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We’re bringing you an amazing line-up of readers and writers for STST Word Club | I Can’t Meditate exploring words as a form of mindfulness 💭

Can text be meditation? Can art sit within the page? Find out with us as we welcome poet @youarehasti, art critic Victoria Comstock-Kershaw @rothkosgirlfriend, and journalists @phinharper and @arcadiamolinas amongst the sculptural world of @abdollah.nafisi’s I Can’t Meditate.

STST Word Club | I Can’t Meditate
Thursday 29 October | 7-10pm
🔗 Book tickets via the link in bio

#StaffordshireSt

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Frieze Week is a marathon, not a sprint. @rothkosgirlfriend knows that more than anyone. So, what do you do at the end of the week when the art doesn’t move you, the press releases were written by ChatGPT, and the only thing giving Frieze Week meaning is the smoking area?
You look for an omen. You drink too much. You get turned away at the velvet rope, and probably spend the Sunday in bed.

Victoria Comstock-Kershaw’s Frieze London 2026 Diary, to read the full article, head to the link in our bio.

@rothkosgirlfriend
@friezeofficial

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Frieze week all done 🍵🧘🏻‍♀️

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The Making of Abstraction is one of @royalacademyarts’ 5 contemporary art shows to see in London this month, selected by Victoria Comstock-Kershaw @rothkosgirlfriend.

LAS is an artist-run, self-funded charity in Deptford, and we’re proud to see this show recognised among the month’s selections across London.

The exhibition, with Betsy Bradley, Albert Irvin RA, Scott Licznerski and Mali Morris RA, is now open at LAS Gallery, 3 Creekside, and remains on view until Sunday 1 November 2026. Visit Thursday–Saturday, 12–6 pm.
Come and see it!

@betsy_bradley
@albertirvinestate
@srlski
@malimorrisstudio

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I never intended to direct a charity Arts organisation yet here I am.

Victoria Comstock Kershaw has selected The Making of Abstraction at LAS as one of her five exhibitions to see in London this October for @royalacademyarts
Four painters, Albert Irvin RA, Mali Morris RA, Betsy Bradley and Scott Licznerski.

We are a completely artist run and self funded charity in Deptford, so seeing a show we have built from the ground up recognised alongside everything happening across London this month feels particularly special.

Supporting @albertirvinestate was one of my first clients out of university, supporting either the safe guarding of his legacy felt like and still does a privilege.

Very grateful to Victoria for choosing it and to the Royal Academy for including us & for the trust @betsy_bradley @albertirvinestate @srlski @malimorrisstudio put in @londonartservices
& @giuliamoliarov being the brains, graphics & everything besides.
The Making of Abstraction
LAS Gallery, Deptford
Until 1 November
Thursday to Saturday, 12 to 6pm
Come and see it.

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We asked contemporary art critic and London art scene darling @rothkosgirlfriend what exhibitions she thinks are worth seeing this month.

What show would you add to the list?

📸 Open slide @jackhallstudio

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Across @abdollah.nafisi’s I Can’t Meditate, we’re offering you some new methods of finding stillness. Through drawing, words, movement and more...
🔗 All tickets are live at the link in bio

Next week we’re welcoming @peckham.lifedrawing to guide you through a drawing session amongst the artworks, ahead of the Opening Party - so come along for an early preview!

Join us on Thursday 15 for the Opening Party with @flarliechynn of @donut__jam on the decks! Then at the weekend Charlie’s back with Donut, Deconstructed, a new take on musical experimentation jamming alongside Abdollah Nafisi.

Up next we’re welcoming Yoko Wada for a de-stress movement workshop exploring different ways of finding stillness in our bodies, with a walking meditation, yago nudra and yogi tea.

Then we’re asking, can words be meditiation? In an in house word club with a stellar line up.

And we’ll be closing the show with a day of actions, Moving Listening Talking.

I Can’t Meditate opens 15 October | 6-10pm
16 Oct - 1 Nov | Wed - Sun | 12 - 6pm

📸 @abdollah.nafisi

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Please join us at Shipton on Saturday, 10 October, from 3–6pm for the closing event of Stan Buglass’ UK debut solo exhibition, TEMPLE.

To mark the exhibition’s final day, we are delighted to host a conversation between Stan Buglass, Adam Bellagha, Maajid Nawaz and Victoria Comstock-Kershaw, who will come together to consider a deceptively simple question:

Who Talks for England?

@stanbuglass @adambellagha92 @maajidnawaz @rothkosgirlfriend

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We’re thrilled to have art critic and writer Victoria Comstock-Kershaw join us on the 15th of October at 3pm, for a tour of @echosoho

Please book your free ticket linked in our bio to take part in her curated tour. Limited capacity.

#echosoho #revueresidency #artistresidency #rothkosgirlfriend #friezeweek

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We’re pleased to announce the publication of legendary music critic Mark Beaumont’s hallucinatory experimental novel ‘6666666666’ on the 7th of January 2027:

“Born into a fading rock musician on the brink of a fatal overdose, a hidden, transient consciousness lives a full hour-long life in ten deaths, six minutes at a time: the despair of a nobody suicide, the arrogance of a womanising pilot, the emptiness of a god-fearing matriarch…It chases fragments of a family tragedy and its terrifying aftermath, growing, learning and judging; a mute witness to the best and very worst of raw, unfiltered humanity across its myriad endings.”

Join us in London in depths of January for another night of readings for the launch. Keep your calendars free.

#books #indiepress #literature #indie

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