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Some snaps from @alexclose7's recent solo show in @apsara.studio with @handson.projects.⁠ ⁠ You can relive the exhibition tour and conversation we did together via the link in my bio.⁠ ⁠ #ReviewsByNigel #nigelip #AlexClose #HandsOn #ApsaraStudio
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Throwback to ‘Where We Meet’, our exhibition earlier this year bringing together Neda Dana-Haeri and Shooq AlShawi (18 March – 28 April 2026). Presented in collaboration with Hands On Projects at General Assembly in London, the exhibition created a space where two distinct artistic voices converged through shared themes of personal history, cultural heritage and the ways we navigate place and connection. As we look ahead to our upcoming programme, we remain grateful to everyone who visited the exhibition, joined the artist talk, and engaged with the conversations it inspired. #ThrowbackThursday #NedaDanaHaeri #ShooqAlShawi #ContemporaryArt #JanetRadyFineArt
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Installation views of “Residue” final exhibition of @handson.projects residency, curated by @senemcb Images 7 to 10: An Exercise in Hope 100 x 70 cm Acrylic and Oil on Canvas Damavand, Still 100 x 70 cm Acrylic and Oil on Canvas Homeland, Interrupted 160 x 130 cm Acrylic, Ink, oil and Soft Pastel on Canvas Suspended Aftermath 160 x 130 cm Acrylic, Ink and Soft Pastel on Canvas
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Find & apply to this open call through Apply for Art: www.applyforart.com/residency . @handson.projects OPEN CALL: Hands-on Residency Applications are now open for the fifth edition of our residency programme. Hands-on Residency is a six-week online programme dedicated to supporting contemporary artists and designers by fostering deep critical reflection and cultural exchange. By leveraging the diversity of participants’ geographies and backgrounds, the residency supports practitioners in further developing their work and connecting them to an international ecosystem of creative stakeholders. OPPORTUNITY INFO Dates: 6-week online programme (21 September - 01 November 2026) Final exhibition: November 2026, Siegfried Contemporary (@siegfriedcontemporary) 16 Bassett Road, London, W10 6JJ Number of selected artists: 5 Application deadline: 06 September 2026 RESIDENCY THEMATIC FRAMEWORK Building Mythologies frames the fifth edition of Hands-on Residency as a collective exploration of the stories that shape the understanding of ourselves and the world around us. By bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences, participants explore how meaning emerges through the persistence of the past and its transformation across places and contexts in the present. GUEST SPEAKERS Nicolas Bourriaud (@bourriaudnicolas): Writer and Curator Giles Tettey Nartey (@gilestetteynartey): Artist and Architect Océane Sailly (@oceane.sailly): Researcher, Curator and Director of Hunna (@hunna.art) Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys (senemcb): Curator, Writer and Advisor Céline Seror (@celine_seror): Writer and Curator Maria Positano (@maria.positano): Multidisciplinary Artist Freya Bramble-Carter (@freyabramblecarter): Ceramic Artist #artist #artopencall #callforart #opencall #ArtistCall
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What a year to look back at, what a way to move forward. If time was ever this stretched and shaped, and solitude was so full with presence….. What a year to have sat with the flowers’ breath.. Within the infinite time seems to take new meaning and shape, light new color and light is present upon light and more light. January begins with a moon so wild. And so it is, may this year bring with it what serves. here are some moments picked, random and by choice, starting from the last picture taken at the studio to very early shots taken by photographers, friends, daughter and visitors, grateful for every exchange, being, flower and the creator of it all. 1- the last picture of 2025 taken at the studio, experimenting with painting on the floor vs wall 2- notes found on little papers taken from a waiter, conversations with self 3- colours sorted on the table at studio, this state lasts no more than 48 hours 4- close up from ‘Do you see the signs’ 5- photo taken by @keykeyyan at the studio 6- winter light on flowers from @sabrina.a.shah 7- layers of breath, taken at the studio in the afternoon sun 8- bougainvillea tree at my grandmother’s home 9- ‘I love your painting mummy’- Zaid learns not to hug art 10- from studio visit with @artunpacked_ @eleonorasparaciari 11- the 5 tulips from ‘Rizq’ their water was counted 12- early prayer series 13- a sketch wall that has serves for release 14- working on ‘Thirty Days’ in Bali on the terrace in August 15- more layers 16- in the studio after Antigua escape April 25 17- experimenting with space and geometry 18- in conversation with @eye_examen 19- the flower that sat with me for a month Jan 25 20- Dalia took this picture Jan 25
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Washed, Dried, Ironed, Frayed, Corroded Floral lace pattern rust print on plastic voile 2025 Install and process pics of curtains and rusted steel sheet, made for the end of residency show with @handson.projects at @apsara.studio ! On view online until 11.1.26, link is in @handson.projects bio ★ Big big thank you to @letizia.agostini for everything 🤍
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We are pleased to present Neda Dana-Haeri as one of the two artists featured in our current online exhibition Where We Meet, realised in collaboration with Hands-On Projects. Born in Iran and based in London since 1977, Dana-Haeri’s practice is deeply rooted in Persian poetry and Eastern philosophy. Her work unfolds through layers of colour, texture, and material, building surfaces that carry echoes of memory and lived experience. Through a process of layering and abstraction, she creates atmospheric compositions that hover between clarity and ambiguity. Her paintings become spaces where past and present coexist—fluid, shifting, and charged with emotional resonance. Dana-Haeri’s work invites a quiet, contemplative engagement, where meaning emerges intuitively rather than through fixed narratives, offering a visual language shaped by inner reflection and the passage of time. Pictured above is: Neda Dana-Haeri The Moon Like a Flower 2, 2023 Oil on canvas 80 x 60 cm 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 in #IranianArtist #AbstractArt #contemporaryart #LondonExhibition #NedaDanaHaeri
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《Residue》 We live in an era of profound estrangement. Shaped by modern individualisation, digital polarisation and rising nationalisms, our sense of a shared life has been severely eroded. We find ourselves in societies where we are physically close yet increasingly distant from one another emotionally and politically. This fragmentation leaves our desire for belonging susceptible to narratives shaped by fear, while destabilising the very ground upon which coexistence is built. In a world where traditional anchors have dissolved, the exhibition revolves around a fundamental question: what does it mean to be ‘at home’? If home is no longer a fixed geographic coordinate, then one must become their own home, a portable space in which consciousness, values and dignity are carried within. Yet this internal refuge does not imply withdrawal from the world. On the contrary, it necessitates a new form of togetherness, one that requires us to live with difference and to cultivate a sense of responsibility towards one another. This form of coexistence does not emerge from a romanticised unity but from fragile yet meaningful relations formed within everyday life. Situated within a domestic space, the exhibition brings the works into an intimate field of dialogue. The pieces, which recontextualise the ordinary elements of domestic life, invite us to rethink boundaries, modes of belonging and the possibilities of living together. In this context, Residue refers not only to what remains, but to the traces left behind by shared experiences, encounters and lived time. As the exhibition interrogates notions of safety, familiarity and coexistence, it displaces the idea of home from a fixed place into a continuously reconfigured relational space. Text by Senem Cagla Bilgin-Keys (@senemcb) 《Residue》 Venue │ A Space Residence, London, UK Opening │ 2 July 2026, 6–9 pm Exhibition │ 2 July – 8 August 2026 Online Exhibition │ Until 9 August 2026 via @handson.projects
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🌞🌕 Passage, 2026 — created during the @handson.projects residency, shown at @apsara.studio curated by @nigelip and @letizia.agostini.
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Time grows in spirals 🌀 and memory clings to sand ✨ __ Close up details from my painting Spiral, 2026. Created during @handson.projects residency. Images by @nigelip
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Inside the studio of Shooq AlShawi — one of the two artists currently featured in our exhibition Where We Meet, now live via Artsy and our website. Following the opening of the exhibition, this Saturday’s open studio offers a more intimate way to encounter the work: within a space where it is conceived, built, and continuously evolving. It is an opportunity to move beyond the gallery setting and engage more closely with the artist’s process, materials, and environment. We are delighted to welcome visitors into AlShawi’s studio for a rare, in situ experience — a chance to spend time with the works at their point of origin, and to gain a deeper sense of the rhythm and scale that underpin her practice. Saturday 18 April, 11am–4pm 📍 10 South End, London E8 5BU RSVP: art@janetradyfineart.com
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