
‘Plant Power’, Annie Trevorah
HS Projects is delighted to present Plant Power, an exhibition of new and recent work by Annie Trevorah that explores human and non-human interconnectivity.
Delving into an imagined world where nature takes centre stage, Trevorah challenges the prevailing human-centered narrative of the Anthropocene and explores themes of bio-morphism, ecofeminism and ecological harmony. Drawing inspiration from Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto,” her sculptures blur the boundaries between human and non-human, organic and synthetic. They embody a vision of resistance and transformation, questioning established notions of power and agency in the natural world.
Trevorah conjures an alien species defined by adaptive features that safeguard survival in a precarious future. Her part human / part plant hybrids have stood their ground in galleries, parks and gardens. Plant Power marks their propagation into the hustle and bustle of an office environment.
Showcasing twelve works, including a painting to introduce a new body of work dedicated to the maritime realm, groups of sensual cyborgs and symbiotic totems are huddled in opposite corners, exchanging water cooler stories under the watchful gaze of their mutant supervisors, whose predatory and fallible characteristics serve as reminders of the effects of climate change on all life- forms. Fusing organic and synthetic materials into intriguing monuments to human-plant interconnectivity, Trevorah merges eco-feminist theory with subtle humour to encourage reflection and reassurance.
Completing her MA in Sculpture at the RCA in 2023, Annie Trevorah has been selected for prestigious exhibitions both nationally and internationally.
She had her first London solo show Symbiosis in February 2023, followed by Triffids, celebrating Chelsea Physic Garden’s 350th anniversary in October, and Nature is a Cyborg at ALICE BLACK Gallery in May 2024.Trevorah was selected to exhibit with Arte Laguna alongside the Venice Biennale 2024 and was a finalist for the VAA Artist of the Year 2024 award. Other international shows include Centro Culturale di Milano, Las Laguna Gallery, USA, FOLD and 67 York Street, London and Chianciano Biennale 2022 where she was awarded a Prize for Photography and Digital Art. This year also sees inclusion in Artsted’s 99 Blue Chip Artists.
Public works include Memorial to a Memorial temporarily replacing Barbara Hepworth’s Single Form in Battersea Park, commissioned by Wandsworth Council in 2022, and this year’s ANANAS, funded by Arts Council England, for Fulham Palace to commemorate the 50th anniversary of opening its house and gardens to the public, later taking up its place in Holland Park as part of KCAW.
‘Plant Power’ is at 12 Hammersmith Grove from December 2024 to June 2025.

‘Of Paradise and Other Places’, Saad Qureshi
HS Projects is delighted to present Of Paradise and Other Places, an exhibition of recent works by Saad Qureshi that have not been shown in London before. Described by Laura Cumming in the Observer as “one of our most pensive and poetic artists”, Qureshi’s sculptures give form to the ideas or stories by which we lend meaning to human existence.
The exhibition includes a striking element of his monumental sculptural installation Something about Paradise, commissioned for the Chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2020. Saad travelled around the country talking to people of faith, as well as atheists and agnostics, about what the concept of Paradise represents or looks like to them. Descriptions of indistinct and imagined places, as recalled from their memories or envisaged in their dreams, were then interpreted and woven together into sculptural forms. These towering and sprawling organic forms are punctuated by a diverse range of landscape features and architectures drawn from across the world. From temples and churches to modernist houses, these structures reveal the spiritual and the earthly in unison and without geographical borders. The monochrome palette gives the work an otherworldly feeling that is further emphasised by a fanciful and inconsistent use of scale to create fantastical and dreamlike mindscapes. Opposite the lifts, the ornate, hand-cut, wooden Gates of Paradise II – VII evoke the often referred to threshold or gateway to the heavens. Something About Paradise and Gates of Paradise are an invitation to reflect on areas of commonality in our frequently polarised society and to open up possibilities for a profound and hopeful dialogue between people.
Flanked by foliage, Abaabil, 2020, made of painted bronze, speaks of the universal human desire to fly and the fascination with feathered beings. Birds took root in Qureshi’s imagination through the myths of his childhood. According to an ancient tale, the abaabil birds are a divinely-inspired flock, who defeated a large army by dropping burning pebbles upon them. The abaabil can be said to combine matter and aura, existing in two different dimensions – one physical and one cultural. Abaabil also alludes to metaphorical flight: that of the mind through imagination and learning, activities which we engage in both privately or collectively and which hold a special fascination for Qureshi as an artist.
Saad Qureshi received his BA in Fine Art from Oxford Brookes University in 2007 and an MFA in Painting from The Slade School of Fine Art, London, in 2010.
Recent solo exhibitions include: The Djanogly Gallery (at Lakeside Arts, Nottingham University) (2024); Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival (2024); Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi (2022), Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (2020). Group exhibitions include the Aga Khan Centre Gallery, London (2023); Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen (2021); Museum Arnhem, Netherlands (2020); I’Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris (2019); Drawing Room, London (2019); White Project Gallery, Paris (2014).
Winner of The Frieze & The OWO Sculpture Prize, Convocation is on view at Raffles London. In 2023, Saad Qureshi was commissioned to realise a permanent Organ Donor Memorial for the Royal London Hospital at Whitechapel. He was shortlisted for the 2021 SkyArts LANDMARKS public art prize, and has realised public commissions at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford and for LandSec at Victoria, London.
‘Of Paradise and Other Places’ is at Howick Place from June 2024 to December 2024.

‘The Book of Sand, Julie F Hill
HS Projects is delighted to present The Book of Sand by Julie F Hill, an edition of prints from an ongoing series of works on paper exploring crystal growth generated by a machine learning algorithm trained on a dataset created from an encyclopaedia of crystals and minerals. The work contrasts the time of lived experience with the geological and technological.
Images are generated by sampling points in a machine learning model’s ‘latent space’ – the potentially limitless and unknowable space of the algorithmic imagination. The unfolding and refolding of geological material – or fundamental matter – through deep time cycles, is also potentially infinite.
Titled after the short story by Jorge Luis Borges that features a book with infinite, incomprehensible pages: ‘The Book of Sand … because neither the book nor the sand has any beginning or end.’
The Book of Sand
Digital print on archival paper
100 x 100 cms
unique edition print (left)
unique edition print (right)
Hill studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, and was Fellow in Digital Print at the Royal Academy Schools (2017–20). She took part in Land Art Agency’s Sustainable Futures: Outer Space residency series where she was partnered with environmental anthropologist Dr Valerie Olson (2021). In 2020 she was awarded the inaugural Annie Maunder Prize for Image Innovation as part of the Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year, Royal Museums Greenwich with her work being exhibited at The National Maritime Museum (2020–21), Jodrell Banks (2021) and Fox Talbot Museum (2021–22).
Hill was awarded an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant for her project Through Machine & Darkness, which has been looking at the use of AI and machine learning in examining astronomical datasets (2019–21).
Hill’s solo and 2 person exhibitions include: A Stone Sky, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, (2023); Earth, Water, Night, The Stone Space, London (2023); Uncertain Ruins, commissioned by Camden Council for Swiss Cottage Gallery (2019–2020), The Space Out of Time, Terminal Creek Contemporary/Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, CA (2019); Of Stars and Chasms, ArthousSE1, London (2019).
Group shows include: Seeing Stars, The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK (2022); Aora VI: Light curated by Jen Ellis online (2021); The AI Gallery, National Gallery X & National Gallery, online (2021–); Pokey Hat, VERBureau at Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, UK (2016) and Single-Shot, Tate Britain, London, UK & touring (2007).
‘The Book of Sand’ is at 5 Marble Arch from July 2024 to January 2025.