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of
Labour
Artists
Art Fairs
Editions
Exhibitions
LONDON Programme 2026
OPENING TIMES
Thursday - Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 12-5pm
April 2
Gavin Wade: L is for Landscape
Without Dirt
Ella Belenky, Harun Morrison , Oona Wilkinson
EVENT
Gavin Wade
Songs of the Modern World - III release
May 1
David Blamey
Matthew Cornford
Schirin Kretschmann
May 2
Genre [machine] Painting
Andee Collard
May 16
The Taraxacum officinale
Growth Growth Growth!
Hilary Jack
May 23
IN/OUT OF STUDIO
Artist Talk 2-5pm
David Blamey
Matthew Cornford
Schirin Kretschmann
Domo Baal
May 28
Saulius Leonavičius invites
Jez Dolan, Sam Curtis, Tom Cardew, Lewis Graham, Joanne Masding, Daniel Pryde-Jarman,
Paul Vivian, James Winnett
.. more to folow...
May 30
Pallet Show
Daniel Pryde-Jarman
June 4
Old Europe 2.0
Saulius Leonavičius
June 6
Ostalgie Reading Room -Performance
Old Europe2 - Artist Talk
2-5pm
June 11
Angelina May Davis
Ceder Lewisohn
June 11
Andrew Lacon
June 20 -21
Film Weekend
Céline Berger, Priscila Fernandes,
Duncan Poultan, more to follow...
June 27
Old England - Artist Talk 2-4pm
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2025
NewsRoom News on Demand
The Myth of Barter
Minor Attractions
Village Greens . .
DreamLife
Stop the Chaos Turn the Page
The Nasty Book
2024
Preserving Hole
Dreaming Upon a White Stone
More News About Flowers
Crate on Pallet
Tree & Leaf
Imagine What We Can Do Tomorrow
Hyper_DEFLATION
P.A.L
Pressing
Songs of the Modern World
Cool - Warm - Hot
Fayre Share Fayre
NHS
Abstract Kab - Radical Plagerism
Council of Voices : Vanley Burke
Collected Domestic Conceptualism
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David Blamey
Matthew Cornford
Schirin Kretschmann
1-23 May
2026
Opening times
Thursday, Friday 2-6pm, Saturday 10-5pm Sunday 10-2pm
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Is the studio the ‘natural habitat’ of art? In 1971 Daniel Buren published The Function of the Studio, an essay in which he argued that art should remain in the studio, or else be made in situ. Much has changed since then. Today, artists work on-line, collaboratively, performatively, and site-specifically as well as alone in a room of their own. Should we now then consider the studio as but a single node in a broader production system of creativity and exhibition?
David Blamey works on location nomadically, as well as in traditional ‘domestic’ studios in central London and rural SW France. “Sometimes the studio tells me what to do next”, he says, “but when that voice becomes too familiar, I go out to the street, into nature, or on occasion into the art world”.
Matthew Cornford has never worked in a studio, preferring to take photographs on location, or improvise in spaces of public engagement. His
photographs are printed commercially and most of his other works are made by specialist fabricators. His art predicates ideas, objects and images over the primacy of an artist’s hand.
Schirin Kretschmann’s work is conceived, made and exhibited on site – whether on a rooftop, in a museum, a gallery, or a car park. Her studio is the only space at her disposal that she doesn’t share with anyone else. It is a place of retreat, contemplation and storage. Small and intimate, the size is only ‘seven steps from door to window’, as one journalist drolly noted.
Division of Labour Holy Trinity, Cloudesley Square, London N1 0HN, UK
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2012-14 2025-26
Flying Colours (Red) Studio Keys (Yellow, Grey Triptych)
Nine repaired flags Painting object assemblage
Aluminium poles and adjustable brackets, cotton, polyester
Dimensions variable2025
Pad Stack
Glass, foam transit pads, aluminium, screw, wall-plug, steel clips
35.5 x 25.5 x 3.5cm
2025-26
Studio Keys (Yellow, Grey Triptych)
Acrylic, mixed media, oak, MDF, dado picture hangers
76 x 60 x 46cms2023-23
Grid Supported by Two Bank Cards
Plywood and maple stretcher wedges, acrylic, magnets or bank cards
29 x 58.5 x 0.7cm2010-26
Area Division / Demo
Steel space-frame, plywood plinth, found placard
Space-frame: 40 x 50 x 70cms
Plinth: 46 x 56 x 76cms
Placard: 42 x 60 x 120cms2026
Memorial Palette Shield
Carrara Marble (3x / 3y)
Wool removal blanket (or wall mounted)
90cm x 60cms2020
Spaceframe
Pencil on paper, framed
A4 21.0cm x 2.97cm2026
Painting Herself Into a Corner
Site Specific work
Floor paint, shoes, tape, cup, screws
Dimensions variable2026
We Are the Robots (VII)
Site specific work, video, iPad
Dimensions variable2026
Palette Construction Relief
Secondhand palettes, sanded, painted white
42cm x 58cm2026
Gloves
Cotton, needle, oil-based floor paint
Dimsions variale
Edition of 30+1AP
2025
Form On the Day (monochrome Rose series 03)
Pigment between glass, aluminium frame
21x 29.7cms2025
Form On the Day (Rose yellow 01)
Pigment between glass, aluminium frame
42 x 59.4cm