Are these the signs of recovery? Through a series of exhibitions and a new artist-focused sales platform, Hypha Curates signals a moment of growth within the UK art world. While several apps and platforms have aimed to connect collectors and artists in recent years, Hypha is leading with physical events that draw people to the work itself. This approach matters because most art operates in the tactile, physical realm where it genuinely connects with audiences. It’s a form of connection that Hypha Studios has championed since 2021, supporting over 2,100 artists across 64 UK locations with free exhibition and studio spaces.
Hypha Curates Events October 2025
We are opening three galleries in the iconic PoMo masterpiece that is No. 1 Poultry in the heart of the City of London. We have selected 24 projects which have been awarded the spaces for free, running over the next 12 months and starting with:
Gallery 1: The Turn, curated by Shakthi Shrima
Spanning painting, performance, video, sound, sculpture, and installation, The Turn takes a deeper look into artistic practices concerned with the act of vanishing both as formal strategy and existential engine.
Gallery 2: Inside Out, curated by Nina Oltarzewska
This gallery is a collaboration with arts and architecture publication recessed.space, featuring projects with a design and built environment slant. It starts with seven artists and makers based at Blackhorse Workshop working across sculpture, installation, fabrication, design and sound.
Gallery 3: Material Actors, curated by binder of women
Contemporary female-identifying artists operating at the overlap of reality and fantasy, playing with expectations and experience of material forms and re-appraising object performativity.
Hypha Curates launches with A Moveable Feast, curated by Cathy Wills
Opening event 14 October
Exhibition runs 15-19 October at Hypha HQ, Euston.
We are excited to be launching Hypha Curates, a new online sales platform for artists where they keep 70% with the remaining 30% directly supporting the work of Hypha Studios in offering free exhibition and studio spaces across the UK. We launch Hypha Curates with a salon-style group exhibition curated by Cathy Wills, who has selected over 40 artists who are part of Hypha Curates first cohort of selling artists.
A Moveable Feast, curated by Cathy Wills Hypha HQ, Unit 3, Euston Tower, 286 Euston Road, London NW1 3AS
Hypha Studios annual Frieze Week exhibition: A Moveable Feast, curated by Cathy Wills to mark the launch of Hypha Curates
Hypha Studios is a registered charity that matches creatives with vacant property to provide free exhibition and studio space across the UK, bringing culture to high streets. To date, Hypha Studios has supported over 2,100 artists in 64 locations, fostering a unique and expanding network of artists and creatives.
Hypha Curates is a new way to buy & sell art. From each sale, 70% goes to the artist and 30% supports the charitable work of Hypha Studios in providing free studio and exhibition spaces across the UK. This unique Collect with Purpose approach allows buyers to acquire exceptional art while actively contributing to the sustainability and growth of the UK’s cultural infrastructure.
Adding to the mix of cultural events across London coinciding with Frieze art fair, Hypha Studios are pleased to announce their exhibition A Moveable Feast. A curated exhibition of over 40 artists selected by renowned curator and art collector, Cathy Wills, all works will be available to purchase directly through Hypha Curates, a new sales platform designed to support the charitable work of Hypha Studios.
The title of the exhibition references Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of the same name. Presented in a dense and exciting salon style hang, the diverse mix of works – selected from over 900 applications to Hypha Curates – invite the visitor to draw new, unexpected, and rich connections across the mixed media curation. Just as Hemingway weaved together encounters with a diverse coterie of friends and figures of the time, Wills’ curation is intended to initiate new conversation rather than draw conclusions.
Highlights include Katherine Giordano’s oil painting Roaming Turf, a fragment of which is used on the exhibition promotional literature. Exploring the shifting ground between familiarity and estrangement, Giordano has a singular style here capturing in soft light a body at once relaxed and in comfort, but also compressed and seemingly confined. Another work, Weight / Tension / Restriction, by Gemma Holzer, is inspired by Neolithic sites and relics, but recomposed into a steel-framed construction with uncanny representations of unknown elements suspended by chains. Himani Gupta’s Lunar Crossings is an oil and pigment work inspired by a Tarkovsky film, foreground and background combining into one contemplative scene.
The Hypha Studios HQ gallery will be punctuated by sculpture. Sheffield-based artist Gillian Brent’s Not a Pair of Scales is a pillar topped by an assemblage of discarded materials, reforming nostalgia and familiarity. Lizzie Cardozeo explores the softness of breath and material volume with Folded Breath, a poetic conjoining of blown
glass and rock. Aren’t you going to light them? II is an oak totem by Robin Bigret investigating industrially scarred landscapes and industrial fragments found within them.
The exhibition traverses pictorial to conceptual: Michalis Karaiskos’ Untitled (Partner) is a tender oil pointing of a body leaning against a radiator, intimate and silently charged, while Rafa Roeder’s Useless Device is a sculptural “experimental machine” created to question the relationship between capital and technology.
A Moveable Feast marks the launch of Hypha Curates, a new purpose-driven online art sales platform designed to open the doors of collecting to wider audiences, directly supporting UK artists. Launched by arts charity Hypha Studios, the platform gives 70% of sales income directly to artists, with the remaining 30% funding Hypha Studios’ charitable work, which has already provided free studio and exhibition spaces for over 2,100 artists in 64 UK locations since 2021.
Camilla Cole, Founder & CEO of Hypha Studios, says: “Collecting art should not be reserved for the ultra-wealthy, with Hypha Curates, we’re making it possible for people to buy original work at accessible prices, support local artists, and know their purchase is also strengthening the UK’s cultural ecosystem. It’s collecting with purpose.”
Hypha Curates will feature a broad range of artwork across mediums and price points, with artwork ranging from £200 to £5,000, giving first-time buyers the chance to start their collection while allowing seasoned collectors to discover new talent. A Moveable Feast, curated by Cathy Wills, presents artists selected from the inaugural cohort selling on Hypha Curates, showing the breadth in media, ideas, and prices the platform offers.
Collectors and artists can register now via @hyphacurates or www.hyphastudios.com/hypha-curates.
Full list of participating artists in A Moveable Feast:
Sarunas Berinas, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Robin Bigret, Gillian Brent, Cas Campbell, Lizzie Cardozo, Sara Christova, Gregory Daine, Freddie Darke, Pablo Delahaye, Batool Desouky, Naomi Ellis, Archie Fooks-Smith, Daniel Freytag, Maxim Frolov, Katherine Giordano, Tom Grace-Whittaker, Himani Gupta, Filip Haglund, India Hanlon, Gemma Holzer, Harriet Horner, Fan Ji, Stuart Jones, Michalis Karaiskos, Matt Kavanagh, Yewon Lee, Margarita Loze, Zoe Maxwell, Andia Coral Newton, Chantel Okwesa, Anna Reading, Vivien CarolynReinert, Rafa Roeder, Diana Savostaite, Benjamin Sebastian, Ella Shepard, Ewelina Skowronska Emily Tracy, Marina Tsaregorodtseva, Lily Wei, Aleksandra Zawada
Hypha Studios across London
Process[es], curated by Henry Dowson, at Hypha Studios Newham. Until 04 Oct
Felsenmeer, curated by Isis Powers-Bird, at Hypha Studios Newham. 10 Oct – 15 Nov
Land(e)scapes 2, curated by the Pragmata Collective PPG Group, at Hypha Studios Marble Arch. Until 11 Oct
Penumbra, curated by Caroline Chouler-Tissier, at Hypha Studios Marble Arch. 17 Oct – 23 Nov
Images courtesy Hypha Studios/Hypha Curates
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
