88 Friary Road, SE15 London
15–19 October 2025
EXISTENTIAL LICENCE brings together 19 artists from the UK, Ireland, Italy, Cyprus, Spain, the US, and Costa Rica - affirming abstraction as a transnational language of freedom and energy.
EXISTENTIAL LICENCE is an exhibition devoted to pure abstraction, where artists find freedom rather than apprehension in the dissolution of form, and vitality in the shifting thresholds of time and energy. Abstraction becomes an existential stance, not a retreat into the intangible, but a refusal of the safe and the fixed; an embrace of the unstable as fertile ground. Against the reassurance of the ‘real’, the featured works release colour, gesture, and material as ungoverned forces, charged with the momentum of liberation.
Participating Artists
*denotes new commission
Sinéad Aldridge (IE), *James Capper (UK/IT), *Diana Copperwhite (IE/UK), *Rian Coughlan (IE/UK), *Jo Dennis (UK), *Bobby Dowler (UK/FR), Paul Embleton (UK), *Sheenagh Geoghegan (IE), *Christopher Green (UK), *Sue Kennington (UK/IT), Erin Lawlor (IE/UK), *Catherine Long (UK), *Shaun McDowell (UK/IE/IT), *Meletios Meletiou (Magnus Tempus Network, CY/IT), *Cristallo Odescalchi (Magnus Tempus Network, IT), Innocenzo Odescalchi (IT), *Pía Ortuño (CR/UK), *Joe Reihsen (US), Mateo Revillo (ES/FR)
