We are proud to present :
Sculpture Now
Catriona Robertson
Joe Rush
Adam Zoltowski
Margarita Francesca Loze
Nicholas Cheeseman
Anton Mirto
15 October Opening Night 4.30-8.00pm
69 Bolsover Street, London W1W 5BQ
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Gallery Open during Frieze Week : Wednesday, 14th October – Sunday, 18th October, 11.am – 6pm
From 19th October - 1sth November (by appointment)
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Catriona Robertson (Represented by The Muse Gallery on Frieze Sculpture 2026)
Catriona Robertson is a London-based British sculptor whose practice draws from the urban geology of contemporary landscapes. Following her residency at The Muse Gallery in 2022, Robertson has continued to explore the ephemeral nature of cities and the hidden subterranean systems beneath them. Her work examines how architecture, waste, and human intervention accumulate as layers of cultural and geological history.
She gained her BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2010 and graduated from the Royal College of Art, MA Sculpture programme in 2019. Robertson has won multiple awards including the Cass Art Prize, Contemporary Art Development Award 2024, Second Prize UK New Artist of the Year Award 2021, the Gilbert Bayes Award, Royal Society of Sculptors and the Emerging Artist award in 2022, British Council Germany in 2018. She was also shortlisted for the Ingram Prize in 2022. In 2023 she created a sculpture garden ‘Gigantic Pile’ for the Saatchi Gallery RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and was nominated as Women of the Year. ’ The Muse Gallery continues to support her with solo and group exhbitions(2022, 2023, 2024) as well as providing studio space at XYZ Brentford and on Bolsover Street (The Muse Gallery Projects)
Joe Rush
Joe Rush is the onsite designer at the Glastonbury Festival responsible for the sci-fi sculptures made from scrap and car parts including Car Henge and the Glastonbury On Sea pier.
Joe started out in West London/Ladbroke Grove with Gentle Ghost and formed the Mutoid Waste Company with like minded creative activists. The Mutoids left UK in 1989 to spend many years in Europe setting up massively popular art environments and events in Holland, Germany and Italy.
In 2009 he curated One Foot In The Grove under the Westway with street art legends like Mode 2, Paul Insect, Dr D, and fellow Mutoids Giles Walker and Alex Wright.
Adam Zoltowski : " My art is concerned with staging themes of migration, alienation and fragmentation with a belief in the possibilities of transcendence and integration . I come from a refugee background and a career in set design, these carvings i describe as ' surfboard technology ' and i think of all my objects as props - dream objects that populate a developing narrative about identity and connection.”
Margarita Frančeska Loze: “ I am a visual artist who works with expanded textile. With background in painting, I use thread as a painterly medium, stitching into hessian fabric to create meticulous, large-scale hand embroidery in wax and cotton thread. Through vivid tones of blue, turquoise, red and orange, my work draws attention to presence and perception.
I look at the world through a magnified lens, gathering fragments that gradually assemble and brings me closer to a larger whole. Threaded micro-environments unfold across shaped fabrics, carrying a visual language of afterthoughts. Self-collected plant remnants, traces of patterns observed in nature, bright underwater organisms and by-passing landscapes mixed with imagination become fragments of quiet information, telling stories of wonder and the hidden connections I seek to understand.
An ongoing study of the phenomenology of appearance guides my work, shifting viewpoints within our relationship to nature, seasonal change, and the anatomical world we inhabit. At its core, is an awareness of how we individually experience our surroundings, attending to the smallest details and unseen processes, inviting a deeper sense of their transient nature, systems, symbolism and meanings that shape the universe.
Margarita Frančeska Loze (b.1997, Riga) is a visual artist who is based between Riga and London. Margarita holds an MFA in Fine Art from Kingston School of Art (2023) and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art: painting from Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL (2021). She has exhibited internationally and has participated in several residencies across Europe and Taiwan. Recent solo exhibitions: Kalnciema kvartāls, Riga, Latvia (2026); LOOK! gallery, Riga (2024). Recent group exhibitions: Beyond Studio, curated by Marisa Bellani, London (2026); Hypha HQ as part of the Frieze Week, curated by Cathy Wills, London (2025); 1/2 room gallery, Changhua, Taiwan (2025).
Nicholas Cheeseman
This installation is the result of two different stitches: knit and purl. From the basic pair of mirror-inverted building blocks, a complex variety of textures and patterns have been hand knitted. Initially made from wool, these lengths of fabric are mostly made from strips of the artist’s discarded clothes. The process of constructing through knit, and deconstructing clothes with scissors, became quiet and meditative acts amidst the energy of the city. The contrast and connection between these processes is fundamental to the balance that the installation is exploring, as it weaves and flows through the space.
Nicholas Cheeseman’s practice records and intervenes in the natural processes of change. He is interested in the tension between contrasts, and balance created when shifting from one to another. Through a range of materials and techniques his practice observes the relationships between complementary opposites, focusing on growth and decay, states of materiality, construction and deconstruction, the internal and external, and numerous other interdependent pairs.
His art practice uses the physical act of making as a means of thinking. He considers the boundaries of imperfection, incompleteness, and impermanence drawn from the Japanese aesthetic of Wabi Sabi, which sits alongside his practice of Taijiquan and Qigong. Together these explore the balance of complementary opposites in Yin and Yang theory.
Nicholas graduated from Staffordshire University in 2001 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. In 2012 he completed an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts UAL. His latest body of work was presented as part of a duo exhibition at Hive by Broadworks, Herts Open Studios and the Kaleidoscope Gallery (2026). He has had solo shows at The Muse Gallery (2022), Willesden Gallery (2018) and the Hugh Angle Gallery (2012). Nicholas was awarded the East West Art Award, winning a residency in Japan and exhibition at Be Kyoto Gallery (2017). He was Artist in Residence at The Muse Gallery (2016), shortlisted for the Shoosmith Prize (2015), shortlisted for Xhibit (2014) and exhibited as part of the Threadneedle Prize (2014). For a decade he has been an active member of the Free Painters and Sculptors, curating their most extensive recent show at XYZ Gallery (2025), and exhibiting with the group at the Menier Gallery, Clerkenwell Gallery, Oxo Tower, The Bargehouse and The Muse. He worked with King’s College History department resulting in two exhibitions: Grid References at Kings College and Reconciliations at the Knapp Gallery (2018). He was part of The London-Munich Exchange exhibiting at the Crypt Gallery, Asylum Gallery and The Orangery in the Winter Gardens, Munich (2015-18), and included in Miniscule at Cross Lane Projects, Miniscule 2 at the Venice Biennale (2019) and The Crash at Q Park (2017). He was invited to exhibit in Office Sessions II and IV at Anchorage House and Beak Street. His work has been exhibited at a number of art fairs including The Other Art Fair with IMA Studios, The Affordable Art Fair with IOB Gallery and FPS, Obsessive Compulsive Practice and KINdoms as part of the Fringe Arts Bath Festival. He has also shown in group shows at Art Bermondsey, Bond House Gallery, Mall Galleries, Salt and Pegram, Griffin Gallery, Rickshaw House Gallery, Punctum Gallery, Devon House, Frickleton Fine Arts, Saabat Gallery, Dartington Gallery, Lansdowne Gallery and Chelsea Town Hall. He exhibits extensively and regularly in London and in the UK, and has commissioned works installed in America, Australia and India.
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Performances:
Catriona Robertson, Unearthed chess & Purling “Hand and Brain”
Catriona Robertson presents a dynamic, participatory performance activating her sculptural installation through a live, durational chess game. Positioned beneath Robertson’s large-scale work, chess players engage in a game called “Hand and Brain” - a cooperative chess variant where two-player teams will share control of a single set of pieces by splitting the duties of choosing the piece type and making the move. To add to unpredictability, members of audience will be randomly asked to be the brain to select the piece to be moved! The game will be played on custom-designed 55×55 cm Art Chess set “Unearthed”, created by Catriona from the exact same materials as her primary sculpture, Wyrm.
This performative encounter brings the public space to life, unfolding over extended periods of time. Reflecting the rigorous temporal demands of the game, each chess session lasts anywhere from two hours to extended stretches of four to six hours.
Collective Authorship and Public Participation
During the performance, the traditional boundaries of the game open to the public. Visitors to Frieze Sculpture Park are invited to approach the table and contribute a single move to the ongoing match. This collaborative gesture introduces an element of collective authorship, subtly shifting the balance of the game between calculated strategy, chance, and spontaneous public participation.
Materiality and “Future Archaeology”
Robertson constructs her objects using paper-concrete, creating forms that evoke unearthed remnants. The resulting pieces appear fragile yet fossilized, as though recovered from a site of future archaeology. The material itself holds a deliberate tension between ephemerality and permanence: paper, a historical carrier of human record and memory, is compressed into a dense form that simultaneously suggests durability and ruin. Through this unique process, histories are not simply preserved, but are transformed, partially obscured, and recontextualized.
“The chess form operates here as a cultural imprint, a residue of human systems that may outlast their original meanings,” the artist’s statement notes. “Removed from its functional context, it becomes ambiguous—its logic fractured, its purpose uncertain.”
Exploring Deep Time
While chess is an ancient game with origins stretching back over a millennium, Robertson uses its enduring structures of strategy and conflict as a point of departure for considering “deep time”—encompassing both the distant past and speculative futures.
Ultimately, the work questions what endures of human history and how those remnants are read across vast spans of time. It imagines a future in which contemporary artifacts persist only as compressed, eroded fragments, leaving tomorrow’s viewers to interpret the ways humanity once understood order, conflict, and meaning.
ANTON MIRTO DIS-ARMA-MI
A Part of You
Wearable Sculpture, Participatory Action and Video Documentation
Mirto revisits the armoured self, inviting audiences to transform a wearable sculpture that explores protection, vulnerability and trust.
The work is a condensed iteration of DIS-ARMA-MI, first presented at Casa Morra (Naples, 2025), where audiences washed a full suit of armour cast in soap, encasing a person within. As the sculpture softened and dissolved, armour shifted from a symbol of war to a surface for care, reframing how personal and historical forms of armouring shape our relationships today.
For the London iteration, A part of you, Mirto reduces the armoured body to a single soap gauntlet, worn by performer Ailbhe Murphy. Audiences are invited to dissolve the glove using a sponge or their bare hands. Through this simple gesture, the work asks: What can it mean to disarm the self or another? What part of us do we hide or protect, and what of letting go?
Alongside the participatory action a 10-minute video documents the original performance.
Following the live action, the residual altered gauntlet will remain on display, bearing traces of collective action and exchange. Alongside it, an untouched gauntlet awaits its own dissolution. Together, the two sculptures hold the before and after of an encounter where boundaries between protection and exposure, performer and participant, object and body, are gently negotiated and undone.
Artist: Anton Mirto
Work: DIS-ARMA-MI - A Part of You
Medium: Wearable sculpture, participatory action and video documentation
Performer: Ailbhe Murphy (2025 and 2026)
Dates: Live action performance Oct 15th 5 and 7pm. Installation and video on display until 1 November
Original performance context: Casa Morra, Naples. In collaboration with Prof. Antonio del Giudice of Fonderia Nolana and The Academy of Fine Arts, Naples. In partnership with Casa Morra, Museo Filangieri, the embodied research group of Suor Orsola University, and the Royal Armouries, UK.
Anton Mirto is an Anglo-Italian interdisciplinary artist working across experimentation, embodied practice, community and collective experience. Choreographing body, materials, feelings and space, she creates participatory performance, site-specific installation, interventions, sculpture and film. Her works include: 2 years of bi-monthly army drills across secret London spaces, sound installations of whispered apologies, people burying each other with earth, performers wrapped in tinfoil, 40 public signs marking places of emotional connection and a street-trilogy made with and for residents on her road.
From 1999–2015, she was Co-Director of A2company, receiving critical acclaim and commissions from Royal-Opera-House, ICA, Tate Modern, CCB (Barcelona), Parc-de-la-Villette (Paris). Since 2013, her independent practice has included collaborations with: Whitechapel Gallery, Muse Gallery, Casa Morra (Naples) and ITC (Cape-Town), alongside teaching at University of the Arts (LCF), Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Coventry and Kingston University. In 2019 with support of The Muse Charity, she founded M2company a collaborative platform for public processes and practices of personal and social care.
HOCKNEY PAINT JAM – an alt Frieze week event.
THURS 15TH - SUN 18th OCTOBER
Paint Jam events are critically acclaimed social painting events that offer ART FOR EVERYONE; Immersive painting workshops with artist-lead canvas painting-on-easels, live DJ sets, themed art projections, a bar, lovely people and all the vibes. Paint and party, then walk away with your own unique painting..
Est in 2009 by artist and curator @daliazermon, Paint Jam events and the Pop Up Art Studio pioneered the social painting movement in London. Total beginners are always welcome in our fully inclusive Paint Jam studio.
Pop Up Art Studio and Paint Jam events have collaborated with the ICA, Battersea Power Station Truman Brewery, Tate, National Gallery and the Affordable Art Fair. Clients include BBC, Sky, Meta, Audible, Adida, Nike, Chanel, Beyond, Juicy Couture, Microsoft and Google.
The Paint Jam studio is now based at XYZ Regents Park, 69 Bolsover Street, London W1W 5QN.
As featured in @timeoutlondon
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We are full of joy as PAINT JAM HOCKNEY continues with a series of alt Frieze London events.
Paint Jam Hockney is an immersive art installation + art workshops in celebration of the late and great British artist David Hockney - curated by Pop Up Art Studio founder @daliazermon . A full XYZ basement take-over event with studio and nature-based art workshops, exhibitions, documentaries, photo installations + Frieze sculpture exhibitions - in collaboration with the Muse gallery and XYZ Regent's Park featuring @catrionart @@joerushlondon and others.
Thurs 15th - Sun 18th October (12noon – 5pm)
Open night - Thurs 15th Oct (4pm - 9pm)
Hockney Paint Jam - Immersive art installation + documentaries, art exhibitions and more (full XYZ basement takeover)
+Sculpture Now exhibition (Muse Frieze week exhibition) – in collaboration with Portobello Film Festival.
Saturday 17th October, 11.30am - 5.30pm / or half day.
SKETCHING, PHOTOGRAPHY & PAINTING workshops,
We bring you a day of nature-based and studio-based workshops in the Regents Park area. Join our special workshop day with artists Dalia Zermon (moi) and Chico Stockwell - in our new Fitzrovia Paint Jam studio and gallery!
(our studio is opposite the lovely Regent's Park).
Paint Jam Hockney workshops will explore all the techniques and ideas David Hockney brought to us through his painting and his art-wisdom. Be inspired and learn how to bring some of the Hockney style to life in your own art.
...choose a single workshop OR a full day or art workshops.
+ view Hockney documentaries and the Hockney Paint Jam immersive art installation.
www.popupartstudio.co.uk @popupartstudio_London @daliazermon
Hockney Paint Jam is an immersive art studio event curated by @DaliaZermon, which started @creativemilebrentford in September 2026 with a live-paint open studio, recreating large-scale famous paintings by David Hockney x documentary screenings for everyone to experience. 1,300 visitors came. Frieze Week is part 2 of Hockney Paint Jam at our new Regents Park studio (central London) - a full immersive basement take-over with photo installations, art exhibitions, Paint Jam studio visits and documentary screenings.
We also have a full Hockney Paint Jam day of workshops over the weekend - photography, Sketching and painting (Regents park and in the studio). Hockney Paint Jam participating artists are @sarahsmitsart
@chico_andrew_stockwell
@gurveerpadhal and Dalia Zermon @popupartstudio_london
This is an epic series of art events not to be missed!