NOW Gallery Presents Kinska, My Opera House

My Opera House is the first major exhibition of Argentinean artist Kinska. Over 1000 ceramic pieces take you on a journey through her surreal mind.

The NOW Later event will be an opportunity to purchase one of the 100 limited edition Drops or Gotas suspended from the ceiling.

Welcome to the imaginary world of Argentinean born artist Kinska which has been brought to life for the fourth NOW Art Commission. The resulting installation created predominantly from ceramics takes you on a journey into her surreal mind.

Earlier last year, Kinska underwent a ceramic hip replacement, processing the experience in hospital with only sketchbooks to hand. This acted as a means of both creative expression and catharsis, inevitably weaving a new storyline through the sculptural pieces created post recovery.

This first large scale exhibition of the artist brings together around a thousand handmade ceramic pieces presented alongside her hospital sketchbooks. The highlight is a whimsical wooden house inspired by her studio under a rainy sky of hundreds of ceramic teardrops or Gotas.

NOW Gallery rejoices in Kinska’s pareidolic world which is open for all to enjoy and participate in. As part of this show, we invite you to interact with individually themed sketchbooks in which you can write, draw and express yourself.

Las Gotas

Look up and you’ll find a beautiful collection Gotas or Drops suspended from the ceiling. Limited to a variable edition of just 100 each one has been lovingly formed, painted and glazed by hand meaning no two are the same. Available to purchase at kinska.com/gotas, with 10% of each sale donated to Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

NOW Later - Special London Design Festival Edition

Music, Masks & Lip Sync

On the 19 September, NOW Gallery will be transformed into a performative lip sync venue, giving you the chance to step in to the limelight.

Collage Club will be running an exclusive workshop, in which you can create your own Kinska inspired mask, to take with you to the stage!

Create your mask, pick your song, and the rest is up to you!

Collage Club is a workshop series celebrating the art of cutting and sticking!  Embracing hands-on techniques and using scissors as a drawing tool, Collage Club is perfect for anyone keen to flex their creative muscles and get making without having to produce perfectly proportioned, boring drawings. Each session features a range of activities including speed-collaging and collaborative image-making, and every workshop is packed with top notch magazines and colourful paper for participants to rip, snip, glue and stick into something brand new.

Click here for more information, and RSVP to info@nowgallery.co.uk.