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We're delighted to announce the selected artists for Scrumping Apples, our inaugural online exhibition, guest-curated by Farnaz Gholami. Following a thoughtful selection process and an incredibly strong response to the open call, we are pleased to present the artists selected for this exhibition. Inspired by Hurvin Anderson's Scrumping, the exhibition brings together artists whose work explores memory, migration, belonging, and the evolving idea of home. Reflecting on movement across places, cultures, and generations, the selected works consider how identity is continually shaped through memory, lived experience, and imagination. Exhibiting Artists: Alessandra BB (@abbpainting) Daisy Billowes (@daisy_billowes) Emma Boittiaux (@emmaboittiaux) Hannah Campion (@hannahcampionartist) Maria Jose Carvallo (@josecarvallo_art) Cloudslin (@quduoduo__) Yang-En Hume (@yangenhume) Laura James (@yellobelli_art) Jolene Liam (@jolenesaurus) Shuyi Ma (@horsetreeone) Fionna Murray (@fionnamurray) Danielle Sargeant (@dars.palette) Melanie Taylor (@melc.taylor) Regina Torres Thompson (@reginatorresth.arte) Yingdi Wu (@wuyingdi) Hyun Yoon (@darkbluepigment) Poster artwork adapted from Cloudslin (@quduoduo__) ✨ Launching online: 3 August On view: 3 August – 25 October www.smallworksartgallery.com by @smallworksartgallery
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SCRUMPING APPLES - OPEN CALL For this edition of the open call, we have invited artist Farnaz Gholami as guest curator. Gholami brings to the project an interest in how memory, migration, and place shape contemporary artistic practice. Drawing on themes that also inform her own work, she invites submissions that reflect on belonging, movement, and how we construct notions of home across borders and generations. “The idea of the exhibition is shaped by questions that feel personally resonant to me as both an artist and curator. Having lived between different countries, languages, and cultural landscapes, I have often found myself thinking about how belonging is formed, not as something fixed, but as something continually moulded through memory, experience, and imagination.” — Farnaz Gholami For full description and guidelines, please visit our website: www.smallworksartgallery.com or link in bio. Deadline: Midnight (BST), 12 July 2026 by @smallworksartgallery
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New Substack Post! In honour of our two-year anniversary of the England is a Forest exhibition, we are opening our virtual map and inviting artists to submit new artworks to be included! What is this, you say? England is a Forest is a collaborative illustrated forest. It is a virtual map and exhibition with its physical debut at Sluice [Vernacular] 2024, at The Minories in Colchester, June 2024. Through a free open call, we received over a hundred artworks, each portraying a specific tree with its geolocation. If you would like to add to the map, please visit Englandisaforest.com for more information. (Link in bio). Anyone can participate; simply find a tree and create your artistic response. We accept all 2-d media except photography. The goal is to encourage one another to spend time outdoors observing nature and making art. We look forward to seeing what you make! (Substack link in bio.) #englandisaforest #sluice #opencall by @smallworksartgallery
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Melanie Taylor Phantom, 2026, oil on canvas, 168 x 137 cm About the Artist: Born in Northumberland, England, Melanie received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and MA Fine Art from the University of Southampton, UK, at the Winchester School of Art. She has exhibited her work in galleries and museums in the UK, USA, Spain and India, including the Blue Gallery, London, White Columns, NY, Maidstone Museum & Bentlif Art Gallery, UK, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Bread & Salt, City Gallery and Art Produce Gallery in San Diego, CA. She is the recipient of professional awards for her artwork and has been an Artist-in-Residence at Art Produce, San Diego, CA and Sanskriti Pratishan, New Delhi, India. Her work is held in numerous private and public collections, including Art UK, University of Surrey, UK, Sanskriti Foundation, India, and Boston Ballet, USA. About this work: This painting depicts an old oak that is probably around 300 years old. It has survived throughout the years despite a broken limb and will continue beyond our living memory. Its inherent pathos and persistence inspired the painting, knowing that its timeline extends long before and beyond my own. I have attempted to translate its presence through painting, allowing transparency to show the surrounding landscape and the fragility of its existence. My practice is primarily concerned with our complex relationship to the landscape as history, habitat, nature, place and aesthetic. The works encourage a thoughtful experience of natural spaces with consideration for its fragility and resilience. They address nature’s fundamental and enduring predominance that exists beyond physical boundaries and our living memory. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Laura James Broken Wing, Crooked Mountain, 2026, ink, coloured pencil & monoprint on board, 30.5 x 40.5 cm About the Artist: Laura James (b.1994) is a British painter based in Watford, Hertfordshire. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2015 with a First Class Honours degree in Curation, she re-established her painting practice in 2022 and has since been showing works across London and the South-east of England. Working predominantly with water-based mediums, coloured pencil and monoprint, James weaves dreamlike terrains that emerge through a multi-layered and intuitive process. About this work: When I was 18 years old, I moved to London from the depths of rural Lincolnshire to attend university at Central Saint Martins…Swapping my backyard views of ploughed brown fields that stretched out to infinity to a sweeping plane of skyscrapers that twinkled with impossible possibilities. Watching the landscape twist from vast skies and open plains into the steel thrum of the city limits, feeling myself reduce back into an anonymous dot among it all, already craving the ever-changing colour palette of the sky… Over the years, I learnt how to love London, how to embrace its proximity and energy, and also how to seek out alternative landscapes that gave me back the gift of starkness and solitude that I had grown up with. Through this experience, I realised how deeply attuned I am to my immediate surroundings, and how this is such a foundational part of who I am as a person and as an artist. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Hyun Yoon You and Me. That’s Home. Wherever we are. 2026, acrylic on canvas, 28 x 37.5 cm About this work: Branches gather overhead into the shape of an arch, and beneath it a hill glows in hot pink, with one small tree standing at its top. I didn’t set out knowing what the arch meant, and I still don’t have a fixed answer, only that it feels like a threshold rather than an ending, one landscape opening onto another the way memory sits over the place we now stand. As a nomad, home is never a fixed place. The imagined arch and hill in this painting hold more than one place at once, Seoul, New York, London, Kyoto, and the many other places carried between them. Moving through so many places over the years, I came to feel this in my own life. Wherever he was with me, that place became home. Home here is not arrived at but assembled, again and again, out of memory and the person beside me. About the Artist: Hyun Yoon is a London-based artist. She studied history and later product design, and worked for years as a freelance designer before turning to fine art in the years following the pandemic. Her ongoing project, Rooted. Alive., explores the invisible energy hidden within nature, from the quiet stillness of a single plant to the collective energy moving through a forest. Alongside this, she has been developing a body of work exploring home, belonging, and the experience of living between places and cultures. Her work has been shown at The Other Art Fair London, Memento Amoris at The Lido Stores Margate, and the Jackson’s Art Prize Exhibition, and was Highly Commended at The Homiens Art Prize and shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Hannah Campion Northern Rainbow Curtain Folds, 2026, acrylic on panel, 29.5 × 21 cm About this work: ‘Northern Rainbow Curtain Folds’ explores home as an emotional landscape rather than a fixed place. Inspired by shifting skies and changing light, the painting draws on memory, atmosphere and the way colour can hold a sense of belonging. Layers of translucent paint create a veil between what is seen and what is remembered, inviting viewers to bring their own experiences of place, transition and home to the work. Growing up in Teesside and spending much of my life in and around water—as a swimmer, diver and artist—has shaped how I experience the world. I am drawn to moments of transition: changing skies, rainbows, reflections and atmospheric phenomena that remind us nothing is ever entirely fixed. These fleeting moments become metaphors for resilience, connection and hope. About the Artist: Hannah Campion is a UK-based contemporary artist whose practice explores colour, light and the emotional landscapes of memory, place and belonging. Working across painting, murals and installation, she creates luminous works inspired by skies, weather and natural phenomena, using vibrant pigments to evoke moments of connection, resilience and wonder.

She holds an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Arts and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Loughborough University, alongside a PGCE in Art & Design. Campion has exhibited nationally and internationally, with projects including residencies in Berlin and Kuala Lumpur, and recently completed the large-scale public mural Skies of Home in Middlesbrough as part of the Middlesbrough Storytelling Festival. Her work invites viewers to consider how colour and landscape can become vessels for memory, emotion and a shared sense of home. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Daisy Billowes gorge, 2026, acrylic & oil pastel on artboard, 42 x 30 cm About this work: I have never had a single place to call home. I was born in Winchester, spent six formative years in Athens, then came back to England (Essex) for school, Newcastle for my degree, London for the RCA and the working years that followed. In 2023 I moved again, to the Isle of Man, where my studio now sits. Belonging, for me, has never been a fixed point on a map; it’s something I assemble and reassemble with each move.

‘gorge’ holds this. A small drawing carried by painted undertones, it is built from layers, colour surfacing beneath line, one ground pressing through another. The piece is an excavation of the sheer depth of a landscape: the kind of place that makes you feel small, dwarfed by something older and larger than yourself. That scale is also where I find myth. So much of the emotional landscape of mythology lives in exactly this feeling; of standing at the edge of something vast, carrying it with you, never quite able to hold all of it. A gorge is land cut open by movement over time, its history made visible in what it exposes, and I think of my own life the same way: a sediment of places, each one leaving a trace in the next.

This is a practice of excavation, of looking at what sits beneath the surface and between the layers. ‘gorge’ is a small record of that: of a home continually negotiated through memory, of feeling small inside a landscape too deep to fully know, and of the quiet persistence in making work wherever you happen to land. About the Artist: Daisy Billowes is a Manx-based artist raised in Athens and the UK. She studied Fine Art at Newcastle University (2015) and Print at the Royal College of Art, London (2017). Her practice explores themes of mythology, folklore, and the female narrative through a multi-disciplinary approach spanning painting, drawing and print. 
 For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Cloudslin Passing Memory, 2026, oil on canvas, 50 x 72 cm About the Artist: Cloudslin (Lin Dong) is an artist working primarily in painting, based in London. His work engages memory, cultural displacement, and the residual emotional textures of everyday life. He grew up in northern China and spent part of his early life in Miao communities in southwest China, where visual experience was shaped by a mix of local craft traditions and vernacular imagery, alongside references such as ancient figurative objects and Dunhuang wall paintings.

He trained in fashion design at Central Saint Martins, and this background informs a sensitivity to surface, structure, and the body as a site of construction and perception. In painting, the image is approached less as representation than as something formed through material presence and accumulated visual memory.
 About this work: Inspired by a train journey from Belgrade to Čačak during my travels in the Balkans, this painting brings together observation and memory. A toy horse encountered during the trip echoed one from my childhood, and reappears in the train window reflection, where the passing landscape and memory briefly merge. I paint to hold onto what slips away. My work begins in observation of places I’ve lived, objects half-remembered, and gestures that echo across time. These fragments become layered compositions in oil, pastel, and fabric, where colour behaves like memory, fluid, unstable, and quietly persistent.

Having lived among the Miao people and studied their visual culture, I see painting as a way to carry histories through mark-making. I often incorporate textile techniques and spatial arrangements into my work, reflecting my background in fashion and installation. What I return to, again and again, is the act of painting as a form of containment of presence, of absence, of what cannot be said. Each piece becomes a kind of portable shrine: part window, part wound. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Danielle Sargeant Waves Crash on Sargassum Shores, 2026, acrylic and paper on board, 30 x 30 cm About the Artist: Danielle Sargeant (b. 1998) is a Caribbean-British artist based in Devon, UK. Her interdisciplinary practice explores internal and geographical landscapes. She was awarded a Mellon-Tishman Creative Fellowship for her graduate thesis project, ‘Does Water Carry Memory?’, and earned her MFA in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design. Her work has been exhibited internationally at galleries, online, and in print, and as a former member of Duchamp & Sons Art Collective, she has co-curated and exhibited at Whitechapel Gallery, London. About this work: This work centres on a Sargassum-afflicted beach I encountered in St. Kitts while visiting family, returning to the Caribbean for the first time in 8 years. The arrival of Sargassum challenged my idealised memory of the landscape, turning it into something that embodied change. I was struck by a strange feeling of otherness while looking at the impact of Sargassum, a feeling that it was out of place, an intruder, but somehow still belonged to the landscape more completely than I did. In painting the increasingly pervasive presence of Sargassum, I am confronting this notion of belonging and the tension of returning to a “home” that has palpably changed in my absence. My practice examines how internal and geographical landscapes shape one another, how memory and perception inform our experience of place, and how environmental deterioration becomes legible through acts of documentation. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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Jolene Liam Checked Baggage, 2024, oil pastel and monotype on paper, 42 x 59 cm About the Artist: Liam is an artist and architect from Singapore who recently completed the Off-Site Programme at Turps Art School, an artist-led painting programme. Previously, she studied at the Essential School of Painting and the Royal Drawing School in London. Before pursuing her art practice full-time, she practised as an architect at Studio Egret West and RSHP. She trained at the University of Westminster, the National University of Singapore and Technische Universität München.
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Her work has been selected and shortlisted for several awards, including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Art Gemini Prize, Derwent Art Prize, World Illustration Awards, and Royal Institute of British Architects’ Eye Line Drawing Competition. She has also exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition and the Royal Watercolour Society Open. Her drawings have also been featured in several issues of the RIBA Journal. About this work: A drawing of my luggage after a trip to Singapore. The monotype layer was drawn with my eyes closed while touching its contents. This is part of a discussion about having two homes – the home that I grew up in, and the home that I live in now. For me, the phrase ‘I’m going home’ can refer to one of two places: the flat in London where I have lived for the past 10 years, and the house in Singapore where I grew up, where my parents still live. The work examines the ritual of moving from one home to another, and the things we carry with us, both tangible and intangible. This project was a way for me to reflect on why I bring certain things with me by interrogating the in-between space that connects these two homes. For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the winner of the £250 Artist Spotlight Award. We look forward to learning more about Yang-En’s practice and sharing in due course. Yang-En Hume After The Body, 2026, acrylic and oil on unstretched canvas, embroidery thread, 235 x 145 cm, £4,000 About the Artist: Yang-En Hume is an Australian artist with Singaporean heritage, based in London. She graduated with distinction from the MFA programme at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2026, where she was awarded the Betty Malcolm Prize, the Sarabande Emerging Artist Fund and the Reid Trust Grant, and was shortlisted for the Adrian Carruthers Acme Award and the Dolbey Travel Prize. Recent exhibitions include Inside/Outside at the Migration Museum, MK Open at Milton Keynes Gallery, and Bring Your Light at The Nunnery Gallery. She was selected for the No Break in Summer Residency at Mandy Zhang Art, which she is currently undertaking. About this work: ‘After The Body’ explores family history through material absence. The painting is an attempt to create a material language that reflects my experience of growing up in an immigrant family, where my relationship to home was a continual negotiation. Based on a family photograph of my ancestors, the figures have been cut away, leaving their presence to be felt through their absence. Floral motifs, informed by Singaporean batik, surround the voids, weaving together family history and cultural inheritance.

The cutting, stitching, and repair of the canvas create an unstable, fractured surface that evokes the threshold spaces of migration, where identity is continually shaped through cultural collision and inherited memory. The unstretched canvas retains the softness and drape of cloth, bringing the work closer to textile traditions and reflecting my broader interest in craft, repair, and the ways materials can carry memory. . For more info, visit our exhibition - online until 25 October 2026. Link in profile. Message us for all inquiries. #scrumpingapples #smallworkscic #artexhibition #contemporaryart by @smallworksartgallery
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