A Room of Her Own : Works on paper and ceramics by women artists

Upsilon Gallery London is pleased to present A Room of Her Own, a group exhibition featuring works on paper and ceramics by emerging and mid-career women artists, including Francine Tint, Xinyan Zhang, Diane Chappalley, Leila Bartell, Cathy Tabbakh, Natacha Ivanova, Evie Mae Jacobs, Ruby Bateman, Nina Khemchyan, K Blick, and Hannah Lim. The exhibition will run from November 20th to January 18th.

A Room of Her Own takes inspiration from Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, which powerfully asserts the need for women to have space—both physical and creative—to nurture their artistic expression. Echoing Woolf’s concept, this exhibition honours that space of one’s mind and freedom, emphasising the nature of drawings and ceramics as media that allow for immediacy, delicacy, and an unfiltered emotional resonance.

By showcasing only works on paper and ceramics, the exhibition highlights the raw, tactile nature of these materials, embracing spontaneous gestures, profound emotions, and a wide range of expressive nuances. From the abstract expressionist works on paper by Francine Tint to the blend of figuration and abstraction in Cathy Tabbakh’s pieces, the exhibition presents diverse range of approaches that collectively celebrate women’s artistic autonomy. Diane Chappalley’s Anxious Flowers, crafted in ceramic and arranged as a constellation across the gallery wall, embraces beauty and fragility at once, while Salomé Wu’s drawings, filled with a spiritual aura, echo a sense of quiet transcendence. Hannah Lim’s sculptures reinterpret traditional Chinoiserie through a contemporary lens, mirroring Xinyan Zhang’s work, who, putting into dialogue East and West, in her drawings juxtaposes images of war and human vulnerability, reflecting the stark contrasts between life and death, and the global tension that we are living in today’s world.

Curated within the gallery's lower ground floor room, the setting of the show feels intimate and warm, capturing the essence of the current season, creating an artistic dialogue that invites personal connection and introspection from visitors.