ASSEMBLY

Hypha Studios South Bank / Gallery 3, 42 Southwark Bridge Rd, London, SE1 9EU
PV: Monday, 12th October 2026, 6 – 9pm
Open: 8th October – 15th November 2026, Thursday-Sunday 12pm – 6pm

This autumn, Assembly brings together 35 members and fellows of the Royal Society of Sculptors at Hypha Gallery South Bank, following its inaugural presentation in Sunderland earlier this year. Opening during Frieze season, the exhibition brings a diverse group of established sculptors into a new architectural and cultural context, creating an opportunity for audiences, collectors, curators and artists to encounter contemporary sculpture beyond the conventional gallery framework.

Curated by Alexandra Carr MRSS and Alex Breeze of Breeze Creatives, Assembly began in Sunderland as an experiment in artistic freedom, exchange and collaboration. The London presentation continues that spirit while allowing the works to enter into dialogue with the distinctive context of Southbank and the international activity surrounding Frieze.
The exhibition brings together practices spanning installation, object-making, architectural intervention, film, performance and material experimentation. Across the exhibition, sculpture moves between the intimate and monumental, the poetic and political, the familiar and unexpected.

Together, the works explore the capacity of sculpture to transform space and shape human encounter, while engaging with themes including ecology, identity, migration, labour, landscape, memory and the human experience. Rather than presenting a single definition of what sculpture can be, Assembly reflects the breadth of approaches being pursued by artists working within the field today.

The move from Sunderland to London marks a further development of the project. Following its presentation within Sunderland’s historic Athenaeum building, Assembly now enters a very different cultural landscape, bringing the work of its artists into proximity with major institutions, galleries, collectors and international audiences during one of the most significant periods in London’s art calendar.

Farnoush Amini
Tabatha Andrews
Sally Barker
Perla Krauze
Ronn Beattie
Mary Bourne
Gillian Brent
Julie Brook
Owen Bullett

Ros Burgin
Alexandra Carr
Ali Darke
Kate Davis and David Moore
Sally De Courcy
Mandeep Dillon
Ebru Dosekci
Victoria Ferrand Scott
Andrea Geile

Peter Hanmer
Steve Johnson
Ben Joiner
Caroline Lambard
Julia Ellen Lancaster
Olana Light
Jenny Pope
Gary Power
Simon Raines