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We are excited to announce Window Wonderland, an installation in the windows of our Marylebone Gallery. Opening on Tuesday 17th December and running through the festive season until 5th January 2025, we’ve invited six artists and collectives—Odd fabrication, Ant Hamlyn, Irene Pouliassi, SDNA, Poppy Whatmore, and Billy X—to respond to the iconic lyric, “So this is Christmas, and what have you done?”
Window Wonderland offers a playful, tongue-in-cheek twist on the traditional holiday window displays seen at Selfridges. Lit from within the gallery, the works will be visible 24 hours a day, offering a surreal commentary on the commercialisation of Christmas.
1. ODD FABRICATION
Professionally trained in visual communication, ODD FABRICATION creates bespoke art installations, event dressing and decor, props, costume pieces and wearable art. Their fabrications create impact within a space, communicating coherent ideas and themes through bold, maximalist design. They have a decade of experience in the visual arts, with commissions ranging from theatre shows, immersive club nights, drag shows, alternative art exhibitions, music festivals and photoshoots to gigs and performance events. Their window display is a joyful explosion of bold colour and texture, It's a celebration of creativity and craft. All the elements in our window are crafted from mixed textiles, repurposed clothing and soft sculpture.
Find out more at: https://www.oddfabrication.com/
2. Ant Hamlyn
Often creating relics from a recognizable yet parallel space, Hamlyn’s conceptual framework is taken from plants, nostalgia, preservation and magic. With the exception of a number of larger kinetic installations, the majority of Hamlyn’s works are meticulously sewn by hand. Through sewing inflatable-esque soft sculptures that offer both intimacy and distance through the interplay between hard and soft he attempts to catch fleeting, transient moments in time and preserve them. This delicate interplay between materiality, scale and contradiction are intrinsic to the coexistence of mystery, familiarity and deception whilst addressing both joy and melancholy simultaneously.
3. Irene Pouliassi
Irene Pouliassi is a Greek-born, London-based multidisciplinary artist whose works combine sculpture, painting, and installation art. She studied at the Fine Arts School of Greece, where she earned a Master’s Integrated degree in Painting, before continuing her studies at Chelsea College of Arts in London, obtaining a Master’s degree in Fine Arts. Her art explores themes of trauma, societal instability, and cultural identity, often incorporating unconventional materials like human hair, teeth, found garments, and domestic objects. These items are filled with deep personal or symbolic resonance, giving her works an eerie yet intimate quality. Her ability to subvert the everyday transforms mundane or domestic objects into artistic statements. For instance, her use of items like stilettos and coats creates a juxtaposition of the familiar and the unsettling.
4. SDNA
SDNA is a creative studio founded in 2010 by Valentina Floris and Ben Foot. They specialise in producing distinctive digital artworks and interactive experiences for a range of settings. With a diverse portfolio, SDNA have successfully led projects of various scales, delving into themes such as mythology, anthropology, natural history, and climate change. At the core of their ethos is a deep passion for collaborating with experts from scientific and artistic fields, involving people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds in the creative process.
5. Poppy Whatmore
Poppy Whatmore creates artworks that address the struggles of lived experience. Fragments of memories are woven into material enactments or even a chosen site. These frozen moments include instances of jeopardy, entrapment and concealment, undermined or overwhelmed in outcome. The pieces evoke moments of explosive force, or kinds of resistance. Whatmore aims to create work that escapes control. In its precarious nature the work investigates the uncertainty of our age, the interior lives of others and makes plain inequalities – positing new worlds and forms of resistance. Her concern with subverting power dynamics and structures, focuses on deconstructing feminine stereotypes. By reconfiguring settings from the everyday, she often draws from domestic materials as a tool applied for corrupting systems. In doing this, she considers notions of misuse, questioning our reading and framing of objects.
6. Billy X
Billy X a self-taught figurative painter from North London, contemplates modern existence through paintings inspired by Balthus and Soutine. His works offer an intricate and rousing portrayal of contemporary life, inviting the viewer to unfold these peculiar reflections.
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OPENING: Tues 17th Dec, 6-7pm (outside)
DATES: 17th December - 5th Jan
TIMES: 24hrs daily
LOCATION: 206 Marylebone Road, NW1 6JQ