at 9 French Place, London in 2019. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Peter Marigold Selects’, Brompton Design District, London Design Festival, 2020; ‘31 Thurloe Place’, London, 2019; ‘Go Eco’, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, UK, 2029; ‘London Craft Week Launch, I You All’, Coal Drops Yard, London, 2018; ‘TRANS-FORM’, London Design Festival, Mint Shop, London, 2018; ‘Designers Select Designers’, Aram Gallery, London, 2018 and Craeftiga Award (shortlisted), Hole & Corner, London, 2018.

George Butler (b.1985, UK) is a British artist and reportage illustrator known for drawing conflict zones, climate issues, humanitarian crisis and social issues He has written and published two books, one disbanding the myths of migration Drawn Across Borders and the most recent recording first hand testimonies alongside drawings in Ukraine. Published in the UK, USA, Japan and China. Collaborations include Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo on two books ‘War Horse’ and ‘When Fishes Flew’. Butler is a TED Fellow and TEDX speaker, and has lectured this year at Brown College, Georgetown University, Davidson College, Chicago School of Art, Edinburgh and Cambridge art collages. His works made in Syria and Ukraine are held in V&A Museum in London as part of the National Archive. He was commissioned by the National Army Museum to document the British Army's response to Covid. Notable awards include in ASME Awards in the USA in 2023, V&A Illustration Award, 2014, Breakaway Award at the International Media Awards presented by Don McCullin in 2014. In 2023 he was shortlisted for the prestigious Kate Greenaway Award. Butler is a founder of Action Syria, a NGO he started in 2014 in the UK to support doctors and teacher salaries in Syria, this work later grew to cover Turkey and now Lebanon. To date Action Syria has raised over 9 million. In 2022 George was the official artist of the CoExistence campaign which raised £2million GBP for conservation projects in Asia. 

Dan Curtis is a visual artist and writer based in London. Curtis graduated from the University of Arts London with an MFA in Fine Art in 2017. Selected solos and group exhibitions include: Gloam Gallery, Leeds, (forthcoming); ‘Vacant’, Old Sessions House, London, 2025; ‘Half Life’, Pictorem Gallery, London, 2025, ‘Dam Zine: Selected Works’, JRNY Gallery, Las Vegas, 2024; ‘Why Paint Like That?’,  Winns Gallery, London, 2024; ‘Lets Talks About Intuition’,  Pictorem Gallery, London, 2024; ‘WIP’, The Wasps, Glasgow, 2023; ‘Digital Dreams’, Mu sée de la Mine, Artour Biennale, Belgium, 2023; ‘Futr’,  Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, 2023; ‘Hacker House’, 150 Brick Lane, London, 2022; ‘Studio Makers’, Outset X, Studio Makers Prize Award show, London, 2018 and ‘Imagine a Man’, Clifford Chance Sculpture Award, London, 2018. Curtis is currently Head of Artist and Collector Education at Exchange Art  and Co-Director/Founder of Picnic Gallery London, 2018-2020.

Anna Frijstein (b. 1991, The Netherlands) graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA Performance in Contemporary Art Practice in 2019. Selected solo and group exhibitions include: ‘I am more than porridge’, DKUK, London, 2025; ‘Sorry about the mess’, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 2025; ‘Lions & Unicorns’, Fifty Years of Royal College of Art Alumni, White Conduit Projects, London, 2025; ‘TENDED’, performance, Somers Gallery, London, 2023; ‘YOBITSUGI: Beyond Repair’, White Conduit Projects, London, 2022; ‘RiverRun’, Lighthouse Poole, Dorset, 2021; ‘Feeling both things at once’, UK Mexican Arts Society, London, 2021; ‘RiverRun’, Durlston, 2021; ‘Touchy Touch Touched’, Greatorex Street Studios, London, 2021; ‘Into the Light’, PZ Studios, Penzance, 2021; ‘no-longer-being-able-to-be-able’, Skelf & Hang Li, London, 2020 and ‘FEET_FOR_ALL’, virtual performance, Rietveld Fine Arts, Amsterdam, 2020.

Tom Hammick (b. 1963, UK) received an MA Printmaking from Camberwell College in 1992.  Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘My Sister's Garden’, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, London, 2022; ‘Night Paintings and Woodcuts’, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 2022; ‘Nightfire’, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery London, 2020; ‘Dark Woods of England’, Gallerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany, 2020; ‘Miles to go before I sleep’, Paul Smith London, 2020; ‘Lunar Voyage’, United Kingdom, United States and Canada, 2017–2019; ‘Night Animals, New Paintings’, Flowers Gallery, London, 2019. His work is part of the permanent collections Arts Council of Northern Ireland,  Bank of America-London,  Bank of Montreal, Toronto, Benneton Collection, The Biblioteque National, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, British Copyright Council, British Museum (Collection of Prints and Drawings), Deutsche Bank, Chinese Academy of Fine Art, Estee Lauder Collection, Merryl Lynch, The Library of Congress Print Collection, USA, Minesotta Art Gallery Collection, New York Library Collection, Towner Gallery Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum collection of Prints and Drawings and Yale Centre for British Art, U.S.A. Hammick previously taught as Head of Fine Art and Printmaking at The University of Brighton. 

Anna Ill (b. 1990, Spain) received a MA Art and Space, Kingston University in 2017, and a BA Textile Art, Escola Massana in 2014. She previously studied at Décoration and Surfaces Treatment, École Boulle, 2015. Notable exhibitions include: ‘On texture’, Paris design week, Espace Coutures Saint Gervais, Paris (upcoming),  ‘A(R)MOUR’, curated by Núria Bitria. L&B Gallery & Wittmore Hotel, Barcelona, 2023; ‘ET ELISSA DEVINT DIDON’, curated by Natàlia Chocarro, commissioned by Vila Casas Foundation, Casa Cultural la Mercè, Girona, 2021; ‘HOW TO DISAPPEAR’, supported by Sala Art Jove Prize, with an exhibition at Filet Space, London, 2020. 

Jimmy Merris (b. 1983, UK). Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Painted Prints’ (with Gillian Ayres and Liorah Tchiprout), Marlborough Gallery, London, 2023; ‘There Will Be Tears’, Luca’s Gallery, London, 2023; a solo presentation at Seventeen, Frieze Art Fair, 2017; ‘Die Hoffnung’, Seventeen, London, 2016; ‘Life, eh, tut.’, SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow, 2015; ‘LONDON’, Bloomberg Space, London, 2013 and Frieze Projects: Film Commission, Frieze Art Fair, London, 2012. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘London Original Print Fair’, Marlborough Graphics, 2024 and 2023; ‘Dentons Art Prize’ (1st Prize), 2023, ‘Counter Acts’, UAL + Turner Prize, Lethaby Gallery, CSM, London, 2020; ‘Scenes of the Crimes’, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, 2019; ‘House of Voltaire’, Studio Voltaire, London, 2019; ‘Call Me’, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden, 2017; ‘Under a Thawing Lake’, Dark Arts International, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015; ‘Julie og Jimmy down ICA’ (performance with Julie Verhoeven), ICA, London, 2015 and ‘New City Art Prize’, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2014.

Isabel Muñoz-Newsome is a London based queer artist with Chilean and British heritage working across painting and musical performance, who graduated from the MA Painting programme at Royal College of Art in 2025. In 2023 Muñoz-Newsome curated ‘Woke Up Feeling Better’, Staffordshire Street Gallery with artists who have a visual and a performance practice;, Adam Christensen, Tom Hardwick-Allen, Tim Spooner, Eloise Fornielles, Fiontan Moran & Isabel Muñoz-Newsome. Muñoz-Newsome built a career in music releasing two albums with her band Pumarosa on Universal Music. The band was active from 2013 - 2023. She has worked extensively in theatre as a colour specialist and associate designer and assistant designer. Working on shows in London’s West End and on Broadway NYC and across Europe. 

Martha Lamont graduated from City and Guilds with an MA in Fine Art in 2023. Her selected exhibitions include: ‘Internal Current’, Wilder Gallery, London, 2025; 'Woolwich Print Fair’ with Soho Revue, London, 2024; ‘Will The Meadows Bloom Again’, Soho Revue, London, 2024; ‘ABG Emerging’, Alice Black Gallery, London, 2024; ‘London Print Fair’, Soho Revue, London, 2024; ‘Bloom’, Outhouse Gallery, London, 2024; ‘The Butterfly Effect’, D Contemporary, London, 2023; ‘Samhain’, Purslane Art, Virtual group fundraiser show, online, 2023; ‘Do You Too Have a Sensitive Mind?’ MA Degree Show, London, 2024 and ‘Come Play With Me’, El Castillete, Madrid, (2023)

Thomas Langley (b. 1986, London) graduated from the Royal Academy Schools, London in 2018. His selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Nest’, Liminal Gallery, Margate, 2024; ‘Ash and bone’, Changing Room Gallery x The House of St Barnabas, London, 2023; ‘Bodgers Hovel’, FOLD Gallery, London, 2022; ‘Ghia Coupe’, Casa da Cerca (institutional solo presentation), Almada, Portugal, 2021; ‘Courage’, MONO, Lisbon, 2020 and ‘Mummy’s boy’, collaborative representation between Cob gallery, Frestonian Gallery, Marian Cramer Projects, Charlie Smith London and Union Gallery, Camden, London, 2019. Selected group shows include; ‘Entangled’, Saatchi, London, 2025; ‘Confluences’, Cohle Gallery, Paris, 2024; ‘OSSOS’ (duo show with Tim Ralston), irmafeia, Lisbon, 2022; ‘Now, I wonder’, Lx Lapa, Lisbon, 2022; ‘Cruise control’, MONO, Lisbon, 2021; ‘Five Hides’, Thorp Stavri, London, 2020; ‘Summer (Winter) Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Art, London, 2020; ‘When shit hits the fan’, Guts Gallery, online, 2020; ‘Too Many I In Digital’, Marian Cramer, Amsterdam, 2019; ‘Full English’, Southwark Projects, London, 2019; ‘Get More Stuff’, The Function Suite, London, 2019; ‘Absinthe’, Spit and Sawdust, London, 2019; ‘Out of Office’, Pada, Lisbon, 2019; ‘Young Gods’, Charlie Smith Gallery, London, 2019 and ‘Telescope’, curated by Nigel Cooke, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, 2019.

Neil Raitt (b. 1986, Leicester) graduated from the MA Painting programme at the Royal College of Art in 2013. Selected group exhibitions include: Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming); ‘Floating Lands’, Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, 2024; ‘Tangerine Sunset’, Galerie Judin, Berlin, 2022; ‘Between a Rock and a Setting Sun’, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, 2021; ‘Imitation Sand’, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, 2018; ‘Misty Rock’, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, 2017; ‘Chasing Bridges’, The Cabin, Los Angeles, 2016; ‘Landscapetual’, Mon Chéri Gallery, Brussels, 2016 and ‘Fantasy Traveller’, Nicelle Beauchene, New York, 2016. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘Blissful Garden Concept’, Fronda Gallery, London, 2025; ‘PAPER’, Huxley Parlour Gallery, London, 2025; ‘The First Taste’, Anat Ebgi Gallery, New York, 2024; ‘Warming’, Calcio Ldn, London, 2023; Dallas Art Fair, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Dallas, 2023; ‘Good Company: Pt.1’, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, 2021; ‘ Staycation’, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, 2020; ‘Abstracted’, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, 2019 and ‘The Conversation’, Anat Ebgi at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, 2019.

Kitty Rice (b.1991, UK) graduated with a Diploma from the Royal Drawing School in 2022. Selected exhibitions include; Platform by David Zwirner, (Online), 2025; Zona Maco Art Fair with Jo-hs Gallery, Mexico City, 2025; ‘Fractured Solitudes’, Jo-hs Gallery, Mexico City, 2025; ‘Gloomy Sunday’, Koenig Gallery, Mexico City, 2024; ‘Embraces: A life Lived’, Rhodes Gallery, 2024; ‘Age of Aquarius’, The Graduate Gallery, London, 2024; ‘The Way of All Flesh’, Saatchi Gallery, 2024 and ‘Maison Palo’, Palo Gallery, New York, USA, 2023. Residencies include; Jo-hs Mexico City, 2024, Hanover Grange, Jamaica, 2023 and Pignano, Italy, 2022.

Sophie Sekine (b.1989) graduated from Goldsmiths University in 2025. Selected exhibitions include ‘Alexis+Sophie’23’, 71 Tranquil Vale, London, 2023; the co-curation of a film screening, organised during the futures_after collective residency with Hyphastudios at the abandoned Peacocks, Lewisham High Street, London, 2022 and ‘Holon’, HOXTON 253 Art Project Space, London, 2021. In 2022, Sekine participated in a residency with futures_after collective with Hyphastudios.

Frances Stanfield (b.1988, UK) received a first class degree in Illustration at University College Falmouth in 2011. In 2014 she was awarded a scholarship at The Royal Drawing School Central. With the London Drawing Group she has taught drawing online to over 100,000 people worldwide since 2020 on pay-what-you-can and free basis. Her selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Feeling’, Deptford Contemporary, London, 2021 and ‘Porn on Pause’, Lewisham Art House, London, 2017. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘I do this, I do that’, Bay Art, Cardiff, 2024; ‘Mutations’ Fitzrovia Gallery, London, 2023; ‘It’s Real Outside’, Deptford Contemporary, London, 2022; RA Summer Exhibition, Curated by Yinka Shonibare, The Royal Academy, London, 2021 and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2021.

Gianna T. graduated from the BA Fine Art program at the Academy of Fine Arts Urbino, Italy in 2017. Selected solo exhibitions include; ‘The Work of Being: Gianna T & Vincent Matuschuka’ curated by Kitty Gurnos-Davis, Wild Trumpets, London, (2025), ‘Life is Beautiful’ curated by Hector Campbell, 9 French Place, London, (2022). Selected groups exhibitions include; ‘ LAS Begins’, LAS, London, (2025), ‘As Small As Eyes’, Greatorex Street, London, (2024), ‘Living Rooms’, Uno Bis, Padua, (2024), ‘A Day as a Work of Art’, Royal College of Art, London, (2023), ‘The Maffioli Art Group’, Morrison & Foerster, London, (2022), ‘Softcore’, The Koppel Project, London, (2022), ‘Tides’, SETSETSET, London, (2022), ‘Meatspace’, The Koppel Project, London, (2022), ‘Zoonosi’, Metafore, Venice, (2020), ‘Gato Vermelho CIclo de Performance’Caldas de Rainha, (2020), ‘THE FUCKUPS FESTIVAL’, Studio Cromie Gallery, Grottaglie, (2019), ‘Absinthe vol. 3’, Collective Ending, London, (2019). 

Melania Toma (b. 1996, Italy). Selected solo exhibitions include: ‘Porous Bodies’, Collector Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 2025; ‘Five Hearts’, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, 2024; ‘As Soon as, the Sun Sets’, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London, 2023; ‘Cabin UTROBA’, Sarieva Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2022. Selected group exhibitions include: ‘The Cave in the Mind’, Ione & Mann, London, 2025; ‘Metamorphoses’, ABC-Arte, Milano, Italy, 2025; ‘Unreal City, Abstract Painting in London Now’, Saatchi Gallery, London 2024; ‘Re-Rooted: The Quiet Politics of Plants’, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, 2024; ‘Studio Responses IV’, Saatchi Gallery London, 2023; ‘Art Miami, Context, Miami, USA, 2023; ‘Sistema Tempo’, MO.CA: Centro Per Le Nuove Culture, Brescia, Italy, 2023; ‘MATTER’, Flowers Gallery, London, 2023; ‘Soft Monuments’, Frestonian Gallery, London, 2023; ‘2 for 1: A dialogue with the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals’, Thorp Stavri, HAZE, Hypha Studios, London, 2023; \London Design Biennale’, Italian Pavilion with Triennale Milano, Somerset House, London, 2023; ‘Dopo il fuoco, sotto la cenere’, Condotto48, Roma, Italy, 2023; ‘From the Rattle’, FOLD Gallery, London, 2023; ‘In the Garden’, San Mei Gallery, London, 2022; ‘Ingram Prize’, UNIT 1 Gallery, London, 2022; ‘Pigeon Park II’, Pigeon Park Project, London, 2022; ‘17th International Triennial of Tapestry of Poland’, Centralne Muzeum Wlòkiennictwa, Lodz, 2022; ‘Nocturnal Creatures, for Whitechapel Gallery and SZN’: Summer, SEASON, London, 2022; ‘Daughters of Pacha’, Roksanda Ilcic, London, 2022; ‘The Dinner Table’, San Mei Gallery, London, 2021; ‘Postcards from Isolation’, Archeological U, All Visual Arts, London, 2021; ‘Unknown Observers’, Sotheby’s Institute of Arts, The Cookhouse London, 2021; ‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2021; ‘Venice meets Linz’, Edition Doppelpunkt, The Contraband Collection, Linz, Austria, 2021; ‘THERIACA’, The Contraband Collection Venice Edition, Metaforte, Venice, Italy, 2021; ‘STAYING WITH THE TROUBLE’, l’etranger and Desmond & Austin Fine Arts, London, 2021; ‘DEEP CUT’, Asylum Chapel, London, 2021 and ‘CLAY ™’, TJ Boulting, London, 2020. Selected residencies include; Josef and Anni Albers Foundation THREAD, Senegal (October 2024); The GIRLPOWER Residency, France (2024); Casa Wabi, Artist in residence, Bosco Sodi Foundation, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico (2023).

Luana Duvoisin Zanchi (b.1991, Bogotá, Colombia) graduated in MFA Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2017, MA Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths in 2015 and a BA in Art Practice from Goldsmiths in 2013. She is a recipient of the ‘Exposure Award’ from Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art (London). Her recent projects include: Zona Mista, London; Filet, London, Gallería Sextante, Bogotá; Beaconsfield, London. She also co-runs the project space Calcio in South Bermondsey.