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Exhibitions + Events
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Spring / Summer 2025


Sam Hodge
UNFOLDING: Packaging the Earth
Part of the London Festival of Architecture 2025
Friday 06.06.25 to Saturday 21.06.25
Daily 12 noon to 6pm
Closed Sundays

UNFOLDING: Vernissage / Launch and Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays
Thursday 05.06.25 6pm to 9pm
Visitors to the gallery will be able to acquire Sam’s prints over a glass of wine at preview prices
All welcome




Sam Hodge: Unfolding (A Delicate Balance), 2024 (Edition of 3; 1000mm x 730mm) Relief print from unfolded cardboard packaging using ink created with pigments made from coal, brick and mud from the Thames shore and Hackney earth on grey Somerset paper




Sam Hodge: Unfolding (Rich, Satisfying, Mellow and Smooth), 2023 (Edition of 3; 540mm x 370mm) Relief print from unfolded cardboard packaging using ink created with pigments made from earth from the Devon Coast on grey Somerset Paper


'UNFOLDING: Packaging the Earth' presents a series of beguiling and compelling prints by Sam Hodge, transforming discarded cardboard boxes into layered visual narratives. Using hand-ground pigments derived from both natural and built environments, Hodge gives voice to material worlds often overlooked, revealing their hidden stories and histories. Each print on cotton paper captures the texture, wear, and silent memory of packaging that once held the weight of commerce, consumption and communication; her artworks combine materials that 'bookend' the built environment, with rock and peat that have taken millennia to form, and abandoned packaging made from processed trees

In response to the London Festival of Architecture’s 2025 theme of Voices, this meditative and thoughtful exhibition invites reflection on the environmental and human imprints embedded in everyday waste. Through a quiet yet powerful dialogue between matter and meaning, 'UNFOLDING' asks us to listen differently - to surfaces, to silence, and to the Earth itself






The artist RECOGNITION
QUEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: The Lost and Loved Venues of Gay London
Part of the London Festival of Architecture 2025 and Pride in London 2025
Friday 27.06.25 to Sunday 06.07.25
Daily 12 noon to 6pm
Other Times by Appointment

QUEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: Pride Celebration and Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays
Thursday 03.07.25 6pm to 9pm
All welcome, but please sign up here

QUEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: Other Events
For information about other events associated with his exhibition, please contact RECOGNITION direct




RECOGNITION: Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Unique Acrylic Painting on Canvas (30” x 30” = 762mm x 762mm) and Giclée Print (300mm x 300mm) (Edition of 50) on Paper




RECOGNITION: Admiral Duncan, Unique Acrylic Painting on Canvas (72” x 48” = 1830mm x 1220mm) and A2 (594mm x 420mm) Giclée Print Hand-Finished in Pen and Ink (Edition of 150) on Paper


QUEER TODAY, GONE TOMORROW: The Lost and Loved Venues of Gay London' is an evocative exhibition by the artist RECOGNITION, showcasing limited edition prints and unique paintings that celebrate and pay tribute to the city's LGBTQ+ spaces, both past and present. These structures and places transcend being merely elements of our built environment; they are vessels of memory and activism, joy and tragedy, pride and prejudice

Drawing from personal narratives and community memories, RECOGNITION uses their debut solo exhibition to capture the essence of venues that have served as vital sanctuaries for self-expression and havens of solidarity for gay London. Through vibrant symbolism and abstract mapping, this exhibition amplifies the voices of these spaces, underscoring their significance in shaping London's cultural and architectural landscape. Visitors are invited to reflect on the impermanence of such venues as opposed to the enduring impact that they have on the communities they serve