Posts Categorized: Exhibitions
‘Faux Pas’, Alison Hand & Julian Wild
HS Projects is delighted to present Faux Pas, an exhibition by the artists Alison Hand and Julian Wild which represents a year’s worth of conversations and making.
Hand and Wild live and work in the port town of Newhaven in East Sussex. Together there they run Cement, a studio complex and art school where they teach contemporary art practice through thinking and making. At the foot of the south Downs and on the edge of the sea, Newhaven should be picturesque: it is both beautiful, harsh, busy, bright, wild and industrial all at the same time. This energy is reflected in the work of Hand and Wild.
Their artwork connects through form, colour and theme: piles of materials stack up in heaps, dialogues appear between surface, object, and illusion. Ribbons articulate through space, bright neon pinks rub up against Victorian mint greens, all reflecting uncertainty and the de-stabilised world that we live in. There is chaos, reflection and an investigation of the built environment. In a post-truth world, the works in the exhibition question what is real or created, all leaving the viewer uncertain of what is true or faux.
Wild has created sculptures that expressively respond to found objects such as girders and a Victorian mangle. Hard metal forms are squashed and bent and pressed by these objects in slapstick events. These cartoon-like happenings are playful and detached from reality with their pop colours and polished surfaces. The violence of action is hidden within.
Hand has created several large paintings, including a central diptych, that contain multiple vignettes and painterly tropes. Broad, seemingly abstract strokes turn into hazard tape and neon, whilst piles of tyres and barbed wire meld into romantic vistas. There is a dialogue between escapism and presence, and between painting histories.
Alison Hand’s exhibitions include: Farley’s House and Gallery, Sussex (solo forthcoming); Annual Leave, Park Street Gallery, London; Folklore, BN9 Studios, Marine Workshops, East Sussex; Derelict, Uncovered Collective, Safehouse, London; Ruin, Way Out East Gallery, London; The Speed of Thought. Hand was Artist in Residence for Kings College London Philosophy Department on the Dreams and Wakeful Consciousness Research Project. Awards for her painting include the Basil Alkazzi Scholarship Award; the Painters’ and Stainers’ Gordon Luton Award; and the Stevenson Harwood Award.
Julian Wild’s solo exhibitions include: Newlands House (current); Leighton House Museum; Canary Wharf & Modern Art Oxford; Chatsworth House (Sotheby’s); Sculpture in the City. Wild’s commissions include: The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail; The University of Oxford; Cass Sculpture Foundation; Radley College; Jerwood Sculpture Park; The Lightbox Gallery. In 2024 Wild attended an Albers Foundation residency at Thread, Senegal. He was awarded The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Arts club Trust Studio Bursary from 2009-2012. In 2005 Wild was a finalist in the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and won the Millfield Sculpture Prize. He was Vice-president of The Royal Society of Sculptors from 2015-2019.
Faux Pas is at Howick Place from June 2026 to December 2026.
‘Give and Take’, Clare Burnett
HS Projects is delighted to present Give and Take, a solo exhibition by Clare Burnett which brings together, for the first time, a significant group of Burnett’s mosaic works. At its heart is an examination of our patterns of acquisition: what we gather deliberately or on impulse, what drifts into our lives unnoticed, and what we choose not to see. Burnett works with everyday objects collected from streets, markets, kitchens, and gardens. Each carries its own history and associations. Reconfigured and covered in glass tiles, these objects gain new meanings, creating resonances beyond the gallery into domestic and public life.
The Whisperers, Swivel and Standing Proud reflect on surveillance and the pervasive reach of data-driven observation. A Thousand Threads and Into the Light consider displacement and the history of plants brought from China in the 19th century that have become part of the English country garden. Using household objects, most of the sculptures, including Up in Smoke and Game Set and Match, trace plastic’s global journey into our homes. Opposite the lifts, a series of paintings continue these themes depicting cameras, eyes and lenses watching over the building. Together, these sculptures and paintings explore the forces that drive global trade, historical ‘acquisitions’, consumerism and convenience. Their polished surfaces offer clarity, while beneath lie hidden stories, fragmented histories, and difficult questions. This tension between what is displayed and what remains unseen extends outward, connecting the gallery to the city, the museum, and the home.
Clare Burnett was President of the Royal Society of Sculptors (2015 – 2022) and is represented by Maria Stathi, Art Seen, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Recent exhibitions and commissions include: Art Seen, Nicosia (2026), Seedlinks, Timber Square, London (2026), Kunst am Bau, Frankfurt, shortlist (2026), Sculpture in the City, 13th Edition, London (2024-25), Art Seen, Limassol (2024), Shanghai Huangpu Riverbank Competition (2024), Art Seen, Nicosia (2023), Hansard Studio, London (2023), Bloomsbury Design, London (2022). Burnett’s work is held in various private and public collections, including Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen für Museum Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg (MK&G), State Collection of Cypriot Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres, UK.
Give and Take is at Howick Place from December 2025 to June 2026.
‘SupaStore Yes! The Art of the Deal’, Sarah Staton
HS Projects is delighted to present SupaStore Yes! The Art of the Deal, a lively asymmetric sculptural object by Sarah Staton, which was first shown in Century City, Tate Modern (2001) and was recently reimagined for Fresh Window, Tinguely Museum, Basel (Dec 2024-May 2025).
The sculpture sets the scene for an exhibition that spills out and around this curious Rondo Cubistic kunstkammerkiosk. Within and without, you will find a vibrant selection of artwork from established and emerging artists.
Participating Artists:
Francesca Anfossi, Whiskey Chow, Zuza Golinska, Caitlin Hazell, Tom Hardwick Allen, Steph Huang, James Jessiman, Alison Jones, Flore Mycek, Simon Popper, Jeanine Richards, Ioana Sisea, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Sarah Staton, Eoban Tomlin, Demelza Watts, Anthea Hamilton with Julie Verhoeven.
SupaStore Yes! is the newest iteration of the ongoing SupaStore series, testing boundaries between art, design, and retail for 3 decades. SupaStore has worked with a wonderful selection of known and unknown artists to transform private and public galleries, museums, and public spaces across the world into playful arenas of creativity and exchange.
As everything merges into shopping, art negotiates its fate of proximity to the commodity, to conditions of objecthood and reproducibility; SupaStore reveals them to be irrepressible for both. Using languages of commerce with wit and irony, Staton celebrates artists’ ability to reinvent the ordinary. SupaStore invites audiences to rethink value, ownership, and display—where art pops up, multiplies, and delights in its many guises.
Sarah Staton (b.1961, London) is a polymathic visual artist and educator producing a varied oeuvre which includes painting, sculpture, installations, works on paper, typography, clothing, furniture and artists’ books. Across all mediums, her work is known for its tactility, linguistic provocation and use of humour as affective tools within visual culture, with which she disrupts orthodox pleasantries.
Recent projects and exhibitions: Laguna, Curated Yasmin Helou, Venice, IT, (2025): Greedy, invited project with Galerina, Liste, Basel (2025); The Masses, Galerina, London (2024): Wonderful at UNICEF, Innocenti, Florence (2024). Fresh Window, Tinguely Museum, Basel (2024/5); A+A Gallery, Venice (2022); Pressure Drop, Cylinder Gallery, Seoul (2021); SupaStore Southside, Slingbacks and Sunshine, South London Gallery, (2021); SupaStore Academy, Nida Art Colony, LT (2020); Shedhalle Zurich (2018), Dikeou Downtown, Denver, (2018); Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, (2014). Public art commissions include three sites in West London for the Tideway (204/5); Alphonso, Milton Keynes (2021) ; Edith and Hans, Bristol University, (2015); Steve (2014), Folkestone Triennial.
SupaStore Yes! The Art of the Deal is at 12 Hammersmith Grove from November 2025 to April 2026.