Image World
curated by Alexander Harding
Hypha Gallery 1 / No. 1 Poultry, London EC2R 8EN
PV: Thursday, 23th April 2026, 6 – 9pm
Open: 24th April – 30th May 2026, Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm
We live in an image world. Pictures circulate at the speed of thought, shaping not only what we see, but how we understand time, value, and presence. This exhibition brings together artists who use photographic imagery and its mediated aesthetics to explore how visual culture registers the contemporary moment. Image World examines how the proliferation of images shapes the way we see and understand the world today. As social media and digital technologies have become embedded in everyday life, an overwhelming range of images and data now circulates constantly; pets appear alongside war and catastrophe, collapsing intimacy and spectacle into a single visual stream.
The artists featured in Image World demonstrate that images are not neutral: they influence, distort, and actively construct reality. Rather than critiquing visual culture from a distance, their work reveals how we are all embedded within a system in which images do not merely reflect the world, but continuously produce it. Image World will be a visual spectacle, bringing together artists connected through process rather than imposing a singular thematic narrative. Through these varied material translations, the exhibition raises urgent contemporary questions around authenticity and materiality in an age saturated with digital reproduction.
Artists
Corsin Billiter
Malcom Bradley
Lily Bunney
Rachel Chapel
Jamie John Davies
Daniel Fleur
Andrew Grassie
Alan Michael
Alice Miller
Zachary Merle
Kaja Stumpf
Katie Shannon
Oona Wilkinson
Paul Robas
Annabelle Agbo Godeau
Ki Yoong
Rachel Lancaster
Artwork list
Alan Michael
annagardeckbondagewomen H, 2025
Acrylic on paper, glass clip frame
29.7 × 42 cm
Aleksander Mechlinski
Oil paint and marble dust on canvas
150 × 185 cm
Aleksander Mechlinski
The Long Leaving, 2026
Oil paint and marble dust on canvas
150 × 180 cm
Aleksander Mechlinski
Oil paint and marble dust on canvas
124 × 150 cm
Aleksander Mechlinski
Oil paint and marble dust on canvas
160 × 201 cm
Alice Miller
Oil on wood
40 × 30 cm
Alice Miller
Oil on wood
30 × 22.5 cm
Alice Miller
Oil and acrylic on wood
40 × 30 cm
Andrew Grassie
Egg tempera on paper on board
21 × 28 cm (image)
31.8 × 38.7 cm (framed)
Andrew Grassie
Egg tempera on paper on board
21 × 28 cm (image)
31.8 × 38.7 cm (framed)
Annabelle Agbo Godeau
Oil on canvas
18 × 24 cm
Annabelle Agbo Godeau
Oil on canvas
24 × 18 cm
Corey Bartle-Sanderson
Studio dust on paper, moth balls, scrap fabric sewn together & dyed navy, Perspex & MDF
Variable
Corey Bartle-Sanderson
Untitled, 2026
Resin, inkjet prints, greyboard model of Hypha Studios gallery, studio fixings and dust, bedroom lamp, matchbooks & MDF
Variable
Corsin Billiter
Ceramic decal on vitreous enamel on steel
16.4 × 11.9 cm
Corsin Billiter
Ceramic decal on vitreous enamel on steel
16.4 × 9.4 cm
Corsin Billiter
Ceramic decal on vitreous enamel on steel
16.4 × 16.4 cm
Corsin Billiter
Fernweh (Brickfield), 2026
Ceramic decal on vitreous enamel on steel
14.4 × 14.4 cm
Corsin Billiter
Destiny’s Child (Ode to Bransfield), 2026
Ceramic decal on vitreous enamel on steel
17.4 × 17.4 cm
Corsin Billiter
Ceramic decal on vitreous enamel on steel
16.4 × 12.4 cm
Daniel Fleur
Acrylic and oil on canvas
45 × 30 cm
Daniel Fleur
Acrylic and oil on canvas
27 × 31 cm
Daniel Fleur
Acrylic and oil on canvas
20 × 30 cm
Jamie John Davies
Oil on linen
24 × 18 cm
Jamie John Davies
Oil on linen
24 × 18 cm
Jamie John Davies
G.A.T.A-3, 2025
Oil on linen
24 × 18 cm
Jonah Pontzer
Five Movements For an Apparition, Conditions of Appearance & Slipping Memory, 2026
Mixed media on paper, Graphite, ink, promarker, colour pencil, watercolour, acrylic and oil on paper
23 × 17 × 2.5 cm each (framed)
Kaja Stumpf
Oil on jute
25 × 20 cm
Kaja Stumpf
The Traces You Leave Will Lead The Way, 2025
Oil on jute
25 × 20 cm
Kaja Stumpf
Oil on jute
25 × 20 cm
Ki Yoong
Oil on wood panel, steel
41cm x 37cm x 3cm
Lily Bunney
Watercolour on school paper
1.5 m × 3 m each
Lily Bunney
Oil on canvas
35 × 50 cm
Malcom Bradley
Glimpses, 2023
hydrographic print on xps foam
28x18x2cm
Malcom Bradley
Hands, 2020
Hydrographic print, zinc plate, paper, plastic wallet
15 × 10 cm
Morgane Ely
Engraving on inked wood
75 × 75 cm
Morgane Ely
Claudia I, 2025
Carved and inked wood
60 × 40 cm
Morgane Ely
Claudia II,
Carved and inked wood
60 × 40 cm
Oona Wilkinson
Infinite attempts at circulation, open keyring to place a picture, 2026
MDF, veneer, photocopy
125 × 130 × 30 cm
Paul Robas
A Second Thought, 2025
Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas
48 × 68 cm
Paul Robas
Nocturne, 2025
Acrylic, ink and oil on canvas
45 × 37 cm
Rachel Chapel
Would you still like me if I was a worm? 2024
Oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm
Rachel Chapel
To be or not to be, 2023-2026
Oil on paper mounted on wood board
14.5 × 21 cm
12 works total
Rachel Lancaster
Oil on canvas
70cm x 100cm
Rachel Lancaster
Oil on canvas
50cm x 80cm
Zachary Merle
Traces of a gaze II, 2024
Pigment transfer on canvas with artist-made frame
42 × 42 × 5 cm
Zachary Merle
Pigment transfer on canvas with artist-made frame
40 × 35 cm
Zachary Merle
Pigment transfer on canvas with artist-made frame
30 × 40 cm
Zachary Merle
Vanishing Point IV, 2025
Pigment transfer on canvas with artist-made frame
130 × 32 cm
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