Home is where one happens to be

This show focusses on paintings and prints, and features five artists who have all recently graduated from the King's Foundation Diploma year: Abezash Gross, Ash Strazzeri, George Adams, Mehrnoosh Kazemi and Nithyasri Govindaraj.

The show is curated by one of the artists, Mehrnoosh. She says:
“Coming from diverse backgrounds, our works explore themes such as diasporic map-making, nostalgic depictions of native landscapes, and romantic interpretations of the British countryside and questions of embodiment, imagination, land, identity, and belonging. It’s this shared exploration of land and identity that has brought us together and continues to shape our conversations and art.”

About the artists:

Abezash Gross: Abezash’s work navigates the dichotomy of her two culturally distinct identities and how they merge. Her work is an active exploration of this duality, using material, mark-making, and form to bridge her identity as Black and British.

Ash Strazzeri: Ash’s current work focuses on the idea of ‘Queering the past’- whether we can look for evidence of queerness in history when the ideas around ‘queerness’ are such modern concepts. Based on this idea they have been exploring how finding queer narratives in the past can offer comfort and representation for people in the present. (Instagram: ashd0.0dles)

George Adams: George is an artist whose practice encompasses painting, printmaking and drawing. Operating on the boundary between figuration and abstraction, his work explores the particularity, mystery and animacy of the natural world and non-human scales and forms of dwelling, knowledge and connection. Instagram: Georgeadamsstudio )

Mehrnoosh Kazemi: Mehrnoosh is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and sculpture. Her practice bridges theory and materiality to explore cultural identity, belonging, and displacement. She reflects on how migration throws identity into flux and how that can be observed aesthetically. (Instagram: Mehrnooshkazemi.studio )

Nithyasri Govindaraj: Nithyasri’s practice explores in-between spaces of time and place. Through painting and printmaking, she reflects on quiet, everyday scenes drawn from personal archives and direct observation. Her work evokes a sense of the familiar becoming distant, where landscapes dissolve, figures remain ambiguous, and imagery feels like resurfacing memory. (Instagram: Nithyasri.art )