Private view of "A Moveable Feast" curated by Cathy Wills at Hypha HQ

Adding to the mix of cultural events across London coinciding with Frieze art fair, Hypha Studios are pleased to announce their exhibition A Moveable Feast. A curated exhibition of over 40 artists selected by renowned curator and art collector, Cathy Wills, all works will be available to purchase directly through Hypha Curates, a new sales platform designed to support the charitable work of Hypha Studios.

The title of the exhibition references Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of the same name. Presented in a dense and exciting salon style hang, the diverse mix of works – selected from over 900 applications to Hypha Curates – invite the visitor to draw new, unexpected, and rich connections across the mixed media curation. Just as Hemingway weaved together encounters with a diverse coterie of friends and figures of the time, Wills’ curation is intended to initiate new conversation rather than draw conclusions.

Highlights include Katherine Giordano’s oil painting Roaming Turf, a fragment of which is used on the exhibition promotional literature. Exploring the shifting ground between familiarity and estrangement, Giordano has a singular style here capturing in soft light a body at once relaxed and in comfort, but also compressed and seemingly confined. Another work, Weight / Tension / Restriction, by Gemma Holzer, is inspired by Neolithic sites and relics, but recomposed into a steel-framed construction with uncanny representations of unknown elements suspended by chains. Himani Gupta’s Lunar Crossings is an oil and pigment work inspired by a Tarkovsky film, foreground and background combining into one contemplative scene.

The Hypha Studios HQ gallery will be punctuated by sculpture. Sheffield-based artist Gillian Brent’s Not a Pair of Scales is a pillar topped by an assemblage of discarded materials, reforming nostalgia and familiarity. Lizzie Cardozeo explores the softness of breath and material volume with Folded Breath, a poetic conjoining of blown glass and rock. Aren’t you going to light them? II is an oak totem by Robin Bigret investigating industrially scarred landscapes and industrial fragments found within them. 

The exhibition traverses pictorial to conceptual: Michalis Karaiskos’ Untitled (Partner) is a tender oil pointing of a body leaning against a radiator, intimate and silently charged, while Rafa Roeder’s Useless Device is a sculptural “experimental machine” created to question the relationship between capital and technology. 

A Moveable Feast marks the launch of Hypha Curates, a new purpose-driven online art sales platform designed to open the doors of collecting to wider audiences, directly supporting UK artists. Launched by arts charity Hypha Studios, the platform gives 70% of sales income directly to artists, with the remaining 30% funding Hypha Studios’ charitable work, which has already provided free studio and exhibition spaces for over 2,100 artists in 64 UK locations since 2021.

Full list of participating artists in A Moveable Feast:
Sarunas Berinas, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Robin Bigret, Gillian Brent, Cas Campbell, Lizzie Cardozo, Sara Christova, Gregory Daine, Freddie Darke, Pablo Delahaye, Batool Desouky, Naomi Ellis, Archie Fooks-Smith, Daniel Freytag, Maxim Frolov, Katherine Giordano, Tom Grace-Whittaker, Himani Gupta, Filip Haglund, India Hanlon, Gemma Holzer, Harriet Horner, Fan Ji, Stuart Jones, Michalis Karaiskos, Matt Kavanagh, Yewon Lee, Margarita Loze, Zoe Maxwell, Andia Coral Newton, Chantel Okwesa, Anna Reading, Vivien Carolyn Reinert, Rafa Roeder, Diana Savostaite, Benjamin Sebastian, Ella Shepard, Ewelina Skowronska Emily Tracy, Marina Tsaregorodtseva, Lily Wei, Aleksandra Zawada

Camilla Cole, Founder & CEO of Hypha Studios, says: “Collecting art should not be reserved for the ultra-wealthy, with Hypha Curates, we’re making it possible for people to buy original work at accessible prices, support local artists, and know their purchase is also strengthening the UK’s  cultural ecosystem. It’s collecting with purpose.”

Hypha Curates will feature a broad range of artwork across mediums and price points, with artwork ranging from £200 to £5,000, giving first-time buyers the chance to start their collection while allowing seasoned collectors to discover new talent. A Moveable Feast, curated by Cathy Wills, presents artists selected from the inaugural cohort selling on Hypha Curates, showing the breadth in media, ideas, and prices the platform offers.

Collectors and artists can register now via @hyphacurates or www.hyphastudios.com/hypha-curates.