‘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.
‘An Expression of Desire’, Cyrus Mahboubian
HS Projects is delighted to present An Expression of Desire, a commission of four recent works by Cyrus Mahboubian, archival pigment prints on Hahnemuhle paper with acrylic paint detail.
‘The artwork I’ve produced for 101 St Martin’s Lane builds on my recent polaroid “composites”, small-scale works in which I cut-and-combine photographs made during meditative walks in various landscapes, including the English countryside, North Africa and the American West. By bringing together often-unrelated images from my archive based on their visual qualities and how they interact with each other, photography ceases to be purely descriptive and instead exists somewhere between representation and abstraction. For me, this relates to our experience of being immersed in nature and how our memory can be affected by the passage of time.’
‘Taking this concept to a large scale for the first time, it is my hope that the works at 101 St Martin’s Lane will evoke our inherent connection to the natural world, as well as a sense of stillness and of wonder that allows the imagination to play a role when viewing them.’
Cyrus Mahboubian is known for his contemplative approach to photography and continued use of analogue materials, especially polaroid. His intentionally slow process is a response to the increasing influence of technology in our lives and an escape from the fast pace of life. These black-and-white landscape-based images are more imaginative than straightforward landscapes, so somewhat abstracted, and each one is hand-finished with a selective use of iridescent gold paint, making the work unique, rather than just a printed ‘editioned’ photographic print.
For the 101 St Martin’s Lane commission, Cyrus Mahboubian has selected some previously unprinted images and printed them large exclusively for 101.
HS Projects commissioned An Expression of Desire on behalf of KGAL.