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A SERIES OF TEMPORAL REFLECTIONS
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Who should we be collaborating with next?

One of my biggest takeaways from curating ShadesOf Atonement is just how powerful collective spaces can be.

Art has an incredible ability to bring communities together, spark conversations and amplify messages far beyond the walls of an exhibition.

Across our ShadesOf Shows series, we’ve platformed over 115 emerging artists and welcomed 2,000+ visitors.

And we’re only getting started.

We’re looking to connect with brands, cultural institutions and organisations that believe in the power of art, community and emerging creative voices.

Who do you think we should be speaking to? Tag them below!

#creatives #creative #arts #art #community

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London Summer ‘26 you was cute 🌸 - Bring on Q4👏🏾!!!

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My film camera had the pleasure of capturing some fabulous faces over the course of our 6 day exhibition - ShadesOf Atonement.

As always, we are eternally grateful for the love and support we’ve had on all three of our hugely successful group shows at @thebombfactoryartfoundation Marylebone space 🤍

What would mean the world if you came along and felt impacted by the work, stories and world we curated around the word ‘atonement’, is that you take a little extra time to fill out the feedback form in the @shadesofshows bio 💌

We’ll see you very soon 💐

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Super grateful to have joined @shadesofshows to bring Shades of Atonement (2026) together this year. The team is truly devoted to the craft, and we are grateful for all the support received from peers, friends, and family. Over these 9 months, I’ve learnt so much and met some truly incredible people.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the artists — painters, photographers, filmmakers, visual artists, poets — who chose to engage with the ideas at the heart of the exhibition.

Photos by @nico_gdella

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When I tell people I’m an artist, the conversation often turns to sustainability financially, professionally, socially or how important is it? Is it practical?

But perhaps we’re asking the wrong questions.
Because to create is to translate the invisible. To give form to the depths of the mind, to memory, to experience, to the world unfolding around us.
Art is not simply a pretty picture on a wall.

It is lineage.
It is history.
It is resistance.
It is a question.
A revelation.
A wound.
A freedom.
A way of remembering what we are in danger of forgetting.

Artists don’t simply make things to be looked at. We make because something inside us demands to be understood, expressed, challenged, or released.
So the question isn’t why did I choose to be an artist?

Because I don’t think I chose it.
I need to create.
And perhaps now, more than ever we need people willing to question, to feel deeply, to imagine differently, and to make visible what words alone cannot hold.
That is why I create.

Thank you @shadesofshows for the platform exhibition and for meaningful themes that spark conversation and insight ✨ @shadesofshows than you are AMAZING !!! 🫂❣🥰

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“Draga Mama”, Oil & Biro on Canvas, 60 x 40cm, 2024

“Draga Mama” is a portrait of my mother, capturing a moment shared between us in our family home. She reads aloud letters she had written to her own mother during the Bosnian War. These letters were sent during her time seeking refuge from Sarajevo, separated from her family, and living with the uncertainty and fear that defined that period.

The angel in the top left corner was on one of the envelopes we found, and next to it my mum wrote “on čuva Sarajevo” (he is protecting Sarajevo). I painted it as a symbol of hope & protection.

The contents of the letters gave me an insight into her life at my age. Reading them showed me how she was able to persist and live through the ever confusing times of being a young woman, despite being torn from her country and living in constant fear for her family who were left behind. Both my mother and grandmother believe this communication to be one of the main sources of hope and resilience through those years spent apart.

My intention for this work is to tell their story, celebrate their relationship and encourage viewers to reflect on their own personal connections. Big thank you to @shadesofshows and @thebombfactoryartfoundation for giving me the opportunity to exhibit this piece, and to everyone who visited and connected with my work. And of course thank you to my mum for sharing this experience with us. 💌

📸 @ptrckjsr

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Yesterday, I managed to catch the Shades of Atonement exhibition curated by @shadesofshows - who also curated an expert panel discussing the role of art in our contemporary climate and political landscape.

Panelist’s included the multi-published writer, poet and essayist @edwardadonteng and chaired by the incredible PhD Political Theory/Intersectionality candidate Ṣeun @seuntwins. I was lucky enough to catch the both of them after the talk to get their thoughts on the panel themselves as well as the experience of this exhibition, and segments of these questions and answers have been edited together in this video.

The two remaining panelist’s were art historian @alayoakinkugbe and art writer & cultural critic Haja Marie Kanu. The questions asked by Ṣeun were laid with amazing depth, really calling for answers rooted in the reality of what artists locally and globally are facing. The responses consistently addressed the crux of the matter that Ṣeun would continue to lay clearly throughout the discussion. Namely, these struggles being discussed are fundamentally being applied disproportionately to the working class, racialised masses - the same people who are exploited disproportionately for their work, creative or otherwise. The aftermath of the conversation was palpable in the room, with everyone breaking into discussions and coming to understand the information passed off. The exhibition itself was incredible, too. You’re surrounded by a range of artworks surrounding the topic of atonement and what it means. The @shadesofshows team put out an open call and amongst the artists of Black heritage and Global Majority backgrounds made an incredible line-up of works. Their team specifically mentioned the importance in taking in the artworks alongside the written descriptions of each piece provided in their in-person document or listed on their own website to recognise the totality of what the pieces really mean and symbolise. There are works for everyone to love.

The show is on till this Wednesday the 26th August, 2026 at @thebombfactoryartfoundation at 206 Marylebone Rd. I implore you to visit and follow/support along the artists selected.

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Thank you to everyone that came on Friday my heart is full ❤️

A massive thank you to everyone part of the @shadesofshows @ncproductions01 team for putting this all together and such an inspiring group of artists - each painting was so different but also linked in its special way 🫶🏽

There is still 3 more days to catch the show and they have a programme in their instagram you can follow @bombfactoryartfoundation

This painting was the start of all my NHS hospital gown series - it won the Southwark park annual open a few years ago and it still is having another moment now. Feel chuffed to see it still have a journey

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All gas no brakes

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Shout of to the team behind the 'Shades of Atonement : A Series of Temporal Reflections' #exhibition @thebombfactoryartfoundation

From the team @shadesofshows that brought you the popular group exhibitions Shades of Resistance and Shades of Migration, comes their third and final exhibition of the series: Shades of Atonement. In an increasingly fragmented world, this free exhibit brings together over 30 young London-based artists (18-35) who share work addressing identity, love, masculinity, colonial legacy, war and genocide, as a means of exploring how past and ongoing injustices impact our present realities and the power of creativity to preserve history, foster connection and redefine our vision of the future.

The exhibition explores atonement as an ongoing act of acknowledgement, responsibility and repair.

There are a lot of interesting artworks in this show, try and catch it before it closes on 26th August and if you go ask for their catalogue as it really helps understand the stories and inspirations behind the works.

Look out for a digitally knitted blanket (Wave back @tabeosch ) which instead of providing comfort and protection as the object might suggest, exposes unresolved tensions surrounding race, belonging, public grief and historical accountability.

Also look out for @chanelvegas.art who uses NHS gown fabric to transform tragedy into something beautiful and for @kandrearamidehassan beautiful studies where water is reclaimed not as an unknowable depth but as a site of gentle restoration.

The discussion with panel members @edwardadonteng @alayoakinkugbe 97hmk chaired by @seunwins was asking 'Can art change the world'? 🙂

If the world may sometimes feel like a very dangerous and scary place right now there's definitely hope in the community 🙏 ☮️

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Shades of Atonement is now open at @thebombfactoryartfoundation 💐

Running from 21st - 26th August, the exhibition brings together a range of artistic perspectives to mark the third and final instalment of the annual show series

#ShadesOfAtonement #LondonExhibitions

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