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Curated by Liminal Gallery, Between Waking and Wanting brings together the work of four artists, Maud Whatley, Fipsi Seilern, Emma Richardson and Chloe Bonfield, each of whom explores the subtle strangeness of interior life: its rituals, its erotic charge, its mythologies, and its moments of psychological slippage.

The exhibition is concerned with the in-between. It evokes a state where the body may be still, but the mind is elsewhere, half-sleeping and half-reaching, moving through dream logic, memory, and longing.

Maud Whatley’s works are like storyboards, drawing inspiration from the uncanny dreamscapes of mid-century cinema. Fipsi Seilern’s intricate drawings on untreated wood conjure the atmosphere of dream fragments. Emma Richardson’s large-scale paintings engage with psychology, transcendence, and female desire, while drawing on the intensity of Baroque painting. Chloe Bonfield’s painted figures appear suspended mid-thought, caught within intimate yet unplaceable landscapes.

Together, these works form a conversation about the textures of mental life, where images flicker without resolution, longing persists, and meaning remains just out of reach. Between Waking and Wanting invites us to dwell in these uncertain moments – not to decode them, but to feel their charge.

About Liminal Gallery

Proving that scale is no barrier to impact, Liminal Gallery is the UK’s smallest bricks-and-mortar contemporary gallery. Based in Margate, Liminal challenges the status quo with a bold and inclusive programme, platforming diverse and resonant voices from across the UK and Ireland. 

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Gesture and Being brings together new work from six recent graduates of Royal College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art: Anna Curzon Price, Gala Hills, Katja Farin, Mia Wilkinson, Poppy Critchlow and Qian Zhong. All working within the realms of figurative painting, these artists use their practice to challenge inherited narratives and expectations ascribed to gender, the body and the self. Together, they champion a self-expression that is free and fluid, presenting figures that are unstable, performative, dreamlike, or defiantly unruly. 

These artists reflect on how our personal narratives are often in flux with our internal dialogues, external interactions and our environment. Exploring interior worlds – psychological, emotional or symbolic – as much as physical ones, they consider how we are seen, staged and felt within both private and public realms. Domestic interiors, mythical spaces, imagined utopias and everyday moments become sites where tension and connection coexist, and where the body becomes an active, renewed force.  

Despite the playful and vivid use of colour, undertones are often unsettling. These paintings are layered with complex feeling, exploring themes of anxiety, vulnerability and discomfort. The environments presented here are both tender and confrontational, humorous and uneasy, where representation is not fixed but continually negotiated, and where the figure emerges as something porous, potent, and profoundly alive. 

Participating artists: Anna Curzon Price, Gala Hills, Katja Farin, Mia Wilkinson, Poppy Critchlow, Qian Zhong

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Domestic Relics gathers eight artists whose work excavates the tender, unstable terrain of memory as it is held within the spaces, gestures, and objects of daily life. In this exhibition, the home becomes both setting and metaphor: a site where the past lingers in fabric folds, handwritten fragments, staged poses, and the quiet rituals that scaffold identity.

Across painting, sculpture, and hybrid forms, each artist offers a way of seeing the domestic not as ordinary, but as a living archive, one that preserves, distorts, conceals, and sometimes invents the stories we inherit. Together, these artists form a dialogue about what remains: the residues of physical experience, the subtle reorganising of the past through the present, and the uneasy- but-beautiful ways in which personal history becomes myth.

Participating artists: Theo Bardsley, Lee Cameron, Luna Sue Huang, Jennifer Jones, Matt Macken, Yejin Oh, George Richardson, Justin Tsui. 

Curated by Nick JS Thompson & Benjamin Murphy of Delphian Gallery, the artist-run, nomadic gallery and arts platform. 

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Good Eye Projects returns to the Gallery with a group exhibition of artists from their Autumn 2024, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025 residency iterations. 

GEP is an artist residency programme founded in 2022. Embodying the artist-led ethos and community orientation of London’s vibrant emerging and early-career art scene, GEP hosts three residency iterations per year at their West London location, providing six artists per edition with free studio space in which to create. Since launching, GEP has supported 60 artists, and has presented off-site collaborations with Christie’s, Collective Ending HQ and Saatchi Gallery.

The exhibition will feature works by participating residency artists: 

Autumn 2024: DaddyBears, Lily Bunney, Harriet Gillett, Freya Fang Wang, Derrelle Elijah, Amelie Peace

Spring 2025: Mark Burch, Sofia Clausse, Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Sonya Derviz, Parham Ghalamdar, Amelie Mckee

Summer 2025: Rachel Mortlock, Leon Scott-Engel, Xinyu Han, Elleanna Chapman, Lulu Wang, Lau Yee Vanessa Fong

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The Artist of the Future Prize 2025 launches its inaugural edition with an exhibition showcasing digital art by 10 artists from across the UK and Europe shortlisted for the prize. 

Launched as part of Peugeot’s Principal Patronage of Saatchi Gallery, the Prize showcases shortlisted works chosen by a distinguished panel of judges and an overall winner, who receives the accolade of Artist of the Future 2025 and a prize worth £10,000 (£5,000 in money and a media package valued at a further £5,000).

With Innovation as its theme, this first edition highlights artists who push the possibilities of digital art, challenge convention, and invite audiences to see creativity through fresh perspectives. For Peugeot, innovation defines its commitment to pioneering electric mobility and visionary design, while for Saatchi Gallery it underpins a mission to support artists who spark dialogue and expand how we think about art and society.

The work has been selected by a judging panel spanning the worlds of art, culture, and design, including Matthias Hossann (Design Director, Peugeot), Dominic Harris (British artist exploring humanity’s relationship with nature), Darren Styles OBE (Publisher of Attitude Magazine and Rolling Stone UK), Paul Foster (Director, Saatchi Gallery) and Katherine Benson (Exhibition Programming Manager, Saatchi Gallery). 

Winner of the Artist of the Future Prize 2025
DYSPLA

Shortlisted Artists
Edd Carr
Filip Haglund
Sally Smoker
Lenar Singatullov
Patchworks Collective – Charlotte Foster, Rehan Moazzam Khan, Yujia Cai, Karstin Naes Hoydal & Matthew Chan
AMIANGELIKA
James David Freeman
Isolda Milenkovic
Lucy Ellis

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PAPER CUT turns the gallery into a giant children’s art table, scattered with crayons, glue sticks, and bright, fragile creations. Among the mess are an abandoned popsicle-stick house, a life size diorama, macaroni paintings, and pipe-cleaner figures caught mid-gesture. Created by PRIEST, the installation reimagines childhood play as social archaeology, exposing the city’s hidden layers of class, chaos, and imitation. Beneath the colour lies London itself: the housing crisis, youth violence, influencer culture, and the weary humour of modern life. 

PAPER CUT questions what’s left of art once it grows up, when spontaneity hardens into strategy, and honesty becomes a pose, wondering if the child who first picked up the crayon might have understood it better right from the start.

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Picasso

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants II: A Unique Dialogue Between Past and Present is a collaboration between artist-curator Louise te Poele, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Saatchi Gallery. The V&A has granted access to its historic collection of works by female creators, which has inspired a new body of work by contemporary artists.

Following the success of the first edition, this exhibition explores the historical and ongoing invisibility of female artists. Ten Dutch female artists have created new works in direct response to pieces by women in the V&A’s collection — works that have served as essential sources of inspiration. The result is a powerful visual dialogue spanning generations.

Why do we so often recall only male names when we think of great artists? This exhibition challenges that imbalance by bringing visibility to both contemporary Dutch female artists and their often-overlooked historical counterparts. Through this unique partnership between leading cultural institutions, the project creates space, recognition, and momentum — by and for women.

Participating artists: Lily de Bont, Margriet van Breevoort, Bobbi Essers, Larissa Esvelt, Anya Janssen, Audrey Large, Femmy Otten, Louise te Poele, Saar Scheerlings, Bregje Slipenbeek

We’d like to thank Mondriaan Fund, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Kingdom, and Sorba for their ongoing support of this project.