Posts Categorized: Exhibitions
‘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.
‘The Cenote Ring’, Paola Estrella
HS Projects is delighted to present The Cenote Ring, an exhibition of recent works by Mexican multimedia artist Paola Estrella.
The Cenote Ring is a two-part project unfolding across distinct spaces and mediums to explore the cenotes—natural sinkholes formed by the impact of an asteroid over 66 million years ago. Scattered across the Yucatán Peninsula, these interconnected sites make up the geological formation known as the cenote ring.
Bridging collaboration, ritual, and storytelling, the project comprises a collaborative performance at Stone Nest, London and a solo painting exhibition at 5 Howick Place, London. Though presented separately, both are conceptually intertwined—inviting audiences to move between myth and material, the ephemeral and the pictorial.
Reflecting on the geological, spiritual, and mythological, rooted in the cenote ring of Yucatán, Mexico, The Cenote Ring emerges from a fascination with the subterranean waters formed by an ancient asteroid impact, which become portals that ripple through Mayan cosmology as spaces of transition, remembrance, and rebirth. These sacred sinkholes are echo chambers, carrying layered voices of the land, ancestors, and non-human worlds across time.
The project listens and captures what remains: traces of planetary memory, suppressed cosmologies and alternative ways of seeing. It becomes a site for collective meditation, an invitation to unlearn extractive world views and attune ourselves to observation, cyclical rhythms of grief and renewal to coexist with other species.
Estrella’s The Cenote Ring, was performed at the Victoria and Albert Museum East; Stone Nest in London’s West End and it will open the MIRA (Latin American Art Fair) in Paris this November. Estrella has also performed at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Goldsmiths; South London Gallery, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, where she is currently artist-in-residence with the collective Diasporas Now.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in a range of institutions, such as the Museum of Mexico City, Franz Mayer Museum, Saatchi Gallery and Somers Gallery. She was selected for New Contemporaries in 2022, and her work was featured in White Cube’s Tomorrow: London programme in 2020. Estrella holds an MA from the Royal College of Art.
This project has been made possible thanks to support from the Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants, and Artists Make Space Programme at Orleans House Gallery.
The Cenote Ring is at Howick Place from 20th June 2025 to 12th December 2025.