The Wild Animals - group exhibition
Opening Night 19 November 2026, 5-8pm
19 November - 11 December 2026
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Joanna Ciechanowska
Joanna Ciechanowska is a painter and draftsman who resides in the United Kingdom and has exhibited her works nationally, as well as Poland. Memories play a significant part in her artistic language. Having lived in Poland, Iran, Egypt, Lesotho, and China, and traveled to remote parts of the globe, her work reflects these experiences. Ciechanowska’s expressive pieces reflect what she sees and feels.
MA Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw 1976. Exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Somerset House Gallery, Mall Galleries - London, Summerhall Gallery - Edinburgh, Pallant House Gallery - Chichester, Cooper Hewitt Museum - New York US. Work in collections of Robert Hiscox, Prof. Time Spector, amongst others. One of the series ‘7 Deadly Sins’ recently shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer Exhibtion 2026
Matthew Dardart (Muse resident 2023)
I am interested in the language between contrasting materials when situated in the same body. I prefer to work in a more intuitive, less regimented way. My sculptures often build themselves and are very process based in this sense.
Louisa Crispin
Lost in a world of intricate observations from nature, Louisa is entranced by the cycle of growth and decay. It’s quiet in her Kent studio as she looks ever closer at the flora and fauna. Texture, shadows, silhouettes and movement created with graphite marks and tone, it’s rarely about the colour but always about the environment. Her drawings explore the materiality of graphite media whilst considering the plight of our less popular insects. The narrative is focused on wildlife corridors: the importance of a network of routes between habitats to ensure diversity. She aims to encourage open discussion about the plight of our wildlife, spending time in Nature and looking more closely, straddling the gap between art and science.
As well as membership of the Free Painters and Sculptors, the Society of Graphic Fine Art and the Wilderness Art Collective, she is a fellow of the Society of Botanical Artists and the Royal Society for Arts. This connection with other artists is an important part of her practice and currently continues through her membership of Pure Arts Group, the Sevenoaks Visual Arts Forum and the Bridge Art School FAPD program. Her prize-winning drawings are held in private collections internationally. She regularly exhibits in London Open Exhibitions and has held solo shows at London Muse Gallery, Hastings Beauport Gallery and Sevenoaks Kaleidoscope Art Gallery.
Camilla Hanney (Muse resident 2022)
Camilla Hanney (b. 1992) is an Irish artist based in London, working across ceramics, sculpture and installation. She holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (2017-2019), and a First Class Honours degree in Visual Arts Practice from IADT, Dún Laoghaire (2011-2015). Camilla has exhibited widely across the UK and Ireland. Her work has featured in solo and group exhibitions at institutions and galleries including South London Gallery, as part of Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Saatchi Gallery, Sarabande Foundation, Pallas Projects, Cromwell Place, Gallery Rodenfeld, Muse Gallery, Butler Gallery, Linenhall Arts centre and the Allen Gallery, among others.
Working through ceramics, sculpture and installation Camilla’s practice explores themes of time, sexuality, cultural identity and the corporeal, often referencing the body in both humorous and challenging ways. By subverting traditional, genteel crafts she attempts to transgress and contemplate conventional modes of femininity, deconstructing archaic identities and rebuilding new figures from the detritus of the past. By materializing the familiar in an unfamiliar context Camilla stimulates our ability to rethink our relationship towards objects, threatening the natural order and toying with the tensions that lie between beauty and repulsion, curiosity and discomfort, desire and disgust.
Michael Henley
Michael Henley is a London based artist whose work deals primarily the duality of process and ideas. He uses this partnership to push and experiment with his medium (ink, graphite & light) as much as possible which in turn informs the research and concept of each body of work.
Henley’s fascination with organic bodies and the natural world is a huge influence on his work and through this he aims to create highly detailed pieces that act as portals or, perhaps beacons that invite further inspection wherever they may be.
Hugo Lami (Muse resident 2020)
I strive to capture the Uncanny; the sensation of estrangement that arises when something familiar becomes alienating. This unease underlies our perception of societal constructs, suppressed histories, and an uncertain future.
Eleni Maragaki (Muse resident 2023)
Eleni Maragaki is a visual artist born in Athens and based in London, working across sculpture, installation, and expanded printmaking. She studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (2013 - 2018) and MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, UAL (2020–2022), supported by the
Mona Hatoum Scholarship. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Eleni’s work has been showcased in numerous exhibitions across the UK, Europe, and Asia. Notable recent shows include: the Shijiazhuang Youth Art Biennale in Hebei (2023, China), a screening of a short animation film at LUX Moving Image (2022, London), and ‘Landscapes Seen from Everywhere’, her latest solo show at The Muse Gallery (2025, London).
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.
Natalia Zagorska-Thomas
Natalia Zagórska-Thomas is a Polish/British visual artist, art conservator and curator. Trained at Canberra School of Art (Australia) and St Martins and Central School of Art (London), she has exhibited in Australia, Poland, Spain, Cuba, Germany, Italy and in the UK – including at Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal Festival Hall, Barbican Centre, Sotheby’s, Swedenborg House, Tabula Rasa and Fitzrovia Chapel in London; and at El Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño (Havana); Galerie im Kornerpark (Berlin); Art Basel (Hong Kong); and Lokal 30 (Warsaw). She works as a textile conservator for institutions such as the Royal Academy, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of London, Royal Collection Trust, Museum of Islamic Art (Doha) and Wawel Royal Castle (Krakow). Natalia is the owner / curator of an independent gallery in London called Studio ExPurgamento, which shows work of international and British artists in all media. She has curated group exhibitions at Studio ExPurgamento and at other venues in London as well as in Verona and Havana.