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Collab* for artists
The intersection of @collab.arts.collective and @londonartbar
Creating a platform and opportunities for artists

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Hello and welcome to the artist lab!
We’re here to present opportunities for artists at the @londonartbar

Watch this space for more! by @_the_artist_lab

Some more photos from our zine launch exhibition! by @_the_artist_lab

Some install shots from the amazing show we have on at the London art bar - in celebration of our zine launch and three year anniversary!🎨

Friday night was beyond amazing thank you so much everyone who came through! by @_the_artist_lab

SWAMP WITCHES are hosting their 3 year party this Friday at @londonartbar !!🍸

This includes the exciting launch of their first ever zine! Short films, publications, crafts and all things Swamp Witch!🧙‍♀️

Tickets are free and can be found in their bio!
@the.swamp.witches 🎟 by @_the_artist_lab

Some beautiful install shots from our current artists in residence! @eleanormcleanstudio @melrosemusic_ by @_the_artist_lab

Please join us on the Mon 28th Sept from 6pm to celebrate our next artists show!

‘Temporary Dwelling’ is a sculptural and sound installation by artists and sisters Eleanor McLean and Melissa McLean. The show explores the public and private spaces that anchor our sense of comfort and familiarity, and the ways these are shaped by culture, upbringing, memory and ritual. by @_the_artist_lab

Some photos from our current artists show!
@lily.donaldson.art

Lily Donaldson is a London-based painter and filmmaker whose practice explores the interconnected themes of home, heritage, and memory. Her work investigates how personal and collective histories shape identity and belonging, often drawing from lived experience and archival material by @_the_artist_lab

We are so excited to announce our next artist in residence @lily.donaldson.art

Lily Donaldson is a London-based painter and filmmaker whose practice explores the interconnected themes of home, heritage, and memory. Her work investigates how personal and collective histories shape identity and belonging, often drawing from lived experience and archival material.

Join us this Saturday 6pm for the opening event! by @_the_artist_lab

We had a great time at the launch of @alikatmiri solo show at the LAB!!☀️

His work is still on show for a while longer so make sure to come and check it out!💫 by @_the_artist_lab

Before our first solo show is installed we wanted to share some photos from some of our very own LAB artists work that's been installed on one of our gallery walls the last few weeks! by @_the_artist_lab

So excited to announce our first solo show from Ali Katmiri!

Join us on Saturday 29th August from 6pm for the private view!

Also - the artist is hosting an interactive performance/ workshop on Saturday 29th at 2pm! A great chance to meet the artist and explore his ways of working and have your creation exhibited alongside his work at the show!

Tickets available through the link in bio!

Artist statement
Ali Katmiri paints and photographs to reach the seeing and the feeling that come before language.
The work comes from a daily practice he built for himself. In it he is both the artist and the audience. In one part he works as a performer-painter, in the other as a performer-photographer.
Institutions choreograph the eye. They teach people where to look and what is worth looking at. In the photographs Katmiri uses abstraction to strip those distractions away and reach the layer of the world a child sees.
That same direction of attention disciplines emotion. In the paintings he uses colour and canvas to put feeling outside the body directly, with no words and no explanation. He is not making meaning. He is opening a channel where emotion passes straight into colour and shape.
Both halves of the practice ask the same question from two sides. How we look, and how we feel about what we are shown.

Tilt Your Head and A Subtle Turn / Colors Can See is Ali Katmiri's first solo exhibition. It brings together paintings and photographs from a daily practice he built for himself, one in which he is both the artist and the audience.
Institutions choreograph the eye, teaching people where to look and what is worth looking at, and that same direction of attention disciplines what they feel. The photographs use abstraction to strip those distractions away. The paintings use colour and canvas to put emotion outside the body directly, with no words and no explanation. Both reach for the seeing and the feeling that come before language.
The exhibition includes a workshop in which visitors take up the practice for themselves. by @_the_artist_lab

We are really excited to announce a call out for artists to be part of our first rotation of solo shows at The London Art Bar 🎨

There's no fees to apply or for selected artists this is all about championing local LDN artists!

Deadline 18th August!
Link in Bio!🔗

How It Works🌸

The shows will work on 2 week rotations.
The artist will need to be available for install and de install of the works
There will need to be a PV / opening event for the shows!
The gallery walls consist of 2 large wall mounted grids so works will need to be able to hang from grid hooks by @_the_artist_lab